I got to get away from this day to day running around
― calstars, Sunday, 17 June 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
TRANS FTW!
― circa1916, Sunday, 17 June 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Arc/Weld. The worst/best live albums ever.
― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 18 June 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Dead Man is actually really really good.
― MRZBW, Monday, 18 June 2007 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Tonight's The Night
closely followed by Goldrush and On The Beach
TTN is definitely my favourite - it's so fucked, so moving. Tender, ragged and rocking in equal measure.
Baby Mellow My Mind aches so hard - the swell of pedal steel, touch of lonesome barroom piano, and Neil's voice actually breaking up.
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown rocks. It sounds so triumphant in its hedonism yet the undercurrent is utterly bleak.
Other favourites - Everybody Knows, Rust, Zuma, Time Fades Away, Sleeps With Angels, Live Rust. Hell, there hardly any poor ones. I've not heard the infamous Landing On Water, but Are You Passionate was bloody awful. Trans is ace though.
Ragged Glory is great fun, one of his most satisfying rock records, but I wouldn't quite put it in the top rung of Neil albums.
Harvest - handful of great songs and some dreary stuff too. Overall, it's too slick, too polite. I like Neil a little scuffed around the edges.
― Stew, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Rust Never Sleeps has Powderfinger, for the win.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone else notice how Apatow kept dropping the cover of Landing On Water all over Knocked Up. What's the deal with that? Consensus aropund these parts on that album?
― talrose, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Rust Never Sleeps for "Powderfinger", but also because of the individually peculiar time and place in which I first loved this record. Also, it's an incredibly balanced album in so many ways I can't be bothered to expand on here.
― Lostandfound, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Consensus aropund these parts on that album?
I noticed the curious product placement too, Tal. There's an interesting thread here devoted to Landing on Water.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
no "none of the above"????
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
just snuck in a vote for tonight's the night. right in the nick of time.
emotion of the less contained and calculated variety
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
me for tonights the night, too. its so close though - there are better songs on zuma and everybody knows, and almost enough to give the nod to one of them, but TTN takes it
― 69, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Tonight's The Night would be my second or third and very close.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Rust Never Sleeps by a hair, for side one and Powderfinger alone (though nearly sunk by Welfare Mothers).
― Davey D, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh c'mon, Welfare Mothers is great! My favorite Neil Young throwaway.
― Jiminy Krokus, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
DIVORCEE
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
a 3-way tie this time then.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Fair result.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait. Zuma should've been much higher, though.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
c'est vrai
― blunt, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone voted for Everybody's Rockin' again.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
One vote for "Zuma"! No way!! This poll is corrupt!!!
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"On the Beach" - there's an ILM album if ever there was one
Sleeps With Angels is way too high. And Freedom is way too low.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The fact that Zuma ranked below Trans completely invalidates this poll.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
So, basically, I'm the only person who voted for "Zuma"? Don't believe it.
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I wasn't around when CSN(and sometimes Y) were at their peak, so apologies for the following somewhat naive question:
How much of Neil Young's popularity in the 70s can be attributed to his association with CSN? The thought never really occurred to me until I was checking out CSN(Y)'s Allmusic entry today, which says "it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles".
Personally, I like Neil Young exponentially more than CSN(Y), so my gut feeling is that the majority of Neil Young's fans were there on account of his own talent. But was there a certain contingency of fans who cheered loudest for "Ohio" and "Helpless", contemplating to themselves at the Live Rust concerts that it would be better if CSN were up on stage too? Or was it more like "Why the hell does Neil Young ever play with them? They butchered 'Helpless'..."? Just wondering what the prevalent view was back in the day.
― Z S, Friday, 23 November 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
When CSN and sometimes Y reunited for a predictably horrible album in 1988, Neil begged off the obligatory tour, saying, "I dunno man, those guys need some serious practice."
And that Allmusic statement strikes me as comically absurd.
― Sara Sara Sara, Friday, 23 November 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I admit it raised my eyebrow as well, but then I go the ILM search function, and the second thing I read on the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young C/D S/D thread is "i'm more interested in the fact that CSN(Y) (or whatever) were actually REALLY POPULAR and BIG -- as in springsteen in '85/outkast or britney spears BIG. that's such a radical sea-change in mass public musical taste that deserves some comment, no?"
― Z S, Friday, 23 November 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
On The Beach is very good, but would have voted Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, in fact i shall play it now
― Alex in Denver, Friday, 23 November 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
hi alex, how is the weather in denver? in frankfurt it has been raining most of the day. i would have voted <i>after the goldrush</i>, i think. but <i>on the beach</i> is a decent winner, too.
― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 23 November 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i will never learn the ilm html tags...
weird
― moscow_nights, Monday, 26 November 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles
In their time their American album sales were HUGE. Their cultural cachet was such that their public greeted "Ohio" as a major statement. I'm wary of statements like AllMusic's, but the Shakey bio also makes the same suggestion.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 26 November 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
CSNY were huge because the Byrds, the Hollies, and the Buffalo Springfield had all been huge before.
― Nubbelverbrennung, Monday, 26 November 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Dead Man = Neil's best electric work?
― Matt P, Monday, 15 December 2008 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
look at the bill for this thinghttp://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/event-listings/hal-willner's-neil-young-project-_70660zv.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm assuming thats a different Chris Brown, otherwise o_O
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, probably?a mix of eh, cool! and whaaaa?Sam Beam of Iron & WineChris Brown Vashti Bunyan Robert BurgerBrendan Canning Fred Cash Jason Collett Julie Doiron Kevin Drew Sam GoldbergShahzad Ismaily Eric Mingus Sun Kil Moon Jenni Muldaur Ambrosia ParsleyJustin Peroff Ben Perowsky Joan as Policewoman Elizabeth Powell Bill Priddle Lou Reed Alasdair Roberts Ron Sexsmith Teddy Thompson James Blood Ulmer Andrew Whiteman Doug Wieselman
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hoping for a mingus/blood ulmer/reed jam on down by the river
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j//msnbc/Components/Video/071107/tdy_chrisbrown_song3_071107.vmodv4.jpg
A MAAAAAAAAAID
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, some good names on there and some wtf ones as well. I scanned it quickly the first time and saw "Bill Priddle" as "Mark Prindle".
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://celeb.wohoo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/chris-brown.jpgcan i get a heart of gooooold?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
IT'S THE WOMAN IN YOU THAT MAKES YOU WANNA PLAY THIS GAAAAAME!
TAKE IT, ULMER!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
wish they would substitute teddy thompson for richard thompson
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Neil Young and Bert Jansch, May 24 at DAR Constitution Hall ($83.50-$193.50)
Don't think I want to spend that much to see him on this solo tour.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 April 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
great bill tho
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 19 April 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
thanked the crowd by shouting into his les paul pickups
oh yes that was great
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:51 (three weeks ago) link
i almost forgot about the organ dangling from the scaffolding for "like a hurricane." that was cool and amusing.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 16 May 2024 02:18 (three weeks ago) link
that was the only song that used the organ and it hung by the horse's head for the whole show
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 May 2024 02:21 (three weeks ago) link
i was checking resale tickets for tonight's show but the price and for standing in the rain had me make other plans. obviously regretting it.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 16 May 2024 03:16 (three weeks ago) link
I heard tonight's show was supposed to be much better than last night's. Video for last night's is up FWIW:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcan_ANPenk
― birdistheword, Thursday, 16 May 2024 03:40 (three weeks ago) link
FWIW, here's them in 2012, and I was at this show, about the same distance away too but in the center. They still sound great but seeing how much they've aged, I feel like this could be the last time they play NYC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FrtI9lENE
― birdistheword, Thursday, 16 May 2024 03:49 (three weeks ago) link
yeah, that was a big factor. i've only seen NY/CH once and it was on the absurd greendale tour but from the videos i've seen i may just have to settle for that.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 16 May 2024 04:10 (three weeks ago) link
i was there too on tuesday. the best part of the PA outage was when they cranked up the stage amps and tore into "hey hey, my my." direct from neil's amp to my ears.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 16 May 2024 10:02 (three weeks ago) link
his voice sounds better live (in the 2024 video) than it does on that ragged glory redo
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 May 2024 12:34 (three weeks ago) link
love that video of tuesday's show. good to hear "hey hey my my" from someone who was close enough to hear it right from the amps.
i was trying to figure out how neil would cue the halftime parts on "sedan delivery," seems like he just gives ralph a look and boom, it slows down. it always takes billy and the guitar player a second to catch up haha
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 May 2024 14:58 (three weeks ago) link
Looking into seeing him next week, cheapest tickets I saw were $205. Not my favorite venue in the area and the timing would suck due to other commitments, so don't think it'll happen. Just crazy to think it would cost me more to see Neil than what I paid to see Dead & Co. at the Sphere.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 May 2024 15:18 (three weeks ago) link
good to hear "hey hey my my" from someone who was close enough to hear it right from the amps.
i was way up in the bleachers but the sound was reaching me all the way up there. not with the clarity of the PA, but i could immediately identify the song. it was like seeing the beatles! (who also played the forest hills stadium once, iirc.)
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:00 (three weeks ago) link
120 bucks in OR for lawn GA. far less than i was expecting and i didn't have to fight scalpers or bots really
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:18 (three weeks ago) link
At show I was at Neil didn’t let them use video screens, but it looks like they were used at his New Orleans Jazz Fest gig .
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:46 (three weeks ago) link
Is it crazy to think it would cost more to see NEIL YOUNG than phish? Is it crazy?
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:52 (three weeks ago) link
(not excusing the shitty ticket prices here, but come on son)
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:53 (three weeks ago) link
i've now realised where you wrote Dead & Co, I read phish. still.... point stands
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 16 May 2024 16:54 (three weeks ago) link
Eh, my point was more the venue than the band really, the Sphere was an expensive ass thing to build and with all the hype I feel like they could have justified a higher price point. If it was any other bog standard venue, I would naturally expect Neil to cost more. But this specific event/venue did surprise me (and I understand your main point is more a dig at the relative quality of the music, which I don't disagree with, but I also think my point still stands).
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:04 (three weeks ago) link
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, May 16, 2024 11:00 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes i could hear too! but the p.a. was cutting in and out, which was distracting
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:23 (three weeks ago) link
― curmudgeon, Thursday, May 16, 2024 9:46 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i was bummed about this at the phx show, they really just way out there and you dont see any of the guitar faces or band interactions or pickup switching or expressions. i enjoyed the show but it couldve been way better with the screens on.
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:44 (three weeks ago) link
When I saw him in 2012, I was genuinely surprised that he was still using as stage decor the giant amps from the Rust-era. I knew he used them for the Ragged Glory tour preserved on Weld, but I hadn't seen any video or pictures of recent shows, just audio from a ton of bootlegs, so it was actually a pleasant surprise for me. From a certain distance it probably looks hilarious if you're not jaded by it - tiny Crazy Horse rocking out among the amps - but I can see how it's a drag if it supplants any screens that would've been helpful.
― birdistheword, Friday, 17 May 2024 00:53 (three weeks ago) link
I saw him in 2001 and there were no giant amps that I recall - but in 2013 he had all the giant stage props and istr scientists with clipboards and lab coats scurrying around! really appreciated the dumbness of it!
2001 had a fantastic setlist of all the songs you'd want them to play but 2013 was the better show for me - the psychedelic pill material really gave the set purpose and cohesion
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Friday, 17 May 2024 01:10 (three weeks ago) link
So they just dropped "Everybody's Alone" on streaming as a single with a vintage black & white cover pic of the Whitten-era band with the title "Early Daze"...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 May 2024 04:16 (three weeks ago) link
Facebook banner describes it as a "Historic Collection of Early Recordings from 1969" and it's out via Reprise on June 28th.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 May 2024 04:21 (three weeks ago) link
A bit more information here:
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-early-daze/
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 17 May 2024 10:02 (three weeks ago) link
Very excited to see them in a few days, along with my dad. Will be my first time seeing Neil, his second - the first was at Woodstock. Was thinking about that yesterday and getting really tripped out about it, wondering if I'll be lucky enough to see 2 shows by the same artist 55 years apart, the mind reels
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Friday, 17 May 2024 12:11 (three weeks ago) link
This early crazy horse single sounds great, look forward to the album
Kind of a slacker indie 90s vibe tbh
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 20 May 2024 10:30 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/neil-young/listening-to-neil-young-after-coming-out
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:59 (two weeks ago) link
UMS and I drove to the Chicago gig, which was "postponed" but of course wasn't announced as such until we were at the venue and the whole rest of the trip was, at times a challenge and UMS kept saying "man, none of this would be bugging me if we had seen a great Neil Young show last night"
Hopefully everyone is ok
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 16:50 (one week ago) link
lol such a bummer, we were all just sitting in the uber stunned when we saw the "concert cancelled" sign
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 18:30 (one week ago) link
oooof. feels like neil should be gifting everyone who was canceled on a free year of archives subscriptions or something. and a hand-rolled joint? someone else i know flew to austin only to have lightning cancel the show.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 18:59 (one week ago) link
He should let us decide what the next Archives release is
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:07 (one week ago) link
I admit I'm a little bit concerned about this, plz post any updates here
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:10 (one week ago) link
Man I would like to have a concrete update, naturally a lot of rumors flying out there without anything official to fill the vacuum.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:18 (one week ago) link
from a facebook neil group guy: "For those just a little concerned over the lack of any news, I have heard from someone definitely in the know that in terms of the reported illness, “everything is ok and nothing serious”."
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:21 (one week ago) link
Yeah weirdly the lack of updates convinced me that it wasn't anything to be alarmed about, though obv these are some well-rode horses so it is always a concern but seems like a "no news is good news" sitch
I also drove through 3 hours of some the worst driving weather I've experienced in a long time so I trying to be philosophical about the whole deal
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:46 (one week ago) link
They just dropped a Crazy Horse & Neil version of "Look At All The Things," which is good, but loses something without those piano and arranged harmonies from the '71 CH album.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 June 2024 04:37 (three days ago) link