A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

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

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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!

love "sugar mountain," but has any singer beat Neil's "omg i'm 20!!!" in the unearned youth mourning department? Mark Kozelek started at "24", does Conor Oberst have some "dear god I'm old enough to vote" ballad?

on the real, "sugar mountain" is my least favorite of the canonical neil songs

When "Sugar Mountain" turned up on Decade, I was positive I'd heard it before, so it must have gotten some radio airplay around here.

has any singer beat Neil's "omg i'm 20!!!" in the unearned youth mourning department?

Sinead O'Connor comes close on "Emperor's New Clothes."

actually sinead suggests that at 21 she's too young to know what she wants, not too old to have fun

Britney doing "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" or whatever?

I'm not good with voices on a phone, so--after one friend got tired of me asking "Who's calling?"--we worked out a thing where he says "Sugar Mountain, Sugar Mountain" right away and I know it's him.

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i think sugar mountain was the b-side to cinnamon girl? am i making that up?

Wow, I am surprised at all the love for "Maid."

I would so love to have been a sensitive singer-songwriter in the early '70s. Go see a film, fall in love with the actress, make a couple of calls, marry her.

B-side to "The Loner" originally--and worth some money, according to my record guide.

repeated as b-side to "cinnamon Girl" too.

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btw for whatever reason i realized i never heard Prairie Wind, or at least not all of it

listening now

"I'll never forgot what Chris Rock said" wtf

xp too bad there's not actually an insane crazy horse rave-up of sugar mountain.

Wow, I'd love to have that picture sleeve. The guide has "The Loner" 7-inch (Reprise 0785) as '68, the "Cinnamon Girl" 7-inch (Reprise 0911) as '70--and he used it again on the flip of "Heart of Gold"!

I have that single (w/the weird mono mix topside)! But not the picture sleeve.

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Haven't been there, but that's downtown Winnipeg circa 1955.

that can't be '55, that truck is a '63 at earliest.

Really? Pretty sure I searched "Winnipeg 1950s"...the internet, caught in a lie.

TOO LOW! such a great, raw vocal...

Winnipeg: Home of the Time-Travelling Truck

Yeah amazing song. I have a live solo version (tagged 1973 in London, I must have got it from Tyler's blog?) that's especially powerful, complete with heartfelt dedication to Danny Whitten.

Not solo, just very stripped-down, I think I meant.

I'm joking around, but I am amazed/impressed by some people's ability to call the year on a car instantaneously. My dad was like that.

Years ago, my band played the basement of some stripclub/dive-bar in Winnipeg, in November. It was snowing lightly and pretty desolate. Some guy requested the Doors, and when we didn't accommodate offered to take the stage and play it for us. That night there was a man passed out in the hall that blocked our hotel room door.

The next day we met a local for breakfast, and she took us by Neil Young's high school. I wonder if I still have the picture ... ?

With me it's like, "Wheels, doors...yep, that's a car all right." Please post if you can find the picture!

One more for today, the rest tomorrow. I'll probably start sometime around 10:00.

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"Old Man" and "Sugar Mountain" should've been a double a-side

My favourite old-man film.

Wow. "old Man" makes 5 of my top 10 showing up today. Seems a bit low, but I figure it has Harvest fatigue.

Years ago, my band played the basement of some stripclub/dive-bar in Winnipeg, in November. It was snowing lightly and pretty desolate. Some guy requested the Doors, and when we didn't accommodate offered to take the stage and play it for us. That night there was a man passed out in the hall that blocked our hotel room door.

The next day we met a local for breakfast, and she took us by Neil Young's high school. I wonder if I still have the picture ... ?

Weird, a band I used to sit in with had a bunch of slightly-scary Winnipeg touring stories. Apparently it was a regular tour stop for them.

Where we're at:

75. “Ordinary People” (7 votes/68 points)
74. “Don’t Cry” (7/71)
73. “Cocaine Eyes” (8/71)
72. “Sample and Hold” (8/77)
71. “Transformer Man” (7/78)
70. “Words (Between the Lines of Age)” (9/78)
69. “The Old Laughing Lady” (8/84)
68. “Love in Mind” (11/89)
67. “Philadelphia” (9/93)
66. “Fuckin’ Up” (12/93)
65. “Southern Man” (10/95)
64. “Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)” (10/96)
63. “Broken Arrow” (11/96)
62. “Harvest” (11/97)
61. “Lotta Love” (13/97)
60. “I Am a Child” (12/99)
59. “Lookout Joe” (11/104)
58. “Look Out for My Love” (12/104)
57. “Unknown Legend” (11/108)
56. “Come on Baby Let’s Go Downtown” (11/110)
55. “On the Way Home” (9/115)
54. “Birds” (12/117)
53. “Motion Pictures” (13/126)
52. “Long May You Run” (13/129)
51. “Will to Love” (13/132)
50. “Mellow My Mind” (15/132)
49. “Harvest Moon” (15/135)
48. “L.A.” (14/137)
47. “The Loner” (16/143)
46. “See the Sky About to Rain” (16/148)
45. “I Believe in You” (17/149)
44. “Sedan Delivery” (18/156)
43. “My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)” (16/162)
42. “Don’t Cry No Tears” (19/162)
41. “Comes a Time” (18/164)
40. “Out on the Weekend” (17/167)
39. “Barstool Blues” (19/168)
38. “For the Turnstiles” (20/169)
37. “I’m the Ocean” (22/188)
36. “Danger Bird” (18/189)
35. “Thrasher” (20/189)
34. “Time Fades Away” (18/190)
33. “Winterlong” (19/194)
32. “Mr. Soul” (19/195)
31. “Walk On” (15/196)
30. “When You Dance I Can Really Love” (17/197)
29. “Sugar Mountain” (20/197)
28. “A Man Needs a Maid” (20/198)
27. “Don’t Be Denied” (21/220)
26. “Old Man” (24/237)

20/40 for me thus far

With me it's like, "Wheels, doors...yep, that's a car all right." Please post if you can find the picture!

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My cousin used to have a '64. He lived in deep south Austin, and used to joke that when he had it (early '80s), it was considered a new truck around those parts.

Another 8/30 in today's batch. Expecting 8 more tomorrow max (and a few surprises by the looks of it).

I believe you, C. Grissom--I meant for Josh to post his Winnipeg picture. I think Neil's probably one of those people who knows yearly car models thoroughly.