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

if you own only one neil young bootleg, the honey slides live set should probably be the one. maybe.

I own no bootlegs so thanks for the tips!

i posted upthread, alfred, but if you want a good overview of unreleased 70s neil -- http://ow.ly/c41hx

What is the honeyslides set typically known as?

if you own only one bootleg, Citizen Kane Junior Blues should probably be the one. maybe.

xp goes under the name "Citizen Kane Jr Blues" or just "Bottom Line 1974"

the main thing is that one boot ain't enough.

correct.
[http://ultrasoundlounge.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/neil-young-the-bottom-line-nyc-51674/]

Ah yeah, Bottom Line! Thanks

worried about mediafire tbh

I e-mailed this guy once, trying to get the '78 Toronto show; he e-mailed back with a suggestion, then disappeared.

http://rustedshut.50megs.com/catalog.html

I've got bootleg vinyl of the 1971 BBC show that was like the Holy Grail to me for a long time; still amazing, but it seemed less special after Bravo aired the whole show a few years back (it's all over YouTube now).

Any love for "Pushed It Over The End"? Always loved that song. I think the rarities thing I had was actually called Love Art Blues, or that is what was written on the tape.

yeah that one is on my ballot too. pretty amazing tune. the electric versions with csny are worth hearing too.

alright! got mine sent in..

i didn't want to get too far down the bootleg hole but voted for a few things like the superior version of "too fare gone" off of chrome dreams instead of the freedom version, and pushed it over the end, and that acoustic version of "shots" off re-ac-tor that's on youtube or used to be.

i basically had to stop myself from putting every song on tonight's the night on it

I am actually more into the electric version(s). Really like the arrangements and rollout of the tune. Lots of cool transitions. Will be on may ballot for sure, though at this point it is reaching the 40 song point fast. Going to try to force myself to get tough and go for 30, but so much easier to just through them all in the pot and let the polling gods sort them out.

Of Pushed It Over The End that is.

Voted at last.

Forgot how much I love "Round and Round" btw. Devastating soung for me, sounds like weeping.

xp yeah neil's songs sound great on the CSNY tour -- will be nice to have cleaned up versions of them (i assume) on the forthcoming Doom Tour set. He was ready to do an album! Doesn't seem like CSN were, though.

i didn't want to get too far down the bootleg hole but voted for a few things
I'm assuming that, as with live versions, the points'll get amalgamated anyway, and people can say which version they voted for in the results thread.

btw I'm planning to include two things Neil didn't write, but covered, in my ballot. Please shout now if these are ineligible.

Upper Mississippi making life difficult for the scorer's table.

No, covers are fine. I was wondering today if my initial post--"any song written by Neil is eligible"--cost things like "On Broadway" votes. I addressed this halfway through the thread, but it's buried way back there. I was trying to make it clear that covers, CSNY tracks, etc. were eligible, but you could also interpret that the other way, that if it's not written by Neil it's not eligible. Not so--if it's on one of his albums, it counts.

"Home On The Range" might sneak onto my ballot

Let me add: if anybody who's already voted did leave off a cover because of my ambiguous instructions, and you want to get it back onto your ballot, that's not a problem. Just let me know what to replace, either here or in an e-mail.

man Sleeps with Angels is awesome

anyways: I voted!

OK thanks, clemenza. Have now voted.

Not to get too deep into the boots, but the Rock n Roll Cowboy set mentioned above is fantastic. Covers his whole career from 1966/1994, and there's even a book written about it by Paul Williams. Really nice cross section of all eras, and you can always explore what sounds good to you on the set with individual gigs from the eras if you want. It was the first NY boot I purchased (because I read the Williams book and of course HAD to have the box after that), and it really was a great introduction.

Thanks for the covers clarification -- Oh Lonesome Me is now IN.

ha, rock n roll cowboy is one of those things i remember wanting so bad as a teenager in the 90s. i'd see it in a few record stores, gaze at the tracklist and wonder if i'd ever hear that stuff. it cost like $100 (or more?). i did finally get it on tape. but the perfect echo set is probably better, quality wise?

Ugh, this is impossible. I mean, it's great and shit I wish I had started this earlier.

Yeah, I got RnRC box for a bargain price of $90 back in the late 90s. There are definitely better quality sets out there as far as sound, but the book is pretty excellent (for a boot I mean) and as an intro, it can't be beat. I still play it pretty often (like today). The versions of Old Ways and Kinda Fonda Wanda from that 1983 Shocking Pinks tour are KILLERS.

Current song making my head hurt is "There's A World", which is kinda astounding but minor at the same time.

haha i thought there was no limit to the songs on your ballot, so i turned in a 90+ song ballot

just edited down to $40...my ballot got a whole lot more boring

listening to fork in the road right now

it's not bad

Fork in the Road is great! I don't understand the kneejerk dismissal of that record. "Oh, he wrote songs about his car, like I'd ever listen to THAT!" It's pretty solid all the way through!

COUGH UP THE BUCKS!

I said upthread the title track's good -- and of my favorite Obama-era comentaries.

i like the neil goes gang of four part of cough of the bucks

Rescued Ragged Glory, Sleeps With Angels, Chrome Dreams II, and Sugar Mountain from storage today!

excited for the results of this!

Fork in the Road is great! I don't understand the kneejerk dismissal of that record.

Yes. It's a great record.

I'd like to put in a last minute plug for an obscure favorite of mine, Powderfinger.

Crap! I knew I forgot something!

"Fuckin' Up" is better than I remember. Too bad he cut the "Big success, shot full of holes" line.

I've tallied 40 ballots now, with one more waiting for a scoring confirmation--may be able to reach 50. Still a great three-way race at the top (one of the three came out of nowhere midway). 226 different songs/covers have drawn votes.

Quick Question: how would I vote for the Massey "A Man Needs.../Heart of Gold" suite? Do I just vote for it as one whole, or two seperate pieces with a note of preference, or just for "A Man..." w/the note?

separately, I'd tink.

I'm very tempted to vote for the new "Comin' Round the Mountain."

still gonna vote but it's tough to find time so look out for my love soon

C. Grissom: yes, separately--all live versions (about which only a couple of people have been specific anyway) have been combined with studio originals.

Ok, thanks. Onward to Sleeps With Angels (which I'm pretty sure I haven't listened to in 13 or so years.)

It's really, really good.

I was just listening to "American Stars n Bars," and it really struck me how nice it is sometimes just to listen to Neil Young. Like, it doesn't really matter the album, or the songs, just that he's such a distinctive writer and particularly a singer that it's nice just to hear his voice some mornings. That really clicked with me the last time I saw him live. Hot or not so hot, he's the only Neil Young we've got, and man, is he a good one.

Bout to send my ballot, because likewise there are no wrong answers.