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― System, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, he could've gone for Old Times, Old Blues, Old Way, Old Man, Old Guitar, Old Blvd., etc., and everyone from Starbucks on up would've been satisfied. But no. He's rattling that gold cage.
― munching of foods in my ears etc etc (Eazy), Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
He took the picture with his iphone... on holiday... in Antigua.
http://youtu.be/JgKBKNLkyw4
What a yoyo this guy is.
― mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
My gf just said he looks like a sex tourist in Thailand.
― mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
It was going to be called '50 Years Adrift in an Old Pontoon."
50 Years Adrift in an Old Pontoon VS Old Sock?
― mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa. Bowie named the Clapton album!
ok. i'm done now!
― mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, if only the Bowie people had put a box with Old Sock on top of 461 Ocean Boulevard.
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Sunday, 31 March 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 1 April 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
The thing is, Clapton entered his lazy old man phase a long time ago, see also:
http://lyricsmusic.name/img/photos/aeric-clapton-timepieces-2.jpg
1. album's presentation as "live" is so dubious that the designer had inverted commas brought in2. dude has just fucked off and stopped playing to check his watch and/or smoke a cigarette3. what an asshole
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 1 April 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
The Clapton album's cover may suck, but it doesn't even compare to the lyric video for the first single in terms of fuck-you hideousness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BekPxUFDDU
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 11 April 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
2. dude has just fucked off and stopped playing to check his watch and/or smoke a cigarette
I assumed he was timing the awesome sustain he can get
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
"Boy, I've been doing this racist anti-immigrant rant for seven minutes!"
― Pope Frank is the messenger of your doom (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 April 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Love Neil, but Leonard wins for effortless/cool IDGAF + hat
http://www.themortonreport.com/LeonardCohenOldIdeasCover.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 April 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Pfft, he's reading, he gives a fuck OLD SOCK REGINS
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 11 April 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
however, Clapton would beat Neil if these were answers to the family feud clue "things you masturbate into"
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 11 April 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pZVIEJuUqWE/UGSCcoqIqaI/AAAAAAAAEYg/olzQ3hhkw4c/s1600/WN%2526RMOF.jpgwinners
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 April 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_BelOZxxIMHg/S7Ssf45KHQI/AAAAAAAAj_I/aUsb9bPn6ho/thumbNeil%20Young%20-%20Old%20Ways%201997%20Front.jpg
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
dude from Wroflmother making an early but inadequate entry for consideration
http://static.tumblr.com/669f7347839d366696db9d8551336fdc/l2vi0xy/5wCmlupqw/tumblr_static_as_ep_cover.jpg
― charli.xlsx (sic), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.mp3rally.com/imager/w_500/h_/5af7bac14a31d9aa772aa29e3dfaf02e.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 May 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
it would take less time to actually hand-write that than to find a clunky "handwriting" font and type it out
― ¬╡▫ ▫╞⌠ (sic), Sunday, 26 May 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
To be fair, the same applies to the CGI John Fogerty.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 26 May 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
fogerty should inspire "wow, that guy looks great for his age" talk but the haircut and the bandana around the neck are pretty nagl
― my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Sunday, 26 May 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
sony rejected it (those assholes) but leonard cohen originally wanted this to be the cover for ten new songs:
http://1heckofaguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nova-cover-10-new-songs.jpg
― balls, Sunday, 26 May 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
wooooow
― my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Sunday, 26 May 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
i love them
― balls, Sunday, 26 May 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
van morrison needs to step up his old man game. only "pay the devil" comes close.
― brimstead, Sunday, 26 May 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
if chicago ever throws out a "hot streets" for the 21st century we may be in for radioactively gaudy old man swag
― brimstead, Sunday, 26 May 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://amassing2.sakura.ne.jp/image/jacket/large/2013b/23321.jpg
― Aglet, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
O Slothfingers, when will ye repent thy douchebaggery
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
Bill Wyman shows the latest wife his custom-built swag, and finds some nice jewelry for her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wDf9K3zJbg
― bendy, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
this poll is bullshit, it's just "who do you like better, Neil Young or Eric Clapton"
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
there are 15 people on ilm who like eric clapton better than neil young?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
I was going to say highly unlikely but that is woefully insufficient
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Fuck voting for a hat
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
No but I think there are enough people who would vote based on just thinking Neil Young is cooler than Eric Clapton to sway the poll.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
oh god, not the integrity of the old sock vs. fork in the road poll
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
our very democracy is at stake
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
neil young definitely looks like he gives less of a fuck but it's a stretch to call it swag
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
you can swag on my nuts if you think you have a point
― da croupier, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
lol i heard a song on the radio that i thought was kinda jammin and it turned out to be from Old Sock
― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Old Sock is not a bad album!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
The late 80s/early 90s AOR chart polls have convinced to explore Clapton's discography in greater depth!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/7e44bc21279c9da877800288feb96f08/tumblr_inline_ml1nr98aj51qz4rgp.jpg
― only dogg forgives (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Bono coming up on the outside:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BRPu-5yCUAAPTQb.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 August 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.davidcrosby.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Croz_Cover-2Asm.jpg?itok=xXVgvwYU
― Gouty_Ted, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
Something weirdly cryingeagle.jpg about that image.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Had a dream about this very thread just last night! I was visiting my sister and Clapton was in the kitchen for some reason, talking on the phone and looking like he looked in the '70s. Meanwhile I was amusing myself by playing the special 4CD expanded version of Zappa's "Freak Out!" in four different players at once so it just sounded like a lot of garbled noise. My brother-in-law came in and asked "What the hell are you listening to?" just as Clapton ended his call and joined us. I pointed to him and said "He's on this record!" (even tho it's actually a different Zappa album I was thinking of) and he said "That's 'Freak Out'!" and laughed and did the "It's God! I See God!" just like he actually does on "We're Only In It For The Money". Then it occurred to me that as long as Clapton was there, I might as well ask him a question about Neil Young just so I could post his reply on this thread (seemed like a good idea) so I addressed him, but for some reason I started stuttering and mumbling and couldn't get the words out. Finally I managed "What do you think of Neil Young?" and he gave a noncommittal "oh, he's all right, y'know". I realized that with all my stuttering I'd come off as some kind of fawning fanboy and that he was giving me a really patronizing answer just to shut me up. I was pissed off but said no more. The end.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 21 December 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Lol
― the whirlwind labeouf, i inhale it (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 December 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
...and now I have a Neil Young dream to contribute! I dreamed I was at his house with my niece - she was attending some kind of children's party for his young kids. He entered the house dressed in a pinstripe suit and running shoes, complaining about his commute home from the office: "That drive, that drive..." I was aware that he'd taken a position in the A&R dept of some record company and asked him "How do you like your new job?" He grinned and nodded a few times and said, "My focus is on the mind," then turned away. I pondered his answer for a few seconds, then his wife took me aside and advised me not to pay him any mind - he didn't understand my question, and in fact was almost totally deaf.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link