How do you rate the Unplugged pipe organ version?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
^^^very highly
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
it's almost creepy in its etherealness
it's guaranteed to irritate my wife
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
[but i love it]
The Unplugged version was the first Neil Young song I ever consciously listened to. It began there.
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Not a fan personally. Like A Hurricane needs guitar
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
"Like A Hurricane" is the epic where I think the album cut is routinely bested live....
― theStalePrince, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Unplugged take is my go-to at this point.
Isn't the album cut a live recording anyway?
― hutlock, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
I think Neil's guitar tone on "Hurricane" is one of music's perfect sounds. (Love the Roxy cover, too.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
it took forEVER for me to hear the original version of Like A Hurricane - it showed up on pretty much every Neil live album/bootleg, but for some reason American Stars n Bars was kind of hard to track down in the 90s.
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
don't think it's live on American Stars n Bars
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
so am I right in expecting that "Cowgirl" vs. "Down by The River" is pretty much a Veronica/Betty thing?......my girl lost!
I guess that makes me Archie, because I couldn't really make up my mind -- they were both top 5 for me.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Backing track cut live in studio, vocal overdubbed later.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Love the live versions of "Cinnamon Girl," but the handclaps on the studio version make that shit lift off the ground.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
there's a scene in Coming Home which uses Expecting To Fly and it's just about my favourite pop song/cinema sync of ALL TIME
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
up there with Taxi Driver/Late For The Sky
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
"Expecting To Fly" works pretty well in Fear & Loathing... too.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'd forgotten about that...Is "Mr. Soul" maybe in the big party scene at the end?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't have a #1 as such but gave most points to "Hurricane". Love both the original and the Unplugged and Weld versions. Also, possibly the only bearable use of the Stringman ever.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil3.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Man, work is really getting in the way of this countdown. "Ambulance Blues" my #4 too. Ditched like a Hurrican for other guitar epics. Decided to limit them and I really didn't dig the feel of LAH for a long time.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
This was a surprise to me--a welcome one, but a surprise. I was expecting it to finish at least 10-15 spots lower than "Cowgirl."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
But I did vote for that one!
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
for me Cowgirl makes Down By The River feel really minor, so I didn't give it any
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
The way the guitars circle each other on "Down By The River" is all time for me (my #1 by the way). Blew my 14 year-old mind and still does today.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Down By The River" almost became a new song to me with the remaster. I thought I was tired of it but really I'd never heard it.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for both, but the repeated note in "River" put it ahead of "Cowgirl" for me.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
i was predicting this image for down by the riverhttp://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/SNL_5862ec_492467.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Mr. Soul" is in the party scene in Shampoo, IIRC soundtracking Beatty chasing after Goldie at said party.
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
Guitar Neil definitely holds a lot of sway with me.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
My #1, too. For me the ultimate Neil guitar song (tho like I said, just a few inches above "Cowgirl").
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, one of my all time favorites. the opening guitar is up there with "marquee moon" in terms of pure musical bliss.
"This much madness/is too much sorrow"--don't know if there's a better summation of the late '60s, likely without even consciously trying.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
I can never listen to Down by the River without thinking about the time I heard it in a coffee shop in college and an irate middle-aged woman complained to the coffee-jerk about having to listen to such a violent/mysogynistic song and demanded that it be turned off
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
#2 is gonna surprise some people, I suspect!
― theStalePrince, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
That's what I meant, getting my Ashbys crossed...no big party scene in Coming Home.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Legendary BluesMan, Guitar Neil:
http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/neilyoung/1988-08-27-jones-beach.jpg
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
The thing is, Neil was bitching about being famous BEFORE he was famous (See: Buffalo Springfield, "Out of My Mind")
― Don't Feel Like Santana, But Oye Como Va To Them (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:23 PM (37 minutes ago)
Late responding, but the sheer chutzpah of this got "Out of My Mind" a high rank and lots of points on my ballot.
― Neil Jung (WmC), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Put me down for Team River. All you Team Cowgirl people can suck it!
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Belatedly realizing that one of my top 5 never placed. I guess I'm the only one who thinks "Burned" is his best Springfield song.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
coincidentally, i've been counting down down by the river videos from 1969-2010 over here. http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
that buzzing, repeated note at the beginning of the first solo in down by the river is so transcendent and amazing
― the sun, a great connoisseur of eggs (buh), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
"Burned" did well--7 votes, #79.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
As mentioned above, had this at 32, Cowgirl at 34.
xp I also ranked "Burned" as my highest Springfield cut, at #25. Sad to see it missed.
― hutlock, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
"An ambulance can only go so fast" is the most devastating line I've ever heard.
― coat news for people who love boat shoes (how's life), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
All's I'll say about those two ax epics is that possibly my not owning the remasters has smothered their appeal.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
otmfm (xpost re that line)
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
So it's just down to Cripple Creek Ferry and Last Dance. Which will win?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
t-boooone!!!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link