September 26th, 2005 07:16 AM |
|
|
Ten Thousand Motels |
Too long to cut 'n paste so..........
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109363,00.html |
September 26th, 2005 08:13 AM |
|
|
corgi37 |
Nice article. He usually seems surly to me, but he came over pretty sweet. |
September 26th, 2005 08:42 AM |
|
|
Gazza |
Bought the new album "Prairie Wind" this morning and listening to it now
Big thumbs-up. His best and most consistent collection of songs since "Ragged Glory" IMO |
September 26th, 2005 09:46 AM |
|
|
Ten Thousand Motels |
quote: Gazza wrote:
Bought the new album "Prairie Wind" this morning and listening to it now
I'm going to buy it this coming weekend, along with ABB, possibly the Dylan DVD, depending on cash flow. |
September 26th, 2005 10:51 AM |
|
|
Lazy Bones |
Prairie Winds' release date (for NA) is perfect - day after I see the Stones so I'm off work for the morning. Great timing to pick up PW and Dylan's DVD. |
September 26th, 2005 11:03 AM |
|
|
Martha |
quote: Lazy Bones wrote:
Prairie Winds' release date (for NA) is perfect - day after I see the Stones so I'm off work for the morning. Great timing to pick up PW and Dylan's DVD.
Lazy can you email me the article not the link in full? I cannot open it to read...dial-up sucks! No rush i know you are a busy boy today!!!!!
Thanks in advance.
xxoo,
Martha |
September 26th, 2005 11:09 AM |
|
|
Lazy Bones |
quote: Martha wrote:
Lazy can you email me the article not the link in full? I cannot open it to read...dial-up sucks! No rush i know you are a busy boy today!!!!!
Thanks in advance.
xxoo,
Martha
Sent!
It's a 4-page article. You'll see where the page breaks are...
|
September 26th, 2005 11:25 AM |
|
|
time is on my side |
Here's a review of Neil's new album from all music guide- they gave it 3 1/2 stars but, as in all things, you should be your own guide.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Since Prairie Wind is a return to the soft, lush country-rock sound of Harvest; since Neil Young suffered a brain aneurysm during its recording; since it finds the singer/songwriter reflecting on life and family in the wake of his father's death; and since it's his most cohesive album in a decade, it would seem that all these factors add up to a latter-day masterpiece for Young, but that's not quite the case. Prairie Wind manages to be less than the sum of its parts and the problem isn't a lack of good songs (although it does have a few more clunkers than it should) or a botched concept. Young's decision to revive the country-rock that brought him his greatest popularity never feels like a cynical move — the music is too warm, comfortable, and friendly to feel like anything but Neil playing to his strengths. However, since he cut this in Nashville with a bunch of studio pros including legendary keyboardist Spooner Oldham, it feels just a tad slicker than perhaps it should, since the smooth sound inadvertently highlights the sentimentality of the project. It's hard to begrudge Young if he wants to indulge in rose-colored memories — a brush with death coupled with a loss of a parent tends to bring out sentimentality — but such backward-gazing songs as "Far from Home" feel just a hair too close to trite, and the easy-rolling nature of the record doesn't lend them much gravity. There a few other songs that tend toward too close to the simplistic, whether it's the specific invocations of 9/11 and Chris Rock on "No Wonder" or the supremely silly Elvis salute "He Was the King," which are just enough to undermine the flow of the album, even if they fit into the general autumnal, reflective mood of the record. But since they do fit the overall feel of the album, and since they're better, even with their flaws, than the best songs on, say, Silver & Gold or Broken Arrow or Are You Passionate?, they help elevate the whole of Prairie Wind, particularly because there are some genuinely strong Young songs here: the moody opener "The Painter," the gently sighing "Fallin' off the Face of the Earth," the ethereal "It's a Dream," the sweet, laid-back "Here for Your," the understated "This Old Guitar" (there's also the sweeping "When God Made Me," recorded complete with a gospel chorus, one that will either strike a listener as moving or maudlin — a latter-day "A Man Needs a Maid," only not as strong). This set of songs does indeed make Prairie Wind a better album than anything Young has released in the past decade, which means that it's easy to overrate it. For despite all of its strengths, neither the recording nor the songs are as memorable or as fully realized as his late-'80s/early-'90s comeback records — Freedom, Ragged Glory, and Harvest Moon — let alone his classic '70s work. Nevertheless, it's the closest Young has come to making a record that could hold its own with those albums in well over a decade, which means it's worthwhile even if it's never quite as great as it seems like it could have been.
Tracks
1 The Painter
2 No Wonder
3 Falling Off of the Face of the Earth
4 Far from Home
5 It's a Dream
6 Prairie Wind
7 Here for You
8 This Old Guitar
9 He Was the King
10 When God Made Me
[Edited by time is on my side] |
September 26th, 2005 11:41 AM |
|
|
Martha |
quote: Lazy Bones wrote:
Sent!
It's a 4-page article. You'll see where the page breaks are...
Good Lord! That was faster than the speed of ROCK! LOL Thank you so much Lazy! You are a doll.
xxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooo,
Martha Mellencamp! |
September 26th, 2005 01:22 PM |
|
|
stonesmik |
Does anyone recall the interview with Keith Richards around 1988 where he said he can't stand the music of Neil Young, especially since the guy cannot play a guitar without making grimaces. |
September 26th, 2005 01:36 PM |
|
|
marko |
Damn,can´t get the cd before wednesday. |
September 26th, 2005 07:42 PM |
|
|
Gazza |
quote: stonesmik wrote:
Does anyone recall the interview with Keith Richards around 1988 where he said he can't stand the music of Neil Young, especially since the guy cannot play a guitar without making grimaces.
never seen that one myself. Incredibly stupid reason to dislike someone's music if its true.
Does Keith ever have anything good to say about anyone who's both white and younger than him? |
September 26th, 2005 07:48 PM |
|
|
Mel Belli |
quote: Gazza wrote:
Does Keith ever have anything good to say about anyone who's both white and younger than him?
Almost never. It's incredibly tacky and beyond ungenerous. The one exception I came across was Norah Jones - but even then it was in a snarky context. "I'd give her one," is what he said, if memory serves. |
September 26th, 2005 10:19 PM |
|
|
MrPleasant |
quote: Gazza wrote:
Does Keith ever have anything good to say about anyone who's both white and younger than him?
"White drummers don't swing, except for Charlie Watts". |
September 26th, 2005 11:27 PM |
|
|
Brainbell Jangler |
Great interview! Where can I get me one of them biodiesel Hummers? And wouldn't you love to hear a tape of a Mynah Birds cover of the Stones? |
September 27th, 2005 01:02 AM |
|
|
corgi37 |
I do recall that i/w with Keith about Neil. He said something also about the Stones being too heavy and if not careful, could end up sounding like Neil Young. I'd say the i/v was circa 94. |