Recent content by My_Pilot

Did you just diss Jandek bro?

I done it. That is to say, I did it.

Went for an interview to get a place on a Masters course in a certain Dublin university once. Began a lengthy answer referencing the three arms of government, the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. All good. Except I forgot the third one. Which led me to say: "So obviously there's...

This album first piqued my curiosity when my brother bought it off amazon and promptly returned it, so disgusted was he by the contents. I don't think he was ever able to get over the "I love you jesuuuuuuus chriiiiiiiiiist" bit at all. But I always found it really odd that he was sufficiently...

Wow, surprising lack of love for this. I think it's an amazing album. Nuanced, subtle, very atmospheric and evocative. An air of what you might call quiet, resigned desperation throughout (aside from Heavy Metal Drummer which I've always regarded as a little bit of light relief and, actually, a...

"Christchurch is sold out!" Ah bollocks

Alright folks, We (being the band My Pilot) have a gig in Whelans next Thursday 28th April 2016 which has landed in our laps at short notice. We are looking for a support act. Being the least well-connected band in the world, we don't have any musician friends we can ask to support us on the...

Just gutted.

This is quite funny. I fucking love all the albums mentioned so far in this thread! Apart from Tarkus. I don't know what that is.

Storytone is, indeed, shite. I might have to revisit A Letter Home since a few people have given it a thumbs up in this thread. Haven't heard Monsanto Years yet - will have to give that a listen before I go to see him in Belfast this summer with my dad. Incidentally, I don't mean to boast...

Shakey is a quality read right enough

Just like to say I'd just watched the film Jobs when I nominated Steve Jobs. Quite shocked now to see at a few weeks' remove that I called him "A dead wanker". That was harsh. I mean, everyone dies. Except me

Oh, that album *was* shit though. I'll give you that. Most of his recent stuff is quite weak. Right I'm going to stop now as I have kind of hijacked this thread away from On The Beach and made it just a sort of "Random Neil Young chat" thread. For which I apologise*. *i don't apologise

Haha. He's an odd bloke alright. I can't believe I'm going to (sort of) defend him here but he has invested quite a lot of his money over the last few years into developing a viable electric car. Also if he is to be believed he's given up the ganja in recent years (after years of reportedly...

On a related note, has anyone read his biography (Waging Heavy Peace)? It's totally mental. My old man (also a massive Youngers fan) was almost totally put off him in the process of reading it, so irredeemably shite did he consider it. I could see where he was coming from, but I found it was...