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November 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Return To Greendale
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Return To Greendale Reprise I like Neil Young most of the time. Or even love Neil Young’s music most of the time. But I think I like him best when he’s being wilfully obscure, or chasing his own vision more directly than the handful of times when he’s just Making […]Archive
September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young: The Times EP
Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]Archive
September 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 52
Neil Young, Tonight’s The Night (1975) I guess I have about 10 favourite Neil Young albums – even albums of his that are pretty-much duds are sometimes on that list by the way. Such is my love for what he does and perhaps particularly the way he has gone about it. But one album I […]Archive
September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Daze That Used To Be: Ragged Glory Turns 30
Ragged Glory by Neil Young (with Crazy Horse) turns 30 today. Thirty years old! I remember walking into a store that is long gone in a town that was my home (but I’ve now lived longer anywhere else) to buy this on a format that was long ago dead and buried until a bit of […]Archive
June 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young: Homegrown
Neil Young Homegrown Reprise Neil Young’s archive boasts many hidden gems and over the last decade or so he’s been sharing more from that cellar door. There are whole albums, live gigs, alternate versions – and though there have been one or two slightly unnecessary live sets there is still so much more magic to […]Archive
April 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Steve Gunn: Livin’ In Between – EP
Steve Gunn Livin’ In Between – EP (Independent/Bandcamp) Steve Gunn is back between records with another EP – this one a three-track covers set featuring a song each originally by Neil Young (Motion Pictures), Glenn Danzig (The Misfits’ Astro Zombies) and Michael Chapman (Among The Trees).Archive
April 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Young & Phil Baker: To Feel The Music
To Feel The Music: A Songwriter’s Mission To Save High-Quality Audio Neil Young & Phil Baker BenBella Books Neil Young has written three books (so far) and I’m sure there’s the threat of more. He was never going to write a conventional memoir – even though that’s what Waging Heavy Peace technically was, then there […]Archive
April 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 135
Linda Ronstadt, Mad Love (1980) I only know a few Linda Ronstadt albums – but I love them. There are more for me to explore and this is one I’ve had forever, which I think I inherited from some of the last records left at my folks’ place – they got rid of their records […]Archive
March 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The World Is Turnin’/I Hope Neil Young Don’t Turn Away
Neil Young said that just because his problems were meaningless that didn’t make them go away. He’s said a lot of things but he’s seldom been better than when he said that, when he wrote and recorded On The Beach, in a deep funk, in a sad state, in a depressed rage – his friends […]Archive
February 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 163
Neil Young, TRANS (1982) Neil Young is great – but they have thrown some curveballs over the years. This is one of their best albums though. I firmly believe that. It’s in the top 5 or 6 for me. They’ve made lots of crap along the way too of course, that’s just part of their process […]Archive
January 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman