Originally Posted by
Graham Breeze
Neil Young: His best album is probably Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere-his second, so he has been a long time declining- but I like After The Gold Rush because I think he has never improved on Southern Man as a rocker (although Like A Hurricane is sui generis) and with Only Love Can Break Your Heart- well the title says it all.
And the greatest live album of all time is Five Live Yardbirds which changed the world of live recording.
Incidentally, I am always intrigued by people liking eg the Beatles, who they could not have heard in their time (because they were sometimes not even born). I did because it was impossible to avoid them but I never liked them.
When I write my master piece (yep it's a Dylan song) it will be about the distinction between music you like, maybe very much, but music you have come to later-and music that is part of your very being because of its significance in your life when you heard it.
I know I will like the Jamie recordings 1957-1962 (Not RCA Victor) of Duane Eddy or Dylan 1963-66 until the day I die because it isn't just music: it is a switch into my life.
I suppose it's like Buddy Holly: I know exactly where I was and to 10 minutes the time when I heard he had died but I cannot even tell you the year when Lennon died or, now I think of it anyone else; Sid Vicious, Redding, Cobain, Joplin, Mercury,...because I have never bought any of their stuff and their entire output means nothing to me.