Re: (TV) On the Beach

["Jeremy Smith" <jeremy_ni_smith@hotmail.com>]

He seems to go through periods of ups and downs.

Trans and Living on Water were the pits but then he got going again with
Life, Old Ways, Rockin and This Notes for You.

He kep going for a bit in the 90's but (to me) each new album was slightly
worse and the last two - well why bother.

Hopefully, he will get a new start and a new direction ????

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Inglis <sam@sospubs.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) On the Beach


> I think NY has made some fantastic records since On The Beach... Comes A
> Time, Live Rust, Trans, Zuma... I really like the fact that he went
> mental and cussed in the 80s and made a whole load of totally
> uncommercial albums. Some of them are hopeless, but Trans and Old Ways
> are both great. Freedom was a pretty good album too, even though it had
> 'Rocking In The Free World' on it, which is about my least favourite NY
> song. And Harvest Moon is in many ways much better than the original
> Harvest was.
> Mind you, I even like Hawks & Doves, which is widely thought to be a bag
> of shite, so perhaps I just have a blind spot.
> I kind of agree about the clothes though. He could use a haircut, too.
> Sam
>
> Ray wrote:
> > >
> > > Brillant,brillant record but i can't help thinking that Neil Young has
> > been
> > > completely overrated and overpraised ever since and it's not like i
didn't
> > > give him another chance either over the years.When "Glory" came out
('89?)
> > > for example I got suckered by all the hype and bought it hoping for
the
> > long
> > > awaited "return to form" but i ended up selling it again not long
after-if
> > i
> > > remember rightly the best song on it was "Farmer John" (the nuggets /
> > > pebbles tune)....spoke volumes about the original material..
> > >
> > > The fact that he looks more and more over the years like a depraved
> > > pigfarmer from Buttfuck,Idaho doesn't help his cause much either in my
> > > eyes.This millionaire charity shop/scarecrow chic gets on my tits
bigtime
> > > (cf one Michael Stipe too).Smarten yourself up man for heaven's sake.
> > >
> > > PS Still love my copy of "Decades" all the same (and a few selected
choice
> > > CSN&Y nuggets too eg "Carry on")....also David Crosby...now there's an
> > > undervalued songwriter.....anyone else out there think "If i could
only
> > > remember my name" is a masterpiece??? He wrote the best songs in the
Byrds
> > > too don't forget...."Draft morning","Triad","it happens each
> > > day","ladyfriend".....
> > >
> > > Waiting for the New Mod Revival (or a torrent of abuse from angry NY
> > > fans...!)
> > >
> > > R.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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