Ah, here's one I voted for. Let the deluge begin!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Barstool Blues. Another doozy. Norah Jones weighed in on it in Rolling Stone.
3."Barstool Blues" | Neil Young, 1975I remember being with friends at the beach, all singing this at the top of our lungs. We put it on repeat. I don't think I ever had so much fun.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Is that CNE Stadium? (the image)
xxxpost
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
for the turnstiles is unbelievable, such a great lyric that probably took neil an hour to write.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
No, just some random minor-league park.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
"For The Turnstiles" is the first of my top 10 to make it. Such a killer.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
for the turnstiles - RIP Ben Keith
cool list!
i wonder if "hitchhiker" from le noise isn't going to make it? :(
that was on my list but lots of heavyweights have to be coming up.
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil37.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Barstool" was my #3. Surprised to see it kinda low; thought it'd be a lock for the top 10.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
I've never heard Mirror Ball.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
I love this so much. My no.2 in the end (and nearly displaced by another Mirror Ball cut).
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
I like "I'm the Ocean" fine, but one day you'll all agree with me that "Scenery" is Mirror Ball's masterpiece. (Presently, zero people agree with me.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a firm believer that Mirror Ball has no masterpieces.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
I have a lot of fond memories of listening to my vinyl copy of On the Beach over and over while reading Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, def has that same sort of sad end of the 60s, stoned out vibe
OK like I'm the Ocean is a good song and all but goddamn I cannot believe it just placed higher than a bunch of Zuma and On the Beach big-timers
some dude? did you only vote for one song?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
Mirror Ball was the first Neil Young album I ever owned and, yes, it was 100% due to the Pearl Jam thing. But immediately after I raided my dad's vinyl to hear the Neil he had and it was all over from there. Anyway, I'll always have a soft spot for that one.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
"I'm The Ocean" is the most moving song he did in the 90s, imo. he's written a ton of epics, but none of them rage that long, seem like the band might plow over Neil if he doesn't keep up
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I'm The Ocean would crack the top ten. Or at least be the highest-charting song from his last 20 years.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
i gotta feeling this still might be the highest-charting song from his last 20 years (clemenza, keep yo mouth shut either way - no spoilers!)
it's funny that he was dropping lines like "People my age, they don't do the things I do" in 1995 and now there's almost another 20 years on the odometer
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I like "Downtown," too--enough hippie nostalgia to appall hippie-haters everywhere.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
ragged glory was 1990 dawg
even though 90 isn't like a "real 90s" year
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
OK like I'm the Ocean is a good song and all but goddamn I cannot believe it just placed higher than a bunch of Zuma and On the Beach big-timersotm
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil36.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
You have to look closely for the little Danger Bird.
at least i'm the ocean didn't place above this
Voted for Barstool & Turnstiles--Turnstiles was my #4. That song, Uncle Tupelo's cover of CCR's Effigy, and the Fall's Disneys Dream Debased were the closing trifecta on every mix CD I made for a long while
Didn't clem say #37 was the highest charting position for post-Rust in the voting thread?
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
listening to "Revolution Blues" now....I think the Laurel Canyon killing part overshadows the lyrics that come just before
I got the revolution blues,I see bloody fountains,And ten million dune buggiescomin' down the mountain
^in bold maybe my single favorite image in the history of american songwriting, outside of "the sadness of a falling star lights up a purple sky" by hank williams
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Well. I don't particularly care for Danger Bird, but I thought everybody else would.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
oh no there's only going to be 30+ songs from the 70s higher boo hoo
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
I tried listening to "I'm the Ocean," and I almost made it all the way through, but Jack Irons is so monochromatically ham-fisted that I gave up. His playing actually made me angry.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
From La Lechera: "Danger Bird" - this song is perfect in every way
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
xpost as opposed to the technicolor spryness of Ralph Molina?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
I tried listening to "I'm the Ocean," and I almost made it all the way through, but Jack Irons is so monochromatically ham-fisted that I gave up. His playing actually made me angry
the track is supposed to sound like an ocean!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Ralph is so much better than Irons, the unswinginging-ous drummer ever. At least Molina is sometimes accidentally spry!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
agreed. When David Crosby said playing on the song frightened him or some shit I don't know if he's lying or he's sad sack of shit. The song isn't frightening at all; it's unsettling, in part because it's got these perfect images that don't cohere.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
I guess Song X probably isn't going to make it now, but it's a real belter too
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Irons is so monochromatically ham-fisted that I gave up. His playing actually made me angry
I'm imagining an ocean of ham, with crispy bacon fat froth on the waves of prosciutto.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 12:40 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, this. Irons sounds like he has a post-it in front of him that says REMEMBER TO HIT THE CRASH CYMBAL ON "1" EVERY SINGLE TIME.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'd never heard I'm the Ocean before the voting thread but damn it's great - one of his best verbose, repetitive songs. "People my age/They don't do the things I do."
I have a lot of fond memories of listening to my vinyl copy of On the Beach over and over while reading Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Sentences like this make me feel a sudden need to send my family away for a long weekend.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
I just thought Crosby regarded the Manson impersonation as bad karma
Anyways Barstool Blues and Danger Bird showing up causes me to despair for my favorite song off Zuma's chances of showing up
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
I guess we're not indicating #1 votes? Not a complaint, just an observation.
Anyway, yeah, "Danger Bird" was my number one. Such a perfect fucking tune.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
<i>OK like I'm the Ocean is a good song and all but goddamn I cannot believe it just placed higher than a bunch of Zuma and On the Beach big-timers
― da croupier, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:37 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</i>
for me, if i would have bothered to rank my list, like barstool blues and for the turnstiles and etc would all have been top 10
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Mmmmmmmmm....ocean of ham.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
imagine Lou Reed giving "Danger Bird" the "Foot of Pride" treatment.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
I'll indicate #1s at the end--as I said upthread, the majority of ballots were unranked.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil35.jpg
neil was probably the first of his friends to write songs about how painfully old he is and the first of his friends to be crowing about how he'll be young and crazy forever
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
The ultimate boomer?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha. Quite.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
"oh my god how i miss amusement parks and candy corn"
ten years later
"eat a peach, fat-asses! i'm a-go hang out with devo!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I missed that one, sorry. Like I said, not complaining, you are doing an A+++ job thus far.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link