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    Best Neil Young Album

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    OK I like Neil young as much as anyone but not all of the live albums are amazing. None is a total loss but several are not good enough to earn the "amazing" title.

     

    Time Fades Away - This is not a bad album, but for me it has always seemed like it is an acquired taste. Some like it immediately some it has to grow on them, others never develop the taste. A live album made during Neil's amazing ascendancy to the elite level and it does not match the rest of his out put at the time. Though I will say it captures the unpredictable nature of Neil. He could easily has released a live version of Harvest/After The Gold Rush but he chose to release what we have here.

     

    Live Rust - Great It captures him perfectly in his element at the time.

     

    Weld - The Best 100% live Crazy Horse album he released.

     

    Unplugged - zzzzzz Average album Nothing to write home about.

     

    Year of the Horse - Some great performances, some not so great. Overall this album lacks an intangible that makes the album not very cohesive. That being said I still like some of the performances and appreciate that it is not the usual suspects when the songs were selected.

     

    Road Rock - the all-star band never grabbed me. Again this is a live album missing an intangible.

     

    Live at the Fillmore/Live at Massey - Love them both. Captures him at his absolute peak.

     

    I'm not trying to be down on Neil but I just don't think his live albums have been as good as they might be.

     

    With the exception of your assessment of Unplugged and Time Fades Away, I think you're dead on. The only things I'll say are TFA and RNS are much different from the others in that the songs that appear on them were not to be found on a previous studio album. Plus, RNS has the audience removed from the recording giving it less of a live album feel. I agree that TFA is an aquired taste, but man, it's a fucking great album. There's not a single weak track on there. To me you cannot seperate TFA, OTB, and TTN. All rank among his best work and share such a great doom and gloom rawness.

    (((Blood On The Tracks))) the breakup thread

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Back in the day, I really loved the Star Room Boys. That whole album Why Do Lonely Men and Women Want to Break Each Other's Hearts would go well with the whole feeling sorry for oneself, crying in your beer kind of jag. I honestly have no reason to bring that one off the shelf, except for nostalgia... which is good enough reason anyhow.

     

    I thought I was the only one that knew who those guys were. It's too bad they busted up. I saw one of their last shows in Asheville, NC. They broke up shortly thereafter. I can't recall what year it was.

     

    cheers,

    Kevin

     

    I have Why Do Lonely Men and Women Want to Break Each Others Hearts (I guess a shorter album title was out of the question) and This World Just Won't Leave You Alone (not too short either). Both are excellent records. Not sure if you were aware of this, but their steel guitarist John Neff is now a full-time member of Drive-By Truckers. I know he's done a bunch of side projects with Athens-based bands as well.

    Super Bowl XLII

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    Manning and Brady can both be beaten by getting pressure on them with only 4 or 5 rushers. This has always been the key to beating them.

     

    Perhaps you can be a defensive coordinator in the NFL now. You've unlocked the mystery to shutting down Manning and Brady.

    Now playing: February 2008

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    a nice present in my mailbox over the weekend :music

     

    i gotta be honest, after only a few spins this weekend, not only is this easily the Black Keys most diverse and produced album to date, after all is said and done, it may be their best too..

     

    killer mix of mellow + rockers. Strange Times is a barnburner stompin' tune. Same Old Thing has a frickin' Ian Anderson-esque flute on it set to an almost dub-ish bass beat.

     

    some really great organ on a few tracks, in addition to banjo, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, synths, etc.

     

    they went all out

     

    I'm fucking jealous as hell.

     

     

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    Best Neil Young Album

    in Someone Else's Song

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    Neil has at least 10-15 essential records, depending on how hardcore of a music collector you are, and how hardcore of a Neil fan you become; I've yet to hear every single record, but of the ones I've heard, On The Beach is my favorite; Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Tonight's the Night, Zuma, Rust Never Sleeps, Freedom and Ragged Glory are also essential. If you prefer Neil's so cal folk hippy side, you'll probably also like Comes a Time and Harvest Moon; if you're a Crazy Horse nut, you'll probably like Sleep with Angels and Mirrorball, though I admittedly haven't heard either.

     

    Neil also has several live albums. the two Archive releases (Massey Hall & Fillmore East), Live Rust, and Arc Weld (one disc of bizzare noise and feedback, one of blistering concert performance) are all worth picking up.

     

    I've heard every single one. And Mirror Ball is with Pearl Jam, not El Caballo Loco. Also, Comes a Time strikes me as more of a country record than a Southern Cali/folky/hippie one. I listed 10 in my earlier post, but other "essential" Neil records (if you're an irrational Neil fan like myself) could be expanded to:

     

    Zuma

    Freedom

    Greendale

    Comes a Time

    Sleeps With Angels

    Broken Arrow

    Mirror Ball

    Silver & Gold

    Prairie Wind

    Chrome Dreams II

     

    If you were looking for a place to start, then Decade is where it's at.

    Best Neil Young Album

    in Someone Else's Song

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    speaking of neil, after several listens, chrome dreams II is not good. about 3 good songs on there. OP is way too long and the other bad ones are toss offs. worse than LWW which had 4 good tunes.

    i am really disappointed by this because i had decided last year that Neil was my all time favorite artist and i set up this expectation that he could do no wrong and that i must love everything he does. unfortunatly, that's impossible.

    craig

     

    Love everything he does? :lol

     

    As far as CDII goes, it's not his best, but far from his worst. I like Ordinary People a lot. Other goodies off his latest include No Hidden Path (my favorite song from 2007), Dirty Old Man, Spirit Road, Ever After, and The Way.

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