A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

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

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megaclassic guitar riffage!

"Walk On" was my number 3. Love it to pieces.

some get stoned/
some get strange

"some get strange" = how perfect is this line?

Apologies if you voted for it, but this one I don't get at all. As I've mentioned many times, I'm not as big on On the Beach as most people, "Ambulance Blues" excepted. But as an album, rather than song by song, I get the appeal--I used to play it constantly myself. But "Walk On" doesn't even work for me in the context of the album. It just seems like this half-speed nothing of a song.

feel like when walk on came out all of of neil's friends must've been like "oh man, does he mean me?! he totally means me!" and then sunk into a deep depression.

Cool clip. Who was that Hollywood Palace host? I don't recognize him.

"Walk on" has a bit of the power pop feel to it as well, though that and "Barstool Blues" placed on my ballot in the mid-twenties and "Winterlong was top 10.

I always heard "Walk On" was Neil's answer to "Sweet Home Alabama"

"Winterlong" probably is the best song the Pixies did; but imo that doesn't put it in Neil's top 50..... ;-)

i think sweet home alabama came out after walk on.

haha i was gonna make that joke but i actually love the pixies

From what I've read, he was responding to some press criticism of a recent tour.

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^ my #1