November 9, 2012 Playlist

Neil Percival Young
Neil Young's 67th Birthday
"Greendale" by Neil Young & Crazy Horse (2003)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Neil Young & Crazy Horse  "Greendale"  2003 (Canada/USA)
Neil Young turns 67 years "young" (hehe) on Monday November 12, and so we celebrate the last of the relevant and popular sixties rockers this week.  This past year has been a very good one indeed:  Neil won his first Grammy award for a tune from last year's Le Noise album, reunited with his greatest band Crazy Horse for TWO new albums and a tour (their first in about 15 years), AND has just published his first book, Waging Heavy Peace!  Though the truth is, aside from a brief spell from roughly 1983-87 (tough times for all sixties folk), Neil has been on a creative roll pretty much ever since first breaking onto the scene in 1966 with Buffalo Springfield.  He's made several fine albums this decade, but my favorite of his 21st century works is the 2003 "folk rock opera" Greendale.   Yes, that's right, this album is a story set to music -- in fact it's really more like an audio novel than an "opera", though Neil does (brilliantly) sing all the charaters' dialogue.  It really should be no surprise he would succeed at an ambitious project like this:  his father Scott Young was a highly respected author (very famous in Canada anyway).
Here's Neil performing "Bandit" from Greendale, and the "Sun Green" sequence from the movie version he made (under his cinematic psuedonym Bernard Shakey).  And here's Crazy Horse on tour in 2012 playing a tune from their latest album Psychedelic Pill: "Walk Like A Giant".  Finally, some clips of the greatest hippie goon soul punk band on the planet touring in the 1970's "Like A Hurricane", and in the 1990's "Hey Hey My My".
(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request
Artist Song Album Year (label) Country
Redbone
Jambone
 		Redbone
1970
USA
Joni Mitchell
Black Crow
 		Hejira
1976
Canada
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Deja Vu
 		Deja Vu 1970
USA/UK/Canada
Buffalo Springfield
On The Way Home (Neil Young) Last Time Around
1968
USA/Canada
The Stills-Young Band
Fontainebleau (Neil Young)
 		Long May You Run
1976
USA/Canada
 
  
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Leave The Driving
 		Greendale
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
2003
Canada/USA
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Carmichael
 		Greendale
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
2003
Canada/USA
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Bandit
 		Greendale
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
2003
Canada/USA
Joni Mitchell
Shades Of Scarlett Conquering (R)
 		The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
1975
Canada
 
  
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Walk Like A GiantPsychedelic Pill (N)2012 (Reprise)Canada/USA
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Pre-Road Downs (live)
 		Four Way Street 1971
USA/UK/Canada
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Long Time Coming (live) Four Way Street 1971
USA/UK/Canada
Crazy Horse
I'll Get By
 		Crazy Horse
1971
USA
 
  
OmGethsemene
Advaitic Songs (N)2012 (Drag City)
USA
Danny Ben-Israel
Do You Believe In Fairytales?
 		The Kathmandu Sessions
rec. 1968, rel. 2004
Israel
Peaking Lights
Wedding Song
 		Imaginary Falcons
2009
USA
Laetitia Sadier Moi Sans ZachSilencio (N)2012 (Drag City)France
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Farewell American Primitive
Mature Themes (N)2012 (4AD)USA
Deerhoof Fete D'AdieuBreakup Song (N)2012 (Polyvinyl)USA
 
 
Flying Lotus See Thru To U (feat. Erykah Badu)
  / Until The Quiet Comes		Until The Quiet Comes (N)2012 (Warp)USA
Georgia Anne Muldrow CalabashSeeds (N)2012 (Someothaship)USA
The Funkees
Life
Dancing Time: The Best Of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents: 1973-1977 (N - reissue compilation)rec. 1970's (2012 Soundway)Nigeria
Can Midnight SkyThe Lost Tapes (N - previously unreleased tracks)rec. 1968 (2012 Spoon/Mute)Germany/USA
WoodsImpossible Sky
Bend Beyond (N)2012 (Woodsist)
USA
 
 
Matt Valentine
Hit The Trails
 		What I Became
 		2011
USA
MV & EE
Bedroom Eyes
 		Barn Nova
 		2009
USA
                 
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