- Today we shall be saluting Neil Young.
Has anyone else have been so good for so long?
Posted 4 years ago
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Posted 4 years agoI’m not a Neil Young but I bought and love his Living with War album. Bang-on lyrics.
Posted 4 years agoDisappointing thread. It seems I got my Young and my Diamond mixed up.
Posted 4 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w504n366vY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
A great, great concert
Posted 4 years agoI love this song even though you would never know it’s Neil Young[video]http://youtu.be/crm7gqK0OeY[/video]
Posted 4 years ago[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvtdbfI1sqQ[/video]
Posted 4 years agoIts better to burn out, than to fade away… My,my, hey,hey š
Posted 4 years ago[video]http://youtu.be/jx3ajYfbzcw[/video]
Posted 4 years ago+1 for Neil Young. some shockers but keeps re-inventing..
Posted 4 years agoHyde Park in July, tickets bought cannot wait:-)
Posted 4 years ago*Looks in cupboard, still has Trans on vinyl, but nothing to play it on.
Posted 4 years agocan’t stand Neil Young – he’s a whinny git
Edit: Sorry I’m not meaning to troll – I used to live with some people who were obsessed with him and it wound me up no end
Posted 4 years agoI love Neil Young’s music but at the same time he does also belong in the annoying voice thread
Posted 4 years agoHad a High Fidelity/Beta Band moment playing Revolution Blues when I worked in Thresher years ago…
Posted 4 years ago‘*Trans on vinyl but nothing to play it on’ lucky escape then!
Posted 4 years agoApproves of thread and Mr Young
Posted 4 years agoHe’s not the only one — I can of several others who have a unique sound world or at least sound that, while not immediately musical in the accepted sense, are distinctive:
Elvis Costello; Robert Wyatt – that’s just off top of my head. I would also align Costello with Neil Young in the continuous search for different avenues.Ian Bostridge in the classical world..
Posted 4 years agoHe’s not the only one
Of course he’s not! Bob Dylan, John Lydon, Ian Curtis …. there are many many unique vocalists who some will love for their uniqueness and others* will hate for the same reason.
(* X Factor fans š )
Posted 4 years agoTop lad, Neil.
Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.They carried them
Posted 4 years ago
To the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up
With their bare hands
What we still can’t do today.@Dezb – didn’t intend to disparage – ‘pologies š
Posted 4 years agoTop man, I love his stuff! Sure, he made some poor recordings along the way, but Bob Dylan once made a pilgrimage to Neil Young’s birthplace, apparently! In my book that counts as the best endorsement any singer/writer can hope to get. If you were born in the last couple of years please ignore this post
Posted 4 years ago
šHad Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere on repeat this afternoon, I really couldn’t narrow down a top 10 of his stuff.
Posted 4 years ago
Genius.The man is totally committed to the muse of music. And heāll do anything for good music. And sometimes itās very strange. I was at Neilās ranch one day just south of San Francisco, and he has a beautiful lake with red-wing blackbirds. And he asked me if I wanted to hear his new album, āHarvest.ā And I said sure, letās go into the studio and listen.
Oh, no. Thatās not what Neil had in mind. He said get into the rowboat.
I said get into the rowboat? He said, yeah, weāre going to go out into the middle of the lake. Now, I think heās got a little cassette player with him or a little, you know, early digital format player. So Iām thinking Iām going to wear headphones and listen in the relative peace in the middle of Neilās lake.
Oh, no. He has his entire house as the left speaker and his entire barn as the right speaker. And I heard āHarvestā coming out of these two incredibly large loud speakers louder than hell. It was unbelievable. Elliot Mazer, who produced Neil, produced āHarvest,ā came down to the shore of the lake and he shouted out to Neil: How was that, Neil?
And I swear to god, Neil Young shouted back: More barn!
Posted 4 years agoI’m normally the biggest Neil Young fan I know.
Posted 4 years ago
I’m sad that he’s going to be performing in Israel.I’m reading his autobiography at the minute, it’s brilliant. Totally unexpected and different to any other rock star story. Whole chapters on his love of model trains etc, his favourite TV and loads of other totally off the wall stuff.
Saw him at Hyde Park a few years ago and he was brilliant.
Posted 4 years agoBig fan here, as a teenager I ignored my mate who was obsessed with him as I was a bit of a metal head; when I finally took notice there was no going back. Also got into Dylan and Zappa, it’s all about the music for these guys.
Posted 4 years ago[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22DslQoMfU[/video]
Posted 4 years agoHas anyone else have been so good for so long?
NO!! He’s totes amaz!! Luv him to bits…
Posted 4 years ago
Brill thread ta xSuperb especially when he plays with crazy horse .
Seen him live twice.
Hope his sound quality format takes off,
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/28/neil-youngs-pono-music-service/
Posted 4 years agoPhew – thought he’d died there for a minute.
Posted 4 years ago
‘Old man’ – makes me blub sometimes it’s so good.
And ‘Needle and the damage done’……….Ace – both for his own sake, and also because of St Etienne’s sublime version of Only love can break your heart (& Weatherall remix).
Posted 4 years agoFrom this t
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY[/video]To this
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdiCJUysIT0[/video]
and this
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIoFGlkJmYw[/video]afiercely independent man
Posted 4 years agoThis link is Neil Young busking outside Glasgow Central station in the 70s. Song is “The Old Laughing Lady”
Posted 4 years ago
the old laughing ladyThere used to be a superb music shop in Chippenham, run by a bloke who used to be a rep for WEA Records, so he used to get all sorts of interesting stuff in, like white labels. I got NY’s Decade album as three white label discs, for about Ā£1.50, IIRC, and Neil pulled it just before it came out, because there was something he wasn’t happy about. Contrary git, but I had a copy of the album for eighteen months before it finally got released to the public.
Posted 4 years ago
I was rather hoping it would never come out…
Only seen him once, on the Mirrorball tour, at Reading, where Pearl Jam were his backing band. Great show, still wear the tee shirts.Back in the day, when MTV actually played music, they had a show called Unplugged with various artists playing acoustically. VH1 responded with their show called Center Stage.
IIRC, I watched Neil Young live on VH1, and it went several minutes over its allotted time slot. šÆ When VH1 reran the show, stuff was cut out to make it fit into an hour.
What’s really impressive about this performance is that he plays numerous instruments (various guitars, banjo, harmonica, and a small pipe organ with foot operated bellows) often 2 at a time while still singing!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ryl7tQ1mEsc[/video]
Posted 4 years agoThats pretty fab JoeG.
Posted 4 years agoOne of my all-time favorites—saw him once with Crazy Horse and when they launched into Powderfinger, the building was shaking.
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