| Neil Young – Harvest Moon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love Neil and his music, but nobody can swing back and forth so far between asskickingly amazing(Rockin' in the Free World, Hey Hey, My My, the Weld album) to embarassingly lame. That's part of what makes Neil so great. He's the only guy I know who can be successful doing whatever the hell he wants. He was sued by Geffen for making uncommercial music, that was uncharacteristic of himself. That's testament to his going off the deep end on several occasions. Harvest Moon is just a lame, wussy song, end of story. It's decent and catchy, but Neil's done so much better than that. And it's nothing to do with it being laid back and accoustic. I totally prefer Neil's electric style, but he's great in his low key accoustic songs too. There are tons of these that blow Harvest Moon out of the water. Heart of Gold, Long May You Run, Thrasher, After the Goldrush, My My, Hey Hey, Comes a Time, Crime in the City(The non Weld version. The Weld version is better though.), Don't Let it Bring you Down, Old Man, Sugar Mountain, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Helpless(which actually may be wussier), but it's a better song. I'd pick like 50 Neil Young songs ahead of Harvest Moon. Probably more. |
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| Neil Young – White Line Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Or the center line on the road? | |
| Neil Young – White Line Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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| Neil Young – Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Until Rockin' in the Free World Came out, this had to be the greatest ass kicking Neil Young song there was. The riff is great. The version on Weld is the best. Who cares about how Kurt Cobain quoted it. Or if it's about the punk wave, or Elvis. This song still rules. This song might as well be about Neil himself. About how music will last forever and outlive its makers. Great music is timeless. Shitty flash in the pan music won't stand the test of time. Today's Top 40 crapfest won't mean anything years from now. Once some stupid fad song loses its apeal, it's usually forgotten forever like the Macarena. Real music, with smart lyrics and talented, honest artists that write their own material, like Neil, will last. "Rock and Roll can never die." Good music may not be as popular anymore, but it can't be denied that it actually means something. It's better to burn out, than to fade away. It doesn't mean you need to die young while you're still popular. Artists can walk away from music at the height of their popularity. They may die. Jimi Hendrix died after only making a few albums, but he's legendary. They don't have to die though. It's just better, from a "go down in history" way, than starting to make shit music and becoming a pathetic joke. If an artist can't keep up the quality in their work, it would have been better to stop before embarrassing themselves. Michael Jackson comes to mind. But if you're great, you can keep rocking out on stage when you're Neil's age. Most bands stopped touring and making music years ago, but Neil and some others are still out there. Well still out there before having a brain anyeurism. We'll have to wait and see how that pans out. The "rust never sleeps" line is pretty much the same message as "than to fade away". Either it was used because of the title of the Rust Never Sleeps album that Hey Hey, My My bookended in acoustic and electric versions or vice versa. He doesn't use it on Weld, so it could just have been an album plug line. Rust is just the effects of age and time. Rusting is the same as growing old and wasting away. It's sad to see great artists and people in general lose their health and their youth. At least their music doesn't age. Only Neil could mean so much with so little. These lyrics are missing another "Hey hey, my my" at the end of the first verse. |
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| Neil Young – Rockin' in the Free World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I mean "first post". | |
| Neil Young – Rockin' in the Free World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think it's only fitting that I make my fist post on my favourite song of all time. My favourite song, by my absolute favourite artist. I've considered Neil Young my favourtie since I was 10 at least, after my older brother bought me the Weld album. If you want a great sample of Neil at his electric best, that's the album to get. Rust Never Sleeps, and Live Rust are great, but Weld is more ass kickingly awesome, and they don't have his newer songs, including Rockin' in the Free World, which gives Weld that added boost to kick it up to the greatest Neil Young album ever. Weld also has an emotional connection to me, as I listened to it countless times while I lived for a year in Norway, when my mother divorced my Dad and moved away with me from my home in Canada back to her native country. I was 10 then, and the time i spent there was formative to my personality and musical tastes. Neil's crunching, shrieking guitar and unique voice was something I claim my own, amidst the sea of crap music my generation loved. (Rap, Techno, "Alternative", wussy pop etc.) I was a die hard fan for music from decades before my time, and still am today. Classic Rock rules. Neil rules! Neil is the coolest middle-aged man alive. Way cooler than my Dad, whose almost as old as Neil. My Dad gets tired and takes naps while watching televison every day, but Neil rocks out better than bands half his age. He's not the best guitarist, but he's definately my favourite. He's played one Gibson Les Paul, Ol' Black, for most of his career, and the sound he gets from it is astounding. Nothing sounds like him. That crunch, the one note screaming solos, the ripping of strings at his finales, the feedback, the overall powerful sound that comes, not from fake effects that give the illusion of gain, like horrible heavy metal bands, but from sheer volume. Neil is loud as hell. And what makes him even cooler is that he looks like a grizzled rough touch. A lot of bands today try too hard to look like something, wearing band t-shirts from classic bands that they've never listened to like Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones. Neil's patchy jeans, lumberjack flannel shirts and scraggily hair are all his own. Well, it seems I haven't even mentioned Rockin' in the Free World. I'll get to that some other time. But I needed to make an ode to Neil's greatness for starters. He demands a entire post just on that. The song deserves yet another. |
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