First Zuma song to place, I think...great opener.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
more of my votes appearing in the lower echelons here - LA ("City in the smog! City in the smog! Don't you wish that you could be here too" = lol), "I Believe in You", "Harvest Moon", "Don't Cry No Tears"
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
From La Lechera: "Don't Cry No Tears" - true love ain't too hard to see
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Yes! "Don't Cry No Tears" --> "Danger Bird" = one of the best one-two punches in his catalog.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
wish the Stooges had done that with "Down in the Street."
goggling at this. how would that work?
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
This was easily one of the first songs on my ballot. Great riff, and I find the lyrics or the way Neil sings them really unnerving, almost scary.
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, the guitar sound on Zuma. the best guitar sound ever. love the super early version of this that showed up on the archives, too.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Kidding about the Stooges. (Is goggling like googling?)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
"There's nothing I can say / To make him go away" - seriously makes me shudder whenever I'm thinking about a failed relationship.
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
goggling is like this -> o_0
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot about the rough sketch on Archives--was amazed hearing that for the first time. What's it called again, Tyler?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
"I Wonder"
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
Can't remember if I picked "Don't Cry No Tears," but I know I almost did! It's like the perfect bar-band no rehearsal cover song choice.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil41.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Love this song so, so much.
I'm beginning to think either virtually all of my songs will place, or only half of them. So far, only three or four have shown up.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I've mentioned seeing that Toronto show in 1978. Something I didn't realize: not only would the Rust Never Sleeps songs that he played be new to me, so would anything from Comes a Time. The show was Oct. 1, Comes a Time was released Oct. 2.
Was hoping to find a clip of "I Wonder," but no luck.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, doesn't seem to be on youtube! lame-o. it is crazy that the Rust tour was essentially in support of Comes A Time... surprise!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Try this--again, amazing:
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/I+Wonder/2zgZGQ?src=5
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
ha, there it is, yeah, so nice. awesome that 10 years later he was like, hmm, yeah *that* song.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Comes a Time" is a great song. I just heard that album for the first time within the last week. That song is my favorite; there's something about the way that chorus ends
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Love imagining "Don't Cry No Tears" being played by guys who look like this:
http://www.ucheritagemuseum.com/images/content/the%20shadows%20james%20murphy,%20nicky%20hall%201960s%20new%20albany.jpg
(Not the Squires.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil40.jpg
love comes a time (though i may not have voted for it). amazing that 10+ years into his career, neil wrote a song like that, which is like the archetypal neil young song. don't think any of his peers were capable of that.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
Checking in late. Love See the Sky - placed it very high. Just after filing my ballot at the weekend I walked into a book shop to get out of the rain and they were playing the Massey Hall album and this track had just started. It was such weird, beautiful timing.
Also love Comes a Time - a friend wanted it at his wedding but his wife vetoed it. Boo.
Re: first becoming aware of NY, another friend said his first encounter was seeing Computer Age on a British TV show and assuming he was "Depeche Mode's grandad or something".
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
"Out On The Weekend" is such a great opener. Neil did a great job sequencing those 70s albums.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
love the bell-like pedal steel from ben keith on this track.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Think I'll pack it in and buy a pick-up/Take it down to L.A."--love that line.
Had something similar happen on the weekend. The record kiosk at the flea market I always go to had Harvest on. (Almost solicited a list from the clerk.) "Alabama" was playing when I got there, but the power went wonky and the CD re-started from the beginning.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
I know I hinted at this yesterday with "Birds", but is anyone else having a really hard time grasping the fact that we are still so low in this countdown and are being actively bombarded with all time classic shit that would be in pretty much any other artist's top 3? Who knows, maybe I just love this dude way too much...
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Glad to say we had two Bens and one Bruce vote in this poll. Also one of the Pet Shop Boys.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin polls were similar. (xpost)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
"Bell-like" is a great description for that sound, it's gorgeous. Didn't vote for anything from Harvest but would've picked this or Are You Ready for the Country.
― boxall, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil39.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Very high on my own ballot, thought it would be higher overall. Such a brilliant song.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Is Neil Young the only act of his vintage who would surprise no one by dropping a total masterpiece next week? (Besides Dylan, that is?)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Both La Lechera and I tipped points toward "Barstool Blues". I can't think of a higher compliment than that it puts me in the mood to listen to it whenever it comes on. Not a lot of songs work that way for me.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
For me, Neil might release a masterpiece next week, Dylan can't--not unless he goes back to singing like he did in 1966 (or at least in 1974). But I know hardly anyone agrees, and a separate thread anyway.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
nah I agree with you, Dylan's voice is shot.
otoh I consider his Xmas album a masterpiece sooooo
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Dylan's voice is shot, but he's released a couple of classic shot-voice records already.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil38.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
I'm seeing a movie tonight with a friend--think I may look back on that as a big mistake one day, missing the Trout/Harper All-Star Game.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, here's one I voted for. Let the deluge begin!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Barstool Blues. Another doozy. Norah Jones weighed in on it in Rolling Stone.
3."Barstool Blues" | Neil Young, 1975I remember being with friends at the beach, all singing this at the top of our lungs. We put it on repeat. I don't think I ever had so much fun.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
Is that CNE Stadium? (the image)
xxxpost
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
for the turnstiles is unbelievable, such a great lyric that probably took neil an hour to write.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
No, just some random minor-league park.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
"For The Turnstiles" is the first of my top 10 to make it. Such a killer.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
for the turnstiles - RIP Ben Keith
cool list!
i wonder if "hitchhiker" from le noise isn't going to make it? :(
that was on my list but lots of heavyweights have to be coming up.
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil37.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link