The NEW "I Fuckin' Feel Like Talkin About Trans" Thread

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  • BrainOfJD
    BrainOfJD Posts: 242
    Trans is obviously terrible. But it's Neil Young... so maybe it's actually a work of genius and our mere mortal brains are too inferior to appreciate it. This might be why mind-altering substances are required before we can even begin to approach it.

    Whereas albums like On The Beach or Everybody Knows This is Nowhere... Neil reigned it in and held back just enough so that we could actually appreciate them.
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  • grace6697
    grace6697 Posts: 1,191
    question:
    why isn't anything from TRANS on Young Neil's best of?

    discuss.
    take your money and your drugs.
  • grace6697
    grace6697 Posts: 1,191
    StoneG82 wrote:
    so do you guys actually like Neil's good records, too?

    I'm really surprised at the praise for Trans. I'm a huge Neil fan and I just can't get into it.

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    take your money and your drugs.
  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    trans is an album to laugh at when your wasted at the end of the night

    and then when you think of nelis face and the sound on the record and wake up and realize o well he did write southern men
    you just throw yourb hands up and say fuck it was funny as shit
    Some people have religion I have Pearl Jam.


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  • BlkFlg1
    BlkFlg1 Posts: 156
    BrainOfJD wrote:
    Trans is obviously terrible. But it's Neil Young... so maybe it's actually a work of genius and our mere mortal brains are too inferior to appreciate it. This might be why mind-altering substances are required before we can even begin to approach it.

    Whereas albums like On The Beach or Everybody Knows This is Nowhere... Neil reigned it in and held back just enough so that we could actually appreciate them.


    sigh. please capitalize TRANS. in this thread- good to see you over here bro. i am just glad you are participating, regardless if you are insulting the greatest album of all time. thank you.
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  • BlkFlg1
    BlkFlg1 Posts: 156
    grace6697 wrote:
    question:
    why isn't anything from TRANS on Young Neil's best of?

    discuss.

    exactly, its totally fucked, if you ask me.
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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    knowing the backstory of how it's about ben adds a lot to the experience.

    Yeah, it's a strange thing.
    It was good to see Neil incorporating him into the Greendale tour.
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  • BlkFlg1
    BlkFlg1 Posts: 156
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    Yeah, it's a strange thing.
    It was good to see Neil incorporating him into the Greendale tour.

    truly- it makes it really poignant and paradoxical, like what if technology is our savior as well as our demise? the fact that he used a vocoder to connect with his son is pretty cool. he's a great man.
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    grace6697 wrote:
    question:
    why isn't anything from TRANS on Young Neil's best of?

    discuss.

    Same reason nothing from Mirrorball, Ragged Glory, ZUMA(!) is on the Greatest Hits album. Didn't chart high enough. Great albums all (inlcuding TRANS). Then again, I love Re*Act*Or too, so maybe I'm in the minority.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • grace6697
    grace6697 Posts: 1,191
    today i hate pearl jam. i still love TRANS.

    sigh.
    take your money and your drugs.
  • LifeWasted21
    LifeWasted21 Posts: 149
    well the jackass thread starter obviously started this tongue in cheek. im offended.

    computer age = brilliant.
  • LifeWasted21
    LifeWasted21 Posts: 149
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  • grace6697
    grace6697 Posts: 1,191
    weird that csny did not play any TRANS when i saw them in august.
    take your money and your drugs.
  • BrainOfJD
    BrainOfJD Posts: 242
    What would have been more disappointing... the fact NY & CH surprised me with the full Greendale show in '03 or if they had come out and done TRANS in its entirety?

    I think I would have rather seen TRANS. Especially if it featured a stage show.
    10 million dune buggies comin' down the mountain
  • grace6697
    grace6697 Posts: 1,191
    TRANS!

    we are not doing our part, people.
    take your money and your drugs.
  • LifeWasted21
    LifeWasted21 Posts: 149
    thats cause none of you are serious.

    this is actually a great record. its his KID A, its just "cool" to say you like radiohead and KID A.

    neil young did it 25 years ago. so fuck you radiohead
  • BrainOfJD
    BrainOfJD Posts: 242
    LifeWasted21 wrote:
    this is actually a great record. its his KID A, its just "cool" to say you like radiohead and KID A.

    neil young did it 25 years ago. so fuck you radiohead

    Actually, the "cool" thing to say is that you don't like Radiohead. So suck on that. ;)
    10 million dune buggies comin' down the mountain
  • LifeWasted21
    LifeWasted21 Posts: 149
    BrainOfJD wrote:
    Actually, the "cool" thing to say is that you don't like Radiohead. So suck on that. ;)


    incorrect.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,838
    Wow, what at trippy thread!   I don't recognize any of these names.  Are any of these folks still here?

    Anyway I felt like listening to something this evening that I hadn't heard in a while, something a little unusual but not too head tripping that would take my mind off matters for a while.

    TRANS!  Why not?  It's not my favorite Neil but it holds a special place in his catalogue for me and I've got a lot of respect for the album- what he did and why he did it.  So I did a search here for "Neil Young, Trans" and it took me here.

    As I listened to TRANS this evening, I spent a lot of time looking at the LP cover and insert art.  I love the way those illustrations mirror the old and the new, the earthy and the electronic, the human and the non-human- literally mirrored on the inner sleeve where we see the reflection of Neil with his old Gretsch White Falcon (that he's had since his early days) in the polished steel of a metal guitar lying face down on the road (I would love to know about that metal guitar if anyone knows more).

    It was just the record to...

    ...excuse me... sample and hold...
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    -Roberto Benigni

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