A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

have honestly never given a fuck about the song "Ohio", surprised people rate it so highly

well it's an RIP thread

Nice image. After writing a lot about Ohio I bought the relevant copy of Life magazine in a vintage magazine store and framed it but that would be way too obvious here. Images generally A+ I have to say. Some could be stills from a Shakey movie.

Yeah this song doesn't do anything for me. "I love Ohio (the place) even if it is super duper fucked up" kind of a weird reason for voting it #1?

yesss, caught up finally. What a bunch of great music. Excited about this top 10.

and yes - the images you are picking are FANTASTIC, Clemenza - thanks for putting such thought into this! I was a lazy GISer who didn't format any pictures when I ran the Pulp poll :(

ohio rocks pretty hard, i like the stills young dueling guitars.

That'd be something to have...I've got the Oswald Life, tried unsuccessfully to get hold of the "Is God Dead?" Time.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil9.jpg

"Ohio" is a tremendous-sounding song imo, my #2

tin soldiers and Shakey's coming

guys let me interrupt this poll to bring you this crazy horse version of let it shine, which i had never heard before. they make it into a Zuma song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oPZZP0f3FY
[i'm guessing let it shine won't be #1]

Crosby's interjections in "Ohio" are A+

Unrelated factoid: I was at the Texas Theatre and I sat in the seat in that Oswald was arrested in the other night.

From La Lechera: #5 "Expecting to Fly" -- baroque! Ended with a sigh.

"Expecting to Fly"! This was my other #1 ("When You Dance I Can Really Love" was the first). The chorus melody is the saddest sound I've ever heard.

This is the one genuine surprise I'll concede (my too-high quibbles notwithstanding). Highest average, easily--it got fewer votes than songs all the way down to "Pocahontas" at #25. The equivalent from my own ballot would be "Out of My Mind," which didn't do nearly as well.

Expecting To Fly, Unexpectedly High

expecting to fly -- one of the great 60s orchestral pop numbers. so beautiful. think it was mentioned on the voting thread, but the instrumental from the same session (i think), "slowly burning," which emerged on the archives, is equally lovely.

here it is! listen up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKnAo8llyI

I sat in the seat in that Oswald was arrested in the other night--wild.

I voted for "Slowly Burning."

Product placement: pay up, Sprite.

Ain't pollin' for Sprite!

i actually just felt genuine disappointment with myself that i forgot to vote for "this note's for you"

as it stands "rapid transit" is prob the funniest song on my ballot

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil9b.jpg

Excuse the insanity--somehow the image got lopped off at the bottom.

no wait n/m i DID vote for "note" (xpost)

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil8.jpg

haha! is that checkers?

wow I REALLY don't give a shit about Expecting to Fly - have a hard time with most of the Springfield stuff tbh, it always strikes me as tentative and half-formed

kinda disappointed with this run of songs tbrr

Looks to be early '70s, so surely Checkers was long gone.

i actually just felt genuine disappointment with myself that i forgot to vote for "this note's for you"

I voted for it! Bummed it didn't make it :(

I think RN's doing the Twist, though.

missing from pic: metal detector

Checkers II?

on the beach is so great, such a leaden song. guitar solo is incredible, the way it kinda falls off at the end.

Please hide me from this world where "This Note's for You" is superior to Buffalo Springfield.

i think it only recently occurred to me that t-bone and this note's for you are basically the same song.

wow I REALLY don't give a shit about Expecting to Fly - have a hard time with most of the Springfield stuff tbh, it always strikes me as tentative and half-formed

Wow, I disagree with this completely!

you say tentative and half-formed, i say youthful and experimental

Not meant as an attack, SMC, there's just no comparison for me.

expecting to fly is barely a buffalo springfield song, too -- no one else from the band plays on it, and i think it was originally planned as a neil young solo single.

i love that the period where neil hadn't yet found his sound was also the period where everyone was exploring the studio

Catching up, sorry:

Had On The Beach at 22
Had Expecting to Fly at 46 (so I don't think it counted, as only my first 40 were registered for the poll...)
Had Ohio at 43 (ditto -- also, as mentioned upthread, I have been to Kent State a zillion times, walked on THAT hill, etc. Gives you CHILLS, seriously)
Had Rev Blues at 10

my first exposure to "On The Beach" was a cover by the very underrated (and very NY-influenced) singer/songwriter Chris Lee, but i'm not a big fan of the song. perhaps a kneejerk reaction to the idea of the title track of a guy's first album released after becoming really famous featuring morose talk of radio interviews.

I love how unabashedly beautiful Expecting to Fly is - after Buffalo Springfield NY never really went full-tilt for gorgeous again. It's such a young man's song.

yeah, "Expecting to Fly" wouldn't make my top 100, very dull half-realized track imo....and right above "Revolution Blues" makes it worse....

I do feel that On the Beach's longtime unavailability plays a part in its present stature--if it had been Zuma you couldn't buy on CD instead, I wonder if the situation would be different.

reading the rhapsodic descriptions of the song's production and it's "groundbreaking" construction in "Shakey" just made me wonder if I was listening to a different song