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le noise is one of my favorites he's done, period. it's kind of an oddball in his catalog (not unlike the dead man soundtrack in some ways) though

Karl Malone, Friday, 18 June 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link

I should have included Dead Man as something I don't have; I was going by Wikipedia's list of "regular" issues.

I was at Le Nuit Blanche in Toronto the night he debuted Le Noise...I mean, he wasn't there--there were giant speakers, and somebody debuted it.

clemenza, Friday, 18 June 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link

Chrome Dreams II is worth getting just for "Ordinary People", which is an absolute classic.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 18 June 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link

I second Karl’s enthusiasm for Le Noise. It’s easily my favorite of Neil’s since Ragged Glory. And I say that as someone who is not a Daniel Lanois fan.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 18 June 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link

clemenza if you ever get to the bootleg stuff, Bluenote Cafe does a tremendous job of rehabilitating the This Note's For You era

Thanks for the tip, sounds like something worth pursuing. (I've also discovered that, after writing about Are You Passionate a few months ago like I was hearing it for the first time, I had accidentally bought it a second time.)

clemenza, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link

Got the rust bucket 4lp for $42 on fuckbezoszon. Genuinely surprised at the great packaging.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link

xpost there's a 25 minute bulldozing of Tonight's the Night that is like James Blood Ulmer and the Saturday Night Live band

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link

Le Noise is his best record of the last 30 years imo, even with the obligatory clunkers

sleeve, Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link

i am not SUPER-knowledgeable of his stuff from 90s to now, but it is also my favorite of that period.

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link

The burnt out “Hitchhiker” take on Le Noise is great. The fact that song morphed into a track on Trans is nuts but on-track wrt Neil.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 19 June 2021 04:35 (two years ago) link

Le Noise is his best record of the last 30 years imo, even with the obligatory clunkers

― sleeve, Friday, June 18, 2021 7:37 PM

i was gonna be like, "HEY STOP RAGGED GLORY IS AWESOME" but then i remembered what year it is and. . . fuck, i'm old.

and yeah, le noise is solid. dream pop neil?

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 19 June 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link

are those 2 the neil young for people who don’t like neil young? are there others in that vein?

Left, Saturday, 19 June 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link

nah, ragged glory is just classic neil + crazy horse noisey melodic buzz guitar jams. solid, but definitive *very* representative of "classic neil©"

le noise is produced by lanois and sounds like it, so yeah maybe. kind of folk troubadour neil goes space cadet ambient. like km said, it's an oddball in neil's catalogue for sure.

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 19 June 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link

The biggest outlier in his catalogue might be... Landing on Water?

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 19 June 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link

that album's sound hurts my ears

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link

yeah, but that's. . . uhh, not a good album.

(now i've summoned the landing on water defenders, i just know it. oh dear.)

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link

Just listened to it last weekend <3

brimstead, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link

are those 2 the neil young for people who don’t like neil young? are there others in that vein?


Dead man soundtrack

brimstead, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link

Although I don’t see what RG and LN have in common so maybe I’m misunderstanding the q

brimstead, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link

Landing on Water has some great songs

Old Ways is my personal least favorite

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link

i don't think le noise would really convince anyone who wasn't already a fan but it's an interesting one, just neil & some nice spacy/noisy electric guitar.

ufo, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link

I love his guitar playing, i like a lot of his tunes, sometimes like & sometimes hate his vocals (though they’re always interestingly unmacho & unrockstarlike even when they’re way offkey & the words are cliched/chauvinistic). his lyrics vary wildly between great and terrible from song to song or line to line & the politics are a fucking mess even by his generation’s standards

I heard landing on water the other day & thought it was mostly not very good so maybe i do prefer neil young being neil young. I’ve heard most of the famous albums at least once & found things to like on all of them but none of them are very consistent are they? closest is maybe after the gold rush… ?

Left, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link

ragged glory was one of the first i liked on first listen, i heard & enjoyed le noise for the first time last week. what they have in common: guitar noise, simple accessible tunes, the whine, the messy but intriguing lyrics

Left, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link

he seems like the kind of artist where the fuckups/messiness are part of the appeal if you’re a real fan. which i may become one day

Left, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link

Coming from the guy who’s honeyslider recipe sounds horrifying- I’d say you’d be 100% right that messiness is part of the appeal!

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link

xp yeah I think every Neil album has at least one song I routinely skip over, except for On the Beach, which is ace all the way through

J. Sam, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link

I wouldn't skip over anything on Time Fades Away either. Tonight's the Night has the missable "Roll Another Number".

Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link

fuckups/messiness are part of the appeal if you’re a real fan. which i may become one day

when you feel that you're ready, visit the neil young archives website. try to find and listen to an album within it. and then find the song folders, and try to copy and paste the text you find in them. then you will know if you are a real fan or not

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link

sweet, new release news on the archives website! let me just text this to my friend - oh wait...forgot. well, i'll just send them the link then, so -- oh shit, forgot it's one of those websites with only one URL and no shareable links. goddamn i love neil young!!

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link

complaining about his website is my love language

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link

^^^
Trve Kult Neil Fan

Vin Jawn (PBKR), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link

I agree with those who have said, on this thread, and maybe others, that: Blue Note Cafe redeems/makes up for/improves on, or (depending on POV) is Even Better Than! This Note's For You, and: that A Treasure does likewise for Old Ways.

dow, Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link

yeah definitely I always forget about A Treasure

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 June 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link

Just amazing cowboy hitchhiker railroad folk-rock honky tonk home on the cohesive range of material, and International Harvesters have no prob keeping up.

dow, Saturday, 19 June 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 June 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link

i'm looking forward to my first listen to Blue Note Cafe and A Treasure! was not a fan of either of the time periods they cover, but maybe i was hearing the wrong stuff!

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link

xp

ums it's gotta be top 5 for me, still. i think? trying to think of the last time i tried to do a top ten. there should be at least 7 to 10 spaces in Neil's top 5 imo

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link

EKTIN is so classic, maybe ppl just went overboard praising the ditch trilogy etc at the expense of the early classics

brimstead, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link

what the hell is wrong with “roll another number”? :-(

brimstead, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link

yeah, that should not stand unopposed

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link

it was either going to be roll another number or we don't smoke it no more, but either way it was going to be the part of the album where you're just lit, you're toasted and so is everyone else, and it's early enough that no one's gotten into a fight or spilled something or broken anything. it's sloppy and kind of dumb and fun, and soon enough it's back to the gutter

Karl Malone, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

that's the one NY vinyl i've bought new in the 2000s. one of the nicest pressings of anything i've ever heard.fwiw
xp

scampos sacra fames (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link

I think Everybody has possibly been pushed into the shadow of Gold Rush. I go back and forth as to which is my favourite album ever.

clemenza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link

there's no reason to choose. if the top 5 is allowed to actually be the top 7 to 10, the favorite ever is allowed to be 2

Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 June 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, June 19, 2021 5:58 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If I could have a band, it would be the sound of the title track of Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Tough, swinging, crunchy, country rock.

Vin Jawn (PBKR), Sunday, 20 June 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link

I think live at the Filmore East 1970 release might have passed EKTIN at this point. Whenever I need my “Cowgirl in the Sand” or “Down by the River” fix I gravitate towards those versions.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 20 June 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link

it's odd, I feel like Everybody Knows This is Nowhere has fallen out of being one of the canonical great albums, it's so great, what a perfect sounding rock record

Has it? I'd really surprised, I thought it was still considered great, partly for being the true fully-realized launch of his post-Buffalo Springfield career (with his self-titled debut being a half-great, half-overdone nice-try).

birdistheword, Sunday, 20 June 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link

*I'd be really surprised

birdistheword, Sunday, 20 June 2021 04:21 (two years ago) link


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