Comments on: Revelations on A Saturday A.M.

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:18:43 +0000

Wholeheartedly agree. By the way, nice Top 25 list in the Fork Today. Your blurbs were great too.

By: Nate P.

Nate P. — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:14:38 +0000

Late to this, but if “Sample and Hold” was dropped today by some new kid nobody heard of until Discodust namedropped ‘em, pants’d be gettin shit all over blogtown. That’s my jam right there.

By: Little Danzig

Little Danzig — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:01:52 +0000

I’m not entirely sure if it’s true or not, since it tends to be mentioned anecdotally, but supposedly the reason this album exists is because Young discovered that his autistic son would respond to a vocoder better than his natural speech patterns. It was released during the period where Young had his label in the stranglehold of ‘artistic control’, and the generally accepted legend is that the record was essentially designed for the sole appreciation of his son, who was born with cerebral palsy and had limited response to traditional verbal communication.

The lyrics to “Transformer Man”, especially, seem to reinforce this.

By: Scott T. Sterling

Scott T. Sterling — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:45:02 +0000

Yes!!The “Trans”/”808s & Heartbreak” convo lives on…

By: Neil Cake

Neil Cake — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:12:58 +0000

After The Goldrush, Rust Never Sleeps, Mirror Ball and Prairie Wind would also be in contention for me.

It seems to me that really starting to reappraise the 80s now. I still don’t think any of Neil’s 80s albums are all that good, but at least he was trying something different.

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:24:27 +0000

That’s what I’m talking about. I’d throw Harvest and Tonight’s the Night in the discussion. On the Beach is great too.

By: brandonsoderberg

brandonsoderberg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:48:29 +0000

Best Neil Albums:’Everybody Knows This is Nowhere’, ‘Zuma’, ‘Trans’ NO JOKE.

By: Sach

Sach — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:24:26 +0000

You’re crazy for this one Jeff. This inspires a mixture of horror, laughter and the desire to write a sequel to Napoleon Dynamite. Still, I really can’t cosign this as a Top 20 Young track. The catalogue is too deep with gems.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:35:06 +0000

Zilla, I just can’t do it. I can’t like 808’s.

I keep trying. The beat of every song is amazing, but to me, the whole album sounds like it was inspired by Kid Rock’s “Only God Knows Why”.

Tell me man. I feel like I’m missing something.