Neil Young: "Le Noise"

[Captain of Outer Space]

Tracklist and cover for new Neil Young album to be released September 28.

Not really going to rush to pick this one up considering how poor-to-mediocre "Fork in the Road" was, but I've heard that several people in his life have passed on and some of his best work deals with death. I've also heard this past tour he's been on has been solo electric and really really weird.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

At this point Neil Young is just a weird uncle who somehow got a record contract. Does anyone even listen to his new stuff?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I don't know. Neil Young is a lot like Bob Dylan. It seems like every record they come out with is the best one since the late '70s.

Difference is I still kind of like croaky old man Bob.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

It seems like every record they come out with is the best one since the late '70s.

Nobody has said that about a Neil Young album in 20 years.

 

[C Dubya 09]

It's better to burn out, than to fade away indeed. We believed you Neil, we didn't need you to demonstrate.

 

[Precious Roy]

The last Neil Young album I really loved was his soundtrack for Dead Man, which was just him watching a print of the film and doing solo guitar noodling with all sorts of cool distortion and feedback as a response to what he was seeing

This album looks like it might be in a similar vein, so I'm intrigued

 

[Czech]

It seems like every record they come out with is the best one since the late '70s.

Nobody has said that about a Neil Young album in 20 years.

I bet Rolling Stone did. Could "Let's Impeach the President" be Neil Young's Blood on the Tracks?

 

[Precious Roy]

It seems like every record they come out with is the best one since the late '70s.

Nobody has said that about a Neil Young album in 20 years.

I bet Rolling Stone did. Could "Let's Impeach the President" be Neil Young's Blood on the Tracks?

:'( :'(

 

[Byron The Bulb]

It seems like every record they come out with is the best one since the late '70s.

Nobody has said that about a Neil Young album in 20 years.

I bet Rolling Stone did. Could "Let's Impeach the President" be Neil Young's Blood on the Tracks?

If in Dylan's world of extremes there's room for a middle ground, that's where I place Blood on the Tracks. It's his best album since Blonde on Blonde, but not nearly as good. If it contains nothing so bad as the second version of "Forever Young," only "Tangled Up in Blue" comes even close to "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)." To compare the new album to Blonde on Blonde at all is to imply that people will treasure it as deeply and for as long. They won't.

 

[Incandenza]

I feel confident in saying that Rolling Stone gave a very positive review to Young's Silver and Gold album back in 2000, and it was what convinced me to buy it. I remember thinking it had a couple of nice songs, but overall it was a pretty blah record.

 

[Precious Roy]

wasn't there a thread on the old board detailing all the negative reviews Rolling Stone gave to amazing, classic albums?

 

[Incandenza]

Maybe? I think more outrageous is the glowing, 4-to-5-star reviews they've given to albums that are at best OK and at worst, er, just plain the worst. I recall David Fricke having an orgasm over Slipknot's Iowa.

Since I can't find the review online, I'm just going to claim that Rolling Stone gave 5 stars to Silver & Gold. I can't imagine being convinced to buy the record for any other reason given my at-the-time mild interest in Young's work.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I think in the late 90s-early00s it was company policy to give any album by an aging boomer icon 5 stars, regardless of actual quality. I mean, they gave a fuckin Mick Jagger solo album the full monty.

 

[Incandenza]

It'd be cool if this new Young album was him doing melodic, near-ambient guitar-based soundscapes, along the lines of what Papa M did with Live from a Shark Cage, aka One of My Favorite Albums of the 90s. But it's not.

Really, I just wanted to take the chance to mention Live from a Shark Cage. I wish Pajo would return to that kind of sound, but I guess he's too busy being in Interpol now.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

David Pajo is in Interpol now?? wtf

 

[Incandenza]

Yeah, Carlos D. finally lost his long battle with herpes. Here's Pajo playing bass with Interpol during a Letterman appearance last month:

(HD) Interpol - "Barricade" 7/29 Letterman (TheAudioPerv.com)

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Man, I was driving up to my camp (where I have no internet access) when I figured out the perfect response to byron's "nobody's given a rave review to a Neil Young album recorded in past twenty years" but I just knew Inc or Czech would get it in before me.

Though even Rolling Stone managed to go gaga about his sequel to an unreleased album or the concept album about electric cars. It did give Living With War four stars though, ugh.

 

[Precious Roy]

fuck you kung kimala

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

The "Dead Man" soundtrack is aging remarkably well, and I've long maintained that he needs to dust off the old vocoder.

(Neil Young + Nils Lofgren) x AutoTune = Jackpot.

Sample and Hold

 

[Red Baron]

Harvest Moon is one of my favourite albums from the 90's.

 

[Precious Roy]

Dead Man (Soundtrack) by Neil Young

 

[Incandenza]

Any goodwill I may have for Young's Dead Man soundtrack is seriously undermined by the fact that I hated the movie.

 

[Mattdotcom]

I think in the late 90s-early00s it was company policy to give any album by an aging boomer icon 5 stars, regardless of actual quality. I mean, they gave a fuckin Mick Jagger solo album the full monty.

This doesn't seem right at all...EDIT That is to say, I think you're right but along comes this blog post:

http://www.unlikelywords.com/2008/11/25/rolling-stones-five-star-rated-albums/

There’s not many of them, in fact, there were only 3 in the 90s, Slanted & Enchanted by Pavement, Automatic for the People by R.E.M., and Metallica by Metallica, and all of those were released by 1992.

 

[Incandenza]

If not the full five, then something abnormally high. Maybe Silver & Gold got 4.5.

Still, what in the world are those two Springsteen albums doing with the highest possible rating? And those two Dylan albums? (I like both Love and Theft and Modern Times, by the way.) And giving the 5-star nod to those Beck, White Stripes, and Kanye West albums are weak attempts at showing that RS is in touch "with the kids."

I've complained enough in the past about the arbitrariness of star ratings and best-of list rankings, but Rolling Stone's shallowness is particularly appalling.

 

[Czech]

You know, Trans isn't as bad as "the result of Neil Young hunkering down with a stack of Kraftwerk albums" ought to be. "Sample and Hold" still has that Neil Young essence beneath the vocoder stuff. I enjoy the rest as well, but it just comes out feeling really derivative, like how the opening bars of "Computer Age" are dangerously close to those of "Computer World." But Kraftwerk this, Kraftwerk that; why did "Like an Inca" end up as a virtual outtake from Can't Buy A Thrill?

 

[Precious Roy]

They gave Jagger's 2001 album Goddess in the Doorway 5 stars. It's the one with Wyclef, Lenny Kravitz, Rob Thomas and Bono on it...basically the who's who of guys you would get for guest spots when you had a ton of cash to waste in the late 90's.

Neil got 5 for After the Gold Rush, Comes A Time and Freedom.

Neil got an UNFAVORABLE review for Harvest!! How is that even possible?

I also like how Pink Floyd and The Who got respect 5's for what was at the time their last albums