'I need a crowd of people, but I cant face them day to day'. Words of Neil Young, an artist I've never liked. I've been loud with my dislike of Neil Young. Just because it made people angry, made people go into long rants about how fabulous he is, how important for history he is, how it is impossible to like My Morning Jacket without liking Neil Young. All the roads led to Neil Young and my friends were paving it with gold. I laughed at them, told them history has no place in my heart of music (gold?). History is the past and the only thing that matters is now. And just now, when I sit in front of my computer in a oversized t-shirt and underwear, trying to write fiction that does not want to be written, he comes to me, with his voice and his guitar which aches with the knowledge, with the weight of lost love. And he sings about leaving, 'get out of town', cause 'the world is turning' and that is when Neil Young becomes relevant now. On the beach. The song I needed to end my crusade against Neil Young.
I fell asleep in my bed. I was gonna do other things. But I fell asleep. When I woke up I decided that I needed a belt. I biked in the sun with My Morning Jackets album Z in my ears. I looked for Joyce Carol Oats diary in a book shop, and I bought a belt and tried to find a bar that would show Sweden - Denmark. The cobble stones rattled under my bike when I went around the city. I love that sound. Gave up on the football game and bought a small bottle of whiskey instead. Someone called me, he had found a bar which would show the game. Now I'm home, and I feel like sleeping again.
I forgot how great My Morning Jackets album Z was. I had a feeling I liked it, so I downloaded it, cause my cd-version is collecting dust in my parents house in Sweden. I put on the hit, Off The Record and I, who never liked all those bearded half-country men rocking it the American way, I blew my nose and enjoyed myself. And then I remembered, wasn't there this great final song on this album? So I put it on, Dondante, and yeah, I stopped everything I was doing (blowing my nose, reading blogs, making a 'books to read' list) and just listened. You should do the same. Just push play on the video above.
And imagine, I don't even like Neil Young. It's a crazy world, isn't it. And if I ever wanted to have sex with a sound from a guitar, it would be the one three minutes in to this song. And you know when Jay-Z said that he had to make a song cry, well, My Morning Jacket are weeping on this one.
Well I Saw It In Your Movement
And Even Though You Never Knew It
Well, I Knew, Just How Sweet It Could Be
If You'd Never Left These Streets.
You Had Me Worried!
So Worried
That This Would Last...
But Now I'm Learning
Learning That This Will Pass...
