A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

a gift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k--EF7cZmw

she butchers the best hook though imo

Rick Rubin? (xxpost) That's like Greil Marcus pulling over to the side of the road when he heard "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" for the first time.

Songs Famous People Claim To Have Needed To Pull Their Car To The Side Of The Road After Hearing

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I don't know why but of all the harmonies on ATGR, it's the chorus of "I Believe in You" I find the most affecting - I think it might be the really simple piano line.

Old photo--don't go looking for that gas station.

Wow, did not expect "Sedan Delivery" at this point.

sedan delivery, so great. i sort of imagine neil having written this song after someone described the concept of punk rock to him. i doubt neil really listened to a great deal punk rock, but he understood.
also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5akaznulK8

I voted for "Sedan Delivery" - was thinking especially of the version off Live Rust.

yeah I was hoping for higher. This song just missed my top 10 iirc

Used to love it. In 1979, I tried to convince my punk-loving friend Peter that it sounded exactly like punk rock. I had no idea what I was talking about.

The words of "I Believe In You" are so direct and moving, especially when compared to something like "Tell Me Why" off the same album. Not that I don't love TMW, but I seem to recall a quote from NY to the effect that he stopped playing it live, cos he didn't know what the lyrics were supposed

I voted for "Sedan Delivery" and La Lechera voted for "See The Sky Is About To Rain". Happy to say neither of us voted for "I Believe In You". Too treacly for my taste.

Pretty sure I didn't vote for anything off of "Tonight's the Night." Good record but overrated.

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.

I voted for it entirely because of this solo performance Neil did on SNL:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbj6fl_neil-young-harvest-moon-live-snl-ne_music

"See The Sky" has one of my favorite electric piano lines in all rock.

Likewise, the Massey (or is it Fillmore?) take referenced in the other thread convinced me to put this one here. Neil solo live seems to up the intimacy level for me.

I didn't vote for "The Loner" -- but the Live Rust take is killer.

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Yes, the electric version comes later, at which point I'll post what they would have gotten combined.

while i restrained myself from loading my ballot with Rust, it's the one album where I won't be like "christ, did you guys vote for EVERYTHING on it?" cuz I probably could've too.

I'd rather listen to "My My, Hey Hey" these days--the electric is overplayed on the local station, and I always like the guy who screams out "wooooo!" at Johnny Rotten's name.

Wow, never would have voted for "I Believe In You." Always makes me think of "Killing Me Softly." "Sedan Delivery" ... I love nuts Neil, but I wanted to save room for other stuff.

Sedan and On the Beach were tied with the most songs on my ballot

not Sedan, Rust Never Sleeps

Like "Rockin'," love the acoustic and electric versions equally. Also love the notion of bookending an album with acoustic and live versions of the same song.

I wish the Stooges had done that with "Down in the Street."

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First Zuma song to place, I think...great opener.

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"

From La Lechera: "Don't Cry No Tears"  - true love ain't too hard to see

Yes! "Don't Cry No Tears" --> "Danger Bird" = one of the best one-two punches in his catalog.

wish the Stooges had done that with "Down in the Street."

goggling at this. how would that work?

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.

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.

Kidding about the Stooges. (Is goggling like googling?)

"There's nothing I can say / To make him go away" - seriously makes me shudder whenever I'm thinking about a failed relationship.

goggling is like this -> o_0

Forgot about the rough sketch on Archives--was amazed hearing that for the first time. What's it called again, Tyler?

"I Wonder"

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.

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Oh man.

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.

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.

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!

Try this--again, amazing:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/I+Wonder/2zgZGQ?src=5

ha, there it is, yeah, so nice. awesome that 10 years later he was like, hmm, yeah *that* song.

"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

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.)

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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.

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".