A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

I had two unreleased cuts on mine... who else voted for anything that isn't out officially anywhere?

*raises hand*

Come Along And Say You Will

yeah i had No One Seems To Know, Give Me Strength and Pushed It Over The End

I debated long and hard about which outtake to include from yr Sad Movies comp, tyler

Down by the River -- 30
Walk On -- 25
Only Love Can Break Your Heart -- 20
Burned -- 15
Cowgirl in the Sand -- 15
Ohio -- 15
Like a Hurricane -- 15
Rockin in the Free World -- 10
After the Gold Rush --10
Powderfinger -- 10
The Needle and the Damage Done -- 10
Winterlong -- 10
Cinnamon Girl -- 10
Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) -- 10
Sedan Delivery -- 10
On the Beach -- 10
Southern Man -- 10
Mr. Soul -- 5
Thrasher -- 5
Moving Pictures -- 5
Welfare Mothers -- 5
Don't Let It Bring You Down -- 5
Long May You Run --5
Heart of Gold --5
Sugar Mountain -- 5
The Loner -- 5
Helpless -- 5
Wrecking Ball -- 5
See the Sky About to Rain -- 5
Revolution Blues -- 5

Pushed It Over The End is actually released though, on a 12" single (!)

haha, yeah i guess so -- like an italian only CSNY thing?

My points were as follows:

25. On The Beach
21. I'm The Ocean
19. Time Fades Away
17. Song X
15. Natural Beauty
12. Will To Love
12. Silver & Gold
12. Through My Sails
11. Revolution Blues
10. Words - Between The Lines Of Age
10. Alabama
 9. Love And War
 9. Southern Man
 9. Cowgirl In The Sand
 8. Last Dance
 8. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
 8. Crime In The City
 7. Ohio
 7. Rockin' In The Free World
 7. Love In Mind
 6. Like A Hurricane
 6. Fontainebleau
 6. Tell Me Why
 5. Goin' Back
 5. Midnight On The Bay
 5. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
 4. Human Highway
 4. Sample & Hold
 4. Don't Let It Bring You Down
 4. Computer Age
 4. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)
 4. A Man Needs A Maid
 4. New Mama
 4. Surfer Joe & Moe the Sleazebag
 4. Hawks & Doves
 4. Weight Of The World
 4. When I Hold You In My Arms
 4. Bandit
 4. Southern Pacific
 4. High-Flying Bird

Bold didn't place, though I can't remember exactly and may have made an error or two.

Alfred I'm glad that despite our differences on the ax epics, we can agree on "Wrecking Ball."

haha, yeah i guess so -- like an italian only CSNY thing?

― tylerw

Yep, on a one-sided 12" in an Italian box set. I'd bet it's gonna turn up on Archives II though, or the long-rumored live CSNY 1974 set.

1. Powderfinger 30
The Needle and the Damage Done 25
Tonight’s The Night 18
I’m The Ocean 17
Down By The River 15
Walk On 10
Tell Me Why 10
Pocahontas 10
Barstool Blues 10
Ordinary People 10
Ambulance Blues 8
Heart Of Gold 8
My My, Hey Hey (Out Of the Blue) 8
Thrasher 8
Tired Eyes 8
After The Gold Rush 8
Sugar Mountain 8
Helpless 8
Lookout Joe 8
Lookin’ For A Love 8
Look Out For My Love 8
Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown 8
Big Time 8
Goin’ Home 8
Rockin’ In The Free World 8
Sedan Delivery 5
Cinnamon Girl 5
Don’t Be Denied 5
Too Far Gone 5
30. Trans Am 5

Thanks clemenza!

30 - Will to Love
30 - Ambulance Blues
30 - On the Beach
15 - Powderfinger
15 - Pocahontas
10 - Expecting to Fly
10 - Sugar Mountain
10 - Cortez the Killer
10 - Tired Eyes
10 - Albuquerque
10 - Old Man
10 - Heart of Gold
10 - Down by the River
10 - Tell Me Why
10 - Look Out for my love
10 - I Believe in You
5 - I Am a Child
5 - Ohio
5 - Peaceful Valley Boulevard
5 - Revolution Blues
5 - After the Gold Rush
5 - Barstool Blues
5 - Don't Cry No Tears
5 - From Hank to Hendrix
5 - Natural Beauty
5 - Words
5 - Out on the Weekend
5 - Like a Hurricane
5 - Cinnamon Girl
5 - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere

^ a good ballot

14 each for the first 10, 8 for the next 20.

Crime and the City
After the Goldrush (kd Lang)
Heart of Gold
Transformer Man
My Heart
My My, Hey Hey
Ambulance Blues
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (St Etienne)
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Philadelphia

Out on the Weekend
Helpless
After The Goldrush
Needle and the Damage Done
Harvest Moon
Pocahontas
Sleeps With Angels
Birds
This Note's For You
Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris)
Unknown Legend
Walk With Me
Like a Hurricane
Will to Love
A Man Needs A Maid (with the LSO)
Harvest
It's A Dream
When I Hold You In My Arms
Mr Soul
Rockin' In The Free World

Must admit to feeling a little bit guilty about voting for St Etienne, but it's such a perfect cover version and personally is indelibly tied to the Freedom/Ragged Glory era when I first got into NY.

all of these ballots are good

Cinnamon Girl - 30
Cortez The Killer - 20
Walk On - 20
Helpless - 15
For The Turnstiles - 15
Tonight's The Night - 10
Down By The River - 10
When You Dance You Can Really Love - 10
Time Fades Away - 10
Old Man - 10
Out On The Weekend - 10
LA - 10
Ohio - 10
Last Dance - 10
Dance, Dance, Dance - 10
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - 10
Like A Hurricane - 10
Cowgirl In The Sand - 10
After The Gold Rush - 10
Hey Hey, My My - 10
Mellow My Mind - 5
Sedan Delivery - 5
Ambulance Blues - 5
Wonderin' - 5
Don't Let It Bring You Down - 5
Barstool Blues - 5
Flying On The Ground Is Wrong - 5
Unknown Legend - 5
Fuckin' Up - 5
One Of These Days - 5

Helpless - 30
Ohio - 27
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - 24
Tell Me Why - 20
You And Me - 16
Powderfinger - 13
The Old Laughing Lady - 10
Long May You Run - 9
My My, Hey Hey - 9
Cinnamon Girl - 8
Pochahontas - 8
Southern Man - 7
Cowgirl In The Sand - 7
Like A Hurricane - 6
After The Gold Rush - 6
Peace And Love - 5
Don't Cry No Tears - 5
Unknown Legend - 5
Rapid Transit - 5
Transformer Man - 5
Rockin' In The Free World - 5
When You Dance, I Can Really Love - 5
Walk On - 5
Don't Let It Bring You Down - 5
I'm The Ocean - 5
This Note's For You - 5
Fuckin' Up - 5
The Needle And The Damage Done - 5
Look Out For My Love - 5
Words (Between The Lines Of Age) - 5
From Hank To Hendrix - 5
Revolution Blues - 5
Down My The River - 5
War Of Man - 5
Cortez The Killer - 5

Ambulance Blues -- 30
Tonight's the Night -- 25
Revolution Blues -- 20
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown -- 15
Pocahontas -- 10
Sleeps with Angels -- 10
Wonderin' -- 10
I Am a Child -- 10
Comes a Time -- 10
The Needle and the Damage Done -- 10
Philadelphia -- 10
Cinnamon Girl -- 10
Like a Hurricane -- 10
See the Sky About to Rain -- 10
Sugar Mountain -- 10
When You Dance -- 10
Mansion on the Hill -- 10
Harvest Moon -- 10
Someone's Gonna Rescue You -- 10
Big Time -- 10

1. Albuquerque - 30 pts
2. On the Way Home - 29
3. Out of My Mind - 28
4. Down by the River - 18
5. Lookout Joe - 17
6. Expecting to Fly - 16
7. Four Strong Winds - 15
8. A Man Needs a Maid - 14
9. Cinnamon Girl - 13
10. Needle and the Damage Done - 12
11. Tonight's the Night - 11
12. Wrecking Ball - 7
13. I Am a Child - 5
14. Cortez the Killer - 5
15. I Believe in You - 5
16. Down to the Wire - 5
17. Fuckin' Up - 5
18. For the Turnstiles - 5
19. Star of Bethlehem - 5
20. The Old Laughing Lady - 5
21. Broken Arrow - 5
22. Mr. Soul - 5
23. Love in Mind - 5
24. Motor City - 5
25. L.A. - 5
26. Lotta Love - 5
27. Wonderin' - 5
28. Fallin' Off the Face of the Earth - 5
29. Burned - 5
30. Walk On - 5

1. “Danger Bird” (30 points)
2. “Ambulance Blues” (30 points)
3. “Unknown Legend” (25 points)
4. “Rockin’ in the Free World (Electric)” (20 points)
5. “Tonight’s the Night” (20 points)
6. “Down By the River” (10 points)
7. “Expecting to Fly” (10 points)
8. “Fuckin’ Up” (10 points)
9. “Like A Hurricane” (10 points)
10. “Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)” (10 points)
11. “Albequerque” (10 points)
12. “Powderfinger” (10 points)
13. “Eldorado” (10 points)
14. “Helpless” (10 points)
15. “See the Sky About to Rain” (10 points)
16. “Sugar Mountain” (5 points)
17. “Razor Love” (5 points)
18. “Time Fades Away” (5 points)
19. “Old Man” (5 points)
20. “On the Beach” (5 points)
21. “Cortez the Killer” (5 points)
22. “Thrasher” (5 points)
23. “Ordinary People” (5 points)
24. “Hippie Dream” (5 points)
25. “Mr. Soul” (5 points)
26. “I’m The Ocean” (5 points)
27. “Ohio” (5 points)
28. “Mansion on the Hill” (5 points)
29. “Walk With Me” (5 points)
30. “Buffalo Springfield Again” (5 points)

Really impressed with the sheer array of songs picked in top 3s. Great variety.

top 10

30 Motion Pictures
25 Tired Eyes
25 Mellow My Mind
25 Don't Be Denied
20 Look Out For My Love
20 Revolution Blues
15 Cocaine Eyes
15 Powderfinger
15 Don't Let It Bring You Down
10 Lost In Space

next ten @ 5 points each:

Cowgirl in the Sand
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Down By The River
After the Gold Rush
Helpless
For The Turnstiles
Tonight's the Night
Like A Hurricane
Rocking in the Free World
I'm The Ocean

pretty much impossible to come up with a bad neil young ballot!

oh I dunno, I would vote in WORST NEIL YOUNG SONG poll

did ANYBODY else vote "Lost In Space"? I was kinda trolling myself, but have an irrational love for the song.....also, what happened to "Borrowed Tune"? fell out of my top 20 at the last minute, but I always thought it was people's second fave on that LP....

I'm celebrating the end of this poll by spinning Manassas...

10 POINTS EACH:

1. I Believe In You
2. Like A Hurricane
3. Time Fades Away
4. When You Dance, I Can Really Love
5. Love In Mind

8 POINTS EACH

6. Dangerbird
7. Pocahontas
8. Rockin’ In The Free World
9. Country Girl
10. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
11. For The Turnstiles
12. Powderfinger
13. Don’t Be Denied
14. Hitchhiker
15. Fuckin’ Up
16. L.A.
17. A Man Needs A Maid (Massey Hall)
18. Heart of Gold (‘’)
19. Will To Love
20. On The Way Home
21. Cinnamon Girl
22. Down By The River
23. On The Beach
24. Cowgirl In The Sand
25. Sea of Madness
26. Love and Only Love
27. Don’t Cry No Tears
28. World on A String
29. Cortez The Killer
30. Do I Have To Come Right Out and Say It?
31. Pushed It Over The End
32. Last Dance
33. Lookout Joe
34. Don’t Cry
35. Love To Burn

7 POINTS EACH:

36. I’m The Ocean
37. Safeway Cart
38. Give Me Strength
39. I’ve Been Waiting For You
40. Goin’ Home

9. Country Girl

didn't keep my ballot, but top 3 ranked:
Pocahontas
Love In Mind
Flying On the Ground

I should clarify: 'good ballot' = 'ballot quite like mine'

hahaha, I was going to say, hey Ismael Klata, you have a good ballot too! ;)

Will to Love did place, btw! (you had it in bold)

1. Expecting to Fly
2. Out on the Weekend
3. Tell Me Why
4. Albuquerque
5. Don't Let It Bring You Down
6. Birds
7. On the Beach
8. Danger Bird
9. Bad Fog of Loneliness
10. Lotta Love
11. Soldier
12. Heart of Gold
13. L.A.
14. The Loner
15. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
16. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
17. Love in Mind
18. Ambulance Blues
19. Will to Love
20. Powderfinger
21. Tired Eyes
22. Pardon My Heart
23. Peace of Mind
24. Ohio
25. Look Out for My Love
26. Walk On
27. Cinnamon Girl
28. You and Me
29. Falling Off the Face of the Earth
30. Like a Hurricane
31. White Line
32. Don't Be Denied
33. Prime of Life
34. Drive By
35. Cortez the Killer
36. Rockin' in the Free World
37. On the Way Home
38. The Needle and the Damage Done
39. Time Fades Away
40. Borrowed Tune

"Bad Fog of Lonliness" in the top 10 is pretty awesome, even if I didn't vote for it myself.

I rarely call in here, so missed all of this completely. But I've spent the last hour or so reading through the results. Surprised, but not disappointed, by the #1.

Good to see a couple of you included Love And Only Love in your ballots. It would definitely have featured on mine - if only the version on Weld. The solo on that is one of my favourite Neil moments.

Excellent presentation, Clemenza.

Spotify playlist updated: http://open.spotify.com/user/124420673/playlist/7tIBGOFg0EDXgAz10slAJZ

Interestingly, the song that came out on top is also one of Neil's most performed songs, beaten only by Cinnamon Girl and Heart of Gold.

http://sugarmtn.org/stat.php?stat=1

Wow, I'm surprised he's only played Motion Pictures once!

My ballot.

Like a Hurricane -- 20pts
Don’t Cry -- 18
Time Fades Away -- 18
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) -- 16
Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part 1) -- 16
Cocaine Eyes -- 14
The Needle And The Damage Done -- 14
Love In Mind -- 13
Blowin' In The Wind -- 13
Cortez The Killer -- 12
Helpless -- 12
The Bridge -- 12
Farmer John -- 11
Winterlong -- 11
Arc -- 10
Powderfinger -- 10
Ordinary People -- 9
Goin’ Back -- 9
Sugar Mountain -- 8
Peaceful Valley Boulevard -- 8
Long May You Run -- 7
For The Turnstiles -- 7
Ambulance Blues -- 6
LA -- 6
Lotta Love -- 5
Harvest Moon -- 5
Comes A Time -- 4
Southern Man -- 3
Ohio -- 2
Tonight’s The Night -- 1

Wow, I'm surprised he's only played Motion Pictures once!

I'm surprised he's played it at all, frankly. all of that OTB and Time Fades Away stuff seems to have dropped off his radar

ambulance blues is the only one that he's really returned to in the past decade or so, there's one on the beach from 2003, maybe a handful of don't be denieds.

favourite line from Ambulance Blues: it's easy to get buried in the past, when you try to make a good thing last.

I got to know "Motion Pictures" as a live staple by local (Knoxville) heroes the V-Roys, who did a great raging version of it. (It's even on their career-capping live album.) Actually there are an awful lot of Neil songs I first heard done by other people.

Didn't rank, but here are my picks that didn't make the cut:

I’ve Been Waiting for You
Tell Me Why
Wrecking Ball
No More
Love to Burn
Safeway Cart
Peaceful Valley Boulevard
Love is a Rose
For the Turnstiles
Country Home
Natural Beauty
Such a Woman

Granted, I made a point of trying to draw from every point in his career.

Whoops, scratch "Tell Me Why" from that.

for the turnstiles made it i think

here are the ones of mine that didn't make it (i think)

Razor Love
Surfer Joe And Moe The Sleaze
Country Home
Give Me Strength
Pushed It Over The End
Too Far Gone
Little Wing
Speakin’ Out
Through My Sails
Safeway Cart
No One Seems To Know

(10) 1. Mr. Soul (Buffalo Springfield version)
(10) 2. Cinnamon Girl
(10) 3. Like A Hurricane
(10) 4. Don't Be Denied
(10) 5. Rockin' In The Free World (electric Freedom version!)
(8) 6. Cowgirl In The Sand
(8) 7. A Man Needs A Maid
(8) 8. Powderfinger
(8) 9. Sugar Mountain
(8) 10. I'm The Ocean
(8) 11. Prisoners Of Rock'n'Roll
(8) 12. Revolution Blues
(8) 13. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Live At The Riverboat 1969)
(8) 14. Cortez The Killer
(8) 15. Campaigner
(8) 16. Pressure
(8) 17. Music Arcade
(8) 18. Over And Over
(8) 19. Be The Rain
(8) 20. Sample And Hold
(8) 21. Ohio
(8) 22. Southern Pacific
(8) 23. Fork In The Road
(8) 24. Natural Beauty
(8) 25. I Believe In You
(8) 26. Hawks & Doves
(8) 27. Goin' Home
(8) 28. Time Fades Away
(8) 29. Sixty To Zero (Crime In The City) (oneada live bootleg versions)
(8) 30. Look Out For My Love (the MTV Unplugged version!)
(8) 31. Prime Of Life
(8) 32. Hey Hey, My My - Into The Black
(8) 33. The Old Laughing Lady
(8) 34. Tired Eyes
(8) 35. Mideast Vacation
(7) 36. The Restless Consumer ("In The Beginning" version)
(7) 37. Shots
(7) 38. Down To The Wire
(7) 39. Peace Of Mind
(7) 40. Driveby

My non-charting cuts (DAMN that's a lot of them!):

Love Art Blues
Traces
Soldier
Sleeps With Angels
Stringman
Burned
Time Fades Away
Cripple Creek Ferry
Pushed It Over the End
I’ve Been Waiting for You
Deep Forbidden Lake
Love Is a Rose
My Heart
Shots
Old Ways
Kinda Fonda Wanda
Journey Through the Past

Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (Live At The Riverboat 1969)
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