First person to vote "Old Ways" gets a dollar from me.
― kenan, Sunday, 17 June 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted for "Old Ways" just for the cash. You want my paypal address?
― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 17 June 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
After The Gold Rush = the good songs are so good they make you forget about the bad ones
On The Beach = pretty much all good
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean "When You Dance" is kind of endearing as a cornily sincere, b-level hippie artifact, but Cripple Creek Ferry is a real turd of a song, and Birds isn't great either.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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
i put together a playlist of my favorites from the last three Crazy Horse records — it's a solid listen, clocks in at just about LP-length:
1. Welcome Back2. Heading West3. Overhead4. Olden Days5. They Might Be Lost6. Green Is Blue7. Chevrolet8. I Do
― tylerw, Friday, 15 March 2024 14:43 (one month ago) link
Everything I've heard from him post psychedelic pill has been at least interesting and some of it is great. But I haven't heard everything, I skipped the promise of the real collaborations, maybe not intentionally but just never got around to them. I think both Colorado and barn are really good, Barn is the better one. And I will say I didn't intend to get Colorado due to some middling reviews but I found a sealed copy for five bucks, on vinyl! Glad I made the investment.l
― omar little, Friday, 15 March 2024 15:18 (one month ago) link
I just got somewhere under the rainbow in the mail yesterday, I had it in my Amazon cart for a long time, the price fluctuated from to 20 to 30 to 40 bucks and then a couple days ago dropped down to $13.98 and couldn't pass it up
― omar little, Friday, 15 March 2024 15:20 (one month ago) link
That rap he does on that about Bruce Berry is haunting.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:46 (one month ago) link
The Greatest Hits album has been added back to Spotify.
Watch, that'll be the only one.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 March 2024 05:23 (one month ago) link
lol, I noticed that.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:01 (one month ago) link
Neil Young and Baby Steps
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:02 (one month ago) link
the amuse-bouche before the main course, Everybody's Rockin'
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:03 (one month ago) link
For what it's worth, Storytone to the present is my favorite era of Neil Young. (And I do love me some '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, and '00s Neil.)
― TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:08 (one month ago) link
Dogg godspeed to you, that's crazy but I respect it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 March 2024 15:51 (one month ago) link
Is TheNuNuNu actually Neil himself!? Neil, when is Archives III coming out
― tylerw, Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify
― gman59, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:58 (one month ago) link
no debut, nothing between Re-ac-tor and This Note's for You, but a quick scan shows everything else as far as I can tell.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:10 (one month ago) link
NO RUST👎🏻
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link
er WAIT IT'S THERE?!
https://i.imgur.com/1UCBuI0.jpeg
search is still playing catch up i guess.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:27 (one month ago) link
When all 200 or whatever records are uploaded I bet Neil will really appreciate that influx of $3,000 a month.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link
Most of his CSNY stuff is still greyed out, except for "Helpless" on Deja Vu and their stuff that's on the Archives boxes.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:59 (one month ago) link
I won’t rest until I can put “touch the night” on a playlist
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
doghousedoghouse
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:07 (one month ago) link
Man, there are so many Neil albums I've never heard.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:17 (one month ago) link
the people at my gym are going lose their minds when I get my 10 hour playlist on the sound system
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:07 (one month ago) link
John Zorn OK'd access to Tzadik
say what now
― gbx, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:23 (one month ago) link
lol check the Tzadik thread!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:30 (one month ago) link
i've been away
what news
― gbx, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:36 (one month ago) link
John Zorn brought most of the Tzadik catalog to streaming services, which meant an instant dump of literally hundreds of releases, somewhere between 600 and 800, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 21:11 (one month ago) link
sick
― gbx, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 21:32 (one month ago) link
80s work now up, as well as the debut (which is missing half the songs)
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:33 (one month ago) link
You can always trust Neil to do things in a baffling, half-arsed way
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:52 (one month ago) link
Those missing albums are there now.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:33 (one month ago) link
wonder if this means Joni will also return
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:30 (four weeks ago) link
Just announced, Joni is indeed returning to Spotify
― birdistheword, Friday, 22 March 2024 02:04 (four weeks ago) link
okay, chalk mark (+all post-mingus stuff) is already there.
!!!!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 02:11 (four weeks ago) link
The '79-back stuff is currently present in the Complete Albums box down in her compilations.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 March 2024 02:27 (four weeks ago) link
...or really Complete Studio Albums, as Miles of Aisles is absent.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 March 2024 02:30 (four weeks ago) link
yup, that was fast!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 03:19 (four weeks ago) link
Hi gbx, here's the entire Tzadik catalog in one massive, unwieldy playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QzGKbxwEXyW5caVfcPqm1?si=MX0OKIvlS9iSnQiZrgi9gw&pi=u-qysLtrpeRI2L
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 March 2024 03:51 (four weeks ago) link
Meanwhile, imagine being part of this blunt rotation
https://www.threads.net/@therussellshaw/post/C4w5MDHuhRL/
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 March 2024 04:18 (four weeks ago) link
Hi gbx, here's the entire Tzadik catalog in one massive, unwieldy playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QzGKbxwEXyW5caVfcPqm1?si=MX0OKIvlS9iSnQiZrgi9gw&pi=u-qysLtrpeRI2L🕸🕸
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2024 07:45 (four weeks ago) link
The '60s & '70s Joni albums are now up individually, as is Taming The Tiger (which was also absent from the initial uploads). Shine, however, is still missing.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 March 2024 13:05 (four weeks ago) link
Crosby back too
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:09 (four weeks ago) link