A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

Wow, much lower than I expected. As much as I love "After the Gold Rush," I always found the cheers when Neil sings "And I felt like gettin' high" on the (otherwise great) Live Rust version to be a stadium rock nadir.

You're breakin' my heart.

footage from after the gold rush? i don't think it ever amde it past the stoned screenplay stage.

Wasn't sure...I suppose it's all documented in Shakey. Having marvelled at the insanity of Journey, I sure wish they'd left something behind.

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"Tired Eyes" sounds exactly like coming down from bad drugs in bad company.

Bruce Berry's actual van.

sweet! this song is ... something else! wow.

My third highest Tonight song. My highest didn't make the list.

footage from after the gold rush? i don't think it ever amde it past the stoned screenplay stage.

Yeah, I'm almost positive it was just a (Dean Stockwell-penned) screenplay.

My ONLY TTN song - had it at #21 but I'm all good with it placing this high.

When people describe TTN as "harrowing," this is the song I always think of.

"Tired Eyes" is a great song but I can't remove it from the record for some reason, did not make my ballot. Was sure it would place high though (i.e., didn't need my help).

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Really happy to see "Albequerque" this high, love that song a lot.

My #2 Tonight favourite. The Canadian band Treble Charger recorded an excellent cover for one of the tribute albums.

Wow, TTN fans hitting the top 20 hard.

They're more harrowing to listen to than anything. Yes, TTN sounds like a bad comedown. But I'm not sure these tunes tell me anything about bad comedowns I didn't already know.

Tired Eyes and Albuquerque were the only two on my ballot from TTN. like a lot of other people i have trouble isolating certain songs from the rest of the album.

ilm is basically the ditch trilogy fanclub, i knew that well before this poll

just watched Ace in the Hole last night and had albuquerque running through my head. Such a good song, so downbeat, but not depressing. Kind of amazing that he pulls off singing such a weird word "al-al-al-allll - ba-kirky."

From La Lechera: "Albuquerque" - man, I sure do identify with the spirit of this song, minus the fried eggs and country ham (I prefer scrambled eggs and bacon)

But I'm not sure these tunes tell me anything about bad comedowns I didn't already know.

Not enough just to vividly capture the feeling?

also another great ben keith track, his playing on this is otherworldy.

Oh shit, I forgot that I charted this one too, so I did have two TTN tracks on here. Forgive me, I'm coming down from some heavy shit this morning.

Anyway, my #36. When I finally got an acoustic guitar, this is the first song I learned to play, only to decide later that it sounded far cooler on solo electic anyway. Got rid of the acoustic about a month later.

"tired eyes" does an incredible job of pinpointing a precarious mental state -- pleading and consoling, but in a depleted way, while the conversational thread that runs through it is kind of rambling and heedless, like it's running on second-hand steam autopilot.

"Tired Eyes": weirdest song ever to make a greatest hits comp?

I am so far behind due to busy work days but I got hung up on Out on the Weekend and almost cried at work, it's so beautiful. I wish I'd done a significant amount of youtubing song titles I didn't recognize before voting, because I have come across at least 10 songs I knew well but didn't know the titles of, ARGH.

Clemenza that sedan picture you used reminds me of Kingston road. Any idea?

my #1

My #1. One possible screen name change I'd been pondering recently was Al Bakerky.

Albuquerque, I mean...

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Many xposts: The Goldrush movie was never made (and the script was eventually lost). It was only developed as part of Hopper/Fonda's deal @ Universal (the ill-fated "Youth Movies" division).

Couldn't be Kingston Road--it's Bruce Berry's van. Not sure where he resided, other than it wasn't Toronto.

Gold Rush and Don't Let It Bring You Down were both in my Top 10 - classic "uh oh, here come the 70s" vibes on that album.

After the Gold Rush is my excuse to post this list of links to five Radiohead covers of Neil Young - very nice version of Gold Rush going into Everything In Its Right Place.

http://www.twentyfourbit.com/2011/02/hear-radiohead-cover-5-neil-young-songs/

Only realised this morning how much NY reminds me of Lou Reed on parts of Tired Eyes.

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okay so basically the bottom 25 is just going to be TTN and OTB right...? Glad Rockin' in the Free World made it at least, such an amazing song.

Tonight's the Night (album) is suddenly killing it.

Didn't chart it, but I will add that I prefer the album closing version to the album opening version.

A good bit of OTB has already placed tho.

Still one "Rust" song yet to place that will, I'm pretty sure.

still some zuma and everybody knows tracks, too, i'm sure.

okay so basically the bottom 25 is just going to be TTN and OTB right...?

Plus a minimum of 3 from Everybody Knows....

xpost.

"ride my llama" of course :) xzpost

Both versions counted together (only a couple of voters indicated a specific version anyway). I had a real negative reaction to what Neil did with this in the Year of the Horse movie. It was just too much, the way he stretched it out and howled and yelped. I realize how personal a song it is, and obviously he's entitled to do whatever he wants with it. Speaking as a listener, he crossed a line into overkill.

Still surprised "After The Goldrush" didn't finish higher for some reason, but of course I like all of the songs in the top 20 anyways so no biggie. Thought it might be close to "Life On Mars" in the Bowie poll though.

xp yeah, occasionally i find live versions of tonight's the night kinda garish (and tasteless, i guess!). they're entertaining in a trashy way, but sorta seem like they've crossed the line into pulp fiction, even though it's about a real dude.

Just got here. Albuquerque placing so high is the big surprise of the day so far.

I like how in the Rust movie the encore of TTN comes AFTER the end credits.

Still surprised "After The Goldrush" didn't finish higher for some reason, but of course I like all of the songs in the top 20 anyways so no biggie. Thought it might be close to "Life On Mars" in the Bowie poll though.

Me too; it was one of my two guesses for what an "obvious" #1 would be in this poll.

As everyone probably figured out, the photo is of Bruce Berry. I don't think I'd ever seen him until putting together this.