neil young

oh shit decade

and #s of boots. sorry gang. read my lips, vote dead man

After The Gold Rush.

but On The Beach too. the title song makes me cry.

I voted Time Fades Away

this was already done.
Best of Neil Young studio records

This one has live albums.

Some of them, anyway. (Unplugged, Year of the Horse, Road Rock vol. 1)

Oh. The studio albums poll had the live albums too. Nevermind then.

I voted Ragged Glory because it needs more love and less rockism. That's a srsly good record, yo.

First person to vote "Old Ways" gets a dollar from me.

I voted for "Old Ways" just for the cash. You want my paypal address?

After The Gold Rush = the good songs are so good they make you forget about the bad ones

On The Beach = pretty much all good

I mean "When You Dance" is kind of endearing as a cornily sincere, b-level hippie artifact, but Cripple Creek Ferry is a real turd of a song, and Birds isn't great either.

I got to get away from this day to day running around

TRANS FTW!

Arc/Weld. The worst/best live albums ever.

Dead Man is actually really really good.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Tonight's The Night

closely followed by Goldrush and On The Beach

TTN is definitely my favourite - it's so fucked, so moving. Tender, ragged and rocking in equal measure.

Baby Mellow My Mind aches so hard - the swell of pedal steel, touch of lonesome barroom piano, and Neil's voice actually breaking up.

Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown rocks. It sounds so triumphant in its hedonism yet the undercurrent is utterly bleak.

Other favourites - Everybody Knows, Rust, Zuma, Time Fades Away, Sleeps With Angels, Live Rust. Hell, there hardly any poor ones. I've not heard the infamous Landing On Water, but Are You Passionate was bloody awful. Trans is ace though.

Ragged Glory is great fun, one of his most satisfying rock records, but I wouldn't quite put it in the top rung of Neil albums.

Harvest - handful of great songs and some dreary stuff too. Overall, it's too slick, too polite. I like Neil a little scuffed around the edges.

Rust Never Sleeps has Powderfinger, for the win.

Anyone else notice how Apatow kept dropping the cover of Landing On Water all over Knocked Up. What's the deal with that? Consensus aropund these parts on that album?

Rust Never Sleeps for "Powderfinger", but also because of the individually peculiar time and place in which I first loved this record. Also, it's an incredibly balanced album in so many ways I can't be bothered to expand on here.

Consensus aropund these parts on that album?

I noticed the curious product placement too, Tal. There's an interesting thread here devoted to Landing on Water.

no "none of the above"????

just snuck in a vote for tonight's the night. right in the nick of time.

emotion of the less contained and calculated variety

me for tonights the night, too. its so close though - there are better songs on zuma and everybody knows, and almost enough to give the nod to one of them, but TTN takes it

Yeah, Tonight's The Night would be my second or third and very close.

Rust Never Sleeps by a hair, for side one and Powderfinger alone (though nearly sunk by Welfare Mothers).

Oh c'mon, Welfare Mothers is great! My favorite Neil Young throwaway.

DIVORCEE

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

a 3-way tie this time then.

Fair result.

Wait. Zuma should've been much higher, though.

c'est vrai

Someone voted for Everybody's Rockin' again.

One vote for "Zuma"! No way!! This poll is corrupt!!!

"On the Beach" - there's an ILM album if ever there was one

Sleeps With Angels is way too high. And Freedom is way too low.

The fact that Zuma ranked below Trans completely invalidates this poll.

So, basically, I'm the only person who voted for "Zuma"? Don't believe it.

I wasn't around when CSN(and sometimes Y) were at their peak, so apologies for the following somewhat naive question:

How much of Neil Young's popularity in the 70s can be attributed to his association with CSN? The thought never really occurred to me until I was checking out CSN(Y)'s Allmusic entry today, which says "it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles".

Personally, I like Neil Young exponentially more than CSN(Y), so my gut feeling is that the majority of Neil Young's fans were there on account of his own talent. But was there a certain contingency of fans who cheered loudest for "Ohio" and "Helpless", contemplating to themselves at the Live Rust concerts that it would be better if CSN were up on stage too? Or was it more like "Why the hell does Neil Young ever play with them? They butchered 'Helpless'..."? Just wondering what the prevalent view was back in the day.

When CSN and sometimes Y reunited for a predictably horrible album in 1988, Neil begged off the obligatory tour, saying, "I dunno man, those guys need some serious practice."

And that Allmusic statement strikes me as comically absurd.

Yeah, I admit it raised my eyebrow as well, but then I go the ILM search function, and the second thing I read on the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young C/D S/D thread is "i'm more interested in the fact that CSN(Y) (or whatever) were actually REALLY POPULAR and BIG -- as in springsteen in '85/outkast or britney spears BIG. that's such a radical sea-change in mass public musical taste that deserves some comment, no?"

On The Beach is very good, but would have voted Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, in fact i shall play it now

hi alex, how is the weather in denver? in frankfurt it has been raining most of the day. i would have voted <i>after the goldrush</i>, i think. but <i>on the beach</i> is a decent winner, too.

i will never learn the ilm html tags...

weird

it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles

In their time their American album sales were HUGE. Their cultural cachet was such that their public greeted "Ohio" as a major statement. I'm wary of statements like AllMusic's, but the Shakey bio also makes the same suggestion.

CSNY were huge because the Byrds, the Hollies, and the Buffalo Springfield had all been huge before.

(Used "surprisingly" way too many times there.)

when i saw Neil w/my kid at the Greek in summer of 2023 it was pretty glorious, it was one of those weird Neil shows (basically what you hear on Before and After) and it was mostly a crowd of people who were completely okay with his thing (his thing being have something like six different pianos/pump organs onstage and using them either once or not at all iirc) and pausing to play with his train set encircling the stage. it was great to see him in the mindset to do a tour like that focused heavily on Sleeps with Angels and Mirror Ball and other non-hits. he did eventually throw some red meat to the crowd w/some CSNY and Harvest stuff. I told my kid this was exactly the type of show you'd hope to see, something that he just had never done before and would never do again.

When we see him in 2009 or so (not long after the aneurysm), he had someone onstage painting on a large canvas throughout, and he played the most amazing cover version of A Day In The Life.

Was checking a nearby rep for something else and came across this:

https://princesscinemas.com/movie/neil-young-costal

Misspelling in the URL...I had no idea Daryl Hannah had directed three Neil films already.

I loved her film about the making of Barn.

I saw Hannah's "Coastal" film that is about Neil's solo tour of the US west coast just after the Covid pandemic. It was boring. She wanted to make a cineme-verite film and so you get way too much footage of Neil on his huge tour bus looking out the window as his longtime driver makes small talk. You get to see twice, not once but before before 2 gigs, a roadie carefully placing a harmonica holder around Neil's neck. You also get to see twice Neil right after he has finished zipping his pants after coming out of the bathroom. No, you don't see anything down there. This short Guardian review is pretty accurate on the movie.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/16/neil-young-coastal-review-music-legend-on-the-road-filmed-by-his-wife-daryl-hannah

No, you don't see anything down there.

Saving it for the Archives, no doubt!

Archives, Vol VI: Neil's Bits and Literal Bobs

The few segments of Neil performing onstage were good, but a film-making buddy who I attended the screening with, said Hannah should have used more cameras. Hannah didn't want any interview segments, so you very quickly see Joni Mitchell backstage after first gig of tour but you don't hear from her.

Sounds as boring as you'd imagine. Would happily watch hidden camera footage of Neil crew members grousing about how weird he is though.

It sounds like Daryl Hannah is trying to direct as many flawed Neil Young films as Bernard Shakey has

Neil mentioning how he thinks he might have bought his pump organ that he has onstage was kind of interesting, maybe it was a furniture store and not a thrift store he says; He also says quickly how an acoustic guitar he is playing he got from Stephen Stills. But him playing those instruments onstage was more scintillating of course.

Saving it for the Archives, no doubt!

PENO

It sounds like Daryl Hannah is trying to direct as many flawed Neil Young films as Bernard Shakey has

this does sound a fair amount like Muddy Track, though probably much less riveting

Just wait for the revisionist take 50 years from now of Daryl Hannah, misunderstood nouveau cinéma vérité pioneer.

in an inevitable devlopment, I've started a Neil Young podcast — behold ... ALL ONE SONG! https://www.talkhouse.com/all-one-song-steve-gunn-on-will-to-love/

https://64.media.tumblr.com/430314e967f8c9527cb4ba1cb894d1b9/53bdc3cb77caa8f4-b0/s1280x1920/ca309b5fc27b001444953da7af6850149cecf246.jpg

congrats, excited for this tyler. hell of a guest/song combo for the first ep: steve gunn on "will to love"!

Got an announcement of that podcast in my feed a few days ago and I said Hey I kinda sorta know that guy! Looking fwd to listening.

hope you enjoy! podcasting is ... hard? anyway, i have a newfound respect for people who do it really well.

stoked for the doghouse episode

*high five*

stoked for the doghouse episode

PODCAST, POD CAST

guests so far have been too cowardly to select "doghouse," Neil's greatest work

Killer first ep tyler, really dig it! Love that Chris Forsyth is playing on the interstitial music too!

check out his NY cover band Coca Leaves & Pearls if you haven’t!

ha I knew he had a NY cover band, but totally forgot that's what it was called!

pretty good live tape of them here: https://archive.org/details/chrisforsyth2023-06-11

thanks!

yes m8! WILL LISTEN

seeing he played "ambulance blues" for the first time live since 2019 had me consider getting tickets this time around... but then i saw 2 greendale songs are being played each show?!

Brussels concert review in De Standaard (Belgian newspaper) complained about the long guitar solos :-)

Wouldn't presence of Greendale be a huge plus?!?!

(I adore Greendale)

only time i've seen NY was on his greendale tour and i kind of weirdly want that to be the only time! i'll just never see the version of him i'd want to see at this point.

complained about the long guitar solos :-)

lol I've brought this up before, but I have a friend who claims to love Neil Young but not the loud stuff. (Or something to that effect) I assume he has only heard "Harvest."

Saw the Waco Brothers last week or so, and I had never heard their cover of "Revolution Blues," which both had a novel arrangement and ruled. Jon Langford introduced it as a song Crosby, Stills & and Nash rejected because the notion of people in dune buggies riding around the Canyon gunning down rock stars with machine guns probably hit a little too close to home.

Here's a good recent version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOO5XGYdHac

I assume the Glastonbury performance isn't up on BBC iPlayer? It was excellent apart from one punishingly long and dreary song from Greendale.

seeing he played "ambulance blues" for the first time live since 2019 had me consider getting tickets this time around...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9tR0QzDrDk

pretty cool — only "band" performance of this song other than the R.E.M.-backed version.

awesome

oh and hey, second episode of ALL ONE SONG is up — "Lookout Joe" w/ Chris Forsyth ... https://www.talkhouse.com/all-one-song-chris-forsyth-on-lookout-joe/

Tyler, loving the show! so fun that you got Jeff Parker, great to hear him reflecting on Neil. I was definitely not expecting him to say that Brian Blade of all people is a big Neil-head and inspired him to take the trip... you've gotta get him on a pod!

Alan Sparhawk's Neil Young tribute band is playing here tomorrow, I'm not a Neil-head but I should really go.

I saw them twice last summer, it was sooooo good.

yeah Brian Blade definitely shot to the top of our list for season 2 guests ...

(and obviously we've gotta get Sparhawk on there too)

World Record on vinyl for $5 at B&N: Y/N?

probably worth it just for "chevrolet" which is a good late-era horse epic

https://i.postimg.cc/RZHqH6qD/rejected.jpg

Rejected by Neil--now I know how David Crosby felt.

“Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach. Love Neil.”

I caught Neil’s Hyde Park London show on Friday…Very much agree with Willem above. I was in a bad mood for the show because of terrible work issues that were causing repetitive intrusive thoughts…But the show charmed me and I was completely drawn into it - and even felt the emotional power of the songs.

(xpost) They really ought to replace "Your credit card on file has been declined" with that!