Showing posts with label neil young. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neil young. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 December 2019

Log #168 - Rumours Going Down

Eddy Bamyasi December 15, 2019 , , , , ,
I came late to Rumours as explained here but its charms have grown on me, particularly on the more rock orientated numbers like the excellent The Chain which is so much more than that slightly annoying bass riff used for that very annoying car programme. It was a video I caught this week on youtube of a live performance of The Chain that encouraged me to give the album another spin. Fleetwood ...

Sunday, 8 December 2019

Log #167 - Young Doves Old Streets

Eddy Bamyasi December 08, 2019 , ,
Albums one and two from young Paolo Nutini and four from old Neil Young. Paolo Nutini These Streets Paolo Nutini Sunny Side Up Neil Young Mirror Ball Neil Young Hawks And Doves Neil Young Tonight's The Night Live At The Roxy Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps More consistently excellent soulful rock from Scottish singer Nutini. I'm surprised ...

Sunday, 24 November 2019

Log #165 - Beauty, Happiness, Peace and Low

Eddy Bamyasi November 24, 2019 , , , , , ,
After The Gold Rush is one of those albums that I feel I know so well I hardly have to play it any more. What was nice hearing it again though is recalling the excitement on first hearing it all those years ago. For me NEIL YOUNG was one of the first singer-songwriter artists I discovered, along with Van Morrison and Bob Dylan, who took my listening experience to a new level following ...

Sunday, 17 November 2019

Log #164 - Living With Young

Eddy Bamyasi November 17, 2019 , , , , ,
Felice Brothers Favorite Waitress Van Morrison Too Late To Stop Now (cd 1) Mark Ronson Uptown Special Mike Oldfield Ommadawn Neil Young Living With War Neil Young Greendale I've been recommencing some concentrated Neil Young research towards a forthcoming album ranking - as he has about 50 albums to his name and is showing no sign of letting up ...

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Neil Young with Daniel Le Noise

Eddy Bamyasi November 12, 2019 ,
Neil Young now belongs to that rare stratum of artists whose work is no longer judged purely on its merits but on the basis of its status within their catalogue. As with Dylan and Bowie, interest lies not only in whether the latest record stands up to repeated listening, but what it says about them within the context of their career. So when Le Noise was announced, most stories focussed on the ...

Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Album Review - Neil Young's Prairie Wind

Eddy Bamyasi September 17, 2019 ,
Old age isn't making Neil Young any easier to second guess, but the personal traumas of the last couple of years (death of his father and a brain aneurysm) certainly seem to have focussed the wayward canuck again. Whereas 2003's Greendale gave us woolly polemic wrapped in dreary arrangements, Prairie Wind gives us sweet pedal steel-driven songs and the plush sheen of Nashville's finest (Spooner ...

Sunday, 10 February 2019

Log #124 - Introducing Gas and Fennesz

Eddy Bamyasi February 10, 2019 , , , , , ,
Radiohead - Amnesiac Gas - Pop Neil Young - Tonight's The Night Live At The Roxy Fennesz - Endless Summer David Bowie - Black Star Bear's Den - Islands A couple of albums here that I now consider near the best of the particular artists in question: David Bowie's final album Black Star and Radiohead's Amnesiac.  With ...

Saturday, 9 February 2019

Neil Young - Tonight's The Night Live At The Roxy

Eddy Bamyasi February 09, 2019 ,
We really knew the Tonight’s the Night songs so we just played them again, the album, top to bottom, two sets a night for a few days. As his fans will know Neil Young has been releasing loads of live recordings from the vaults over the last few years. Some of these had previously become quite well known on the bootleg circuit. One of the most eagerly awaited was a recording from his ...

Sunday, 3 February 2019

Log #123 - Euphonic Electronica: Most Pleasing To The Ear

Eddy Bamyasi February 03, 2019 , , , , , , , ,
Euphony In Electronics - One Point One Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim Neil Young - Tonight's The Night Live At The Roxy Efterklang - Magic Chairs Neil Young - After The Gold Rush Gram Parsons - GP and Grievous Angel Beginners start here with EFTERKLANG. They came from the electronica and glitchy camp (with Springer/Tripper in 2003), ...

Sunday, 27 January 2019

Log #122 - Neil, Nils and Gram

Eddy Bamyasi January 27, 2019 , , , , ,
A fairly quiet week at the Towers this week and a return to some basics with old stalwarts Neil Young (still top of the leaders' charts) and Gram Parsons (his first appearance at the blog!).  Euphony In Electronics - One Point One Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes? Efterklang - Magic Chairs Neil ...

Sunday, 1 July 2018

Log #92 - A Supreme Festival of Love, Jazz and Dad Rock

Eddy Bamyasi July 01, 2018 , , , , ,
1. The Cardigans - Life 2. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die 3. Chris Rea - The Road To Hell 4. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 5. Various - Rock Chronicles: The Seventies 6. Neil Young - Greendale Love Supreme 2018 It's festival season again and a particularly hot and sunny one here in England. This Sunday I visited the excellent Love Supreme Festival in ...

Sunday, 24 June 2018

Log #91 - Jazz and Wine

Eddy Bamyasi June 24, 2018 , , , , , , ,
Cover album this week is Iron and Wine's Around The Well double-cd. This is a mostly solo acoustic low-fi collection of b-sides, outtakes and rarities. This is twinned with Neil Young's second solo album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Not an obvious twinning perhaps save for the fact that I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural Americana and Country Black Deer Festival this weekend ...

Sunday, 3 June 2018

Log #88 - Tonight's The Zeit

Eddy Bamyasi June 03, 2018 , , , , ,
A really strong series this week bolstered by new investments. I've been planning to get Tangerine Dream's classic Zeit album for ages and finally cashed in an amazon voucher for this and Midlake's Trials of Van Occupanther album. Charity pick ups this week come from US rockers Eels and UK festival favourite Scott Matthews. If that wasn't enough bringing up the rear is many people's favourite ...

Sunday, 27 May 2018

Log #87 - Epic Dullness

Eddy Bamyasi May 27, 2018 , , , , , ,
Apparently Canadian collective Godspeed have at some point in their history changed the position of the exclamation mark in their name.  So this means they have now become Godspeed! You Black Emperor instead of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, or the other way round. Just imagine the band meeting where this was decided but frankly I doubt anyone really cares. I first became aware of GYBE ...
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