NY alert
Posted by adze thuggery on 12 October 2008 - 8:29am.
Article in today's Observer Music Monthly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/12/neil-young-documentary
flags up forthcoming BBC documentary 'Neil Young - Don't Be Denied' on BBC Four on 31 October and 2 November at 10pm.
The article includes a choice of Neil's best album from each of five decades - anyone agree with the choices made?
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For me...
60s - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
70s - On The Beach
80s- Freedom
90s - Weld
can't say about 00s as the last new album of his I listened to was 'Mirror Ball'.
Bang on
Patrick. 4 out of 4.
I'm no expert
But where is Ragged Glory?
Decades
I go along with Patrick for 60's, 70's & 80's. For the 90's I'd say Harvest Moon and this decade I'm saying Greendale (yes, I genuinely do like it).
Prairie Wind
Probably his best since Ragged Glory. Also have a soft spot for Sleeps With Angels.
Does "Unplugged" count for the 90's?
I've consulted my Neil Young expert...
... and he'd like to point out that:
"As anyone with a primary school level of Youngian knowledge would know, the 3 albums that make up the Doom (or ditch) Trilogy are "Tonight's The Night", the live album "Time Fades Away" and "On The Beach". Zuma is indeed an "accessible album" but was not part of the trilogy."
So there you go!
I'd just read the article
and was about to make that very point.
I find it irritating when someone has been appointed as an expert (stand up Campbell Stevenson, whoever you are) and fails to have, as Rokketeeer's own expert points out, "a primary school level of Youngian knowledge".
Zuma was very much the return to more mainstream ways, Mr Stevenson.
Cobain?
Similarly I think describing Sleeps With Angels as "The Cobain tribute album" and "A strange album, brought on by Kurt Cobain's use of a Young lyric in his suicide note" is quite inaccurate. The album was pretty much finished, it's only the title track which was allegedly inspired by this and was one a late edition to the sessions.
Agreed...bit of a basic error re Zuma....
...and I'd also question it being called 'under-rated'. I don't know any Young fans who don't see it as being amongst his very best.
Might go for Ragged Glory over Sleeps With Angels for the 90's, and might also go for After The Goldrush for the 70's
I agree
I think Ragged Glory is far superior to Sleeps with Angels.
Haven't read the article but my list goes...
60s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
70s After The Goldrush
80s Freedom
90s Ragged Glory
00s Chrome Dreams II
A point once made to me:
A well informed Neil Young fan is a happy Neil Young fan.
I'd go along with Dr Robert's list, although Rust Never Sleeps only just misses the list. And I'll cop out and leave the 00's slot open - no doubt the crafty bugger is capable of coming up with something brilliant in the next year or so...
I'd go with...
60s - Everybody Knows...
70s - On The Beach
80s - Rust Never Sleeps
90s - Weld
00s -
I did think of Arc for the 90s but you'd all think I was just trying to be too cool for school :-)
Rust Never Sleeps
1979. Great album though.
On The Beach
I'd agree with the article choices aside from Zuma - I love it but I'd give best 70s to On The Beach.
Ragged Glory is a fun album, but Sleeps With Angels far out does it for me. One of his absolute best.
I look forward to the documentary.