Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been two months since my last confession.
The tl;dr of the whole thing is that I’ve been playing tunes that I’ve already written about and haven’t really felt like buying more. I’ve particularly been digging Mingus.

I’ve also been reading Shakey the Neil Young biography, which is pretty good.

This made me pick up a copy of Tonight’s The Night, which is the only pre-Trans Neil Young album I haven’t got.

It’s very good.

#Vinyl
#NowPlaying
#NeilYoung
#TonightsTheNight
#Rock

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

I really couldn’t believe that I hadn’t played this album since January, when I started writing about records.

What can I say? It contains some of Young’s biggest bangers, three of which were written in a single day when he was delirious with the flu. Makes you sick, doesn’t it?

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#NeilYoungAndCrazyHorse
#EverybodyKnowsThisIsNowhere
#Rock
#Music

Sparks - Hippopotamus

I think this might well be the only picture disc I own. I’ve never been bothered by them, to be honest.

I must say, though, that this album as a whole package is quite visually striking.

Musically, it’s just more of Sparks doing the thing we know and love them for, on their 23rd album!

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#Sparks
#Hippopotomus
#PictureDisc
#Rock
#Music

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Zuma

This album was first released 50 years ago yesterday.

It always makes me think of Zumba, which is a very different thing.

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#NeilYoung
#NeilYoungAndCrazyHorse
#Zuma
#Rock
#Music

The B-52's - Mesopotamia

If there’s one thing that they should teach on day one of rock ‘n’ roll school, it’s that everyone living together in one house is a very bad idea.

This was the situation The B-52’s found themselves in when they were recording this mini-album.

The whole thing was a catalogue of errors, including it being downgraded to a 12” instead of an album, because – basically – everything went to shit and they didn’t record enough music. My version, the UK first pressing, gets the guernsey as a mini-album, because they mistakenly issued it with the longer demo versions of the second side’s tracks. Fine by me.

I was surprised to read that this was a generally poorly received album, because I really like it.

I reckon I picked this up at a massive car boot sale in Devon.

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#TheB52s
#Mesopotamia
#Pop
#Rock
#Music

Paul Brady - True For You

This is the second of the Paul Brady albums I bought.

There’s not really any trace of folk left here – it’s an entirely eighties rock-pop album. Not bad in itself. I had to screw on the pair of ears I use to listen to Robert Palmer’s Clues or The Colourfield.

One of the songs was covered by Tina Turner, on the Private Dancer album, no less. That must’ve kept him in coddle.

Big shout out to the most eighties sleeve ever.

Problem is: where do I file it? With the rest of Brady’s work in the folk section, or on its own in the rock/pop section?

#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#PaulBrady
#TrueForYou
#Irish
#Rock
#Music