The Official Neil Young Thread

[stip]

another all time favorite

it was pretty in an aimless sort of way.

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bros it feels like a times fades away night

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this thread is my RM watering hole

Pfft, it's no Mynabirds thread.

i like that this thread is a tw*tter-free zone

You're a better person than someone who harbors a blanket opposition to Twitter.

i'm really not

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another all time favorite

it was pretty in an aimless sort of way.

there's a lot to be said for nowhere

[stip]

this is probably more stip's speed

actually i liked that the least of the bunch

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bros it feels like a times fades away kind of night

[stip]

another all time favorite

it was pretty in an aimless sort of way.

there's a lot to be said for nowhere

perhaps that is Neil Young's future days!

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this is probably more stip's speed

actually i liked that the least of the bunch

i'd be lying if i said i understood

[stip]

in the end I tend to not go in for fuzzy meandering guitars, and i don't really like his voice. So Neil Young is going to be a tough sell for me. Enough people whose tastes I respect swear by this guy, so I'm sure there is something here, but it's not reaching me

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another all time favorite

it was pretty in an aimless sort of way.

there's a lot to be said for nowhere

perhaps that is Neil Young's future days!

honest question: did you prefer any of these neil songs to future days?

[Norah]

this thread is my RM watering hole

Pfft, it's no Mynabirds thread.

i like that this thread is a tw*tter-free zone

You're a better person than someone who harbors a blanket opposition to Twitter.

i'm really not

I'm sure you did what you thought was best.

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in the end I tend to not go in for fuzzy meandering guitars, and i don't really like his voice. So Neil Young is going to be a tough sell for me. Enough people whose tastes I respect swear by this guy, so I'm sure there is something here, but it's not reaching me

yeah but the majority of his 70s work isn't (aren't?) fuzzbombs. sure, a lot of it takes its time getting to where it goes, but the instrumentation is crisp and bright and clean

[Jorge]

this thread is my RM watering hole

Pfft, it's no Mynabirds thread.

i like that this thread is a tw*tter-free zone

You should follow me on Twitter to get repackaged versions of my RM posts.

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this thread is my RM watering hole

Pfft, it's no Mynabirds thread.

i like that this thread is a tw*tter-free zone

You're a better person than someone who harbors a blanket opposition to Twitter.

i'm really not

I'm sure you did what you thought was best.

i'd categorize it as more of a "blanket indifference" than a "blanket opposition"

[stip]

in the end I tend to not go in for fuzzy meandering guitars, and i don't really like his voice. So Neil Young is going to be a tough sell for me. Enough people whose tastes I respect swear by this guy, so I'm sure there is something here, but it's not reaching me

yeah but the majority of his 70s work isn't (aren't?) fuzzbombs. sure, a lot of it takes its time getting to where it goes, but the instrumentation is crisp and bright and clean

oh sure, but that's where the voice is a dealbreaker to me. The instrumentation really puts him front and center, and I just don't like listening to him sing. I think on songs that have a bit more urgency I might get past it, but on languid atmospheric pieces it's going to work to the detriment of the song. I bet I'd like covers of more than a few of these.

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this thread is my RM watering hole

Pfft, it's no Mynabirds thread.

i like that this thread is a tw*tter-free zone

You should follow me on Twitter to get repackaged versions of my RM posts.

i still have a flip phone

[Strat]

in the end I tend to not go in for fuzzy meandering guitars, and i don't really like his voice. So Neil Young is going to be a tough sell for me. Enough people whose tastes I respect swear by this guy, so I'm sure there is something here, but it's not reaching me

yeah but the majority of his 70s work isn't (aren't?) fuzzbombs. sure, a lot of it takes its time getting to where it goes, but the instrumentation is crisp and bright and clean

oh sure, but that's where the voice is a dealbreaker to me. The instrumentation really puts him front and center, and I just don't like listening to him sing. I think on songs that have a bit more urgency I might get past it, but on languid atmospheric pieces it's going to work to the detriment of the song. I bet I'd like covers of more than a few of these.

how about this?

[doug rr]

[stip]

another all time favorite

it was pretty in an aimless sort of way.

there's a lot to be said for nowhere

perhaps that is Neil Young's future days!

honest question: did you prefer any of these neil songs to future days?

I don't really prefer any of them. None of them are songs I'd rush back to listen to. I guess a future days studio version would likely win out assuming it improvs over the pretty enough but slight and forgettable live version we have.

[Norah]

this thread is my RM watering hole

Pfft, it's no Mynabirds thread.

i like that this thread is a tw*tter-free zone

You're a better person than someone who harbors a blanket opposition to Twitter.

i'm really not

I'm sure you did what you thought was best.

i'd categorize it as more of a "blanket indifference" than a "blanket opposition"

If you were truly indifferent then this thread being a twitter free zone wouldn't mean a thing.