Pop has been SO BAD recently, that I...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

...have been listening to Neil Young.

Does anyone have a more shameful confession?

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

On Geeta D's recommendation I have downloaded Neil Young's 'TRANS' album, the purported 'synth-pop' tangent from '82. I am looking forward to listening to it, especially 'COMPUTER COWBOY'!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I did the same! It is great!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It is good. "Sample And Hold" is the best one.

although...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

... Neil Young is totally pop-rock so my confession is not that bad. (I would say pop NOT rock, but I'm experimenting with poptimist heresy i.e. all pop is secretly rock, or at least enough so to render the distinction moot).

[juror8.livejournal.com]

lol at old people

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

I listen to Cliff Richard for a couple of hours every day. Other people think I should be embarassed about this but he's great!

And how can you say pop is bad when there's Hilary Duff AND Girl's Aloud?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I am no great fan of Girls Aloud, and I have not ever heard Hilary Duff on UK radio as far as I can remember -- have seen her on TV mind.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have only heard one Neil Young album ever, it was called Harvest and it was very bad. It reminded me of Travis and his voice is awful and wimpy. I listened to it because Tori Amos has done a brilliant cover of 'Heart Of Gold'.

Recently I have been realising that the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is, generally, pretty good, and that the single 'Turn Into' is absolutely gorgeous.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ha ha proof that N. Young = TOP OF TEH POPS!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i was put off neil young for YEARS because of his awful voice – well because of parodies of his voice, to be fair (radio-active i'm looking at you). this is the case with a lot of music. (hem hem, Morrisey).


Harvest is lovely

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Claiming Neil Young sounds like Travis is like saying Beyonce sounds like Javine.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Today I am listening to a Street Sounds compilation. It's brilliant. Currently on Public Enemy, in the last half an hour I've had LL Cool J, Breaker's Revenge, Confusion by New Order, Run DMC, Axel F (no frogs anywhere!), Rock Steady Crew, Xena, Shannon and MAN PARRISH...

Pop isn't that bad at the moment though! I'm just not buying any of it.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also on current Kat playlist: all those semi-rubbish dub compilation cds I bought from Fopp last week; Future Days and Monster Movie by Can; plenty of minimal Kraut-bosh.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I've, err, been listening to Clueso. They're a German emo band, I think but I honestly don't know. The video to 'Chicago' is genius, mind.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm listening to a bunch of unmarked CD-Rs I burned, I'm guessing in 2002-3 - loads of fantastic R&B and hip-hop*, a lot of it that I'd completely forgotten and can't even ID the artists (who did "Dirty Girl"?).

*and some less fashiable material, i.e. RIDE has just come on!

See you and raise..

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Aimee Mann.

Re: See you and raise..

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I really like Aimee Mann! Though I have not listened to her recently. Her first three albums are very good but after that it's like, hmm, do I really need any more of the same in my life, not really no.

My favourite Aimee Mann song may be 'Fifty Years After The Fair'.

my shame

[fathands.livejournal.com]

I've grown to enjoy the credit music for Gilmore Girls, despite it being terribly MOR filth.

You need to let Neil Young grow on you for a good few years before you appreciate it, I think.

Re: my shame

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Neil Young = like the mould on a fine Roquefort?

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I love Neil Young - his voice is lovely, I think. I hear in it the kind of pain I hear in some of my favourite soul singers, or Jimmy Cliff (or J Mascis, come to that). He also wrote loads of terrific songs - Like A Hurricane is one of my favourite rock numbers ever.

I am listening to my Fopp purchases from last week: the Trojan Legends Box Set earlier (almost totally pop), and now the 50-track Otis Redding comp (pop at the time, rockist canonical by now). I've also given Bat Out Of Hell (the track) a few listens lately, since news of BOOH3, and I have been enjoying it hugely (more pop than Otis).

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Neil Young's voice is responsible for SO MUCH WRONGNESS in rock vocals, especially in the 90s.

Don't get me wrong, I love Neil Young, but no Neil Young = no Wayne Coyne, no thingy from Grandaddy, no bloke going 'ooh!' from The Thrills etc.

ok -- possibly even worse

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Don Henley -- 'The End of Innocence.'

Re: ok -- possibly even worse

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I felt a massive NEED to hear "The Heat Is On" by Glen Frey Bentos the other day but had forgotten it by the time I had slsk on. I WILL RECTIFY THIS ERROR.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

lol at young people

[cis.livejournal.com]

Nothing I listen to is ever shameful! Although I do feel kind of ashamed of being 'into' certain j-boybands while not really liking their music very much.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Surely most of them don't actually release records, so that makes it okay?

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I am listening to the comp CD from the latest issue of Robots and Electronic Brains. It starts with some minimal techno type stuff, you know beaty Aphex-twin farty noise stuff.

Today at work I listened to the new Puffy AmiYumi album, Sufjan, the Vacaciones (Spanish indie pop), Rilo Kiley, Midnattsol (des. Nordic Folk Metal), and J Mascis live at CBGB's. Just a typical day really.

Neil Young is great. Zuma is my favourite NY album.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Hey kids, if you are intrested in established rock artists doing the unorthodox, then I recommend: "Flush the Fashion" by Alice Cooper. It's his Gary Numan phase.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I am being fed all kinds of post-rock and sludge and "psychedelia" (a la the stuff Julian Cope likes nowadays, thought none of it is his) by someone -- something like 1Gb over the last week.

(But I'm not sure I like any of it!)