neil young

The burnt out “Hitchhiker” take on Le Noise is great. The fact that song morphed into a track on Trans is nuts but on-track wrt Neil.

Le Noise is his best record of the last 30 years imo, even with the obligatory clunkers

― sleeve, Friday, June 18, 2021 7:37 PM

i was gonna be like, "HEY STOP RAGGED GLORY IS AWESOME" but then i remembered what year it is and. . . fuck, i'm old.

and yeah, le noise is solid. dream pop neil?

are those 2 the neil young for people who don’t like neil young? are there others in that vein?

nah, ragged glory is just classic neil + crazy horse noisey melodic buzz guitar jams. solid, but definitive *very* representative of "classic neil©"

le noise is produced by lanois and sounds like it, so yeah maybe. kind of folk troubadour neil goes space cadet ambient. like km said, it's an oddball in neil's catalogue for sure.

The biggest outlier in his catalogue might be... Landing on Water?

that album's sound hurts my ears

yeah, but that's. . . uhh, not a good album.

(now i've summoned the landing on water defenders, i just know it. oh dear.)

Just listened to it last weekend <3

are those 2 the neil young for people who don’t like neil young? are there others in that vein?

Although I don’t see what RG and LN have in common so maybe I’m misunderstanding the q

Landing on Water has some great songs

Old Ways is my personal least favorite

i don't think le noise would really convince anyone who wasn't already a fan but it's an interesting one, just neil & some nice spacy/noisy electric guitar.

I love his guitar playing, i like a lot of his tunes, sometimes like & sometimes hate his vocals (though they’re always interestingly unmacho & unrockstarlike even when they’re way offkey & the words are cliched/chauvinistic). his lyrics vary wildly between great and terrible from song to song or line to line & the politics are a fucking mess even by his generation’s standards

I heard landing on water the other day & thought it was mostly not very good so maybe i do prefer neil young being neil young. I’ve heard most of the famous albums at least once & found things to like on all of them but none of them are very consistent are they? closest is maybe after the gold rush… ?

ragged glory was one of the first i liked on first listen, i heard & enjoyed le noise for the first time last week. what they have in common: guitar noise, simple accessible tunes, the whine, the messy but intriguing lyrics

he seems like the kind of artist where the fuckups/messiness are part of the appeal if you’re a real fan. which i may become one day

Coming from the guy who’s honeyslider recipe sounds horrifying- I’d say you’d be 100% right that messiness is part of the appeal!

xp yeah I think every Neil album has at least one song I routinely skip over, except for On the Beach, which is ace all the way through

I wouldn't skip over anything on Time Fades Away either. Tonight's the Night has the missable "Roll Another Number".

fuckups/messiness are part of the appeal if you’re a real fan. which i may become one day

when you feel that you're ready, visit the neil young archives website. try to find and listen to an album within it. and then find the song folders, and try to copy and paste the text you find in them. then you will know if you are a real fan or not

sweet, new release news on the archives website! let me just text this to my friend - oh wait...forgot. well, i'll just send them the link then, so -- oh shit, forgot it's one of those websites with only one URL and no shareable links. goddamn i love neil young!!

complaining about his website is my love language

^^^
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I agree with those who have said, on this thread, and maybe others, that: Blue Note Cafe redeems/makes up for/improves on, or (depending on POV) is Even Better Than! This Note's For You, and: that A Treasure does likewise for Old Ways.

yeah definitely I always forget about A Treasure

Just amazing cowboy hitchhiker railroad folk-rock honky tonk home on the cohesive range of material, and International Harvesters have no prob keeping up.

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

i'm looking forward to my first listen to Blue Note Cafe and A Treasure! was not a fan of either of the time periods they cover, but maybe i was hearing the wrong stuff!

xp

ums it's gotta be top 5 for me, still. i think? trying to think of the last time i tried to do a top ten. there should be at least 7 to 10 spaces in Neil's top 5 imo

EKTIN is so classic, maybe ppl just went overboard praising the ditch trilogy etc at the expense of the early classics

what the hell is wrong with “roll another number”? :-(

yeah, that should not stand unopposed

it was either going to be roll another number or we don't smoke it no more, but either way it was going to be the part of the album where you're just lit, you're toasted and so is everyone else, and it's early enough that no one's gotten into a fight or spilled something or broken anything. it's sloppy and kind of dumb and fun, and soon enough it's back to the gutter

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

that's the one NY vinyl i've bought new in the 2000s. one of the nicest pressings of anything i've ever heard.fwiw
xp

I think Everybody has possibly been pushed into the shadow of Gold Rush. I go back and forth as to which is my favourite album ever.

there's no reason to choose. if the top 5 is allowed to actually be the top 7 to 10, the favorite ever is allowed to be 2

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:58 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If I could have a band, it would be the sound of the title track of Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Tough, swinging, crunchy, country rock.

I think live at the Filmore East 1970 release might have passed EKTIN at this point. Whenever I need my “Cowgirl in the Sand” or “Down by the River” fix I gravitate towards those versions.

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

Has it? I'd really surprised, I thought it was still considered great, partly for being the true fully-realized launch of his post-Buffalo Springfield career (with his self-titled debut being a half-great, half-overdone nice-try).

*I'd be really surprised

new horse in the works:

https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/202238662_10220259279380534_1681342746613216861_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=VsHVl9-A0rEAX_ljnIW&_nc_ht=scontent-den4-1.xx&oh=4b8828ae84a03a2b059a0675a03eb03b&oe=60D55013

I've got to be honest, I always forget Colorado (the album) exists

it exists!

it does feel like a very slight effort. some good moments, but nothing great.

I hope the album is called A Bunch of Songs.

^^Imagine Neil and Van Morrison having competition for the laziest dgaf old dude swag album title.

Also that photo needs to be the gatefold

Really digging ol' Neil's geriatric cue card style here

that photo is amazing

i wonder who printed those out for him

tho 50/50 on him doing it himself

I've got to be honest, I always forget Colorado (the album) exists

"I Do"'s a keeper - a beautiful track - but I haven't bothered to go back to the rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Czl4bwMqAg