neil young

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

southern mannnn
so is the buffalo springfield reunion over?

dunno, my brother saw them at Bonnaroo & said it was pretty fun! (obv lol drugs)

into Comes A Time lately but I guess that goes without saying

latest neil i've been listening to is one of those Crazy Horse Catalyst 1984, where he tries to turn the Horse into some weird angular stop-start fuzz monster. with horns!

speaking of which, getting a very NY & CH vibe from the new dirty three record, with violin in place of neil's guitar, of course.

For some reason, that (xp) reminds me of the 1986 (or '87) MTV Year In Rock special which had a brief segment on that year's NY/CH tour. Loder called it "one of the years stranger tours," and footage showed what appeared to be remote-control insects roaming the stage, and Neil talking into a massive telephone receiver.

yeah, it sounds weird -- in a rusted out garage tour, i think. must've felt like he needed to top Live Rust in terms of stage theatrics. this is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od_Im8vaKBQ&feature=related

needs some interpretive dancing from Nils Lofgren

xp Wow, that rocks. The one great song from Re-ac-tor! (unless you count "Shots"...and yeah, I think I do).

shots is an amazing song!!!!!

i think you gotta at least throw "surfer joe" in there as a great reactor song... and hey "southern pacific" too! though that one is better served by the int'l harvesters version.

I actually haven't heard Re-ac-tor in years, but the only songs that left a positive impression were "Shots" and "Opera Star." The rest I either don't remember or are, ahem, "T-Bone."

yeah, it sounds weird -- in a rusted out garage tour, i think.

Some details from Shakey:

"Live from a Rusted-Out Garage" came complete with huge props, a couple of humanoid mice that chattered incomprehensibly and...remote-control cockroaches. In between songs, the band was harassed by Young's "mom" as well as by visits from exterminators. In a large picture window, a psychedelic slide show by Sandy Mazzeo clicked away.

That sounds totally amazing. Wish I'd been able to see that tour.

yeah the bootlegs i have sound cool, if not totally inspired. ecelctic setlists, w/ stuff from landing on water, Life, Trans reactor, etc. lotta stuff he never played live again.

ha, this bootleg dvd sounds wild: http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/neilyoung/rusted-out-garage-dvd-r.htm
Radio Controlled cockroaches, gigantic mice dancing on stage, and a continually barking dog may have been amusing stagecraft at the time, but do tend to detract a bit from what otherwise is a great rock and roll show. Of note is a worthy cameo from Sam Kineson as a pissed off neighbor complaining about the noise. A Geetarz Production. Recommended.

I can see how some of that might spoil the flow of a concert, bizarrely fascinating though it might be. The show I saw in 1991 was pretty stripped-down...which is to say, just the massive Fenders. And if he'd followed "Love And Only Love" with a dancing mice, I would've been pissed.

hey apparently there's some sort of new neil + crazy horse thing streaming on neilyoung.com now! not an album, maybe a rehearsal or something. i can't currently listen on my aged laptop.

thanks for the tip! nice horsing around

almost tempted to say they should just release rehearsal jams, nevermind the songwriting. it'd be like an endless boogie record.

doesn't sound that different from Broken Arrow tbh