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    in Someone Else's Song

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    I don't quite know why I'm not excited about this one...I KNOW it's not Neil Burnout. However, I am feeling, at best, only mildly interested in this.

     

    I wonder if we will get any recordings with the Ducks...(I have one that I got off Dime)

     

    Are you talking about actual studio recordings with the Ducks? All I've got is the four live songs from various bootlegs --- Windward Passage, and then the Sail Away/Cryin' Eyes/Comes a Time set.

    favorite guitar tones

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Mick Taylor on most of Sticky Fingers...particularly on "Sway".

     

    The Beatles' leads on "Everybody's Got Something To Hide" and "Revolution".

     

    Marc Ford on "Sometimes Salvation".

     

    The wah solo on "Haitian Divorce".

     

    The distorto-grunge Neil Young tone on "Don't Cry" and the very end of "Eldorado".

    Neil Young for beginners

    in Someone Else's Song

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    How many pages will this thread be before someone (seriously) suggests Arc, Dead Man and Journey Through the Past?

     

    The only one I've heard that I think should be avoided is Landing on Water.

     

    You laugh, but I think Arc is actually good driving music. Or, as Neil once put it, "It's rap music for white people!"

     

    Landing on Water isn't great, but there are a few good songs on it.

    Travelling Albums

    in Someone Else's Song

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    My old traveling standbys:

     

    Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

    Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children

    Ambulance LTD - s/t

    Derek & the Dominoes - Layla and other assorted love songs

    Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle

    Wilco - YHF

    Cake - Fashion Nugget

    Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (this is an automatic selection)

    Ten Years After - A Space in Time

    Joao Gilberto - Brasil, and Live in Montreaux

    Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels

    Steely Dan - Katy Lied

    Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti

    Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

    Relatively Clean Rivers - s/t

    Beck - Midnite Vultures

    The Doors - L.A. Woman

    Neil Young for beginners

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Thinking back to when I first got into Neil Young, I believe my order of listening was as follows:

     

    Harvest

    Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

    After The Gold Rush

     

    Followed by:

     

    Rust Never Sleeps

    Zuma

    Ragged Glory

     

    If you dig the softer stuff, you can replace Ragged Glory with Comes a Time.

    Neutral Milk Hotel

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Some albums hit me and some don't. I have "On Avery Island" and "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and I put them on every so often to see if I have changed my mind but they just don't inspire me like other albums do.

     

    I remember getting "Aeroplane" when it first came out and getting Olivia Tremor Control's "Dusk at Cubist Castle" around the same time. I was blown away by the OTC album and listened to it for months. Everything I wrote musically for those few weeks after, was inspired by "Dusk at Cubist Castle."

     

    I will continue to put on the Neutral Milk Hotel albums throughout the years in hope of it clicking some day.

     

    edit: actually, looking at the release dates, I must have had the Avery Island and Dusk at the same time. Aeroplane came out in 98 so I must have had the Dusk hangover still going while trying to get on the Aeroplane a few years later.

     

    Funny, because that's happening to me right now --- I got copies of Aeroplane and Dusk at Cubist Castle about two months ago. Aeroplane has not sunk in yet, while Dusk has taken over large portions of my brain.

     

    I can't say why Aeroplane hasn't done more for me yet...but then again, it's very, very rare for any new album to really grab my attention immediately. Hell, it took me nearly a year before I started to truly enjoy AGIB.

    What's your favorite song for each instrument?

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Bass: What is and What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin

    Slide: Ain't Wasting Time No More - Allman Brothers Band

    Lead Guitar: Sway - Rolling Stones

    Vocals: Surf's Up - The Beach Boys

    Electric Piano: New Frontier - Donald Fagen

    Rhythm Guitar: The Wanton Song - Led Zeppelin

    Acoustic Piano: Descending - The Black Crowes

    Keys: Riders on the Storm - The Doors

    Pedal Steel: Albuquerque - Neil Young

    Background vox: Paperback Writer - The Beatles

    Create a band with Wikipedia

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Limehouse Declaration - Harker Lake

     

    1) Ryus, Kansas

    2) Gardner, Kansas

    3) Stockholm Environment Institute US Center

    4) Service Robot

    5) Creative Environmental Networks

    6) Emerson Electric Company

    7) Halifax Parish

    8) Elegant Tit

    9) Cortegana

    10) Sonometer

    11) Mustn't Grumble (An Accidental Return to England)

     

    Fresh off their recent tour of northern England with Billy Bragg, Britpop socialist proselytizers Limehouse Declaration entered the studio to craft their latest political manifesto. What emerged was Harker Lake, an earnest, if somewhat muddled, sophomore effort from the five-piece who rose to prominence on their hit single "Where Has The Channel Gone" two years ago. The album, which takes its name from a depleted lake in the northern United States, begins with the expected attack on American environmental philosophy, as the band describes the imagined plight of two towns in the Kansas dust bowl. The album then unexpectedly moves into a four-part suite, starting with "Stockholm Environment Institute", lamenting the plight of Swedish scientists in the USA, set to a pounding backbeat which sounds like a cross between ABBA and Television. While the band's musical indebtedness to both Blur and My Bloody Valentine is apparent, Limehouse Declaration manages to work in other elements, such as the Robbie Williams-flavored "Elegant Tit", a bizarre but agreeable ode to an engangered bird. However, the album runs out of steam before the end, as the plodding "Sonometer" and the drab, colorless "Mustn't Grumble" fail to either excite or inform.

    Were You Ever In A Cover Band?

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I was in a cover band in the musical "mecca" of Lafayette, Indiana. If I recall correctly, a normal setlist consisted of:

     

    Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

    Comfortably Numb

    Creep (the STP one)

    Heart Shaped Box

    Take it Easy

    Small Town

    Old Love

    You Can't Always Get What You Want

    Running on Faith

     

    Needless to say, that was a confused band which broke up within three months.

    Neil Young

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Yesterday's setlist (pretty outstanding):

     

    From Hank To Hendrix

    Ambulance Blues

    Sad Movies

    A Man Needs A Maid

    No One Seems To Know

    Harvest

    Campaigner

    Journey Through The Past

    Mellow My Mind

    Love Art Blues

    Love Is A Rose

    Heart Of Gold

     

    The Loner

    Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

    Dirty Old Man

    Spirit Road

    Bad Fog Of Loneliness

    Winterlong

    Oh, Lonesome Me

    The Believer

    No Hidden Path

     

    Cinnamon Girl

    Tonight's The Night

     

    Whoa whoa whoa, now wait just an effin' minute here...

     

    That may be the greatest Neil setlist I've ever seen. THREE unreleased '76 songs, Bad Fog, AND Ambulance Blues? Not to mention Campaigner and JTTP.

    Neil Young

    in Someone Else's Song

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    damn...

     

    thanks at least :)

     

    while i like it, the synths are def super cheesey and it's gonna stick out like a sore thumb amongst the other 2007 tracks IMO...

     

    You may be right, although I'm starting to wonder now if the track sequencing isn't meant to hide that somewhat.

     

    Since Ordinary People is a 20-year old recording, I'd imagine that Beautiful Bluebird (the opener) and Box Car (second track, preceding OP in the running order) are also the original recordings. So maybe Neil's dropping us in the wayback machine before easing us into the new millenium by track number 4?

    Neil Young

    in Someone Else's Song

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    And here's a blurb from RS:

     

    "In addition to giving you the scoop

    on the Canadian rock icon's sequel to a record that never saw release,

    the piece now includes an MP3 of the tune "Ordinary People," the

    gorgeous eighteen-minute epic Young ORIGINALLY RECORDED IN 1988 and

    played frequently during that year's This Note's For You

    tour. "Ordinary People" will be released for the first time on Chrome

    Dreams II."

    Neil Young

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Hmmm. After 18 minutes, I actually kind of liked it. Especially that the synth became less prevalent...

    And yeah, there's couldn't be more static fuzz.

     

    From what I understand, the rip of the song was originally recorded on a boombox, then transferred to mp3.

     

    So yeah, the sound quality is dog.

    Neil Young

    in Someone Else's Song

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    heard the first single, the 18 min. 'Ordinary People'...it was obviously recorded in the late 80s. it has such a cheezy synth piano on it along with the 80s drum sound ect along with neil soundling like he is 40 years old, not 62. inexcusable move on neil's part. and again, if the tour is neil and pegi, as with farm aid, it's gonna be painful. pegi is flat as hell.

     

    Listening to it now. It's definitely a recording from the Neil Young & The Restless band (the same one that did 'Freedom' and the 88-89 tour). Definitely sounds like Pancho on guitar and Chad Cromwell on drums --- definitely not Ralphie.

     

    Honestly though, I don't mind. I've heard live versions of this song that sound very similar to this released recording, so it sounds right this way...if that makes any sense.

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