neil young

just wanted to chime in some more about the s/t remaster, been listening to it a bunch lately:

- Last Trip to Tulsa is possibly the worst song in his entire catalog. aimless, formless, terrible lyrics, terrible delivery. practically everything about it is wrong
- the only other track that irks me is Here We Are in the Years, just for the clumsy lyrical sentiment

there's a great (much shorter & electric) version of "last trip" that was the b-side to the time fades away single. and yeah "here we are in the years" is definitely not the best set of lyrics, but it is pretty!

http://www.bigozine1a.com/TRKSD/NYrarities/NYrarities13.mp3 here ya go

haha omg that is SO MUCH BETTER. sloppy groove and a sneer is def the way that song should be

loving the unhinged-ness of this - feels of a piece with Yonder Stands the Sinner

yeah, the song is pretty funny/nasty in that version

This song is atrocious.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/88621/canadian-rappers-sample-brutalize-neil-youngs-old-man/

I listened to A Treasure on the way in this morning and I have to say, I think this is finally going to provide a way for me to get into the 80s country era of Neil's career. That's always been a blind spot for me, both because 80s Neil was the last in general I came around to and also because country can be the hardest genre for me to really invest time in. I'd long heard and read about the legendary International Harvesters tours, but the few bootlegs I heard were of questionable enough quality that I couldn't fully commit. This sounds great and, while it may not represent any kind of peak for Neil, I'm really thankful to have it in my collection.

A nice little sign of the times, the crowd reaction to the "there's already too many Toyotas on the road" line in "Motor City".

80s Neil was the last in general I came around to

Trans!!!! It's all about that album

Trans is amazing

Trans was the first (and only) 80s Neil I had for the longest time. Its the less regarded 80s album I took forever to get into.

news from the toronto film festival:
Neil has just completed his first book, a 105,000-word epic tentatively titled Cars I Have Known.

"Underrated Cars I Have Owned"

gonna assume the book is about neil's experiences with Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton and David Robinson?

It's all about his quest to copy their drum sound in the 80s.

May you live in inneresting times--happy 66th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBOQfr2Lrno

happy b-day!
clemenza, you might be innnerested in this. it kind of works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Z3Ikwj1xk

Thanks--I like it. With something like "Harvest Moon," which for me is kind of ordinary, I think you've got to do something with it besides a straight cover. Into the folder it goes. Found a picture of them:

http://www.themusicninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Poolside.jpg

cool bros. yeah, i know nothing about them except for this...sort of like that the singer is kind of terrible, it helps!

was just thinking i'd prefer it more if neil was singing over their track tbh

Happy bday neil!

Also the high placement of sleeps with angels on this poll is weird!

That is weird. There are for sure 5-7 albums that could easily jump ahead of it. The most important thing is that it is above the 39 or whatever that could not.

Over zuma, everybody knows, and live rust is crazy

finally got around to buying A Treasure today in honor of Neil's b-day. Here's wising him many more.

Also the high placement of sleeps with angels on this poll is weird!

Troll vote coalition was pretty strong on AIM about 4 years ago.

1 vote for Harvest is some contrarian shite.

or else it's just ILM Loves the 90s

oh shit i didn't even notice harvest...

has harvest somehow become neil young's most underrated album?

hee hee, one vote for Zuma! wacky. i don't think i voted in this poll.

depending on the day i could probably vote for any of neil's first dozen or so records...

these are the NY albums that showed up on Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time list in 2003, for a decent idea of the canonical view of his catalog:

71. After The Gold Rush NEIL YOUNG
79. Harvest NEIL YOUNG
147. Deja Vu CROSBY, STILLS , NASH AND YOUNG
206. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere NEIL YOUNG with CRAZY
327. Tonight's The Night NEIL YOUNG
346. Rust Never Sleeps NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE

Fairly accurate, I'd say, with a built-in Rolling Stone tilt. I think the consensus would be more like Gold Rush or Rust Never Sleeps at the top, followed by Tonight's the Night, followed by Everybody; then some configuration of Time Fades Away/On the Beach/Zuma and Freedom/Ragged Glory. I think Harvest is quite good, but Neil's own ambivalence about it in the Decade liner notes seemed to fix its place as the big-selling album that came between Everybody/Gold Rush and the so-called Ditch Trilogy--it doesn't quite seem to belong. I don't know that Deja Vu fits in, either, even though Neil contributes two brilliant songs (and half a good one).

I think sleeps with angels is way more ilm loves the 90s than a troll vote, it's a really good album

So glad I took a minute to rescan this thread--I've been trying for a year to remember the name of that "Pocahontas" sound-alike Shakey Mo Collier posted, and I couldn't remember the song, the singer, or the thread (there are a number of Neil threads).

Top 3 are right, Comes A Time and Time Fades Away were robbed

huh! http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org/2012/01/report-new-crazy-horse-album-recorded.html
... Neil Young has been recording with Crazy Horse . One album is complete and they are working on another.

No mention of content or time table.

Sigh.

seems like if they're gonna do one last big crazy horse tour, they'd want to do it sooner rather than later -- look at these old dudes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kvQ307mWuF8/TPVHDPpBmmI/AAAAAAAAAis/gBwHeXYcgrA/s400/crazy-horse-musicares-2010.jpg

Last time I saw Neil with a band, Molina was playing drums and seemed fine. But then, so did Ben Keith ...

Haha, yeah, my first thought was, "Where's Frank? And why is his dad there?"

xp

a little more on his slamdance appearance. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1677694/sundance-film-festival-neil-young.jhtml
Haunting words: "Mumford and Sons and My Morning Jacket are great bands," Young said. "I love them both and I know them well. I feel good about saying that."

nooooooooooooooooooo

also i hope age hasn't robbed crazy horse of their whiplash, machine-tuned chops!

more "news" http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-recording-new-album-with-crazy-horse-20120123

"It's looking good," a representative for Young says.

Multiple fans subsequently posted on Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina's Facebook wall to ask if the news was true. His response: "Yes!"

mumfords suck but i could totally see why neil digs mmj, who are awesome imho

yeah it was mainly the mumfords. not a huge fan of mmj, but definitely not in the same league of lameness.

let us not forget that in some ways, our neil is a huge sap! it sounds ok when it's coming from him because we know him. coming from mumfords, the sap is unpalatable at best and totally untolerable at worst. (i do not like mumfords or mmj but agree that one is more of a disappointment than the other!!)

untolerable? intolerable! repulsive, is what i meant.

yeah, he's a sap... and anyway, i reallllly don't look to him for music recommendations in general. not that he doesn't occasionally have good taste, but I think he's always said that he doesn't even listen to that much music in his private time.

I would listen to Neil debate Mumford's with Mark E. Smith

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybk735dMs1qdf09mo1_500.jpg

“I told Neil, ‘Don’t wear your fringe to the wedding’. He always wore fringes, but he said, ‘Okay’. So he came in a Confederate army uniform. What a guy!” Richie Furay