A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

my biggest problem with CSNY and Buffalo is that Decade cherry-picked the Neil stuff so well that the other guys are at a serious disadvantage

I do think that Stills' best Springfield stuff is the equal of, and sometimes greater, than Neil's.

Yeah, I still prefer Neil's version, but Nicolette's has grown on me in the last few years. When I was a kid and heard that come on the radio, I practically ran to change the dial.

Sad and surprised to find out that she died many years ago.

Love the images on the last two.

I really like the cover of 'Lotta Love' (I actually think I heard it first) but I stuck with an all-Neil ballot (and voted for the original anyway).

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil60.jpg

Aww, cute kids, but this song has never done much for me. I do think of it every time I mess up my kids' hair though...

You're going to hear me gush and gush on Tuesday and Wednesday, but another one I've always been indifferent to--I like Richie Furay's "A Child's Claim to Fame" so much more.

Third one from my ballot! (others were Expecting to Fly and Words)

yeah i kind of re-evaluated the first album stuff around the time the remasters and archives came out and at the time thought i had underrated it...now i'm coming around to my first view is that that era is not my favorite of his.

was really bummed to have to cut "burned" by BS off archives from my list.

Oh man I hope Burned makes it. That's probably my favorite BS song.

Also love "Sell Out" from around that time. Really fun, great groove.

yeah i cut burned, too, but it's one of my fave neil BS songs. kind of a perfect little 60s pop number.

and I Am A Child has never been a big fave. Nice, but not great.

Had "Lotta Love" and "Harvest", both rhytmically really pleasing for me for some reason, of all things to be into in those songs.

I remember a Neil interview when he was asked about some of his lyrics and he said (I'm paraphrasing, but he specifically referenced this line), "I don't know what my stuff means. 'What is the color when black is burned'? What is that? Like dark grey or something?"

"It's hard to know the meaning of this song..."

that's awesome

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil59.jpg

Hah, great picture!

Thumbs up for the pic, not so much for the song (one of my least favorites on TTN).

decent countryish number followed by GENIUS GODHEAD I'VE KNOWN SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL followed by some little hippie thing...

Ha ha. OTM.

Separated by a matter of weeks: Tonight's the Night came out on June 20, 1975, the "Thrilla in Manila" was October, 1, '75.

A hip drag queen and
A side-walkin' street wheeler,
Comin' down the avenue.
They're all your friends,
You'll come to love 'em
There's a load of 'em
Waitin' for you.

didn't vote for this, but i love it. kind of like neil's version of walk on the wild side? glory hallelujah!

Like I said on the other thread, just perfect in the context of the album, hard for me to detach it otherwise.

My first song to place. Chose it partly as a stand-in for TTN as a whole, but it's definitely one of my favorites. Livens up the second side of the record.

yeah it's that awesome sleazoid tonight's the night vibe -- although it was recorded on the TFA tour.

"lookout joe" is definitely one of the lessers on that album for me

Back in high school, we thought Tonight's the Night was extremely lively--but a weird kind of lively, yes.

love lookout joe!

"Havin' a ball ... rollin' to the bottom!" Love that verse.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil58.jpg

Wow, another awesome pic!

Such an unusual song on Comes a Time...spooky; one of the best.

another great one that didn't make my ballot, glad it got some love. the distant, scary distorted guitar that lurks in the background is a cool touch.

xp I actually didn't vote for a single Tonight's the Night track. Love the album but none of the songs really worked in isolation when I was putting my ballot together. Guess I should have chosen a stand-in but I couldn't settle on one.

cut Lookout Joe but thought hard about it

voted Don't cry super high, love the rolling bass riff & Neils screams

Back-to-back Lookouts is fun, btw.

The vocal harmonies really make this one for me, but it missed my final ballot.

Love the album but none of the songs really worked in isolation when I was putting my ballot together
yeah i voted for less TtN tracks than i would've thought for the same reason. it's kinda one big song!

I think that's valid. I once made a list of my ten favourite Rolling Stones songs for something I was doing, and I called the entirety of Exile a "phantom 11th pick." (xxxpost)

Yeah, it's weird how the two look-out songs ended up side-by-side.

lookout mama

I voted for this one as well. The weird solo on the bridge. "I know things are going to change but I can't say bad or good" is a line that pops into my head sometimes.

anybody else vote specifically for, or at least had in mind, the MTV Unplugged version of "Look Out For My Love"?

Isn't it acoustic to begin with? Maybe it's very muted electric guitar, I don't know.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil57.jpg

Re: TTN - I think I only wound up with one song from it on my ballot, but if I were ranking NY albums, it would be top 5, easy.

Isn't it acoustic to begin with? Maybe it's very muted electric guitar, I don't know.

The instrumentation is less eccentric in the MTV version, goes on a little longer, etc. Love both versions but they're distinct in my mind, probably cuz I heard the MTV one first.

anybody else vote specifically for, or at least had in mind, the MTV Unplugged version of "Look Out For My Love"?

― da croupier, Monday, July 9, 2012 3:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yup -- Unplugged was kind of my introduction to NY and i voted for more than half the songs on it, often with those versions in mind

Kind of surprised to see "Unknown Legend" on here at all - good tune, but I don't think I even thought twice about it.

"Unknown Legend" is such a lovely little song. 2nd of mine to place.

Don't know who that is, but she reminds me of Theresa Russell circa Straight Time.

I don't have Harvest Moon--please don't ostracize me--but I played this a couple of times and really, really liked it.

Way too low for "Unknown Legend"!