A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

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

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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"!

Harvest Moon > Harvest

Corny but sweet.

I like Unknown Legend but the way Demme wedged it into Rachel Getting Married was a turn-off

haha, yeah, that was an odd choice.

Of all the Neil songs he coulda snuck in there too

really don't like unknown legend. ilx loves the corn.

Thought it was fine in the movie, but it made me spend more time with the original and I totally fell in love with it all over again.

Demme's got great musical tastes but shit like that or a Soft Boys reunion track showing up in The Truth About Charlie is just fucking distracting, the downside of auteurism

I saw Rachel Getting Married and have no recollection of Neil whatsoever.

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tv on the radio dude chooses to sing the opening track of Harvest Moon as his marriage vow xpost

"downtown" is great but picking a whitten song was too slippery slope for me

Photo goes out to Finefinemusic!

I saw Rachel Getting Married and have no recollection of Neil whatsoever.

The TV on the Radio dude sang it at the wedding.

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I didn't pick anything from HM -- my least favorite of the comeback records.

Neil co-wrote "Downtown"--I did check that to make sure it was eligible.

yeah, didn't vote for downtown because i think of it more as whitten, but so great. what a cool riff -- should be played on classic rock radio all the time.

i think neil has said his contrib to "downtown" was the "sure enough they'll be sellin stuff" line.

(Although I guess it would have been eligible anyway, according to my murky guidelines...)

yeah i mean it's on TTN, totally valid

"Downtown" was way high on my ballot. After "Borrowed Tune" it's like, hey look, a herd of elephants running towards us!

It's as bright and power-poppy as almost anything Neil's ever done, for me (though again, just missed my ballot).

yeah, love the way it crashes in. once i found out it was a 1970 Crazy Horse live recording, I was like pleaaaaaase put out the full show! Only had to wait about 15 years.

For a long time I heard the line "Snake eyes, french fries" as "Steak house french fries." Great song.

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This one, I love. So weird that Neil handed over the lead vocal to Richie Furay.

I've never heard this album. Is it any good?

think i prefer Furay singing this one? maybe. i like CSNY doing this one too.

for me "Look Out For My Love" has to be the original album version; and yeah, it's that weird sustained electric guitar that does it....I love the Neil Young who is aggressive and acoustic at once (aggressively acoustic? acoustic aggression?)

Voted for this but mainly for the Massey Hall version.

xp yeah he does that occasionally -- the distant overdubbed distorto guitar on an otherwise mellow song. "pardon my heart" kinda has it too.

The album is not very good, no, mostly an odds and ends thing, but this song is fantastic. I MUCH prefer the solo acoustic versions and also voted for it with that in mind. He opened with it when I saw him on the solo acoustic tour back in 1999 and it was just perfect.

I've had the same two-record anthology of theirs since the mid-'70s. I bought Last Time Around years later, but never played it like I used to play the anthology. But it's got some great songs: besides "On the Way Home," there's "Four Days Gone," "Special Care," "Questions," "Uno Mundo" (all Stills'), and Furay's "Kind Woman."

My vote was very much for the Massey Hall version, I can't really stand the BS version, that version of "on the way home" is probably my most favorite single thing from the archives

Odds and ends, yes--it was assembled after they'd broken up.

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Love these pictures clemenza.

Thanks. Be thankful I didn't post 75 Nixon-related images--not that you couldn't make a case for doing so.

yeah, images are great.
"birds" is one of my fave neil young breakup anthems. the harmonies on the chorus are incredible.

yeah, love the way it crashes in. once i found out it was a 1970 Crazy Horse live recording, I was like pleaaaaaase put out the full show! Only had to wait about 15 years.

― tylerw, Monday, July 9, 2012 3:43 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was confuseder than fuck when I first heard it unedited on the Fillmore East disc. But that's a brilliant show, even though they had to share the bill with that sorry-ass non-playing motherfucker Steve Miller.

When I was gathering stuff for that covers piece, it was a real eye-opener as to how many people had covered "Birds."

Birds is in at 33 on my list. Fantastic song. I spent a REALLY long time trying to find the alternate band version that appeared on a single flipside back in the day (on Only Love Can Break... IIRC) and never found it. I DID get a copy of the 45 on eBay, but it had the regular album version.

Now that Archives Vol 1 is out, I don't have to look for it any more, thankfully.

Don't think I've ever heard a cover of Birds! Who has done it?