THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: pilsner on 28 Oct 2009, 15:29
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It's come to my attention that until this post, Buffalo Springfield has only been mentioned 8 times on these forums. That ain't right. We've got to do something.
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So you are taking the position that For What It's Worth is not one of the best tunes from the last 100 years? Ballsy.
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I've always preferred "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" to "For What It's Worth", for what it's worth.
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I gotta say I agree with them never reaching full potential, HOWEVER, I will argue that For What It's Worth is a truly spectacular song.
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If you like Neil's Buffalo Springfield stuff, get some recordings of his early solo acoustic concerts. "Mr. Soul", "Flying on the Ground is Wrong", "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing", et cetera sound so much better stripped down.
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Since this thread is about a band which featured Neil "Fucking" Young, here are some records everybody needs -
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Neil_Young_-_Trans.jpg)
Tommy, I fixed your post.
(seriously though, the ones I've heard from that list (On The Beach, Everybody Knows, Tonight's The Night)--all awesome. No Zuma? I think that's my favorite of Neil's.)
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Oh Chris I was about to be so angry at you.
Tommy, thanks! I absolutely love the fuck out of Neil but I really haven't got that much of his stuff (Harvest, On The Beach, Rust Never Sleeps, a few stray songs) and of course the dude is so stupid prolific it is kind of intimidating to just walk into a record store and look for something to get. Now I Know *rainbow*
Trans was a brave record but I am seriously done defending anything beyond 1980. There's a lot of brave records after then if you see what I mean.
What do you think about Fork in the Road?
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Dovey, listen to "Transformer Man" from Trans and tell me that song isn't a jam.
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It is the soundtrack to a sidescrolling platformer game made to sell cola products.
If that's your kind of thing I will not hold it against you (yes I will)
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A while back I heard a live version of a track from Trans and it kicked ass.
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Crazy Horse Live at the Fillmore East and Neil Young solo Live At Massey Hall are also excellent things to have.
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Phish+Neil Young at Farm Aid: Down by the River (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YK_XPZ_Xhg)
19 minutes of awesome. Goes to show you only ever need 2 chords. Ever.
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I can excuse Re-ac-tor purely for its inclusion of 'Shots'.
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(http://www.vinyltom.com/osc/catalog/images/young_timefad.JPG)
Is this ever going to be rereleased? I only have my Dad's old tape bootleg of it which is beginning to sound really worn. It's a brilliant album.
Tommy, do you have Journey Through the Past? It has some crap on it but the version of Words makes up for everything else.
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Oh man, that is exciting. Hopefully tickets will be cheap enough to warrant me going. When Neil and Crazy Horse came through my area last the cheapest seats were something like $160. yikes