1979 was one of those amazing years in music that just makes the jaw hit the floor. When it comes to albums the year was chock full of stone cold classics. At the end of the seventies music was perched on the edge of the great fragmentation that would take hold in the eighties and [...]
Tag Archives: Neil Young
Music: This Week’s New Releases
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Neil Young
This week’s new music is headed by grizzled vet Neil Young’s sequel to a record that never came out, Chrome Dreams II. Like many Neil records following the original aborted Chrome Dreams, II is a Frankenstein’s monster of songs from here and there including the epic 18 minute plus “Ordinary People” from his 1988 [...]
Music: Neil Young Gets Into Heavy Meta
Friday, August 24, 2007
Neil Young in 1976 contemplates doing an album called “Living With War” about some kind of mid-east war started by an unpopular arrogant President — but would the world be ready yet?
According to his label and every other music site in Blogistan Neil Young’s new album Chrome Dreams II is set to be unleashed on [...]
Music: Best Albums of the 00s 100-76
Thursday, December 23, 1999
100. Regina Spektor – Begin To Hope
Regina Spektor continues to stride the fine line of what radio programmers call AAA (alternative for old folks) and quirky indie – ans she never did it finer than on this record which coupled poppy keyboard driven tunes with weird New York boho lifestyle observations.
99. Deerhunter – Microcastle
Deerhunter’s second [...]