Neil Young

[Bruce Spanner]

7 minutes ago, Mook said:

I don't like to promote Spotify but the whole of Archives II has gone up there (1972-76). That's over eight hours of pure Neil Young genius...

 

https://open.spotify.com/album/667ZvKQ3D9vzmSwfbGm2zn?si=2TSIqZtmQte8a76BpTc8bw&utm_source=copy-link

 

Is this because of this?

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/neil-young-music-catalog-hipgnosis-investment-1110037/

 

Dylan did the same recently, as have others.

[Mook]

4 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Is this because of this?

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/neil-young-music-catalog-hipgnosis-investment-1110037/

 

Dylan did the same recently, as have others.

Quite possibly.

 

I have all the released albums in the box so can't justify the £120 cost for the extra stuff (as much as I'd love to buy it). Sitting listening to some of it now & very, very happy.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Harvest is the current album of the week in the GF music club if anybody would like to join in and post a review or opinion.

[Mook]

18 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Harvest is the current album of the week in the GF music club if anybody would like to join in and post a review or opinion.

Not sure where I would start mate, I've spent so much time with that album it's like a member of my family.

[The Midnight Rambler]

2 hours ago, Mook said:

I don't like to promote Spotify but the whole of Archives II has gone up there (1972-76). That's over eight hours of pure Neil Young genius...

 

https://open.spotify.com/album/667ZvKQ3D9vzmSwfbGm2zn?si=2TSIqZtmQte8a76BpTc8bw&utm_source=copy-link

Fuck yes.

 

Just listening to ‘Through my sails’ sounds like he’s sat next to me strummin’ 

 

Could do with a zoot right now.

[Ant 2 Threads]

1 hour ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Harvest is the current album of the week in the GF music club if anybody would like to join in and post a review or opinion.

Harvest is like a harbinger. I listened to it in my late 20's and connected with it as a young man. That was back in 2000. Now as a considerably older man, the words that were relevant then, are only more so now. An album to accompany one through life. It's relevance never dissipates. Never will.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I've only recently "discovered" Greendale.  I'd always been put off by the phrase "rock opera" and a few dodgy reviews I read at the time, so I never bothered listening out for it.  What a twat.  It's superb.

[Raymond Duck]

There's many great openers on his albums but Out On The Weekend is arguably the greatest.

[Ant 2 Threads]

I remember getting ready for school. I don't know, must have beed around 7 y/o. Mam always had Terry Wogan on in the morning and "After the Goldrush" was a track good 'ole Tel played, but by a band called "Prelude". Loved it. 

 

When I heard Neil play it and subsequently learned that he wrote it, I was taken to another dimension.

[Nunavut Patrick]

I walk by his old school in Winnipeg on my way to work. Earl Grey School.

 

 

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

28 minutes ago, Nunavut Patrick said:

I walk by his old school in Winnipeg on my way to work. Earl Grey School.

 

 

 

 

When I moved to Winnipeg,

I checked into school,

I wore white bucks upon my feet,

When I learned the golden rule,

The punches came fast and hard,

Lying on my back in the schoolyard.

 

Don't Be Denied

[mgw100]

On the topic of Harvest, I came across this the other day. Not too shabby...

[The Midnight Rambler]

10 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I've only recently "discovered" Greendale.  I'd always been put off by the phrase "rock opera" and a few dodgy reviews I read at the time, so I never bothered listening out for it.  What a twat.  It's superb.

‘Bandit’ is as good as it gets.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

11 hours ago, paddyberger said:

There's many great openers on his albums but Out On The Weekend is arguably the greatest.

Good call, that. Country Home and Unknown Legend are up there, but Out On The Weekend is the one. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

On 07/03/2021 at 00:50, AngryofTuebrook said:

I've only recently "discovered" Greendale.  I'd always been put off by the phrase "rock opera" and a few dodgy reviews I read at the time, so I never bothered listening out for it.  What a twat.  It's superb.

Greendale is also an album I've never bothered with, partly for the same reason and partly because I always pick something else from Young's catalogue when I'm in the mood, he's just got so many great songs.

 

Since you posted that though AoT I've had On The Beach and Greendale on pretty much non stop. Both albums are just outrageously good.

 

If I get the time later I think I'll try and dig out the Greendale film, which I've never seen.

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

And a shameless plug for the GF Music Club thread where Harvest is currently our latest album of the week.

 

For anyone who may want to join in and drop in your own review, thoughts, reminiscences or comments of Harvest.

 

GF Music Review Club - Harvest

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I only discovered this recently and I absolutely love it. Classic Crazy Horse. It's 2 or 3 minutes of a pretty enough pop tune, that somehow morphs into a churning, crushing, rumbling, relentless rock epic.  It's their signature move.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

And while we're on the subject of Crazy Horse being loud and unpleasant...

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Tell you what, though, Landing On Water is just a very bad album, by anyone's standards.

[Mook]

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

A Man Needs A Maid / Heart of Gold medley

Spotify link. Gorgeous mash up from the new Young Shakespeare live record.

 

Beautiful.

 

 

[Mook]

I fucking love this...

 

 

[Stickman]

Might be on here already but it's just a superb live version of a brilliant song....

With session player Greg Reeves on bass who was FIFTEEN at the time...Fuck sake I was scared to talk to girls at that age (still am to be fair) and yet he also played on Deja Vu in 69

 

  

 

[tokyojoe]

35 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Might be on here already but it's just a superb live version of a brilliant song....

With session player Greg Reeves on bass who was FIFTEEN at the time...Fuck sake I was scared to talk to girls at that age (still am to be fair) and yet he also played on Deja Vu in 69

 

  

 

Brilliant.

[Mook]

Holy shit, this is amazing...