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#it's so hard to find this track online these days for some reason #so here it is for posterity bc it's one of my favorite venus 3 tracks #robyn hitchcock #bill rieflin #peter buck #scott mccaughey #audio #fave

Young Fresh Fellows — Loft (Yep Roc)

Scott McCaughey’s Young Fresh Fellows were on a break from their 40th anniversary tour for their very first album, The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest, when they had a spare afternoon in Chicago. McCaughey has always made excellent use of his time, shuttling between bands including the Minus Five, the Baseball Project, Filthy Friends and the touring ensembles for R.E.M. and Alejandro Escovedo, among others, and this occasion was no different. He brought the whole band — plus a bunch of a-list collaborators — into Jeff Tweedy’s Loft Studio, and knocked out a companion piece to the tour-only, acoustic Loft album. However, this one, unlike its predecessor, is a full-band, Beatles-esque piece of psychedelia, in line with The Young Fresh Fellows customary rock-psych giddy surreality but shaded with a knowledge of time and age and mortality. “Death will become us,” sings McCaughey on the song of the same name, “and we become death.” He should know because he had a close brush with the reaper when he had a stroke while on tour with the Minus Five in November 2017.

#young fresh fellows #loft #yep roc #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #scott mccaughey #psychedelic pop #minus five #r.e.m.

Song for Peter Tork The Minus 5 From Of Monkees and Men (2016)

I saw the marquee coming home at 2:00 a.m. Pulled in the parking lot and just walked right in You were packing up amps You were winding up cables I remember the bartender putting chairs up on the tables

I put out my hand and said, “Hello” And “how’s it going?” You said, “Pretty slow.” Still, you were having fun And you knew it seemed kinda funny But it was all for the music It sure wasn’t for the money

And it works It works Keep on workin’

The things change so fast Hollywood doesn’t last Find something new But don’t forsake the past

You can play the blues, folk songs, and rock ’n’ roll Sing in a choir, try to satisfy your soul

And it works Yeah, it works Keep on workin’ Oh, it works Yeah, it works Keep on workin’

Now you smile and tell the crowd you’re glad they came Could be ten thousand or two hundred, it’s all the same Applause is a pillow; it doesn’t know your real name You sleep all right and you don’t sell your soul for fame

You just work And it works Keep on workin’ Yeah, it works It works Keep on workin’ Keep on workin’ For Pete’s sake, keep on workin’ Love is understanding You gotta keep your hand in Uh-huh Keep on workin’ Yeah, it works Keep on workin’

#the monkees #monkees #peter tork #the minus 5 #scott mccaughey #this album is so underrated #couldn't find the lyrics transcribed anywhere so I decided to do it #their ballad about mike is pretty amazing too but it's very very long #but maybe i'll try to transcribe it next #This is so melancholy and sweet #really captures peter's later-career stage #just working because he wanted to #because he needed to make the music #Spotify

All One Song - "Music Arcade" w/ Ethan Miller

More All One Song! I’ve been spending the summer doing one of my favorite things: talking about Neil Young! Helping me out are some of my favorite writers and musicians … so far, we’ve had Steve Gunn, Chris Forsyth, Jeff Parker, Meg Baird, Charlie Saufley, Steve Shelley, Ilyas Ahmed, Rosali and Jesse Jarnow … and we’re not done yet!

This week, our All One Song guest is Ethan Miller. Ethan has been a longtime fixture in the underground, first coming to my attention back in the early aughts as the co-founder of the psych noise pioneers Comets on Fire. But Ethan is nothing if not prolific — he’s played with an array of awesome bands over the years, from Howlin Rain to Feral Ohms to Odyssey Cult. Ethan was also one-fourth of Heron Oblivion with our previous guests Meg Baird and Charlie Saufley … and he’s one-third of the Orcutt Shelley Miller trio, with another previous guest Steve Shelley. It’s all a rich tapestry, right? At least when it comes to Neil Young.

The upcoming — and totally amazing — Orcutt Shelley Miller record is being released on Ethan’s own label Silver Current, which is one the most reliable purveyors of sweet sounds both new and old. In recent years, Silver Current has brought us excellent, bootleg-styled archival hauls from Sonic Youth, Galaxie 500 and Earthless, alongside fresh tunes from Magic Fig, Julie Beth Napolin, Growing and many more. Suffice it to say, the Silver Current insignia is a true trademark of quality.

For his All One Song appearance, Ethan selected a mid-90s deep cut — “Music Arcade.” This ghostly solo acoustic number showed up on the otherwise Crazy Horse-fueled Broken Arrow in 1996. It’s an enigmatic meditation on loneliness that doesn’t offer the listener any easy answers, like a comet in the sky. I loved having this conversation with Ethan and he really articulated some things that I’ve thought about Neil for a while but have never quite put into words. I hope you enjoy it too! Tune in wherever you get those podcasts.

Bonus Track: Neil played "Music Arcade" most nights as he was touring behind Broken Arrow throughout 1996 and '97 (and he hasn't played it since!). But it stayed more or less the same, arrangement-wise, an acoustic breather in between Crazy Horse onslaughts. So, here's a cool cover of the song from none other than Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, R.E.M.), wherein Scott magically transforms "Music Arcade" into a Lennon-esque ballad — a terrific reinterpretation!