A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

Mmmmmmmmm....ocean of ham.

imagine Lou Reed giving "Danger Bird" the "Foot of Pride" treatment.

I'll indicate #1s at the end--as I said upthread, the majority of ballots were unranked.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil35.jpg

neil was probably the first of his friends to write songs about how painfully old he is and the first of his friends to be crowing about how he'll be young and crazy forever

The ultimate boomer?

Ha ha. Quite.

"oh my god how i miss amusement parks and candy corn"

ten years later

"eat a peach, fat-asses! i'm a-go hang out with devo!"

I'll indicate #1s at the end--as I said upthread, the majority of ballots were unranked.

Oh, I missed that one, sorry. Like I said, not complaining, you are doing an A+++ job thus far.

Thanks. There were also people who numbered their lists but didn't allocate points--I'm not really sure if their #1 is in fact #1.

Thrasher is another top 10. So so awesome

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it's gonna be weird when neil drops Time Fades Away II - same songs, different performances!

OK like I'm the Ocean is a good song and all but goddamn I cannot believe it just placed higher than a bunch of Zuma and On the Beach big-timers

some dude? did you only vote for one song?

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i had 35 songs on my ballot and "I'm The Ocean" was at #25 with the minimum number of points fyi

Jack Irons is awesome on Pearl Jam albums but i don't feel like he's really at his best on Mirror Ball

"Thrasher" is textbook example of good lyric writing.

Time Fades Away is sensational, my no.3

"Time Fades Away" is the second of my top 10 to place. Great song, great performance.

Possibly my all-time favorite vocal of his.

You know, I bet if you took the best songs from Broken Arrow and the best from Mirror Ball with a little bit of Dead Man you could make a pretty great 95-96 patchwork

Take a look at a bit of this video if you get a chance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0df4vyeFhEo

It's footage shot in my hometown (Georgetown, Ontario) during the mid-'70s. Somebody put a series of them up a couple of years ago--that's where the image comes from. They're just so perfect in capturing how Time Fades Away and "Ambulance Blues" affected me at the time. Difficult to explain.

Alfred otm re Thrasher's lyrics

voted for Time Fades Away as well

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"Winterlong" really came out of nowhere on the second half of ballots to arrive. (The Pixies' cover got a vote too.)

I like Winterlong but have never understood effusive praise for it, like when Frank Black says it's the best song the Pixies ever did

I'm basically with you--exciting when it showed up on Decade, but it's lost something over the years for me.

"Winterlong" is very good but I never thought it would finish this high.

Eric Weisbard said it sounded like peak Big Star but I don't hear it.

Wow, I missed a lot. Meetings suck. Very surprised at some of these results, but cool nonetheless. Think "I'm The Ocean" is some kinda age thing. I had not time for that record when it came out, I had other fish to fry, and it still doesn't really compute with me, but if I had been younger and more in thrall of the moment I might have seen it differently, who knows. I have never made it to the end of the song.

Also consider "Winterlong" cool but not a heavyweight, can't see it this high either.

that "come back now, come back now" is pretty alex chilton

I'm far from a Big Star expert, but I don't really hear them in "Winterlong."

I do love the "come back now, come back now whoaoa" part for sure.

"Barstool Blues" or "Lookin' For a Girl" are closer.

i can kinda hear the big star comparison in "Winterlong"s solo. beautiful tune (esp. on the fillmore disc w/ whitten). always seemed like a girl group should've covered winterlong, you know, with the be my baby bit there towards the end.

"Love," Alfred, "Love."

yeah i'd never think of comparing "winterlong" and big star myself, but it's a yearning, mega-melodic 70s song with some lurch and crunchy guitar, not an offensive stretch

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my #1

No one indicated "Trans version," so all votes went to Buffalo Springfield.

Oh, hello

I was oblivious to the fairly obvious "Satisfaction" rip until I read Shakey.

original's the best, imo. neil's said he wanted to mix the stones with dylan and he never did it better than here. if the fifth best song on a 70s album shows up in front of this, i'm gonna be a butt, sorry in advance.

Did I goof, buzza? Hope not.

always seemed like a girl group should've covered winterlong, you know, with the be my baby bit there towards the end.

oh wow. LIke Emmylou-Dolly-Linda?

No, just quoting the opening of the song

woah that ontario footage + amublance blues on spotify is taking me to a weird place

fwiw i like "i'm the ocean" and had it on my ballot

mr. soul is great....the Archives Mono version is rough sounding but SO MUCH better

xp no, like the ronettes. though emmylou-dolly-linda would be nice too.

this doesn't come up a lot as something a lot of people saw on tv that blew their minds, but i'm envious of anyone who was first introduced to neil by this tv appearance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEqLh4-Ouck

Sideburns HOF.

"is it strange i should change? i don't know, why don't you ask her." might be my favorite last line of a song ever

it just doesn't get more idgaf than that