A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

"Downtown" was also followed a year later by what may really be his most insipid single of the '90s, "This Town"

lol 2nd side is the side I skip

There are no words. I am baffled.

I had an old second hand vinyl copy of On The Beach - side 1 was fine, but side 2 was unplayable. I grabbed a CD version when it came out, but as a result I'm way more familiar with side 1 than side 2. Side 1 is great too - I'll be upset if Walk On, See The Sky About To Rain, and Revolution Blues don't all place.

damn, i used my itunes & last.fm to compile my ballot but forgot to look under buffalo springfield which is why expecting to fly didn't make my ballot, probably in my top 10 or 12

Poll/thread/screencaps totally deliver! Only two of mine have placed so far, Fuckin' Up and Will To Love. The rest of my ballot is gonna be top 25 or already toast.

looks like only one of mine has placed so far ("motion pictures"). expecting a whole bunch of my other choices to come flooding in though -- my ballot didn't show too much imagination in the end.

4 of 30 in so far: The Old Laughing Lady, Birds, On the Way Home, and Long May You Run.

Two so far: Ordinary People and Will to Love.

I love these countdowns for the way they force me to focus on one artist I know well but not top-to-bottom. I don't care that much about what places where - I just like the discovery process.

Same with me. I didn't think anything could get me listening to rough guitar rock again, but doing this has been an absolute joy.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who voted for "Don't Cry". Though I fear I'm the only one who put "Opera Star" as high as I did!

8/30 so far.

I think this is the week I finally get 'round to buying Trans.

5/40: Fuckin Up, Crime in the City, Lookout Joe, Harvest, Birds

I'm at 3/40, and three more I almost voted for. Several I never would have voted for, which is what makes this exciting.

Though I fear I'm the only one who put "Opera Star" as high as I did!

I voted for "Opera Star"!

4/30: Ordinary People, Lookout Joe, Look Out For My Love, Come On Baby, Let's Go Downtown

I'm waiting for a call to pick up my car, so I'm going to start a little earlier today--#50-26.

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The very essence of '70s mellow, Kris K.--to paraphrase Woody Allen, he achieved total mellowosity.

I just realized with horror that nothing from TTN made my ballot.

That might have been true of a very small number of voters...I'd have to check.

I had this one, good way to start the day. Think it was my only TTN song, but would have to check.

To answer something posted since yesterday, any Dead Man votes were counted separately--voters were very specific about which track. But there were only two or three.

Oops.

I need some moderator help--when I try to re-post with the proper tags, it won't let me. Maybe delete the untagged post? Sorry.

Game delayed on account of fuckin' up.

Cool, I voted for Mellow My Mind and Harvest Moon!

Was holding off on commenting until it was "official", but I woulda though HM would be much higher than this. Then you remember all of the other great songs still to come. Maybe the craziest rollout of any of these polls, should be really interesting.

Harvest Moon kinda annoyed me when I saw it on MTV at the time. It was this rather lame sweet folky ballad, so chances are I wouldn't've wanted it anyway, but the look was so obviously of-the-moment (iirc it even had a Smells Like Teen Spirit janitor) that it seemed more like old man jumping on bandwagon than a king returning to his throne. A typical Neil perverse move might've provoked more respect.

Obviously now all that couldn't matter less.

Yes--right now, #49 is only a rumour, wrapped in some gossip, inside an untagged URL.

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There we go.

Thanks!...I'm indulging myself one family picture: that's my mom and dad in 1956. Not sure where they are.

La Lechera and I both voted for "Mellow My Mind". It's awesome. La Lechera also voted for "Harvest Moon", which I agree is awesome but it was a very late cut for me.

Pretty sure I didn't vote for anything off of "Tonight's the Night." Good record but overrated. May have voted for two off of "Harvest Moon," but neither of the singles.

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I love LA.

I heard "Harest Moon" in a store last week maybe--I was a bit tipsy, but it sounded way more pretty and touching than it ever had before

I wish I'd been there...if you blow the photo up 10,000 times, I think you can spot Rodney Bingenheimer.

Hey, L.A.! My first vote of the day to show

Harvest Moon kinda annoyed me when I saw it on MTV at the time. It was this rather lame sweet folky ballad, so chances are I wouldn't've wanted it anyway, but the look was so obviously of-the-moment (iirc it even had a Smells Like Teen Spirit janitor) that it seemed more like old man jumping on bandwagon than a king returning to his throne. A typical Neil perverse move might've provoked more respect.

Obviously now all that couldn't matter less.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:09 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

as a grunge kid watching MTV at the time and just becoming familiar with NY this is a hilarious notion to me -- the "Harvest Moon" video seemed like this anachronistic thing that belonged on a country video countdown, and i wouldn't have dreamed of the guy sweeping a broom as a musical instrument being a nod to "Teen Spirit." of course, within a year he was onstage with Pearl Jam at the VMAs and i was like ok i guess this guy is cool.

I'm trying to remember my first exposure to Neil Young. Obv a lot of it had to do with the big orange book, but I seem to remember it was that I was reading about Dino Jr./J Mascis, without having heard them much if at all, and the constant comparison to Neil's guitar style is what made me steal my stepdad's cassette copy of Everybody Knows. Even then, I was still perplexed, and Harvest (which I hated) didn't help. Things didnt fall into place for me until I bought a copy of Rust, which blew me away immediately...

What is "the big orange book"? Is this some secret Neil document I don't know about?

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"The Loner" took a while to get going--almost no votes initially, then they started to come in midway. Putting aside Buffalo Springfield for a second, I view it like Scorsese's Who's That Knocking at My Door?: an early indication that this guy was unique and major.

I'd also include it with Husker Du's "Diane" and "Riders on the Storm" as one of the spookiest serial-killer songs, even though Neil only hints that that might be what it's about.

The Loner is great. I kind of wish I had voted for it.

big orange book = this. It's how I got into non-mainstream music for lack of a better term. one of those things that defined my adolescence

surprised that the last two placed so high -- like 'em, didn't think they were favorites. probably prefer the "live rust" loner to the s/t. those twin guitar lines are sweet.

That's funny--being older, for me it's the big red book and the big white book.

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