Deep Nasal Swab Sample and Hold
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
Like A Quarantine
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
i mean, neil has put out like 8 records since Bob's last album of original material
― tylerw, Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
On The Bleach
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
You say this like it's a good thing.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
plant that bell and let it ring
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
Haters! Lol really loving this old, new to me album.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
Hits me in the feels as the whippersnappers say (said?)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
Florida
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 June 2020 05:24 (three years ago) link
And, uh, looking up, they noticed the tumbling man coming through the airAnd, uh, he, he came right down and landed right on themAnd made an awful sound and, uh—I ran over there, I could see that they wereThey were really gone, you knowBut on the ground beside them was this little baby, uh, dressed inIt just had a red blanket wrapped around itSo I picked it up and took it to my carYou know, over on the corner, which wasn't too far awayAnd I put it in the back seatI don't know whether it was a boy or a girlI, I didn't look, you know, I just put it downIt was sleeping and I looked and a crowd had gathered on the parking lotThis beautiful lady was coming down the streetAnd I, I looked at her, and she looked right at me and I—She said, "That's my baby in the back of your car there"I said, "Oh, no, noNo, that baby belongs to that, to that dead couple on the parking lot"And, uh, she said, "No, no, you're wrong, you're wrongWhat happened to them?"
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 June 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
"Florida" is maybe the weirdest fucking curveball he's ever thrown, which is saying a lot, love how it segues into "I woke up from a bad dream"
listening to this on headphones for the 1st time and I hadn't really noticed that segue before but WOW it just hit me, what an effect, the way "Florida" seems to cut out mid-sentence and then "Kansas" starts and "I feel like I just woke up from a bad dream"... I almost wonder if that's the idea behind recording "florida" in the first place, to have a piece leading into "Kansas" like that.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
Reading the "lyrics" Karl posted, it seems Florida deals with the disintegration of his relationship with Carrie Snodgrass. The couple who had the child died and Neil is left alone to rescue/raise a child while a female stranger/fake mother attempts to make a claim on the child.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
I would not be surprised if it was an actual dream Neil had. It has that dream-like logic/terror.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
xxp yeah the segue is perfect and seems intentional
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
Can I just say how much I love the way this album sounds, how it was recorded, and how comforting I find that sound?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
Wow, you got the Pono version? Cool!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
But seriously, it does sound amazing in every way. And whoever mastered this, and Neil’s Official Release Series, should get a lifetime achievement Grammy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
And fun fact: “White Line” was recorded at Ramport Studios, which was designed and owned by the Who (who ended up only making two records there).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
title track is such a fuckin jam, love that lurching Horse rhythm
― sleeve, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
super psyched for my vinyl to show up
xxp yeah the segue is perfect and seems intentional― sleeve
― sleeve
also taken aback when the lyrics in "Kansas" mention "gliding through the air" (vs. the crashing gliders in "Florida"), I'm definitely sympathetic to the idea that they were intended as companion pieces
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
yeah, they were recorded on the same day (according to the liners)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
6:32 PMbeen playing with Harvest & Homegrown to make a single album (since I don't think either album is that strong on its own). how about this track listing:
Out On The WeekendHarvestA Man Needs A MaidHeart of GoldKansas
HomegrownOld ManWhite LineVacancyStar of Bethlehem
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
you don't like 'needle and the damage done'?
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
it's ok but I think I've heard it enough (I mean I could say the same thing for "Heart Of Gold" but)
and I wanted to keep it down to 10 songs. if I went to 12 I'd add that song plus "Little Wing", or maybe instead of the latter, "Deep Forbidden Lake", which I think is a Homegrown track as well
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 26 June 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
i like that idea, euler! and that tracklist absolutely rules (i really dislike A Man Needs a Maid, though. it's a weird sentiment to throw into a song that doesn't really suggest, it otherwise, and it's big and soaring with orchestral accompaniment.)
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
how does Separate Ways not make the cut??also I feel like some people are underrating this album based on the fact that some of those songs were released later on various things they are still great songs and I think contribute to it being a great standalone album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
There little doubt in my mind that had this album been released when it was originally going to be released it would be largely considered on par with the NY albums of its immediate era. At least as good as "Comes a Time."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 June 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
it's better than that *or* TFA, imo
― sleeve, Friday, 26 June 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
^^otm
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
It's great, regardless. Who is underrating it?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
It definitely is, but I wouldn't count Comes A Time of this "immediate era" though. I feel like this era of Neil ends with Zuma, after that it's a whole different beast.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
Euler, for one, he doesn't think it is strong on its own. Which, I couldn't disagree more with.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
yeah i'd say that Homegrown just bolsters Neil's unbelievable mid-70s run — TFA > Tonight's the Night > On The Beach > Homegrown > Zuma is a set of LPs I'd put up against anyone else you'd care to name in the 1970s ... toss Hitchhiker in there at the end, too, it definitely fits tone-wise. And the fact that there's a whole other album's worth of songs from that period, too ... it's impressive!
― tylerw, Friday, 26 June 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that's the grouping I always think about as one of the best runs of albums, well, damn near ever.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
y'know, it's ok that someone underrates it. in fact, we actually need people to underrate it, so that we can like it more than average. it's just how the universe works
xp
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 June 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
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― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Friday, June 26, 2020 12:46 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i'd say that Homegrown just bolsters Neil's unbelievable mid-70s run — TFA > Tonight's the Night > On The Beach > Homegrown > Zuma is a set of LPs I'd put up against anyone else you'd care to name in the 1970s
otm
I didn't mean Comes a Time was of its immediate era, just brought it up as a point of comparison. but I do sort of think of Comes a Time and Rust Never Sleeps as the twin, stylistically divergent (slick singer-songwriter and shambling rocker) ends of a Neil Young era. Next decade/era is a mess, followed by another pretty great four album run starting with "Freedom," which is at this point I think almost as iconic as the '70s run, albeit for different reasons.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
Love his downhome accent on “homegrown”
― calstars, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
many xp. "A Man Needs a Maid" marries a horrible, blown up egotistical idea with the revelation of real vulnerability underneath. The orchestral accompaniment helps make the contrast more dramatic, and I find the "When will I see you again?"s to be very moving. But it's true that Neil achieves similar through dynamic playing in more stripped down live versions. It's an interesting way into a breakup song. Like a several track section of Blood on the Tracks condensed into 4 minutes.
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
“Man Needs” is a great song with a horrible arrangement
― calstars, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
I don't know. the clunkier parts occur while neil is expressing a shitty idea. it feels right.
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
Separate Ways sounds like Out On the Weekend, just not as good. I still like it!
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 26 June 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
I feel like a lot of ppl are PUA negging Neil
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 June 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Keep your Harvest out of my Homegrown, please and thank you.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Saturday, 27 June 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
i'm just worried about all the ppl pegging Neil, hang in there buddy
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
hangneil
― budo jeru, Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
i'm just worried about all the ppl pegging Neil
No kinkshaming plz.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
after the bum rush
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
Pocahaunches
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link