A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

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".

"Out On The Weekend" is such a great opener. Neil did a great job sequencing those 70s albums.

love the bell-like pedal steel from ben keith on this track.

"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.

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...

Glad to say we had two Bens and one Bruce vote in this poll. Also one of the Pet Shop Boys.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin polls were similar. (xpost)

"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.

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Very high on my own ballot, thought it would be higher overall. Such a brilliant song.

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?)

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.

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.

nah I agree with you, Dylan's voice is shot.

otoh I consider his Xmas album a masterpiece sooooo

Dylan's voice is shot, but he's released a couple of classic shot-voice records already.

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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.

Ah, here's one I voted for. Let the deluge begin!