Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Ragged Glory
(Reprise, 1990)
Neil Young rocks out; opens the door to grunge...
Like so many musicians of his generation, Neil Young spent the best part of the 1980s striving to reinvent and rejuvenate. The result was a run of albums (Trans, Everybody's Rockin' and This Note's For You among them) that confounded the majority of his fans. Happily, the end of the decade saw the ever-restless Ontarion retrieve his trusty 'Old Black' Les Paul and blast his amp stack back up to 10. This refocused period of creative energy began with Eldorado (1989) and Freedom (also 1989), before crystallising on Ragged Glory's electrical storm of primitive guitar rock. With Crazy Horse and all their garage band grit reinstalled for the first time in 10 years, RG is an album that demands to be heard at a punishing level of volume. I've been lucky enough to see Young twice over the past few years and on both occasions many of the standout tracks came from this album. None more so than the 10-minute-plus Love And Only Love, a song that begins with close-to-two-minutes of two-chord axe-grind and harmonic pinching that's repeated in the equally dirge-y (and equally long) Love To Burn. But for every minor key thrash, there's a pretty melody. The choruses of Over And Over, the Dylan-esque Days That Used To Be and the call-to-arms finale of Mother Earth are all driven by the Neil Young who gave us After The Gold Rush and Harvest. Still, Ragged Glory is all about that lurking passion for full-on noise. Within a year Nirvana and Pearl Jam would be taking their own feedback-soaked albums into the Top 10 while Young would once again return to his harmonica and acoustic guitar. He's never rocked harder than he did here.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 11/05/2010
Further Listening
Neil Young – Zuma (Reprise, 1975)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Weld (Reprise, 1991)
Sonic Youth – Goo (DGC, 1990)
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The first Neil Young album I ever bought, at the tender age of 14, and I haven't looked back since :-D
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Much as I too love this record it never fails to remind me of when record stores phased out records in favour of cds.
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I applaud your utditate, Monica. I've been inspired by your voice since you started blogging: the insights and authenticity, the humor, the directness and delight. When you explore, I learn.So I encourage you to perform whatever psychological gymnastics are necessary to regain your momentum, worrying not for a minute about the short-term results.Your mojo is out there, and as you rediscover it, I'll be listening. Glenn
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I applaud your utditate, Monica. I've been inspired by your voice since you started blogging: the insights and authenticity, the humor, the directness and delight. When you explore, I learn.So I encourage you to perform whatever psychological gymnastics are necessary to regain your momentum, worrying not for a minute about the short-term results.Your mojo is out there, and as you rediscover it, I'll be listening. Glenn
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