Neil Young--Not too bright eh?

[cripes]

I dunno...he's done pretty well and all....respected by his fans and peers--stuff like counts for a lot. But still, this feeling is nagging at me.

manho pointed out a while back that Neil is a true innocent. Perhaps intellect hinders art.

I've always been a fan...thing is, I'm listening to Chrome Dreams II and I want to yell 'goddammit, shut up--you're boring! You're a nice guy and all, but geez.....'

[Some king]

Gee, I wonder where this is headed...

"I moved here from Canada and they think I'm slow, eh?"

Bigots.

[cripes]

Ah shucks SK...nothing like that. The chowderhead lives 30 minutes down the road from me in Woodside. If anything, maybe living around here has dumbed him down.

A room service waiter told me an interesting Neil story. Seems that there was a bug in Neil's salad. Neil calls down and complains. The waiter apologizes, and Neil explains that he's not really mad about the bug--he's mad that he had to kill the bug.

Dunno what that says, but I thought I'd share.

[Steve]

so, is any of it good?

[cripes]

Last Neil that had stuff I really liked was Sleeps With Angels...a couple of songs on Greendale I liked ok.

You might like it. I sounds like a regular Neil LP....long ass guitars and stuff.

[dino]

dont be so nice cripes, tell it like it is

new Neil is a shameless piece of crap - to quote one of his songs

[Steve]

I liked Sleeps with Angels a lot.
Was that before or after the Pearl Jam one. Love The Ocean.

[Steve]

Oh yeah, new Neil show up at the dime.

Love/Art Blues but no Ordinary People.

[cripes]

I think it was after the Pearl Jam one--I liked that one too. Hell, I like Landing on Water--The Violent Side is one of my favorite Neil songs. I even like the Shocking Pinks record.

[dino]

Landing on the water is my fav 80s young, that one and Life

[Steve]

Landing on Water-eh
Life50-50
Shocking Pinks-me too.
Trans even.

[Steve]

They alll seem to have at least 1 good song. Goin Home on Passionate.

I like Living With War raw better than the real official one.

[Some king]

I've spent the last couple of days trying to do a Neil Young playlist on my ipod...and I can't remember half of the songs from zuma through freedom. I actually had to listen to all the albums. That ain't fun.

[Steve]

Zuma is top 5.

[Steve]

Do you have El Dorado?

[Some king]

Yes. I even have all the CSNY albums and the dead man soundtrack. Stupid cheap ebay.

[dino]

ARC! now thats an album

[david]

Neil?

Greendale and Living With War were awful. I'm putting off the pleasure of checking out the new one for a bit . . .

Sleeps with Angels had a couple of good songs. Harvest Moon had a couple of songs that sounded okay if you ignored the lyrics, and they came off even better in the movie, though they weren't exactly classics. Mirror Ball had some clunkers, but was mostly a pretty decent album. The last one of his I liked all the way through was Rust Never Sleeps (or Comes a Time, if that one was after Rust).

[dino]

my Neil parade

1. time fades away - on the beach - tonights the night (golden trilogy)

2. after the gold rush

3. zuma

4. everybody knows this is nowhere

5. rust never sleeps

6. ragged glory

7. comes a time

8. american stars n' bars

9. neil young

10. maybe freedom or silver and gold, not sure

[cripes]

I even have all the CSNY albums and the dead man soundtrack

That reminds me....a while back my wife had tickets to the premiere of Jarmusch's Dead Man at the Castro Theater. Iggy was at the Warfield the same night, so I couldn't make that cinema jazz. So I go see Iggy with my brother who is buddies with Iggy's then drummer. We go to where the post show gathering Is (where Jarmusch shows up) and hang out. All in all a cool night.

The wife gets home, and I'm all 'wow, we were sitting in a booth right across from Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch, blah blah' and then she says 'look what I got you' and she pulls this out of her purse:


Turns out she ran into Neil in the lobby and thunk fast.