Neil Young - Zuma

barstool blues

YOU'RE JUST A STUPID GIRL
YOU REALLY GOT A LOT TO LEARN

I can't ignore Cortez - I can't even remember any of the other tracks!

that is exactly why i should have excluded it.

cortez, what else. probably the greatest rock song of all-time.

jesus christ you people suck. ok i already knew 'alex in mainhattan' sucked.

i don't get it. if you wanted to make a poll on zuma excluding cortez you should have excluded it.

barstool blues > lookin for a love > don't cry no tears > danger bird > through my sails > cortez the killer > drive back > pardon my heart > stupid girl

x-post yah but i mainly thought it was for people who liked the album

i mean it's probably neil's most consistent album imo, so i just get a little exasperated when people are like omg cortez the killer because they've heard decade

'like a hurricane' on an american stars n bars poll i can understand.

Barstool Blues

neil's most consistent album

"harvest"

I dunno, this might be my favorite Neil record, but yeah, it's definitely not as consistent as others. Maybe if it was all Crazy Horse, it'd be a little more so. But throwing "Pardon My Heart" and "Through My Sails" (which are both great) make it a little more piecemeal than some others. I voted for "Barstool Blues" an insanely wonderful three minutes. Goes to show that Neil can be at his best when he's concise, too. But no need to get upset about people voting for "Cortez" -- that is an incredible piece of music.

Danger Bird- heavy, man

honestly, i would vote "Barstool Blues" over "Cortez" anyway

This album is so awesome that even the CSNY blandness of "Through the Sails" works in context. "Drive Back" is my choice, for that RIFF. Nothing like this was hitting the Billboard Top 40 album chart in '75.

barstool blues.next.

one of the best sounding records i own. um, on vinyl that is. i've never heard the cd. just so fuckin' beautiful. i love the whole thing.

gonna get a dog, name her zuma.

"Don't Cry No Tears". Haven't we done this before?

This is probably the Neil album that best showcases his ability as a guitarist, gorgeous production too. Went for 'Danger Bird'.

barstool blues

I'm guessing bb and cortez will be 1 and 2

Wow, I was just playing this yesterday and wondering what I would pick in a poll. And "Danger Bird" it is. This my favourite NY album.

Must load into ipod tonight, but probably danger bird.

Yes! a Danger Bird rally. Really though there are no losers on this fine album. On any given day I could pick just about anything. Oh yeah, Pardon My Heart-- what a great ballad.

Lou Reed famously praised the guitar on "Danger Bird."

This is pretty solid throughout.

voting Pardon My Heart...Barstool Blues may be better, but for me it's reeeal close...it might be one of Young's best ballads...the way those Neil argues with those "You've-brought-it-all-on" call and response vocals, the way he argues with the song itself, the end where he loves the girl for the moments they have or haven't shared...it paints a very clear and detailed pciture of the path to closure after a relationship breaks down...(made all the more astonishing by being dropped into the middle of the cheeseburger paradise that is Zuma)...shows exactly why Neil is one of the best songwriters around.

"Danger Bird" juuuuuuuuust barely over "Barstool Blues".

oh man this is a good album

saw him on sat night and tbh Cortez was the highlight of the show, with this repeated 'dancing across the water' refrain at the end....total chills down the spine. it's not normally my favourite on here (any one of the run from Pardon My Heart thru Barstool Blues usually is) but i might have to vote for it just for that performance.

After relistening, I have come to the conclusion that my first impulse was correct - sometimes the obvious thing is the right thing, and just comes dancing across the water right at you.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

This is damn tough- I'll start with songs I wouldn't vote for: Stupid Girl, Drive Back, and Through My Sails (though I do dig these three as well.)

I guess I'll go with Lookin' for a Love just because it's a beautiful country-rock number and I'm afraid it won't get many votes.

I can't believe anyone would consider Harvest better than this- for one thing, most of the best versions of the songs on Harvest are found elsewhere: specifically, A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold and Old Man from Massey Hall. If I want to hear mellow Neil it's usually Massey Hall or Live at Sugar Mountain or the second half of On the Beach.

x-post to Alex

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Cortex the Killer is a tremendous guitar epic the likes of which Neil Young hasn't played in years.

Cortez is what I actually meant!

This is perhaps the wrong thread to revive but I can't find a better one for it. So anyway: any views on the Ducks? I listened to a show from here. "Your Time Will Come Around" and "Hold On Boys" seem to be Ducks originals, and are excellent; the latter in particular would have fit right in on Zuma. Also check out "Windward Pass", an 8+ minute instrumental with Neil in full liftoff throughout---but I think I also hear synths in the background, giving the song a beachy ambience suiting the song's title (a very Santa Cruz sound). It's gorgeous.

it's an interesting little sidetrip, for sure. Neil's material is obviously head and shoulders above the other songwriters' stuff, but it's still cool to hear him play the role of a guitarist in a band -- he's a bit more versatile than you might think! The Ducks seem like an attempt to get some of the spirit of Buffalo Springfield going ... It is kinda too bad they didn't make a record, probably would've been cool. Wonder if they ever did any studio recordings?

Yeah, I mean, I love Moby Grape, but "Mr. Soul" here just tears. Also: do you know if any of the three songs I mentioned were Neil's, or if not, whose were they?

Neil calls "Comes A Time" a Ducks original on the show too, which was interesting, at any rate.

some funny details on their wiki page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ducks

this recording is great, had never heard of this before.

ha, kind of a cool little history there. I guess even if there aren't any studio recordings, Neil probably has at least a gig or two recorded in sbd quality in the archives. all of the circulating recordings are audience, right?

acc. to the Wiki page (and the related Thrasher's Wheat page), fans at the shows said they saw mobile recording units at some of the shows. So there's likely something in the archive.

the duck calls in the crowd of this show is pretty hilar.

The band focused on topics such as trucks, girls and bars.

lol

weird I don't remember any mention of this in Shakey but maybe I'm just forgettin

think it's sorta glossed over in a page or two ... wonder if they played Hey Hey My My? Blackburn is the co-writer ...

oh to be in santa cruz in the summer of 77
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Ducks000.jpg/220px-Ducks000.jpg

man the Bernstein Tapes are my new favorite Neil thing ever...recorded during the Zuma tour in 1976, these are acoustic/piano versions of Neil's best heartbreakers. I mean check this setlist out:

1. Campaigner (Boston, 26th)
2. Old Laughing Lady (Atlanta, 24th)
3. Human Highway (Madison, 14th)
4. Tell Me Why (Chicago, 15th)
5. After The Goldrush (Houston, 11th)
6. Harvest (Boston, 22nd)
7. Mr. Soul (New York City, 20th)
8. Here We Are In The Years (Atlanta, 24th)
9. Journey Through The Past (Boston, 22nd)
10. Heart Of Gold (Fort Worth, 10th)
11. A Man Needs A Maid (New York City, 20th)
12. White Line (Fort Worth, 10th)
13. Give Me Strength (New York City, 20th)
14. No One Seems To Know (Boulder, 7th)
15. Mellow My Mind (New York City, 20th)
16. Too Far Gone (Boulder, 6th)
17. Needle And The Damage Done (Atlanta, 24th)
18. Pocahontas (Atlanta, 24th)
19. Roll Another Number (Boston, 22nd)
20. Losing End (Atlanta, 24th)
21. Love Is A Rose (Houston, 11th)
22. Sugar Mountain (Atlanta, 24th)

They're recorded from different nights so no single night was the dark night of the soul it might appear. The sound is great: these are soundboards I think. man the "Journey Through The Past" is the saddest thing ever. "A Man Needs A Maid" has a massive synth or organ accompaniment (it's a bit distorted, so could just be organ) that kinda sounds like some lost OMD album closer.

is this an official release??

no, it's a boot, but it's easily findable...man this would make a sweet "bootleg series" type thing, just press this boot as it is & it would be epic.

it's a bootleg, but put together by an associate of Young's. pretty easily found on the net, i think. it is an amazing listen -- some of the dialogues are really out there. acoustic version of "white line" is killer.

dunno if this link still works, but ... http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=1991

The opening "Campaigner" has me on the floor. On another thread about Neil someone said that Neil's secret weapon is his sense of melody, and this "Campaigner" makes it so stark, so clear. "Human Highway" too.

oh and "give me strength"! one of the top ten never-released Neil songs. i guess "no one seem to know" would fit in there, too. it is just crazy how, when so many of his songwriting peers at that time were just floundering, Neil was hitting peak after peak.

in the opening of "Too Far Gone", Neil explains something weird by saying that "it's because of this abyss here...because of this hole between us that I have to keep reaffirming ourselves"

and actually that's a pretty good artistic statement of purpose for Neil

xp oh man "Give Me Strength" is just overwhelming!

fwiw , a few years ago I would have gone for Pardon My Heart

It sounds so fragile and was one of the first NY songs that grabbed me.

Now, boringly, as much as I still like the above, It's the Cortez the Killer. Three simple chords and I don't know what the fuck he's on about but it sounds so beautifully morose and resigned. Parts of Spain didn't like it for some reason

Seriously, does anyone have any thoughts on why Cortez remains so great and compelling even after hearing it a million times? In theory, or on paper, it doesn't sound very promising-- a seven minute+ plodding song featuring some half-baked corny lyrics about the evils of imperialism and the nobility of the Aztec people or some such...but somehow it turns out to be one of the greatest things ever.

Three simple chords and I don't know what the fuck he's on about but it sounds so beautifully morose and resigned.

That is a good description...

i think just with those beautiful opening lines -- "he came dancing across the water" -- neil pretty much wins ... sure, the lyrics are kind of naive when you really think about them, but as a kind of dream, they work. and of course, the music -- that billowing sail thing in the guitars, the sloooooow, waves crashing on a beach vibe. it's powerful.

he's been doing a pretty great solo electric "cortez" on his current tour.

Cool, I think that's a nice take on it...and maybe I am too harsh as far as the lyrics are concerned!

imho, lyrically the song's a marvel - as with Pocahantas there's a kinda willful naivete/idealized history going on, but then he throws in a bunch of ahistorical details that make the song both less specific and more universal, like yes he's singing about Cortez but he's ALSO singing about this bigger, more inscrutable thing

gotta say in general I don't find this album so hot tho, compared to the other stuff from the period. I like Don't Cry No Tears and Cortez and actively dislike Stupid Girl, with the rest being okay-ish but not amazing

The only song on Zuma I don't particularly like is "Drive Back"; everything else, including "Through My Sails," I more or less love, and count it as my favorite NY album after Gold Rush and Everybody Knows. The appeal of "Cortez"...hard to put into words, although you guys above do a good job. I can't resist linking to my high-school grad yearbook ('79), where I quoted the final line!

I wonder if Debbie Eyre ever got to marry Billy Joel...

omg allen east

also wkiw high school clemenza

totally

Help me out--I have no idea what "wkiw" means.

would kick it with

Yes--I kicked it here, there, and everywhere in high school.

it is very apparent that you were the guy with the good weed

allen east probably the guy with the good model airplane glue tho

haaaaaaaaay penny

I guess I was pretty open about that...Thing is, in '79, you could show up to a high-school class drunk or stoned, and--at least if your grades were good--it didn't seem to be a big deal if you confined yourself to being giggle-happy. I don't how that's received today; I suspect not as well, unless it's viewed as much less of a problem than bringing a gun to school. I shouldn't talk about former most classmates, but the two most...unusual people there are Keith Davies, who really did talk like Kermit the Frog, and Joy Fenton, who was a Trekkie.

Standard post-after corrections:

1. "don't know how"
2. "talk about former classmates"

golf, tennis, and foxy women.

having a hard time hearing kermit say that

questions:

1) can anyone direct me to a really good cover of "danger bird"? has such a thing ever happened?
2) what is the longest, most freaked out version of "danger bird" that ny/ch has recorded?

thank you

don't know if i've heard a cover of "danger bird" -- I'm sure one exists.
this is interesting -- it was recorded before "Danger Bird" -- but maybe not released? some similarities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO_b44e84zM
as for long, freaked out versions, I've heard him do it on the greendale tour where there's this big massed choir singing at some point. pretty freaky.

whoa @ link wray!!! a lot of similarities. great song!

is the greendale tour version available/recorded? i want to hear it reaaaaaally noisy.

i think just on bootleg. lemme see if i can dig it out for you.

:) thanks!!

Danger Bird appears on Neil's 1997 live album 'Year of the Horse.' It's 13:34 long. Personally I much prefer the original version on 'Zuma' but if you want to hear a really long performance of it then check out 'Year of the Horse.' It's also featured in the movie of the same name.

I know that one! I think the Year of the Horse version is why I love this song so much tbh. Guess I should have mentioned that.

i think ny & ch had only played it once before the year of the horse tour. it took them more than 20 years to learn it.
there's also a kind of cool solo piano version from 2003 or so. not long, but pretty intense.

Kinda surprised there aren't a bunch of covers of Danger Bird, seems ripe for that.

bummed by lack of love for Through My Sails

yeah surprised by that -- such a lovely song. maybe the best CSNY thing ever?

and as for covers of danger bird, seems like some band like Earth should be doing it.

Laura, I'm not sure in which show Neil played the longest version of Danger Bird but in case you're interested in tracking down bootlegs, this site lists all 39 performances of the song.

and as for covers of danger bird, seems like some band like Earth should be doing it.

― tylerw, Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:29 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

exactly what i was thinking!!!

agnosy, thank you -- those are some ridiculous setlists!! i saw NY only once, on my 25th birthday in 2000.

Ha! Here's the setlist.

2000-08-23, Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
w/ The Friends And Relatives
Motorcycle Mama / Powderfinger / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere / I Believe In You / Unknown Legend / Dance Dance Dance / Buffalo Springfield Again / Razor Love / From Hank To Hendrix / Daddy Went Walkin' / Peace Of Mind / Walk On / Winterlong / Bad Fog Of Loneliness / Words / Harvest Moon / World On A String / Tonight's The Night // Like A Hurricane // Mellow My Mind

hee hee, that sugar mtn site is pretty fun. setlists galore! posters! ticket stub scans!
was just listening to that road rocks live disc (which i think is the tour you saw). not amazing, but some col stuff, like the drums/guitar duel that "cowgirl in the sand" turns into.

La Lechera: somebody named 27 does a good cover of "Danger Bird." It's on Songs from the Edge of the Wing, if you can find it.

Thx clemenza - I listened on myspace -- not bad! Sounds pretty faithful to the original aside from the female vocals? I find myself wanting everyone in this band to go a little more nuts, though. I'm probably in the minority in that regard -- most people like more normal singing/pretty voices. She has a pretty voice.

If this super doomy mega heavy loud cover of Danger Bird doesn't exist yet, can I put out a request for ILX musicians to please get on it? There should be an all-requests ILX comp.

I adore this record.

I like the "fly fly fly" part at the end best.

Here it is on Grooveshark, if anyone else is interested:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/07+Danger+Bird/3xCYUE?src=5

Danger Bird reminds me of Calvary Cross, so to that end there is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJlIo-WU_0E

That's good and sloppy!!

Man, never heard the Link Wray song or this Peter Laughner song, both of which are great. Is this Laughner song on an oficial album? Mostly know him from Rocket From the Tombs etc. associations.

Watching you with one green eye

It's a cover of a Richard and Linda Thompson song, it is included on the Laughner comp Take the Guitar Player for a Ride.

Cool, thanks. Think I knew it was a cover, but I haven't dug into much Richard (or R&Linda) Thompson stuff. Great cover though.

<3 calvary cross btw, excellent song!! i had never heard that cover before. initially i was impressed only by the sloppiness, but that's what was missing from the danger bird cover posted upthread. it was good, but polite.

endless talking about danger bird: not back at it, still at it
POLL: YEAR OF THE HORSE -- Neil Young and Crazy Horse

i used to go to my college's music library, grab this from the LP stacks, and sit in a booth listening to it. like everyday. i really like don't cry no tears.

you asked for it -- four live versions of "danger bird" here: http://ow.ly/9HFfJ

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!! thank you so much!
this makes my day

no problemo.
listening to these, it *is* really ridiculous that Earth hasn't covered this song. is there a petition we can get going?

i would both sign and distribute that petition

did you see this? it's not very metal, but it's good and the lights are pretty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ux6v5iIn5NA

thanks again -- i can't wait to listen to these at home.

(my name is amanda btw, i am a real person!)

ugh sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6v5iIn5NA

ooh, that is pretty good. the echoey sax works!
hi amanda, i know you are real!

this is a more straightforward cover, but i like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17vG_pfKhY&feature=related

i just wanted to reiterate that i am a real person who has genuine thanks for all of these danger birds.

Listening to 40 min of Danger Bird reminds me of when NY says "It's all one song!" on Year of the Horse. In this case, it is ALL THE SAME SONG. I love it!

hee hee, yeah. if i was more technologically adept, i'd mix all of these into one continuous track.

some seriously weird shit going on in the santa cruz version! also enthusiastic belting FLYYYYYYY <3

here's the show where i saw him do it. i remember it seeming so slow. so slooooooow.

1996-09-11, The Forum, Inglewood, California, USA
w/ Crazy Horse
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) / Pocahontas / Big Time / Slip Away / The Needle And The Damage Done / Heart Of Gold / Sugar Mountain / Cinnamon Girl / F*!#in' Up / Cortez The Killer / Music Arcade / Like A Hurricane // This Town / Sedan Delivery / Dangerbird

the acoustic piano one is so tender that it should come with a warning
good lord

yeah that one is great, almost like he's not sure where to go with it. seems to be the only time he did it like that.

thx for all these danger birds

assume folks have heard this, 20 minutes of CtK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqb1Cp3r2rw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htFJUrYd2es

Art class working quietly, Zuma playing loudly off YouTube; as life's diminishing pleasures go, this is up there. (No one's inquired, but no one's complained, either.)

I'm ready to make this happen if anyone else is. I still think it would sound awesome.

questions:

1) can anyone direct me to a really good cover of "danger bird"? has such a thing ever happened?
2) what is the longest, most freaked out version of "danger bird" that ny/ch has recorded?

thank you

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:25 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

Dangerbird too low, even if it is equal 4th

bottom 3 otm though

Or 3rd, even (DB)

stupid girl is just a godawful shit song. don't know how anyone could say it's their favorite on this album but then again i guess i do know. i think i've only made it through that song once or twice, usually i skip it as soon as he says YOU'RE SUCH A STUPID GIRL. fuck off neil you should've known better

i do wish he'd re-thought the lyrics but i give it a pass because guitars

Stupid Girl seems like more of a Don'n'Glenn type song

lyrically

XPS Besides, What's Poncho-era Crazy Horse without something boneheaded?

i was about to defend 'stupid girl' but yeah it's garbage

guitars seconded, not garbage

sorry, that is just how i feel.

Also stupid lyrics from Neil Young? Not exactly an unusual occurence... though less so than Lou Reed for instance.

Lou Reed would have at least thrown a couple good, cruel jokes into a song called "Stupid Girl"

It's no classic, that's for sure!

stupid girl sucks because neil could do/has done so much better. he has a good heart.

but more importantly, who is going to help me slay danger bird

barstool blues is fuckin CRAZY. i burn my voice out singing to that tune

YEAH

not me! ~ right in my range~

danger bird is such a dinosaur of a classic hard rock song, and i say that in the most positive way. i listen to it and i just think "heavy classic rock dinosaur" but it blows away any of the real classic rock dinosaurs

i sing along to the barstool blues solo too. doodeedooo neerneerneerneeeeeer

oh totally

also sad to see through my sails not get a ton of love. i dig that tune but i dig CSNY for the most part.

also i think i'm gonna start saying "YOU REALLY GOT A LOT TO LEARN" whenever i disagree with someone

think i'll start saying "I SAW YOU IN MERCEDES BENZ" when i see joe-joe in mercedes benz

Maybe worse than the lyrics is the (unusual occurrence of) Neil's double vocal track - in octaves, no less (not harmony). Hate that. Definitely worst song on Zuma

yeah those octaves are... not kind

Lou Reed would have at least thrown a couple good, cruel jokes into a song called "Stupid Girl"

Lou did of course write a song about a "Stupid Man", a man who hitch-hiked out of a good life
in Saskatchewan and who had big big plans to build a house upon some land (I mean, how stupid is that?)

that song is great

neil's most consistent album

actually otm in my book

Brad have you heard Dume??

i haven't!!!!

This is Young's best album.

how can an album contain "Lookin' for a Love," "Don't Cry No Tears," and "Pardon My Heart"?!

Xpost Brad it's amazing, basically everything they did during the Zuma sessions, including Crazy Horse doing Ride My Llama,a studio Powder finger, one or two unheard songs, plus the Zuma stuff, basically like if Zuma was a double album

A very close second to Everybody/Gold Rush for me, ahead of the more celebrated Beach/Tonight. Not a song I consider less than great, even "Through My Sails."

"through my sails" is one of my favorites tbh. "stupid girl" is the one i roll my eyes at a little.

gotta hear Dume I guess

"through my sails" sits proudly on a playlist i created called "neil young songs that make you feel some type of way"

lol there are a lot of those

oh nm i see what u mean

right, it's that particular "type of way" that only the loveliest neil songs make you feel haha

it's a vibe for sure

"total confusion
disillusion"

set to the prettiest lullabye

*Googles Dume*

Ah. An Archives thing.

Danger Bird is so so good

I know "Stupid Girl" is not exactly made for these times. As I think others have pointed out in various Neil threads: it's about a specific woman, not women, and I don't think Neil has ever been particularly misogynistic. He's mostly starry-eyed and worshipful, which I guess is also an archaic way of treating women. In any event, I mostly just hear "Stupid Girl" as sound.

Oh i know all that, still not my fav

great song imo

he's not necessarily misogynistic, just weird about women sometimes imo xp

god the cortez on rust bucket rules so hard

Danger Bird is so so good

"danger bird" would've gotten my vote here if "cortez" weren't the greatest song ever written

Lou Reed loved "Danger Bird" iirc

"Stupid Girl" has great unusual chord changes.

Plus great guitar sound/playing.

Young's gee-tar has never been mixed on an album to sound this crinkly and awesome

Pretty sure every single solitary man of his generation has problematic beliefs about how to treat women.
“Stupid Girl” does not move me and I consider it filler but easy to skip/endure when every other song is good on the album.

Pretty sure every single solitary man of his generation has problematic beliefs about how to treat women.
“Stupid Girl” does not move me and I consider it filler but easy to skip/endure when every other song is good on the album.

I was thinking about "Through My Sails" and how, up to that point (it gets worse starting with Long May You Run), uniformly excellent Neil's songs are whenever he got together with CSN: "Helpless," "Country Girl," "Sea of Madness," "Ohio," "Through My Sails," probably a couple of others. I imagine--I'm sure others have suggested the same--Neil loved showing off, loved to remind them how much better a songwriter he basically was.

I could never love this record, I find the epics dull. My favourite extended Crazy Horse song is "Change Your Mind".
"Barstool Blues" would have been my pick from this one.

I tend to skip "Cortez...," yeah.

I don't object in principle to Neil playing three chords endlessly, but the song itself has to mean something to me.

If you don’t like the slow jams are you even listening to Neil Young?

"On the Beach" is more my speed.

also, technically it's three chords i guess but they are turned into quite the maze

"Cortez" means everything to me, though I might have trouble explaining why.

Neil's slow ones are spookier than his quickies: "Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)," my god

"On the Beach" is more my speed.

Not enough electric guitar.

Attempting to duplicate the atmosphere described in Shakey, two buddies and I about fifteen years ago tried the recipe for honey sliders at my place: honey, a little butter, lots of weed in a frying pan at low heat. We spooned the coagulated shit. It tasted like burned spaghetti. For fifteen minutes we condemned our stupidity. Then...holy shit. We couldn't move. The nicest low-hanging buzz.

I've been wondering if these archival releases will uncover a hitherto-unknown full reggae version of Cortez he laid down and then forgot about.

now I imagine Tonight-era Bowie covering it in a reggae version.

Plus marimbas.

he came dancin' across da watah mahn

Maybe as a duet with Iggy?

Iggy from "Taxi" maybe.

A calypso version, even

Guys, I'm going to bed soon, dreamlessly, I hope.

"On the Beach" is more my speed.

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so three chords is boring, but four chords is totally cool

i personally don’t think the number of chords correlated to the quality of a song, but i digress

I said I don't object to three chords.

"Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Change Your Mind" are based around the same two chords, but I find the latter more meaningful as a song, as a lyric and performance.

cowgirl in the sand has way more than two chords?

Yeah the bridge/chorus has at least 5 iirc

Yes, but at least half of each song is jamming on the same two chords.

They can’t all be “Roadrunner”!

counting the number of chords used in a song strikes me as the absolute worst way to engage with music

I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way

dume is def my favorite disc on archives 2 so far. never loved danger bird but at the same time a 7 minute doper jam fits so well right there in the 2nd slot, especially balancing out cortez at the end. the dume version of powderfinger probably works as a good replacement

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), my point was that the quality of Neil's songs isn't consistent with how many chords they have.

for real though, i remember the first time i heard "cortez," i thought the extended intro was like slowly pulling back layers of an onion or something, it was almost bewildering in its meandering raggedness, but obviously the feeling of the thing has a pretty direct and strong trajectory like almost everything neil did in the classic years.

One thing that can be said in favour of songs based around a limited set of chords is that the form is highly conducive to improvised lead work. (John McLaughlin would doubtless disagree, but whatevs)

https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/neil_young_zuma_1975_465_240_int.jpg

The best album ever.

The best beach ever.

Santa Monica Beach is the location chosen by photographer Bob Seidemann for the cover of Neil Young's fifth album, “On The Beach ” which was released in 1974.

why the hell would you do that when zuma is like 10 miles down the road, lol. pure laziness? some money thing?

On the Beach is a different album from Zuma

Only 70s Neil album I'm all that bothered about (and maybe Rust) and what is surely now one of my favourite album billboards.

On the Beach is a different album from Zuma

― Josefa, Wednesday, August 31, 2022 6:25 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

jesus, what a brain fart lol

James Mazzeo, the Zuma (and other Neil projects) artist, passed away recently: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2022/08/james-mazzeo-1944-2022.html

Wow, that Zuma drawing looks great in color.

RIP "Sandy" Mazzeo, one of the standout supporting players in Shakey

50 years, er, young today

Clearly it's time for him to re-record it with a different band and track list.