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OneMoreRobot3021



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Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
#7891147 - 01/16/08 11:44 PM (16 years, 16 days ago) |
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I just finished the chapter in Shakey where Bruce Berry and Danny Whitten have just OD'ed on heroin within a short of time of one another and Neil and his band went in and recorded Tonight's the Night. I guess I never was really able to appreciate the scope of this album before. Now it's really fucking with my head. Makes me want to get fucked up, even though it's about two guys who got so fucked up they never came back. Here's a quote from Jimmy McDonough's take on the album:
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You know how it is when you've been up too long, the apartment's trashed, everything is silent, the sun's about to come up and you're feeling like some germ stuck to a big cold rock hurtling through space -- and somehow you don't mind? Here is a record that induces that state automatically. Hearing somebody so totally fucked up rant about the ills of extremism is liberating. Tonight's the Night made no judgments. Young knew the attraction - and the rewards - of being wasted out of your skull, and had no illusions about the price paid, which for some was the boneyard. The record was shot through with a sardonic humor that deflated any pretense of a Big Statement, which somehow made it even heavier.
Painter Francis Bacon once said, "The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery." You'd have to get into a diving bell to descend any lower than Tonight's the Night."
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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I want to read that, but can't bring myself to do so. So I'm'a read some other shit and go bedibye.
-------------------- Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man in Washington; it belongs to the poor. No, says the man in the Vatican; it belongs to God. No, says the man in Moscow; it belongs to everyone. I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. - Andrew Ryan
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Re: Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (moved) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#7891295 - 01/17/08 12:15 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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This thread was moved from Off-Topic Discussion.
Reason: ^_^
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CherryBom
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Re: Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (moved) [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#7891376 - 01/17/08 12:32 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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I've been meaning to get myself a copy of Shakey for the past week or so, but I haven't found time. I must make the time.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (moved) [Re: CherryBom]
#7891384 - 01/17/08 12:34 AM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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It's a behemoth of a book but if you love Neil, it fliiiiiiies.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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That album needs a listening to...
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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CherryBom
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Re: Neil Young - Tonight's the Night [Re: trendal]
#7893828 - 01/17/08 04:33 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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I finally picked it up today. The lady at the bookstore thanked me for supporting Canadian writers. Haha!
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: Neil Young - Tonight's the Night [Re: CherryBom]
#7893837 - 01/17/08 04:34 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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They say his father's biography is a great read too. Apparently Scott Young is some sorta Canoodian celebrity of his own.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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