A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

That's Halston in the photo, right? He looks like Phil Hartman there.

Still waiting for Neil's Nash diss track...

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I wanted to do every image in purple words on a grey background, but it wasn't meant to be.

idle Neil thought - is there any other rock n roll artist who has both written and elicited so many "response" songs? (Circle Game, Sweet Home Alabama, Hey Hey My My is kinda a response to the Pistols, This Note's For You is a response to Clapton's ads etc)

like Ordinary People but agree didn't much like the chrome dreams version

chubby checker xpost

Sample and Hold was my #1! Such a great song.

yaaaaaaaaaay, i voted for Sample And Hold. so good.

I would like to confess that I am the owner of the "Sample and Hold" 12" with the "Dance Remixes" of it and "Mr. Soul" and yet it still didn't make my ballot.

Did I goof on "Ordinary People"--was it on another album prior to Chrome Dreams II?

xp ooh, I have never heard these "Dance Remixes", worth checking out (even if only as curios)?

nope, it was unreleased but heavily bootlegged until CDII

I wish there'd been a dance remix of "Words (Between the Lines of Age)."

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ah, here's the first one i voted for! this song is ridiculously beautiful.

In the mid-90s I saw a band do a trip-hoppy version of "Pocahontas". It was different.

I'd say if you really love the song and the Trans stuff in general then yes, absolutely worth checking out the Sample and Hold remixes. The single mix is different than the LP version too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH1Ivbe4wFU

I love the version of "Transformer Man" from unplugged but the original never did much for me.

Yes! "Transformer Man" was one of my last minute cuts; so glad it placed!

Gee, I wish Ordinary People finished higher. Such a great song.

If you're primarily a dreamer-of-pictures and run-in-the-night type (like me), please don't hit the panic button.

Another Trans track I voted for (and saved from >75 obscurity)!

anyone who thinks a bunch of synthed-out tracks and blue notes numbers tare going to score higher than Ordinary People, Transformer Man and Sample And Hold has probably already eaten the panic button

I am so happy this poll exists because I only really know the Canadian radio/campfire jams but never heard anything like Sample and Hold, for instance. This is so great! Thanks, Clemenza.

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"Words" was a late cut. Glad to see it.

Glad you were able to get a ballot in today, FFM--this poll was woefully short of Canadians and females. (Breaking news: obsessive list-making favored by males.)

and by non-Canadians?

I love the version of "Transformer Man" from unplugged but the original never did much for me.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, July 9, 2012 1:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha i voted for it purely off the Unplugged version, have never heard Trans

^ "Words" a late cut for me as well, I love the last couple minutes of that song.

never been crazy about "words", i always expect it to be better than it is.

xp Hah! Well the Neil Young I do know, I love - and thankfully years of Q107 and summers in the Kawarthas with my parents' friends ensured that I had a decent 20 song ballot. Also now that I am youtubing I am discovering that there's more I knew, but didn't know the titles of. Thanks for slipping my songs into the mix! I felt like such a shit when I realized yesterday was the deadline.

I'm with tylerw re: Words. One of my most skipped songs ever.

A rambling mess, but I've always loved it as an indecipherable mood piece (though not quite enough for my ballot). Can't remember who, but someone made a point of giving it zero points!

I love ILX!

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Never make it to those last two minutes of "Words", find it as a letdown for some reason as well and always skip it. I like his solos on it alright, but hate the chorus/vocals for some reason.

Oof. Words is so clearly the best thing on Harvest to me, a little horrified to see it so low.

Words was a late cut for me too, yay for it placing! I don't think Neil does many songs with such eccentric time signatures, so that was way cool to hear

in fact I think Words was one of my '0 pts' teary-eyed votes

old laughing lady is wonderful in all its incarnations -- really got excited about the og studio version thanks to the archives. such a weird arrangement, kind of makes me think of nick drake ("river man" in partic). and then those insane backgrund voices. nothing else really like it in neil's catalog.

I never really cared for "The Old Laughing Lady" until I found a couple of excellent covers of it. Made me rehear the song...though I don't think I've gone back and listened to the original since finding them.

Okay, I misinterpreted LLB--I thought you were saying that those were your three least favourite Neil songs.

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Sad song--my favourite from Time Fades Away, along with another that didn't place.

these are some pretty fucking random results!

voted for Transformer Man, love both the Trans and especially the Unplugged versions

I've been jamming Love In Mind over & over today. I'd never noticed it's only 1:40 'til I realised how often I had to keep skipping back.

They are random, and maybe for most people the most interesting stretch. Past today, things fall into place.

Love In Mind was another late cut. So glad others liked it enough to get it to place.

I adore "Love In Mind" -- featured it on a (long ago) mix tape for the wife. Placed it at #30 (out of 50).

aawwww, my #2 - #68 (?!?)
absolutely adore
maybe people consider it slight 'cuz it's so short?

the snl 'rockin' in the free world' is phenomenal, one of the greatest tv musical performances ever imo

powderfinger might be my favourite neil lyric, just the right balance between poetic and specific

i saw a band cover "albuquerque" recently and it felt like a gift. i recognized it in like 3 notes and there was nothing particularly outstanding about it musically but what a pleasure to hear that song being played by people!

that SNL performance always cheers me up when i am feeling low. i feel like watching it over and over helps to reclaim that song from its truly awful fate as "escalator song" :(

sounds like you're travelling in some pretty rockin' elevators tbh

no elevators -- the escalator video of DJT & M descending to make his speech where he announced his candidacy that i will not link or ever watch again if i can avoid it

ALSO at the girls rock end-of-camp showcase last weekend a wee camper DJ played "rockin in the free world" during her DJ set and i shed a tear or 5

oh christ i'd forgotten about that ;_;

The “country ham” line in Albuquerque has always kind of taken me out of the moment.

what, the fried eggs are ok but not the ham?
i like that the line it rhymes with is super poignant. it elevates the ham.

definitely makes me want some fried eggs and country ham

As all music should.

nobody can make you feel an unexpected minor chord like neil

ha true!

neil young is good

can confirm

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These are the Neil Young alums ya need.

Zuma is a good shout for #1. No Live Rust? No After the Goldrush? SMDH

I like/love 'em all, really. Post-Ragged Glory albums I'd rank with his best: Harvest Moon, Greendale, Psychedelic Pill.

solid list for sure

the live at the fillmore east renditions of the everybody knows this is nowhere songs have taken over as the definitive versions for me in the last couple of years

when Keith Richards, recording his solo album, said he’d run out of material to write about, drummer Steve Jordan reminded him, “Think of Mick. Write about Mick.”

hahahaha that's amazing