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PrintableShapeshifter said: VinnyM27 said: That is harsh. I think he has such a passionate vocal and his lyrics might be simple yet they are so powerful and true. And thinking back on "Prairie Wind", it was a great album. I like his voice. I said it was an acquired taste. Prairie Wind was absolutely fucking abysmal though. Sorry, Teddy. Prairie Wind and Silver and Gold were so dull, I couldn't listen to them more than a few times each. | |
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MendesCity said: Shapeshifter said: I like his voice. I said it was an acquired taste. Prairie Wind was absolutely fucking abysmal though. Sorry, Teddy. Prairie Wind and Silver and Gold were so dull, I couldn't listen to them more than a few times each. Silver & old had Razor Love on it (a song dating back to 1984 and the International Harvesters Tour). Prairie Wind had nothing on it. There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently | |
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MendesCity said: forkupine said: While Neil has always been signed to a major label most of his choices as an artist are hardly conventional. It seems to me that he always adopts a kind of freewheeling attitude towards the creation of his albums. That's why most of them if not all are flawed and uneven, a number of them sloppily produced and unpolished. But they are regarded as classics nonetheless. Exactly, just because he's always worked within the major label system doesn't mean his music was bound by its limitations. I don't think there's anything false about it. Even his last album "Living With War" had this great tossed-off, protest album vibe that few artists would ever be able to convince a major label to release. [Edited 2/2/08 6:42am] Living With War was a joke. Had he released it when the bombs were raining on Baghdad and only the Dixie Chicks, Springsteen and Pearl Jam were making anti-war statements, then it would STILL have been a crap album, but a worthy gesture all the same. Neil waited until anti-war sentiment had gone nationwide and THEN got "angry". Obviously didn't want to alienate his core audience. There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently | |
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Neil waited until anti-war sentiment had gone nationwide and THEN got "angry". Obviously didn't want to alienate his core audience.[/quote]
Neil Young has been in the process of alienating even his most devoted audience since the release of On The Beach more than 30 years ago. Listen to Trans (synth), Everybody's Rockin' (rockabilly), Arc (noise) and any of his several Crazy Horse work-outs in the 80's and beyond. As a fan I did a lot of head scratching myself when these records came out. | |
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Sugar Mountain and the Needle and the Damage Done win my favor. Plus he hates Bush, gotta love that. Even Bush's moms hates him, but that's beside the point. All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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forkupine said: Neil waited until anti-war sentiment had gone nationwide and THEN got "angry". Obviously didn't want to alienate his core audience.
Neil Young has been in the process of alienating even his most devoted audience since the release of On The Beach more than 30 years ago. Listen to Trans (synth), Everybody's Rockin' (rockabilly), Arc (noise) and any of his several Crazy Horse work-outs in the 80's and beyond. As a fan I did a lot of head scratching myself when these records came out.[/quote] That was then, Living with Anal Warts was now-ish. Neil famously said, in the liner notes to Decade, that he'd gone mainstream with Harvest and deliberately went into the ditch instead. It was a more innaresting place. While you were scratching your head about Trans, as I was actually loving it. I got into him in the mid-80s, when his stock was at all time low. Rust Never Sleeps was the first one I heard. I went back first, then I went forward. The Geffen albums were all patchy, and the best introduction to the period remains Lucky 13, an album so varied in its musical style (country Kraftwerk, country, rock, soul-blues, synth-rock, straight rock n roll) it consistently takes you by surprise. The thing is, since David Briggs died in 1996, his music has not only got duller, it's all perfectly safe. He's settled for a holding pattern of one loud, one quiet album. And most of his new songs are really dire. [Edited 2/2/08 9:03am] There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently | |
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