The Official Neil Young Thread

[LoathedVermin72]

Oh, ha. If you wanna move my posts I guess you can.

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Maybe Volume 2 will be out in 2019?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Oh, ha. If you wanna move my posts I guess you can.

No, not at all. I just anticipate you wanting to talk about Neil a lot more so thought I'd bump this.

[LoathedVermin72]

Okay, so Harvest is clearly a huge sonic leap forward. Damn.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Okay, so Harvest is clearly a huge sonic leap forward. Damn.

[LoathedVermin72]

Man, this album is where it's at

[LoathedVermin72]

Some of these '70s albums have production that is just unmatched. This, Rumours, Born to Run. Magnificent-sounding music.

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I have the Harvest DVD Audio and it's amazing.

[LoathedVermin72]

"Words" is great.

[LoathedVermin72]

Did Neil get hooked on drugs between ATGR and Harvest?

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

Man, this album is where it's at

The only one I don't love is A Man Needs a Maid. And I love the song -- his live versions are haunting. But the production on that one just sticks out like a sore thumb from the rest of the record.

Oh man, that song blew me away.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Man, this album is where it's at

I love Heart of Gold so much. I used to not like it, but man have I done a 180 on it.

[LoathedVermin72]

Man, this album is where it's at

I love Heart of Gold so much. I used to not like it, but man have I done a 180 on it.

That was the song I was listening to when I made that post! I think it's my favorite on the album. That or "Out on the Weekend".

[LoathedVermin72]

Listening to On the Beach. It's very subtle, but I feel like he was drugged out of his mind making this. "See the Sky About the Rain" - again, in a very subtle way - sounds totally unhinged and strung out to me. It's a bizarre song. There's a sad, understated desperation bubbling beneath this album.

[LoathedVermin72]

This is junkie-at-rock-bottom music. Man.

[LoathedVermin72]

"Vampire Blues" is downright harrowing. He sounds fall-down wasted. The music sounds fall-down wasted. The whole thing seems tired, groggy, on wobbly legs.

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

Listening to On the Beach. It's very subtle, but I feel like he was drugged out of his mind making this. "See the Sky About the Rain" - again, in a very subtle way - sounds totally unhinged and strung out to me. It's a bizarre song. There's a sad, understated desperation bubbling beneath this album.

On the Beach and Tonight's the Night were both made under very intentional challenges: Neil hired a bunch of session pros, and then made them play each other's instruments, so the pro drummer was on guitar, etc. It creates a very off-kilter vibe throughout those two records.

Time Fades Away, his live recording of otherwise unreleased music, was made just before On the Beach, and was somewhat similar in concept in that he took his guys on the road and had them play a bunch of brand new songs with very little rehearsal. It's this era of his that fascinates me the most, and those are the three records I come back to more than any other.

That's fascinating! I think this album is my favorite so far. The title track... mmmm...

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem