"Yellow Moon" by the Neville Brothers

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Honestly speaking, I've never liked the Neville Brothers...but dang if this isn't ever a great song. First heard it in while in the throes of a depression in the early 90's (having just been dumped after a sorely ill-advised fling with a girl in my office....NEVER a good idea) and was drowning my sorrows at a bar in my then neighborhood (Upper East Side....the Gaff...don't bother looking for it, it's now something else), and my friend Rob kept putting this song on the jukebox, demanding that I snap out of it. I didn't really snap out of it until several weeks later, but this amazing has haunted me ever since.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago) link

Great album too.

bugged out, Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

Produced by Daniel Lanois, no?

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 17 January 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

Yes. And it's a good song. Sister Rosa too.

(I live one block from the ex-GAF. Never went in but it did look like the only decent place around)

gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 17 January 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, lanois got it right for once.

you never liked the Nevilles Alex? whilst i'd concede that a lot of the post yellow moon stuff is meh, the preceding stuff is fantastic!

mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 17 January 2004 03:53 (twenty years ago) link

Right for once?!?!

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago) link

okay, gimme some other examples...(i aint the worlds biggest lanois fan, but i haven't heard too much)

mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 17 January 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago) link

I have the album, it's alright. Also have the Lanois-produced Teatro by Willie Nelson.

Sean (Sean), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:58 (twenty years ago) link

Yes -- great song, great album.

Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 17 January 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...
Listening to this for the first time since I was a kid. Its better than I remember.

deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my favorite songs in the whole world. Regulary flirts with the top 10 (along with the likes of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Sexual Healing", "The Girl from Ipanema" and about 100 others).

The rest of the album is wonderful, if not quite up to that level.

Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link


winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

winter testing (winter testing), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

six years pass...

Saw Aaron Neville last night (with a band featuring his brother Charles on sax) at the reopened Howard Theatre. Wow,at 71, he can still sing. Quite a range. Did 2 hours worth of covers--"A A change is Gonna Come," "Ain't No Sunshine," "Be My Baby," "Work with me Annie"....

curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link

I love this song.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 August 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link

Me too (but Aaron did not sing it last night. I forget the name of the Neville Brothers song he did. He always does "Tell it Like it is" both solo and with the Neville Brothers, but that's not the one I am thinking of.)

curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link

i also love this song. had a huge impact on me when i first heard it. i've played it for a number of people over the years, but some are turned off by the slick production & arrangement. squares.

contenderizer, Monday, 6 August 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link

People need to get past their Daniel Lanois and slick production hatred for this song

curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link

ten months pass...

Aaron Neville's hit 1991 cover of "Everybody Plays The Fool" is pretty damn cool.

A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 July 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link

Born to cover this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XmAix7F9nw

Amazingly, the Steve Miller version is funkier and more Meters-like.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link

ennnh... I can take or leave both of those covers. For a band that has long struggled to capture on a recording what makes them great, I think Yellow Moon does a good job, slickness or no. Decent originals, and some cool covers by Dylan and Link Wray. 1990s, post-Aaron duetting with Linda Ronstadt, is where the production really starts to get gloopy.

New Authentic Everybootsy Collins (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:05 (ten years ago) link

You people are all fucked. This album is all about "With God On Our Side."

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link

cool covers by Dylan

But yeah seriously, the quality of the Dylan covers makes me wonder why they've insisted on playing "Love The One You're With" at every damn show I've ever seen by them.

New Authentic Everybootsy Collins (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link

My guess is because Lanois suggested the "cool" covers, not any of the Nevilles.

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link

Also: the bros probably share the Stills sentiments

A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link

Fair enough. I'm probably one of the only ones in the audience wishing Art would sing "Cha Dooky Doo."

New Authentic Everybootsy Collins (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link

Me too.
Saw them years ago in R.I. and was very disappointed with the song choices. Never really got into a New Orleans groove.

Jazzbo, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link

You people are all fucked. This album is all about "With God On Our Side."

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, July 1, 2013 5:40 PM (Yesterday)

album loses steam in the back half, but the dylan covers are both great, also link wray's "fire & brimstone", sam cooke's "a change is gonna come". most of the originals aren't quite at that level (title track excepted), but i do like "my blood" and "sister rosa".

Me and my pool noodle (contenderizer), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link

"A Change Is Gonna Come" is total Oh Mercy territory, with some dissonant synth leading into the sax solo. Great one.

lols lane (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link

"Wake Up" is terrific.

A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link

seven months pass...

Such a jam!

raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link

yay!

Alex in NYC, Friday, 7 February 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link

It's so understated and mysterious

raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link

yeah, this whole album is mysterious and awesome

the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 7 February 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

this album is perfect

example (crüt), Monday, 6 July 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link

It's perfect in recollection.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link

i dunno this is pretty perfect right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrWjgG4ot4

resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 05:57 (eight years ago) link


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