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

Passed the 200 mark for songs that have gotten votes (kind of silly--Neil's pool of songs is considerably larger--but hoping to exceed 212). Very close at the top; the same two songs have changed places five or six times now. Five albums have received votes in their entirety, two are within one song.

Person who voted for "New Mama" I'mma calling you out

"I thought about removing Cripple Creek Ferry from my list of the 40 best Neil songs, but it was a mighty tight...SQUEEZE!"

If only--but I'm going to give you till the morning comes to change your mind.

Oi, what's wrong with New Mama?

Does anyone have just a plain text list of NY song titles without any other embellishment, info, context or anything else?

Can't find anything, not even on the Thrasher's Wheat site. This is almost funny: http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_5638/neil-young/songs. Separate entries for "Cripple Creek Ferry" (1991) and "Crippled Creek Ferry" (1970).

Oi, what's wrong with New Mama?

what's wrong with new mama being one of neil's 40 best songs you mean?

Am I the only one who finds "Such a Woman" not sappy but totally gorgeous?

I voted for "Such a Woman"! I think it gains a lot from how it stands out (reverse "Trans effect"?) and that I'm more willing to trust NY to go to potentially cheesy places than I would a lesser artist, but yeah it's gorgeous.

I like "Such A Woman" - the line about their pain kind of saves it from Joe Cocker territory - though it didn't make my ballot

Nice song--new to me. The best part, I think, is the melodic shift on "No one else can kill me like you do..."

Felt timely after voting in this to see a trailer for the new Neil movie. My favorite part was a brief clip of his brother, Bob, bitching about some new supermarket going in in his town. And I thought, wow, somewhere out there is a guy named Bob Young, who like kinda like Neil Young and is just kind of a cranky old man in Ontario.

Who looks kinda like, I mean. Strong family resemblance.

haven't sent my ballot yet -- tomorrow.

you know what's a perfect 4th of July poolside album? Zuma. "Lookin' For a Love," "Barstool Blues," "Stupid Girl," "Drive Back" --- what chlorine, sunlight, and gin sound like.

Uncovered the turntable--spinning Stills/Young. So yacht. "Let It Shine" is good one.

"Fountainbleau" is kind of a jam too.

OTM with Zuma. Neil young in general fits well with the 4th, but for some reason has a really fitting vibe.

This view may be influenced by the fact that I had several gin drinks and listened to Zuma today, admittedly.

Here's a picture of Bob:

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/bob.jpg

Strong resemblance for sure. He also looks like John Hamilton of the Diodes, a guy was in some film classes with years ago.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/john.jpg

Something in the water supply up here.

"a guy I was"...I'm typo-mad today.

Alfred and Z S, have I got an album for your next gin binge:

http://www.backtoblackvinyl.com/images/album-artwork/big/kiss-alive-front.jpg

i like the whole idea of trans, except for how the songs actually sound

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:51 PM (2 days ago)

Ha, exactly how I feel. 10/10 for the idea of it.

This talk of the 4th, whatever that is, got me wondering how Neil gets a free pass to critique the US body politic and otherwise be associated with all things USA, when he's not even American.

Is this some kind of big country/little country thing? i.e. the big country doesn't even notice there's something weird about it, but hell mend any American who goes up there and insults Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gOcyP-ZiI

Neil, in this classic interview, talks about that around 4:30.

(Short answer: "I love being a Canadian, I love living in America - I've been paying taxes in America for 40 years - I love my American wife, I love my three American children.")

Wasn't the Canadian aspect one of the things that riled Lynyrd Skynyrd?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrG5_2-OH8c

It's hard to search specifics, but I know he took grief over "Let's the Impeach the President." (Over his temerity, not how ordinary the song is.) "Southern Man" and "Alabama," xpost; "Ohio," I don't know.

I never heard of any guff surrounding Ohio and the classic rock radio stations used to play the hell out of NY, so I would assume there is no latent regional grudgeholding about that; Ohio (at least NE OH) knows how to hold a grudge, too (see LeBron most recently).

Yeah, there weren't too many people pro shooting unarmed protestors, a real tipping point, so I imagine any anti-"Ohio" positions were pretty muted.

Neil could've used Crosby and Stills as human shields anyway

According to Shakey, the people most annoyed by Ohio were SDS hardliners who thought rich rock stars were exploiting a tragedy.

i think ohio state-ers Devo thought "Ohio" was kinda silly.
whole buncha 90s neil young live stuff here: http://infinitefool.blogspot.com/2012/07/dont-let-people-lie-to-you.html
94 show in particular is interesting for the rarely played sleeps with angels stuff.

I haven't heard any live CSNY, so here's a question. In concert and doing CSN material, how involved was Young? Did he harmonize, did he leave the stage, did he just play rhythm guitar?

they all did solo sets, but when it was a "band" song, neil was onstage afaik.

4 Way Street was one of about 20-25 albums I sold to a guy I worked with in a record store in the mid-'80s (a solitary act in 35 years of record collecting that I frequently bemoan). I want it back, Randy.

yeah i think 4 Way Street is great, seems like a lot of people hate it. doesn't quite reach the standard of the other radical double lp live albums of the 70s, but it's still supercool.

I love looking at Big Sur footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jxs0ybnsEQ&feature=related

Even when they're more like down by a swimming pool that's down by the ocean.

Joan Baez trotting out her best Shindig! moves at 3:15--priceless. (I think it's her, anyway.)

I like CSN and I like Neil, but, for the most part, I don't like them combined.

ah, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg0v0Er8Ak

yeah, that's awesome. As is the Down By The River clip from around the same time where Neil is on fire.

I've seen that! That rules!

love when crosby realizes his band is ROCKING and he's like YEAH LET'S DO THIS BROS!

I just remembered this odd record. In an election year I might throw it a low vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBhAUr-8zDc

I was amazed when I heard "War Song" on Archives (no recollection of it on the radio at the time)--it's "Ocean Girl."

As mentioned earlier, no YouTube of "Ocean Girl" (except a homemade cover), but this should work.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Ocean+Girl/2BQlaS?src=5

war song is kind of mysterious -- you'd think that it would be more well-known? recorded right after Harvest, featuring one of CSNY...not that it's an amazing song, but it seems to have just been put out and forgotten about.