A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

I was oblivious to the fairly obvious "Satisfaction" rip until I read Shakey.

original's the best, imo. neil's said he wanted to mix the stones with dylan and he never did it better than here. if the fifth best song on a 70s album shows up in front of this, i'm gonna be a butt, sorry in advance.

Did I goof, buzza? Hope not.

always seemed like a girl group should've covered winterlong, you know, with the be my baby bit there towards the end.

oh wow. LIke Emmylou-Dolly-Linda?

No, just quoting the opening of the song

woah that ontario footage + amublance blues on spotify is taking me to a weird place

fwiw i like "i'm the ocean" and had it on my ballot

mr. soul is great....the Archives Mono version is rough sounding but SO MUCH better

xp no, like the ronettes. though emmylou-dolly-linda would be nice too.

this doesn't come up a lot as something a lot of people saw on tv that blew their minds, but i'm envious of anyone who was first introduced to neil by this tv appearance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEqLh4-Ouck

Sideburns HOF.

"is it strange i should change? i don't know, why don't you ask her." might be my favorite last line of a song ever

it just doesn't get more idgaf than that

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil31.jpg

megaclassic guitar riffage!

"Walk On" was my number 3. Love it to pieces.

some get stoned/
some get strange

"some get strange" = how perfect is this line?

Apologies if you voted for it, but this one I don't get at all. As I've mentioned many times, I'm not as big on On the Beach as most people, "Ambulance Blues" excepted. But as an album, rather than song by song, I get the appeal--I used to play it constantly myself. But "Walk On" doesn't even work for me in the context of the album. It just seems like this half-speed nothing of a song.

feel like when walk on came out all of of neil's friends must've been like "oh man, does he mean me?! he totally means me!" and then sunk into a deep depression.

Cool clip. Who was that Hollywood Palace host? I don't recognize him.

"Walk on" has a bit of the power pop feel to it as well, though that and "Barstool Blues" placed on my ballot in the mid-twenties and "Winterlong was top 10.

I always heard "Walk On" was Neil's answer to "Sweet Home Alabama"

"Winterlong" probably is the best song the Pixies did; but imo that doesn't put it in Neil's top 50..... ;-)

i think sweet home alabama came out after walk on.

haha i was gonna make that joke but i actually love the pixies

From what I've read, he was responding to some press criticism of a recent tour.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil30.jpg

^ my #1

La Lechera and I both voted for "When You Dance I Can Really Love". There are days when it's my favorite Neil song.

with you 100% on "Walk On," Clemenza; if "Vampire Blues" shows up I'm really gonna lose my shit.

haha even the biggest on the beach stan couldn't put vampire blues on a top 40 neil songs list

Band of Outsiders!

"When You Dance I Can Really Love" was one of my two #1s.

"When You Dance," "Downtown," and "Barstool Blues" are his greatest jangle of the decade for me.

love the Pixies too--hmmm, maybe "Head On" is better than "Winterlong"?

"When You Dance"--great great song, but it never quite lives up to its own guitar sound for me....

The Band of Outsiders jukebox scene is so good.

Walk On comes in surprisingly low. I thought that was top ten fer sure

xpost Both Pixies Neil Young covers are awesome, and tbh probably introduced me to early Young at the time.

I probably have it, but refresh my memory--what's the other one?

Hah, don't understand not liking "Walk On". What a gem of a song, so many things going on in such a short amount of time.

Like many of Neil's songs, the band does not know the song at all on the album version, but one of my favorite things about that particular recording is Jack Nitzsche on piano, just listening to him sorta figuring it out as he goes, slowly gaining confidence and then exploding.

("When You Dance I Can Really Love", that is)

"Walk On" helped me through some heady shit back in the day. I can't separate the strength I took from it to judge it in any sort of subjective way.

The secret weapon on "When You Dance..." is Jack Nitzsche. xpost

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil29.jpg

I feel like most of the song, the one-chord banging on the piano is Jack going "fuck you, Neil" over and over again, and I can't tell if those runs at the end are inspiration or exasperation.

Oh, to turn and see her smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_JZLns6OGE

I didn't vote for "Vampire Blues" but I will rep for it, just a simple, menacing, slightly weird-sounding blues, and because of it you can put on side 2 of OTB for non-Neil people without scaring them off. By the time the closing trio of songs hit, they're powerless to object.

Thanks--just checked, and I do have it.

"Sugar Mountain"! Not only my introduction to Neil Young, but one of my earliest memories is watching this song on my dad's copy of Rust Never Sleeps on RCS Selectavision Videodisc. So happy to see it here!