Re: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma (1975)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu May 02, 2024 7:22 pm

Track 7 - Drive Back.

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:23 pm

Drive Back.

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:23 pm

This is awesome.

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:23 pm

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:24 pm

This middle-eight-y bit is so brilliant.

The song's like something off of Re-Actor.

And I mean that in a good way.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu May 02, 2024 7:24 pm

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:25 pm

Hard harmonics.

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:25 pm

Nightjar wrote:This middle-eight-y bit is so brilliant.

The song's like something off of Re-Actor.

And I mean that in a good way.

We really do need to do that album some time.

I think that it's cruelly underrated. yes

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu May 02, 2024 7:26 pm

Track 8 - Cortez the Killer.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu May 02, 2024 7:27 pm

Seven and a half minutes long.

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:27 pm

The epic, raggedly majestic centrepiece of the album.

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:30 pm

I think he may have been lyrically a bit naive with this song.

It's like a number of the songs on Bob Dylon's 'Desire" in that respect.

Although, unlike the aforementioned tracks, this one is set in the 16th Century.

by Nightjar Thu May 02, 2024 7:31 pm

In Jimmy McDonough's biography of Young, Shakey, Young stated: "What the f*ck am I doing writing about Aztecs in 'Cortez the Killer' like I was there, wandering around?

'Cause I only read about it in a few books.

A lotta sh*t I just made up because it came to me."