Re: (TV) On the Beach

["J.Germaine" <jpg55@home.com>]

How about "Time fades away"? This is one of the great lost NY
records. Too bad it was never released on cd.

> From: Sam Inglis <sam@sospubs.co.uk>
> Organization: SOS Publications Group
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:55:07 +0000
> To: tv@obbard.com
> 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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