Neil Young (and the Spotify/Joe Rogan controversy)

[DRINK?]

One of those artists I've always heard about though couldn't tell you anything about him..some of this acoustic stuff on tv now intrigues me...

So tell me worth investigating further, best tunes etc

 

[Hollis]

Hmm so much...

After the Goldrush
Harvest

Then for the 'grungy' stuff start with 'Ragged Glory'.

If you like that then some more interesting stuff is 'On the beach' and 'Tonight's the Night'

His latest - 'Psychedelic PIll' has its moments as well..

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Weld

 

[youngian]

His late 70s double album with Crazy Horse, Live Rust will give you an idea of his full range.

 

[Voley]

I started with this really good introduction:

Triple album of highlights of his first ten years. Staggeringly good.

From there I went on to 'Harvest', 'After The Gold Rush', 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' and eventually found myself in The Ditch, where I've stayed ever since.

 

[Voley]

Agree with the live album 'Weld' for his later years, too. I saw him on that tour and it's still the best gig I've ever been to.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Look at everything he's done, but avoid the very latest stuff.

Last Two, or Three albums were just rehashed dross.

'Harvest' has to be his classic, but all is well worth a long listen. An all time favourite for me despite his latest cop outs.

Buffalo Springfield and even earlier collaborations are worth checking also.

 

[Hollis]

Last Two, or Three albums were just rehashed dross.

Dunno - 'Ramada Inn' and 'Walk like a Giant' off the last album are still fine songs.. even if not exactly pacesetting..

 

[Libertad]

Buffalo Springfield:

 

[Part 2]

Scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA cup final.

Actually had a girl at work believe this when she was going to see him at Phoenix festival.

 

[youngian]

Scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA cup final.

Actually had a girl at work believe this when she was going to see him at Phoenix festival.

When the Man City player died a couple of years ago there was a fan outside Maine Road with a banner saying: 'there's only one Neil Young'. Didn't look like he gets out very much.

 

[maya]

Whatever you do, don't listen to his 'rockabilly' album.

 

[butchersapron]

One of those artists I've always heard about though couldn't tell you anything about him..some of this acoustic stuff on tv now intrigues me...

So tell me worth investigating further, best tunes etc

Just talked to Neil, he said that you're only allowed to listen to stuff he wrote during his years of supporting Reagan and being a good old patriot (for another country at that). So you can have Trans

 

[Dr Nookie]

I second using Decade as a starting point. Bloody marvellous! Think my fave albums are 'After the goldrush' and 'Everybody knows this is nowhere' - can't go wrong with either of those!

 

[Firky]

Some of his acoustic performances put a lump in your throat.

 

[Voley]

Some of his acoustic performances put a lump in your throat.

 

[Firky]

^^ beautiful!

 

[Voley]

Still makes the hairs on the back of me neck stand up, that one. I must've heard it a thousand times.

 

[stupid dogbot]

He never sounded more like Kermit the Frog than on My Heart, the opener to Sleeps With Angels.

But I still love him.

Harvest
After the Goldrush
Live Rust/Rust Never Sleeps
Ragged Glory
Freedom

Are probably my faves.

 

[Firky]

 

[jakethesnake]

Just talked to Neil, he said that you're only allowed to listen to stuff he wrote during his years of supporting Reagan and being a good old patriot (for another country at that). So you can have Trans

I always liked re-ac-tor ... never realised he was a reaganite

 

[Voley]

That whole gig's fucking superb if you've never seen it. I've got a CD of it that I sometimes listen to if I fancy a slightly different take on Harvest / Gold Rush-era stuff.

 

[stupid dogbot]

Re-Ac-Tor is the sound of Crazy Horse after they'd been neutered.

At least Trans has Computer Age on it.

 

[Voley]

Never heard that before, cheers.

 

[Firky]

There's a documentary on BBC 4 at the moment, NVP , called 'When Rock went Acoustic' or something. You'd like it.

 

[Firky]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0141myx

The cliché of classic rock guitar is one of riffs, solos and noise. But write a list of great guitarists and their finest moments and a quieter, more intense playing comes to the fore. The acoustic guitar is the secret weapon in the armoury of the guitar hero, when paradoxically they get more attention by playing quietly than being loud.


This documentary takes an insightful and occasionally irreverent look at the love affair between rock and the humble acoustic guitar. Exploring a much less celebrated, yet crucial part of the rock musician's arsenal, contributors including Johnny Marr, Keith Richards, Ray Davies, James Dean Bradfield, Biffy Clyro, Joan Armatrading, Donovan and Roger McGuinn discuss why an instrument favoured by medieval minstrels and singing nuns is as important to rock 'n' roll as the drums, bass and its noisy sister, the electric guitar

 

[Voley]

At the other end of his noisy spectrum I was stood somewhere in the middle of this with my gob open:



Crazy Horse are without a doubt the best band I have ever seen.

 

[Firky]

Totally un-related to the thread but I have Nick Cave playing and he's fucking brilliant.

Carry on

 

[Geri]

On The Beach is the best album by far, although I only had a taped copy for years and years until they finally got around to issuing it on CD!

 

[Idris2002]

I'm just listening to this now, and it's so fab I'm going to buy the CD at the earliest opportunity: