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"It's All The Same Song!" -A Neil Young Thread

post #1 of 14
5/26/09 at 1:40pm
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Anyone else digging "Fork In The Road"? Haven't absorbed it yet, but it sounds great! (Love the title track!) Funny & rockin'. Vintage Young wry sense of humor to comment on the times with an album of car songs! Best record since "Sleeps with Angels"?

I've been on a Springsteen kick of late, but I keep coming back to Young--especially "Time Fades Away", "Tonight's The Night" and "On The Beach".

The live version of "Like A Hurricane" from "Live Rust" continues to rock my world!

Any other fans?
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post #2 of 14
5/26/09 at 2:01pm
I've always found myself respecting Young more than I enjoy him. I think his voice is just whiny enough to keep me at a distance much of the time, even when I can acknowledge the strength of his songwriting and playing.

Not to say I don't like a lot of his stuff, but there's only a few of his many (many many) albums that I go back to on a regular basis. "Live Rust," though, is definitely the main one.

Oh, and yeah, the new album's fun.
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post #3 of 14
5/26/09 at 3:27pm
See him live if you can. I did, and he absolutely destroyed.
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post #4 of 14
5/27/09 at 9:59pm
I've started listening to Neil Young recently, I picked up 'Everybody knows this is nowhere' and 'After the goldrush', I really liked the wragged jams on Nowhere, most specifically 'Down by the river' and 'Cowgirl in the sand'

'Southern Man' is a really cool funky song, one of Young's most impassioned songs, he sings the hell out of it. I really liked the rest of Goldrush, a nice blend of ballads and country-rock, Cripple Creek Ferry is really catchy.
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post #5 of 14
5/27/09 at 10:20pm
His Dead Man score is simply one of my favorite pieces of music ever.

...and the older I get the more I find myself listening to Old Man and getting a lump in my throat and I can't even work out why.
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post #6 of 14
5/27/09 at 11:32pm
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I get lumpy over the "Live Rust" version of 'After The Gold Rush'.

My favorite weird/off-beat Neil songs right now:

1. 'Journey Through The Past
2. 'Vampire Blues'
3. 'Roll Another Number'
4. 'T-Bone'
5. 'Welfare Mothers'
6. 'Pocahontas'
7. 'The Last Trip To Tulsa'
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post #7 of 14
5/28/09 at 12:08am
Whatever you do, don't go back in time to 1987 and see him with the Bluenotes. Total waste of a time machine.
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post #8 of 14
5/28/09 at 12:57am
I had the most bizarre dream about Neil Young. I dreamt I was camping with my family. I looked across the creek from our camp site, and there was Neil Young. I shouted over to him, "HEY! Neil Young! I love you music!", and he shouted back "Me too man! I love my music too!". I don't know why my sub conscious thinks Neil Young is that self centered. Anyway, after that, I made him come over and teach me how to play Harvest Moon. Helluva nice guy for that.
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post #9 of 14
5/28/09 at 2:53am
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
Whatever you do, don't go back in time to 1987 and see him with the Bluenotes. Total waste of a time machine.
Better that than the Shocking Pinks. At least "This Note's For You" seemed to have a point.
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post #10 of 14
5/28/09 at 5:37pm
So is anyone looking forward to the massive blu-ray set he has coming out later this year? I think it's a really fascniating project, but I'm not sure I like him enough to spend several hundred dollars on it. Then again, it's exactly the kind of think I'm a total sucker for.
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post #11 of 14
5/28/09 at 5:51pm
It's coming out next week (supposedly). I can't justify the cost of the set and a blu-ray player right now, but it's very, very, very tempting.
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post #12 of 14
5/28/09 at 8:13pm
I actually don't like the new album. To me, it's his worst one since Are You Passionate? "Just Singing a Song" is definitely one of his catchiest songs in awhile, though.
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post #13 of 14
5/28/09 at 8:54pm
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Originally Posted by MrMushnik View Post
So is anyone looking forward to the massive blu-ray set he has coming out later this year? I think it's a really fascniating project, but I'm not sure I like him enough to spend several hundred dollars on it. Then again, it's exactly the kind of think I'm a total sucker for.
I meant to mention that, thanks.

I'll definitely get it, but pobably hold off til Christmas or something.

Wish I hadn't already bought Massey Hall and Fillmore East.

Q for the fans: Neil's 70's run, best of the decade? Know it's a matter of taste, but I'll take him over even Bowie and Zep.
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post #14 of 14
5/29/09 at 2:42am
He's up there, but I think I might put Van Morrison, Al Green, Springsteen, and Funkadelic a bit ahead (and the Stones started the decade in the midst of a roll that went back to Beggars Banquet, even if things got spotty after Exile).

Oh, and it's easy to overlook Richard Thompson's 70's output, since some of his best stuff wasn't released Stateside until years after, but in the context of their original UK releases, his first four albums of the 70's rank with the decade's best, and the ones that followed had their moments of brilliance.

Come to think of it, The Ramones had a pretty great run in the 70's: their first (best) four albums, followed by the UK-only double-live album in '79.
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