Bonus Song Thursday - Neil Young "Transformer Man"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian take some time out to cover a little bit of Neil Young's weaker output by discussing "Transformer Man" off 1982's Trans. We discuss Young's rationale for incorporating electronic instruments into his music, the sincerity of his experimentations at the time, and how some better songs may have helped him in this period. Also, we read a listener email that takes back down the path of Pearl Jam as Bill attempts to defend Yield, "Wishlist," and his opinions about Ten!

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0:00.0	That's more than my
0:07.0	That's more happen
0:11.0	You are the ocean
0:16.0	Remove the truth And I'm Bill.
0:35.4	And this is the great Albums podcast.
0:38.0	Bonus Song Thursday.
0:40.0	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:41.8	We were listening to Transformer Man by Neil Young from 1982s.
0:49.0	Yes.
0:50.3	Yes, 1982s trans.
0:53.6	Because every week we take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:57.6	Earlier this week, we were talking about Neil Young's Tonight's The Night with DJ and podcaster Dan Reed.
1:05.9	And then every week we follow up our main episode with a bonus song episode where we take another
1:11.8	song that is by the same artist or something tangentially related.
1:15.8	And we do the same kind of talk about it doing a deep dive into a single song.
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:20.8	Yeah.
1:21.2	So that sounds good.
1:22.0	So let's do that this week.
1:23.4	And Spotify has a surprisingly small amount of Neil Young on there.
1:28.6	Just his, not even all of his 80s material, just the 80s material you don't really want.
1:35.6	Well, it's the 80s material that was released on Geffen Records.
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