Boy, those were the days. "Give me 11 cassettes or 8 CDs for a penny", we'd say, and then 4 to 6 weeks later they'd show up in the mailbox, they would. Of course, they thought we were going to pay shipping and handling and buy 5 more at regular price, but we'd just ignore them or move away, which was the style at the…

"Edge Of The World" at the end of side A (after "Zombie Eaters") instead of the last track on the CD - as it should be. And better cover art, too!

Angel Dust is classic and the rest of those have held up remarkably well, but am I the only one who loves Introduce Yourself too?

Yeah, it would have been nice if he'd just ignored David Geffen and put out the "Hawaii" album (the outtakes floating around are largely throwaway songs, but it still would have been interesting to hear the album that would have surfaced) and then had the confidence to release Trans as a separate project consisting…

"Rockin' in the Free World" is absolutely essential and I've always liked "Hangin' On A Limb" too, but a lot of the other songs on Freedom have been done better elsewhere (and come to think of it, the version of "Rockin' in the Free World" from SNL is probably the best one ever). The Eldorado EP released earlier the…

After The Gold Rush was the first NY album I ever owned (and still one my favorites of his) but the Decade compilation was what first got me into really exploring his music. I still think it's a great starting point; the lack of songs post-1977 and the relatively small number of ditch trilogy songs are its only…

Switch out Greatest Hits for the 1977 retrospective Decade and you get a lot more songs - even though it's a double CD/triple LP, it's still technically one album.

Don't trust me either - I have Trans on both vinyl and CD. I think Trans is one of his most underrated and misunderstood albums - there are some great, personal songs on there. A lot of people laugh at the idea of "rocker/folkie" Neil Young making a "techno" album, but most of the people who make fun of it probably…

Must be an outtake from Trans.

Good article - the "ditch trilogy" is fantastic, and for my money Tonight's The Night is one of the greatest artistic statements of the late 20th century in any medium, period. But I can't see how it's possible to talk about On The Beach without mentioning honey slides. http://thrasherswheat.org/r…

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Fair enough. Since it's supposed to be a primer for the band's entire career I probably would have tried to include at least one song from each album, but it is pretty hard to narrow down the catalogue of a great band that makes such cohesive albums to a representative yet effective one-hour set.

"Crazy Beat" and "Gene By Gene" sound a bit out of place, but other than that Think Tank is a solid album. Definitely better than Leisure (though I am happy to see "Sing" included here) and a lot more interesting and adventurous musically than The Great Escape.

"Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny Leonard, Principal Skinner, Otto Mann and Rainier Wolfcastle all died on the way back to their home planet."

"even though there's not much new they could say by now"

Three tracks from Leisure, nothing from Think Tank? C'mon.

Sure did!

Honestly, I'd forgotten all about that show until I read your last post - then the theme song and other random bits and pieces came racing back. Used to watch it on CBC, though I'm somewhat hesitant to check it out now as practically everything else I loved as a kid that I've tried to watch years later has turned out…

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: nostalgia is a dirty liar.

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