Allow me to begin with a point of reference: I own zero Neil Young solo albums and just one Crazy Horse record, Ragged Glory. My wife owns more than that. There, I said it and admit it. Longtime Young fans just left the blog... I will tell you, though, that I have a substantial number of individual tracks, both solo and with the Horse. I just can't seem to enjoy an entire full-length.
Oddly enough, "Psych Pill" would be a full-length keeper under my normal parameters, which are loosely based around an album containing a minimum positive content of approximately 60%. I'm going to retain almost 70% of this album. The problem lies in the fact that Pill is a double CD, 88 minutes worth, and all of it won't fit on one single disc. I save physical discs of complete keepers and it's really a pain in the ass to rotate the library when adding something new. There are plenty of examples in my collection of two 36-minute album keepers on one CD just to conserve space. Plus, there is the financial aspect of the transaction in which I can buy 70% of the album for a third of the price of the set (hey, I'm still a numbers guy at heart, so shoot me...I'll be damned if I'm going to put a second disc in the vault under those circumstances). For those of you who may actually give a shit, that translates into three tracks @ 60 minutes total time. Yep, that's right, three long-ass songs. Here is one...
I was stunned that there was an actual official video for this, all 17 minutes worth. The math nerds among you are getting crazed, realizing that the average length for the other two songs to wit I refer is now 21 1/2 minutes. But alas, numbers geeks, one of the remaining two songs clocks in at a shorter time than the one above! That's right, kids, the opening track for this album is 27:37, and no, it's not five songs rammed together into one. It's a single vibe like the one above, and believe it or not, it doesn't get old. I honestly didn't believe it myself, but while I was on the initial spin, I first looked at the track time and it was at a little more than seven minutes...cooking right along. Next peek was around the sixteen-minute mark. Couldn't believe nine minutes had passed. Still did not get tedious over the remaining eleven. These "monoliths," as one review deemed them, are the Neil Young & Crazy Horse I love. The other, much shorter tracks were labeled "palette cleansers" by the same reviewer, and they quickly found their way into the recycle bin.
Back in the ol' Mad Rocker days at WPRK, those seventeen-minute puppies would have given me ample time to run over to Beans and grab a burger & fries to satisfy the munchies. I'll plead the fifth on what I could have done with 27+.................
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