oh shit decade
― strgn, Sunday, 17 June 2007 11:21 (sixteen years ago) link
and #s of boots. sorry gang. read my lips, vote dead man
― strgn, Sunday, 17 June 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
After The Gold Rush.
but On The Beach too. the title song makes me cry.
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Sunday, 17 June 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted Time Fades Away
― Billy Pilgrim, Sunday, 17 June 2007 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
this was already done. Best of Neil Young studio records
― Zeno, Sunday, 17 June 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
This one has live albums.
Some of them, anyway. (Unplugged, Year of the Horse, Road Rock vol. 1)
― StanM, Sunday, 17 June 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh. The studio albums poll had the live albums too. Nevermind then.
― StanM, Sunday, 17 June 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted Ragged Glory because it needs more love and less rockism. That's a srsly good record, yo.
― kenan, Sunday, 17 June 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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
2012 seems to be the last year I remained aware of new Neil albums (Americana and Psychedelic Pill), even if I didn't hear them. His discography since then (discounting unreleased albums from the 70s) runs thus:
A Letter Home (2014)Storytone (2014)The Monsanto Years (2015) (with Promise of the Real)Peace Trail (2016)The Visitor (2017) (with Promise of the Real)Colorado (2019) (with Crazy Horse)Barn (2021) (with Crazy Horse)Toast (2022, recorded 2001) (with Crazy Horse)World Record (2022) (with Crazy Horse)Before and After (2023)
The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?
― feat. fish as 'the highlander' (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:22 (two weeks ago) link
the archives versions of “Pocahontas” and “ride my llama” with crazy horse are so amazing, it’s absurd he chose to release those dinky solo versions on rust (sorry)
I prefer the former (maybe Neil's biggest fun guitar sound), but wouldn't say it was an absurd choice.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:52 (two weeks ago) link
i was surprised at how fully fleshed out both pocahontas and ride my llama were when the Zuma versions appeared on Archives II — maybe more elaborate arrangements than anything that actually made the album.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:58 (two weeks ago) link
Ragged Glory, Sleeps With Angels, and Psychedelic Pill are my favorite NY albums although I haven’t heard them all…I hardly listen to his earlier stuff besides Tonight’s the Night….anything else along these lines I shouldn’t miss?
― Slim is an Alien, Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:13 (two weeks ago) link
Rust Never Sleeps? Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere? After the Gold Rush?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:14 (two weeks ago) link
Zuma. Big fat guitars, like Ragged Glory.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:36 (two weeks ago) link
The Monsanto Years I've heard of, the rest I don't even recognise the titles. Anything worth hearing in there?― feat. fish as 'the highlander' (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:22 (one hour ago) link
― feat. fish as 'the highlander' (Matt #2), Thursday, 14 March 2024 22:22 (one hour ago) link
barn is great - i'd put "they might be lost" in with his best
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:46 (two weeks ago) link
What I ripped to my computer and still listen to once in a while:
"Who's Gonna Stand Up?" (live version with Crazy Horse) is actually not on any of those, but Storytone has different, inferior versions"Needle of Death" from A Letter HomeThe solo versions of "Plastic Flowers," "I Want to Drive My Car" and "Tumbleweed" from Storytone. FYI that's a weird release - Neil made a solo version, another version with orchestral overdubs, and a hybrid version that goes back and forth between those two."A New Day for Love," "Wolf Moon," "People Want to Hear About Love," "A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop" from The Monsanto Years"Peace Trail" from the album of the same name"Forever" from The Visitor"I Do" from ColoradoBarn is goodToast is good - I didn't really care for Are You Passionate? and don't have it anymore, so I was surprised by how much I liked Toast
I haven't given those last two albums a good listen, but I haven't heard much about them.
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 March 2024 04:39 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 week ago) link
lol, I noticed that.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:01 (one week ago) link
Neil Young and Baby Steps
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:02 (one week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago) link
Is TheNuNuNu actually Neil himself!? Neil, when is Archives III coming out
― tylerw, Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:00 (one week ago) link
looks like a lot more has been added now. re: spotify
― gman59, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:58 (one week 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 week ago) link
NO RUST👎🏻
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:22 (one week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago) link
I won’t rest until I can put “touch the night” on a playlist
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 16:44 (one week ago) link
doghousedoghouse
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:07 (one week ago) link
Man, there are so many Neil albums I've never heard.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:17 (one week 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 week ago) link
John Zorn OK'd access to Tzadik
say what now
― gbx, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:23 (one week ago) link
lol check the Tzadik thread!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:30 (one week ago) link
i've been away
what news
― gbx, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:36 (one week 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 week ago) link
sick
― gbx, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 21:32 (one week 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 week 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 week ago) link
Those missing albums are there now.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:33 (one week ago) link
wonder if this means Joni will also return
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:30 (one week ago) link
Just announced, Joni is indeed returning to Spotify
― birdistheword, Friday, 22 March 2024 02:04 (one week ago) link
okay, chalk mark (+all post-mingus stuff) is already there.
!!!!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 02:11 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
yup, that was fast!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 03:19 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
Crosby back too
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 March 2024 13:09 (one week ago) link