She does look super cute on the cover, that's why I posted the photo! She was cute in Sterile Cuckoo too -- one of the original MPDGs iirc. I don't know how Neil Young would feel about that, he seems like he likes his women a little more down to earth, but what do I know. http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BOTcxNzk4MTEzMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjIwMjU2._V1._SX450_SY363_.jpg
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
She did work with Alice Cooper
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
she was dating scorsese at the time of the last waltz, maybe she was backstage? important things to know.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
We're getting off topic but I love her hair and moves here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_mjkxc7Ys
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry to add to the somewhat surreal derailment--started by me, perhaps...--but I find Liza much more attractive in The Sterile Cuckoo than in Cabaret.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Guys if this thread gets derailed where will we be able to talk about Neil Young?
― trebek sajak iii (cwkiii), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
liza on the beachhttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XeWEPV5kBvQ/S17xCqP7XtI/AAAAAAAAFYk/NKIVzhwLwbc/s400/Liza+Minelli+bathing+suit.bmp
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
she is 4'4"
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
not that there's anything wrong with that
"Pocahontas, Liza Minelli and me"
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
she once recounted to Neil her deep desire to "walk like a giant"
― Duke, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
As a person of short stature, I can identify with that.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
she isn't 4'4" really is she?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Damn I just looked it up and she's taller than I am!
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Google tells me she is 5'4" (1.63 m)
― Duke, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
In a further thread-derail, and having found how easy it is to Google people's height..., I'm disappointed to learn that Iggy Pop is not actually Five Foot One, but 5'7".
― Duke, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
Prince is 5'2" right?
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
You never know......
― Duke, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
40 years young today
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
He should have taken a chance and held it back for three weeks--could have released it the day Nixon resigned.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
heh heh. i've been listening to this album for 20+ years now... still so good.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Motion Pictures should have been much, much higher
― nostormo, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
What would've been perfect: if Altman had interspersed the title track into The Long Goodbye the same way he used "The Stranger Song" in McCabe & Mrs. Miller
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 26 December 2014 12:11 (nine years ago) link
(Though I guess this album was released a year too late for that...)
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 26 December 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
Robert Altman came to my school for a Robert FIlm Festival and said that the idea for McCabe and Mrs. Miller appeared to him (in snowy images of the title characters) while listening to an LP by L. Cohen, forget which one, He was high at the time but he remembered (made notes). As said on CSNY thread, I saw them on tour in Memphis, about five weeks after OTB was released, I think, although I hadn't heard it, and it was so exciting to encounter some of those surgin' songs in the midst of all that porridge. Y warbling true after all the "harmonies," then S-Y guitar wars wah-wahing all over C & N's hapless handclaps (okay, some of the group efforts worked, but best on Young & Stills songs). I realized that he wasn't just gonna run that Harvest sound into the ground, or turn into James Taylor. And the audience as a whole really woke up for his new stuff (though prob some wanted to get back to the mellow).
― dow, Friday, 26 December 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Robert Altman Film Festival, not just any Robert.
Neil Young, 6' 0" (1.82 m)
― dow, Friday, 26 December 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Stood in a record store and held the Ditch box set in my hand yesterday. So much money--$179. Happily, no need for it.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 December 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
The Pono versions won't be near as expensive.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 December 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
Idk it's hard to imagine the long goodbye having any other theme song than the long goodbye.
― man alive, Saturday, 27 December 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Wow I thought Neil was taller, not that 6 feet is short but I guess the ppl he's in band's with must by short
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 December 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
i'd rather start all over again
― home organ, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
the world is turning
― home organ, Sunday, 17 April 2016 05:44 (eight years ago) link
yow, neil played "revolution blues" last night in texas ... first time since 1987. those promise of the real-ers must be real on the beach heads.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
really dug the show I saw w them even tho we didn't get any deep cut/rarities like that honestly I might put them just behind Crazy Horse as his best backing band
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
I like every song on this record, but could probably agree if they were ranked according to these poll results.
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Feeling totally appropriate after the chaos of Christmas Day.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
Underrated part
Remember your guard dog?Well, I'm afraid that he's goneIt was such a drag to hear him whining all night long(mocking whine)
― omar little, Monday, 20 August 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
According to setlist.fm, Vampire Weekend debuted a cover of--wait for it--"Vampire Blues" w/opener Kingfish Ingram (new blues dude) at their Austin shows,
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2019 05:48 (five years ago) link
this was one of my all-time favorite albums in college. for some reason in the past decade i haven't been putting on that much neil, but homegrown put me right back in the position to really take in how brilliant this record is on every level from songcraft to arrangement. those screaming guitar tones in "walk on" @_@
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
i love every song on this album
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
would've voted for the title track because it's the perfect encapsulation of being stoned and depressed, just this long bummed-out smear of an experience
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
Motion Pictures should have been much higher.Agreed on Vampire Blues though- i always skip that track
― nostormo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
motion pictures would have been my vote
― devvvine, Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
the solo on motion pictures is glorious
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
Can’t remember if I voted in this, but Motion Pictures is like a top 5 favorite song for me, so that would have been it
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 25 June 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
I have such vivid memories of hearing this album for the first time when I visited LA for the first time in Summer of 1999.
A friend got me super high after a night of drinking and he gave me his discman and a bootleg CD of OTB that he had burned. The first side just blew my mind and I think I passed out after Revolution Blues.
It's only been within the last five years or so that I realized the second side is just as good.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Thursday, 25 June 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
get out of towwwwn...think i'll get outta toowwwwn
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 June 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
Best song
― Spottie, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
the title track and 'cortez the killer' share a lot of dna--both sun-scorched slow burns. if one of those isn't my favorite neil song, the other one is.
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link