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Daily Sucker for Thursday, October 12, 2008

October 2nd, 2008 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter #1’s comments: Neil Young is one of my all-time heroes. He’s true to his muse, his art has integrity, and he is a superb songwriter and performer. But, good God, does his Web site suck or what? If you have the patience, try to place an order for a Neil Young/Harvest coffee cup (ok, he occasionally, like the rest of us, compromises some of his integrity). There is enough suck fodder on this one site to keep you going for months.

Submitter #2’s comments: Look, I love Neil Young. He is an amazing artist, great songwriter, activist, even though he is Canadian. But his web page?!?! Mystery Meat Navigation + flash + horrible graphics + crap fonts — it really isn’t great.

Submitter #3’s comments: Neil Young couldn’t find somebody to make him a better site than this?!?! Stay out of “Neil’s Garage.”

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I’m a big Neil Young fan, too. I’m celebrating a very large number birthday today and I appreciate anyone who can Keep Rockin’ in the Free World and stay creative and relevant (Neil’s a couple of years older) after all these years.

Normally, I’d repeat my mantra that musician web sites (like art, movie, music, personal, and experimental sites) are allowed to suck and they don’t qualify for Daily Sucker status. However, I kept getting “stack overflow) error messages on different pages using IE7. I don’t care who you are, that makes you Daily Sucker material. Love your work, Neil, but fix your site.

Neil’s Garage

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