Neil Young, erratic genius
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cesare said:
Some of them, but generally not really unless someone's asked for it. The disk space requirements would be quite silly... and my media PC is broken anyway, whilst I try to decide what to do with it.
Oh, and my stereo's better quality than the amp and speakers my PC goes through.
I'll play some of them on the computer later, for compatabilities sake.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Iam said:Some of them, but generally not really unless someone's asked for it. The disk space requirements would be quite silly... and my media PC is broken anyway, whilst I try to decide what to do with it.
Oh, and my stereo's better quality than the amp and speakers my PC goes through.
I'll play some of them on the computer later, for compatabilities sake.
I know what you mean - it took me a year to upload about a third of mine on a very slow PC ... when I got a new one I did the rest within a couple of weeks. I need to sort an external hard drive though, or a DVD burner in case I lose the lot.
That compatabilities thing is a bit skewiff I reckon. I blatantly played 62 radiohead tracks last week to see what would happen with firky's compatability and right now it says we share no artists in common
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Iam said:Yeah, I dunno what it's up to.
My "neighbours" are all listening to bands I've never heard of, but people from here who listen to similar stuff as me come up as "Very Poor" matches.
Funnily enough, so does firks...
The scrobbling's gone awry now too, have been playing NY for the last couple of hours and it's only scrobbled 3 tracks meh. Firks was complaining about that too last week till he somehow kickstarted it. Might try pandora as well ...
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
WWWibble. New fangled techy gubbins.
Very confused!
Very confused!
Johnny Canuck3
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cesare said:
Trans
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Dunno about "genius", but he's a very clever guy and I like quite a few of his songs, like "*Harvest Moon", "Heart of Gold" and "Rocking in the Free World". Amazing he's kept going so long considering he's epileptic and has diabetes.
Also, "Piece of Crap" is so true.
*reminds me of someone on here
Also, "Piece of Crap" is so true.
*reminds me of someone on here
Johnny Canuck3
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snowypat said:Unfortunatley his music followed the ups and downs of very heavy drug abuse which was par for the course among musos of that era.Mind you us punters wern't much different
And some of it is still excellent.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
A hit and miss affair, I felt, but nowhere near the depths of 'Re-ac-tor' and 'Hawks And Doves'.Johnny Canuck2 said:
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
I thought he didn't do drugs because of his health problems (epilepsy and diabetes)?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Love
Arc/Weld
On The Beach
Zuma
Harvest
After The Goldrush
Rust Never Sleeps
Indifferent to
Re-Ac-Tor
Greendale
Loathe
Are You Passionate?
Trans
Arc/Weld
On The Beach
Zuma
Harvest
After The Goldrush
Rust Never Sleeps
Indifferent to
Re-Ac-Tor
Greendale
Loathe
Are You Passionate?
Trans
Huge Neil Young fan here.
Harvest and After The Gold Rush are fucking lovely albums. I'll never get bored of Neil Young in any guise.
Harvest and After The Gold Rush are fucking lovely albums. I'll never get bored of Neil Young in any guise.
Not the slightest sniff of a rumour for 2007
Will Mr Young ever make Glastonbury, I ask myself every year? I think Mr Eavis asks the same, but he never manages to secure him ...
Big fan of the better ones on VP's list, hate Trans and one or two others though
Did anyone see him at the otherwise horrendous (but very very scorchingly hot) Phoenix Fest, 1996?
Will Mr Young ever make Glastonbury, I ask myself every year? I think Mr Eavis asks the same, but he never manages to secure him ...
Big fan of the better ones on VP's list, hate Trans and one or two others though
Did anyone see him at the otherwise horrendous (but very very scorchingly hot) Phoenix Fest, 1996?
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Didn't he play in '88?William of Walworth said:Will Mr Young ever make Glastonbury, I ask myself every year? I think Mr Eavis asks the same, but he never manages to secure him ...
Time moves slowly but graciously in Neilworld.
TorchSong said:
Almost certainly not, given that 1988 was a gap year down Pilton way!!
Did he play Glasto in the 80s though?
I'd be VERY surprised ... Certainly not since.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
My memory perhaps deceives me...William of Walworth said:Almost certainly not, given that 1988 was a gap year down Pilton way!!
Did he play Glasto in the 80s though?
Maybe it was '89 - I have distinct memories of him playing a set entirely on unaccompanied electric guitar in a brown lether jacket that was barely hanging together.
TorchSong said:Maybe it was '89 - I have distinct memories of him playing a set entirely on unaccompanied electric guitar in a brown lether jacket that was barely hanging together.
I'm not disputing this if you're sure or if someone else confirms, but I'm more than a bit surprised.
Time for him to come back anyway!
NY not listed for 1989 in George McKay's 'Glastonbury : a very English Fair'
(other acts in 1989 : Pixies, Van Morrison, Elvis C, Suzanne Vega, Black Uhuru, Youssou N'Dour, Fela Kuti, Wonderstuff, Waterboys .... etc etc etc).
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Oh...it wasn't the Mandela concert I'm thinking of, was it...?William of Walworth said:I'm not disputing this if you're sure or if someone else confirms, but I'm more than a bit surprised.
Time for him to come back anyway!
NY not listed for 1989 in George McKay's 'Glastonbury : a very English Fair'
(other acts in 1989 : Pixies, Van Morrison, Elvis C, Suzanne Vega, Black Uhuru, Youssou N'Dour, Fela Kuti, Wonderstuff, Waterboys .... etc etc etc).
I read an interview once where he talked about a run of shit albums, I'm not sure which they were but he was saying how he was fucked up a lot over his kids.
If I remember right he has 3 kids to different partners and all are fairly severely disabled. He blamed himself saying it must be something wrong with him.
After The Goldrush is my favourite, the live version is mint.
If I remember right he has 3 kids to different partners and all are fairly severely disabled. He blamed himself saying it must be something wrong with him.
After The Goldrush is my favourite, the live version is mint.
TorchSong said:
Could be ... sorry to doubt you, but I HAD thought I'd read somewhere, in an interview a while back, of Mr Eavis's disappointment that he'd never been able to book him .... not absolutely sure though ...
Rainingstairs
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harvest is one of those classic albums of all time, even better on vinyl!
I don't remember seeing Neil Young at Glastonbury. I was definitely there in 89 and even remember Suzanne Vega as closing act on the main stage. That is an amazing feat of memory given that I was also well off me face for four days. So, I could well have missed Neil Young I guess
No, I don't remember him being there either. I remember Suzanne Vega too, didn't she get death threats at the festival that year?
At the time she was on we were tripping and looking for our dog at the first aid tent.
"What does the dog look like?"
"He looks like a miniature cow"
</derail>
At the time she was on we were tripping and looking for our dog at the first aid tent.
"What does the dog look like?"
"He looks like a miniature cow"
</derail>
Harvest and After the Goldrush are wonderful records, but apart from that I can take or leave Neil Young. I've heard one or two of his other albums and never been that impressed, although I should give some of his more recent stuff such as Sleeps With Angels a listen.
Rainingstairs has a good point. I love my vinyl copy of Harvest dearly: it sounds so much better than on CD.
Rainingstairs has a good point. I love my vinyl copy of Harvest dearly: it sounds so much better than on CD.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Part2 said:
that was what all the nonsense with vocoders and singing with a tube in his mouth on Trans and Reactor was about - he couldn't communicate with his kids...
Trans has a couple of decent tracks I think but I can't remember which they are, there's an especially bad, and lengthy, number where he's banging on about how lovely it must have been to be aztec, or mayan, or something in a very sub Cortez the Killer kinda way. It's a shocker.
Landing on Water (Neil goes Disco) and that one where he's wearing a pink zoot suit on the cover are also dire. It was this run of nonsense that lead to the record company suing him for not sounding like Neil Young.
It's all very endearing if you don't have to actually listen to the records....
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