May You Live in Inneresting Times: The Neil Young Voting Thread (deadline July 8)

I wish I still had this - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Neil+Young+%26+Crazy+Horse%3A+Rust+Never+Sleeps+-+DVD/4798302.p?id=59514&skuId=4798302 - bought it for an ex and stupidly did not grab it when I cleared my stuff out of his apartment and never went back.

Xpost to Clemenza, good call on 'Bad Fog...', will definitely vote for that.

Glad to see love this early on for 'Expecting to Fly', that's going to be my #1.

Still trying to figure out a satisfactory points system for a 30-song ballot.

Might go with:

1st place: 29 pts
2nd place: 19 pts
The other 28 songs: 9pts each

Address added up top.

Long May You Run is a strange thing, no? While there's a couple of Neil's that I really like, generally Stills' tracks pwn Neil's.

Thanks, WmC.

generally Stills' tracks pwn Neil's
huh really? i skip stills' tracks and love the title track, midnight on the bay and ocean girl.

It might just reflect what I go for I guess. I like things a bit ... more minor and swampier, maybe? Happy Neil's ditties aren't usually my thing.

don't forget indignant political neil!

i'm going to have to fight the urge to put the entirety of On the Beach on my ballot!

Don't fight it!

Or fight it just a little by voting for everything but "Vampire Blues". :)

I have spent the last hour happily & feverishly Youtubing and reliving my childhood! If anyone needs me I can be found on cloud nine. Follow the strains of Like A Hurricane..

Got it on just now - the track before it, 'Will To Love' is more splendid though.

Almost tempted to vote for both Neil's and Emmylou's versions of "Wrecking Ball" I like that song so much.

xp "Will To Love" is so great! Neil and David Briggs get weird!

toilet paper
ozone layer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdiCJUysIT0

not the most dignified video, but he looks like a total madman and i love it

neil has really made some inneresting videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80L4kM9a4TQ

I've never heard "I am the Ocean" - is that on the Pearl Jam record?

generally Stills' tracks pwn Neil's

good god the Stills songs on the Stills/Young album are appalling! wtf

That's it, I'm voting for all of them now.

(I'm The Ocean is on that one, yes)

I had never heard I Am The Ocean either! So I just listened to it and it's good and all but... it sounds a bit like Dancing In The Dark?

ugh are you guys really trying to get me to listen to Pearl Jam

IT'S A TRAP

that record is pretty good, pearl jam and all.

hate them so much and not on youtube so inclined not to bother

lol, you'd probably like it. they're basically doing a crazy horse impression w/ a more amped up drummer.

Mirror Ball always struck me as a "rockin' Neil by numbers" record.

"You guys try to sound like Crazy Horse, and I'm gonna wank out the same two notes on my guitar while I sing a buncha nonsense." I was hugely disappointed at the time and the few times I've revisited it over the years it's continued to seem pointless.

Eddie Vedder is the table.

Lololol Z S I was just thinking last night, "How in the world am I not going to vote for all of On the Beach?"

Here's one that you may not know: Heavy Love, from the Eldorado EP which came out just before Freedom. Neil gets back to rocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OK6QDggVmQ

Neil should've made a record with Spiritualized instead of Pearl Jam imho

Earth!!!!!

ha yeah late period Earth definitely

I'd forgotten about the Dead Man sdtk. I guess *that* is actually the last thing of his I thought was really good - altho there are tracks on his later stuff that are definitely innaresting and appealing. none of it seems of much significance tho.

"Wrecking Ball," yes--I'll have either that or "Hangin' on a Limb" from Freedom. Emmylou has a great solo version of "Wrecking Ball," too.

lotta great tracks on Freedom

Crime in the City etc

Don't Cry!

For Your Consideration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzJzDh9nOTg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uR9OvK5zxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJz_9UIXTjM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W6ENMRteW0

all killers.
for deep cut bootleggy kinda things i submit:
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/24071228066/bad-news-neil-young-in-the-1980s-as-a-follow-up
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/11101846032/sad-movies-a-secret-history-of-neil-young

listen here, Mirror Ball is more a Neil album than a Pearl Jam album and PJ hatred is kind of irrelevant as far as that album goes? I mean, my PJ love is well documented but i've never thought 'hmm I wanna listen to some Pearl Jam, oooh Mirror Ball"

suck it up and listen to I Am The Ocean, Shakey :)

what does Eddie Vedder do on the record

Anyway I don't know if this song needs help or not but it's one of my favorites

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

xpost backing vocals mostly, iirc
from Wiki: Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder was not around much for the recording sessions.[4] Vedder explained that he was "in the midst of a pretty intense stalker problem," adding that "leaving the house wasn't the easiest thing to do."[4]

happy now :P

vedder only has one (short) real lead vocal bit on peace and love. frankly i think you could just treat the first half of the record as an EP and be pleased w/ it.

"Eddie rolled the joints, but Bobby Charles did that better."--Neil

I'm not in much of a mood for Neil Young these days but I'm sure I can easily come up with 30 picks.

Or 40.

listen here, Mirror Ball is more a Neil album than a Pearl Jam album and PJ hatred is kind of irrelevant as far as that album goes? I mean, my PJ love is well documented but i've never thought 'hmm I wanna listen to some Pearl Jam, oooh Mirror Ball"

suck it up and listen to I Am The Ocean, Shakey :)

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, June 22, 2012 1:23 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah it's kinda like avoiding various NY albums because you don't like the songs Crazy Horse wrote on their own albums

as an aside, for the record: Sugar Mountain kills me. Growing up kinda sucks, Neil otm

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

It's so noisy at the fair
But all your friends are there
And the candy floss you had
And your mother and your dad.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

There's a girl just down the aisle,
Oh, to turn and see her smile.
You can hear the words she wrote
As you read the hidden note.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

Now you're underneath the stairs
And you're givin' back some glares
To the people who you met
And it's your first cigarette.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

Now you say you're leavin' home
'Cause you want to be alone.
Ain't it funny how you feel
When you're findin' out it's real?

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.