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Is this place at your command
Can I stay here for a while
Can I see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same?
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band begun to rust
After all the sin we've had
I was hopin' that we turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Hello woman of my dreams
Is this not the way it seems?
Purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Wow. That's a cool sounding phrase, when you say it.
Wow,
This could go on for another 10 minutes and I would not mind - At all!
do you smell the sweet pungent fragrance of burning cannabis?
Back when it was fun, or so they say
He relented!
absolutely epic. the guitar is great but the bass really drives it. Neil's voice works perfectly in this song. crank it to 10, close your eyes, nod along to the beat...awesome.
while being stoned... nothing finer
I think NY is not playing the axe like that because he was constrained by skill, ears, discipline or other. I think he played it like that and always exactly the way he wanted to play it. That's the sound and aesthetic he developed. And you know it's NY by the first or second note, which is part of the artistry.
Yeah that raunchy distorted timbre he works out through his guitar to pedal to amp to us is very much his recognizable style.
that lead guitar sound hasn't aged well.
Says you.
Truly great guitar playing!
9-->10
This takes me back to a summer of '69, when I lived at Rochdale College in Toronto. It was a time of experimentation, creativity, and change. And experiment we did! Psychedelics mostly.
The guys down the hall played this album in continuous repeat. When I left to travel to the West Coast, it played on in my head. Now I read that it is on the list of "1,001 albums you must hear before you die." As I might have said then: "Yeah, I can dig it."
OUTTA SIGHT MAN!!
Truly great guitar playing!
9-->10
This takes me back to a summer of '69, when I lived at Rochdale College in Toronto. It was a time of experimentation, creativity, and change. And experiment we did! Psychedelics mostly.
The guys down the hall played this album in continuous repeat. When I left to travel to the West Coast, it played on in my head. Now I read that it is on the list of "1,001 albums you must hear before you die." As I might have said then: "Yeah, I can dig it."
Need a dial that goes to 11...
9-->10
This takes me back to a summer of '69, when I lived at Rochdale College in Toronto. It was a time of experimentation, creativity, and change. And experiment we did! Psychedelics mostly.
The guys down the hall played this album in continuous repeat. When I left to travel to the West Coast, it played on in my head. Now I read that it is on the list of "1,001 albums you must hear before you die." As I might have said then: "Yeah, I can dig it."
He truly is the king of weird dissonant guitar solos. Who plays the bass? so so good
Billy Talbot
that lead guitar sound hasn't aged well.
au contraire, that's a classic, an anthem for its time, and even without intimate knowledge of this track that sound draws attention, and most of us who were older than about 8 when we first heard it know exactly who is playing.
Just yesterday Young said he's pulling his music from Spotify because of all of the Joe Rogan stuffs... 60% of his listeners were from Spotify. I hope it all works out in the end.
Neil already made his bank last year, when he sold half his catalog (for $50M?) to those bastards at Hipgnosis (not the Hipgnosis us music lovers thing of) who are owned by those bastards Blackstone.
And oh the irony of a guy who wrote "Living in the Free World" supporting censorship.
Anyways, I'm still at an 8 on this one.
Long Live RP!!
This could go on for another 10 minutes and I would not mind - At all!
I am intrigued what sort of person rates this a 1 out of 10, and they have my sympathy.
The . . . kind who doesn't like Neil Young? Those people are allowed to exist too. I'm one of them!
How could this ever possibly be anything less than a 10?
I mean, the mode is a 9, so . . .
I am intrigued what sort of person rates this a 1 out of 10, and they have my sympathy.
I can't help getting over the feeling that Neil Young's songs are the exact same songs played over and over and over and over.............
Its ALL one song man!
With this song on replay I bet I can run a marathon
I'd run a mile
Ruby in the dust
One of the "best piece(s) he ever did...".
Thanks Bill.
Saw Neil doing an Acoustic Solo show promoting "Freedom" in 89'. A few acoustics and a piano on stage. Hadn't realized until that point what a great guitarist Neil is. Growing up in Scarborough, Ontario in the 70's, if you weren't a fan you sure weren't one of the cool kids. Although Neil was branded as the king of the one note solo for a long time we all idolized him. Anyone interested in a good read about Neil, check out the book "Shakey" by James McDonough. He lived at the ranch with Neil and family and was never sure if Neil would let him publish his writing. Neil must be an Ogre as he has so many layers.
Only on RP!
As noted below, how can this ever be less than a ten?
But the library is huge already. Way too much REM for my taste, but I rarely hear the same songs too often.
Keep on rockin' on!
I'm starting to hear lots of repeats on this hipper, "more upbeat" version of RP. I love the mix, and am hoping the library is expanded so there's less repeats.
Tsk! Listen to Alabama?
Nah, actually he uses 3 or 4 notes, and a lot of bending. But it works.
I've loved his guitar-work since I was 13..... Now I'm 57 it's a maturer less hormone-directed thang but still think he's one of the best. It's gotta be more about feeling not just technique. Cannay stand Clapton.
"Wonderin' ":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6A6oTFdcw (see link below)
When you watch the video you get the feeling that Neil was experimenting with glue at the time.
Brilliant video. This was about the time when many bands were taking their videos very seriously, hiring big name directors and spending boatloads of money, usually with ghastly, overblown results. "Wonderin' was Neil's lo-fi, tongue in cheek response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVZNlJYZlA
Hmm, link's dead now. No matter, if you search for Trans on Youtube or whatever, you can find it.
Also from that era: Neil and The Shocking Pinks.
"Wonderin' ":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6A6oTFdcw
When you watch the video you get the feeling that Neil was experimenting with glue at the time.
Nah, actually he uses 3 or 4 notes, and a lot of bending. But it works.
that's Ironic, because there are few artists who've been as experimental and risky in their musical directions as Neil Young. I think that for the most part, people know Young for his ballady, pedal-steel and acoustic guitar songs, which do tend to sound alike. A smaller group adore and worship his harder rocking, feedback and pounding-on-the-fretboard electric guitar playing. But not many people at all know about his rockabilly stuff, straight-out country songs, bluesy pop tunes, or his (really horrible) electronic music.
He has a stunningly broad range of music (not all of it very good), but even here on RP we mostly just get Harvest and maybe a few tunes from his Crazy Horse era.
Here, have a listen. Skip through to the electronic stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSNQhLm1V84
Hmm, link's dead now. No matter, if you search for Trans on Youtube or whatever, you can find it.
Without question. "Down By the River" and "Cinnamon Girl" tend to get much more press and airplay, but for my money this is NY w/ CH's very best cut. Incredible, awesome guitar work, terrific lyrics. An 11, if there was such a category, it's one of RnR's all time great works.
that's Ironic, because there are few artists who've been as experimental and risky in their musical directions as Neil Young. I think that for the most part, people know Young for his ballady, pedal-steel and acoustic guitar songs, which do tend to sound alike. A smaller group adore and worship his harder rocking, feedback and pounding-on-the-fretboard electric guitar playing. But not many people at all know about his rockabilly stuff, straight-out country songs, bluesy pop tunes, or his (really horrible) electronic music.
He has a stunningly broad range of music (not all of it very good), but even here on RP we mostly just get Harvest and maybe a few tunes from his Crazy Horse era.
Here, have a listen. Skip through to the electronic stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSNQhLm1V84
https://www.lincvolt.com
Great song by a great artist.
I'm with you there
I couldn't help myself - here
Headphones on my desk
a sound far away
listening for it
a familiar thing
my ears put them on
magic surrounds me
Ho m'Lord !!! A better time could not have been had. Indeed :-)
Please wall slam your head to Adele and leave appreciation of the classics to the connoisseurs. Thank you for calling but our menu has changed.
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana (2012)
Try listening to this song with your heart first and ears second. It's truly superb.
As much as I love Neil Young's music, I have to say that I think this kind of comment is off-base and comes off as being patronizing. Maybe someone has listened with their heart, and heard nothing interesting; a song can have different effects on different people, and if someone isn't moved by a song, it's not that person who is to blame.
Bad singer and very annoying guitar playing...