Kosmik Radiation Radio - November 14, 2017 Playlist

November 14, 2017 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Ragged Glory" 1990 (Canada/USA)

Old Neil Young turns 72 this week. With about a dozen Classic Albums already enshrined from his solo career and group work (with Buffalo Springfield and CSNY), I'm only going to be able to find more of his classic records to write about for another century or so (considering he still puts out a handful of new classics every decade: most recently Earth, Psychedelic Pill, Americana and Le Noise have all been winners). But he has also made plenty of duds in his mercurial career. Perhaps the most pivotal of Neil's many revivals was the one that he pulled off starting around 1988, because if came on the heels of four crap records in a row (Everybody's Rockin', Old Ways, Landing On Water and Life - albums even Neil Young fans can barely tolerate; furthermore this run of junk was bookended by Trans and This Note's For You which were two of his most polarizing albums). The lynchpin of Neil's transition from washed-up hippie to "Godfather of Grunge" was Freedom (1989) featuring one of his most memorable hits "Rockin' In The Free World", though serious Neil-heads revere the preceding EP Eldorado (1988) which is the heaviest record he ever made without Crazy Horse. When Neil is on a roll, he always turns to his funkiest band of freaks, those lovably egoless goons Ralph, Billy & Poncho, otherwise known as Crazy Horse. The previous two Neil + Horse records Re-Ac-Tor (1981) and the afforementioned Life (1987) remain their least acclaimed collaborations, while Ragged Glory features epic "oceanic guitar" jams that pretty much rewrote the blueprint for a Crazy Horse record. Though the initial 1969 version of the band also had jams that lasted for more than 10 minutes at a time, that group was a hippie "funky country" outfit, and since 1990 Crazy Horse has come on like a heavy metal jam band with Neil going off on his fuzz guitar like never before. Grunge rockers only wish they could be this grungy! (The album cover is totally 90's man, yet it recalls the fisheye photo from the gatefold of Harvest and features the same old handwritten lettering we've seen on his records since the 70's.)

(N) = New Release

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
Crosby Stills Nash & Young	Woodstock (Joni Mitchell)	Deja Vu	1970	USA/UK/Canada
Dream Machine	Lose My Place In Time	The Illusion (N)	2017 (Fuzz City/Castle Face)	Netherlands
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club	Dusk To Dawn On Lygon Street	Sketches Of Brunswick East (N)	2017 (ATO)	Australia
Death By Unga Bunga	Into The Night	CD single (N)	2017 (Jansen Plateproduksjon)	Norway
Wood Chickens	Time Don't Stop For Nobody	Countrycide (N)	2017 (Big Neck)	USA
The Flamin' Groovies	Just Like A Hurricane	Fantastic Plastic (N)	2017 (Severn)	USA

Lee Ranaldo	New Thing	Electric Trim (N)	2017 (Mute)	USA
Duds	Keine	Of A Nature Or Degree (N)	2017 (Castle Face)	UK
Liars	No Tree No Branch	TCFC (N)	2017 (Mute)	Australia
The Striped Bananas	The Trip	Stone Of Madness (N)	2017 (Cosmic Sunshine)	USA
Neil Young	Campaigner	Hitchhiker (N)	1976 (2017 Reprise)	Canada

The Guess Who	Somewhere Up High	A Wild Pair (split LP with The Staccatos)	1969	Canada
Flo & Eddie	I Been Born Again	The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie	1972	USA
Michael Nesmith	Capsule	Infinite Rider On The Big Dogma	1979	USA

Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Country Home	Ragged Glory CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1990	Canada/USA
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Love And Only Love	Ragged Glory CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1990	Canada/USA
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Fuckin' Up (live)	Weld	1991	Canada/USA
The Guess Who	Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield)	A-side 7" single	1967	Canada

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile	Over Everything	Lotta Sea Lice (N)	2017 (Matador)	USA
Alex G	Proud	Rocket (N)	2017 (Domino)	USA
Wand	Driving	Plum (N)	2017 (Drag City)	USA
Ariel Pink	Do Yourself A Favor	Dedicated To Bobby Jameson (N)	2017 (Mexican Summer)	USA
Joni Mitchell	Free Man In Paris	Court And Spark	1974	Canada
Saicobab	aMn nMn	Sab Se Purani Bab (N)	2017 (Thrill Jockey)	Japan

The Replacements	Skyway	Pleased To Meet Me	1987	USA
Beck	Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)	Mellow Gold	1994	USA
Dinosaur jr.	Water	Green Mind	1991	USA
Meat Puppets	Whirlpool	Forbidden Places	1991	USA
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	1% of One	Pig Lib	2003	USA

Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Walk Like A Giant	Psychedelic Pill	2012	Canada/USA

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