Reviews of Neil Young AlbumsIn 2004 Rustie, Mike "Expecting 2 Fly" Cordova posted a series of articles on his experience listening to all of Neil Young's albums in chronological order. Here is one in the series. For a complete listing, see Albums in Order reviews.
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:51:36 -0800 (PST) I have this thought in my head...
Can you imagine having become one of Neil Young's new fans
after having heard Harvest Moon which was released in
October of 1992 and finding a new release the very next
January titled Lucky Thirteen and putting it in the player
and hearing Sample And Hold and Transformer Man right off
the bat? I do believe that must have happened a time or
two. I guess you can't say the buying public wasn't warned
as it says right on the cover, "excursions into alien
territory."
I'm not a big fan of buying recycled tracks from other
albums, but Lucky Thirteen at least delivers a large
number of otherwise unavailable tracks for us. It's the
last Geffen release, though it oddly has a live version of
the song This Note's For You which was on a Reprise album;
go figure. Four of the first five tracks were previously
unavailable when L13 came out. Sample And Hold here is an
alternate track compared to the original vinyl album
version, though when Geffen released the cd version they
put this track on instead of the original. I could never
figure out why they did that. Depression Blues was from
Old Ways 1. Great song. I recognized a few of the lines
which were recycled for the TNFY album track Life In The
City. Get Gone and Don't Take Your Love Away From Me are
previously unreleased tracks (not counting the Solo Trans
video) which IMHO display the Shocking Pinks at their
finest. Ain't It The Truth is a live track from an '88
Bluenotes concert; the song dates back to the mid-60s
Squires era. The live rendition of the song TNFY gives us
a full and superior version to the album track, I think.
The rest of the album tracks are all identical to the
versions on the albums they are on.
I must mention the artwork which recently was analyzed by
the great Rustie Matias which has loads and loads of song
titles. I've had a great time perusing that little tidbit
Neil offered us.
I cranked this album up on a little road trip; I very much
enjoyed listening to Lucky Thirteen today.
Mike - Expecting To Fly
From: Mike Cordova
To: rust@rustlist.org
Subject: Albums in order: Lucky Thirteen
For more of Expecting To Fly's reviews, see the Albums in Order series.
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