POX: Neil Young

Powderfinger
The Loner
Down By the River
Broken Arrow
Lookout Joe
Shots
Are You Ready for the Country
Mellow My Mind
Ambulance Blues
Love and Only Love
Speakin' Out

Cowgirl In The Sand
Cinammon Girl
Down To The Wire
Like A Hurricane
Mr. Soul (the Springfield version, which counts, since it's on Decade)
A Man Needs A Maid
Don't Be Denied
Powderfinger (last verse scares me, yet earlier one cracks me up with the "river took mary lou" line)
Hey Hey, My My Into The Black
Music Arcade

Glad to see love for "Tired Eyes" and "Change Your Mind."

*the drama term, not the music one

Sugar Mountain
Down By The River
The Old Laughing Lady
Pocahontas
Rockin' In The Free World (the rockin' version)
The Needle And The Damage Done
I'm The Ocean
Welfare Mothers
Southern Pacific
My Heart

I saw him years ago on the H.O.R.D.E. tour at one of those outdoor pavilion type places. It had been a hot, beautiful day and just as they started "Like A Hurricane" seemingly out of nowhere it started pouring BUCKETS of rain. I don't know if they shorted out or were shut off by venue personnel, but the PA speakers cut out a couple minutes into the deluge. This was about the point of the solo, and Neil and CH just kept on playing through their stage amps. I was seated toward the top of pavilion and could just make it all out, but it was a great rock and roll moment.

bingo.

whadya think of the Unplugged and Weld versions where his voice cracks on a high note rather than drifting off on Decade and American Stars'n'Bars?

Tough. James Blount's list upthread was rather OTM. I will also say good things about Soldier.

1. Alabama
2. Goin' Back
3. Lookout Joe
4. Cinnamon Girl
5. Tonight's The Night
6. Southern Man
7. For the Turnstiles
8. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
9. Helpless
10. Vampire Blues

this from an "Underneath Your Clothes" fan!

Since your taking AllllllllAllllllllbeeeerqurrrque I'll swap 'Sedan Delivery' for 'Powderfinger'.

Cowgirl in the Sand
Walk On
Down By The River
Thrasher
I am a Child
Time Fades Away
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
On the Way Home
Don't Cry No Tears
Like a Hurricane

+special mention to "Sea of Madness"
And sentimental fondness for "Comes a Time"

On the Beach
Barstool Blues
Captain Kennedy
Powderfinger
Cortez the Killer
Out on the Weekend
Cowgirl In the Sand
Albuquerque
Birds
Words (Between the Lines of Age)
Don't Cry No Tears

Wow, ironically I was wondering if you got my CD-R ever Matos. And I think Shakira could have pulled off "Change Your Mind" better. I've also been noting the irony that you "Change Your Mind" people are dissing the melodic structure of "Like A Hurricane"'s chorus when ugh! yer pick has an even skimpier one!

that last one is for my father

Powderfinger
Down by the River
Cortez the Killer
My My, Hey Hey
Thrasher
Campaigner
Motorcycle Mama
Heart of Gold
Falling from Above (Yup, off of Greendale... LOVE the opening riff and the melody (similar to Powderfinger in chord progression)
Mr. Soul (Decade)

Cinammon Girl
Ohio
Don't Let it Bring You Down
I Believe in You
When You Dance I Can Really Love
Tired Eyes
Don't Be Denied
See the Sky About to Rain
Barstool Blues
Danger Bird
Cortez the Killer
Like a Hurricane
Powderfinger
Tonight's the Night (Live Rust version)
The Loner (Live Rust version)
Transformer Man

sugar mountain
cortez the killer
expecting to fly
only love can break your heart
wrecking ball
old man
the old homestead
see the sky about to rain
winterlong
carmichael

oops, sorry, XII
Winterlong

right now:
-albuquerque
-old man
-thrasher
-everybody knows this is nowhere
-don't let it bring you down
-don't cry no tears
-don't be denied
-barstool blues
-peace of mind
-revolution blues

mine has changed so much!

cowgirl in the sand
barstool blues
dont cry no tears
winterlong
cortez the killer
out on the weekend
everybody knows this is nowhere
world on a string
albuquerque
walk on

Powderfinger
Needle & The Damage Done
Mellow My Mind
Down By The River
Pocahontas
Tonight's The Night
Lookin' For A Love
I'm The Ocean
Heavy Love
Ordinary People

roll another number
like a hurricane
thrasher
cinnamon girl
don't be denied
powderfinger
lookout joe
cowgirl in the sand
lotta love
after the goldrush

The Loner
Cinnamon Girl
Cowgirl In The Sand
When You Dance I Can Really Love
Downtown
Vampire Blues
Cortez the Killer
Sedan Delivery
Sample & Hold
Change Your Mind

Ambulance Blues
Albuquerque
Roll Another Number
Journey Through the Past
Powderfinger
Cortez the Killer
Revolution Blues
Thrasher
Lookin for a Love
Don't Let It Bring You Down

hardest POX of them all

okay i am gonna update mine a little bit.

-albuquerque
-old manout on the weekend
-thrasher
-everybody knows this is nowhere
-don't let it bring you down
-don't cry no tearslast trip to tulsa
-don't be denied
-barstool blues
-peace of mind
-revolution blues

hardest POX of them all
no doubt. can't believe i forgot "when you dance i can really love"

Excluding the Springfield today it's:

Birds (canterbury house 1968)- stripped down and superior to Gold Rush version
Love in Mind (massey hall)
Man Needs a Maid (massey hall)- though I do like the orchestrated version from Harvest as well
Motion Pictures- really could have went with any of the three that close out On the Beach
Albuquerque
Powderfinger (Chrome Dreams version)
Will to Love- strange production and lyrics, I'm thinking this song may deserve its own thread...
Cortez the Killer- especially tough to pick just one off Zuma
Revolution Blues- so evil-sounding!
Tell Me Why- despite the nonsense lyrics in the chorus

This was really hard and I could easily pick another ten tomorrow. I still haven't heard much post-Rust Never Sleeps so that's basically the last thirty years of his career I've ignored. But damn he had a pretty good run there in the sixties and seventies!

Can't believe that 'Pardon my Heart' has not....is it just me?

-Albuquerque
-Cortez The Killer
-Barstool Blues
-Ambulance Blues
-Oh, Lonesome Me
-El Dorado (The part where it gets loud is my favorite Neil Young moment ever.)
-Tired Eyes
-Revolution Blues
-Powerderfinger
-Sugar Mountain

Hey, I was going to put Pardon my Heart on my list.

Tell Me Why
Out on the Weekend
Don't Let it Bring You Down
Pardon My Heart
Revolution Blues
Bandit
On the Beach
Baby Let's Go Downtown
The Old Homestead
Mr. Soul (can we put a buffalo springfield song?)
Cinnamon Girl
Cortez the Killer

(I don't know -- so many I could put for the last couple slots).

So I guess I'm the only one to think Bandit is one of the best songs he ever did?

C'mon Baby Lets Go Downtown is technically a Crazy Horse song (Danny Whitten wrote it and sings it).

I don't feel right making a POX without hearing all of his stuff (like ColinO, I haven't heard much of his post Rust material, except for Trans). But ColinO is absolutely right to highlight "Will to Love". I'm surprised it's the first mention on the thread, although to be honest I've only heard the Chrome Dreams version. Maybe the American Stars 'n Bars version is different?

Barstool Blues
I'm the Ocean
White Lines
Comes a Time
Don't Cry No Tears
Motion Pictures
Winterlong
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
After Berlin (favorite rarity)
Philadelphia (surprised I am the first to get this one!)

today i suppose it might be...

cinnamon girl
too far gone
roll another number
alabama
natural beauty
cortez the killer
on the beach
like a hurricane
albuquerque
powderfinger

Transformer Man
Ambulance Blues
I'm The Ocean
Pocahontas
World On a String
Winterlong
Over and Over
Drive Back
Lotta Love
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
The Losing End
Cortez The Killer
Thrasher
Out On the Weekend
Time Fades Away
Harvest
Don't Cry No Tears
Unknown Legend
Albuquerque

so which are the good versions of 'like a hurricane'?

posted on this thread because i wonder if some obsessive like the doomandgloom guy has a mental 'POX like a hurricane recordings'

they're all equally boring!

The Loner
Cinnamon Girl
Cowgirl in the Sand
Country Girl
Tell Me Why
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Till the Morning Comes
Ambulance Blues
Albuquerque
Barstool Blues
Ocean Girl

xpost haha, what? they're not boring, how dare you. but honestly, other than the pipe organ version from Unplugged, this isn't a song that changes all that much. it's pretty killer whenever he plays it.

Oops--I guess "Barstool Blues" comes off. (Apologies to Wire for the poor math skills.)

though if you want the obsessive's answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBtywcZ35g0

so boring! 'I'm the Ocean' = the true epic- water-metaphor masterpiece!

I can't get with this song at all. I want to love it but I'm always getting blown away by this tropical depression (at best) of a song.

:'(

^^^That was my first exposure to Neil Young, that video. Whistle Test used to play it on their New Year's Eve (?) show, I think (anyone?). I was pretty young, but I went out and bought the single asap. Probably played it every day for a year and it's hard for me to get through it these days, but it brought me so much happiness I can never hate it!

like a hurricane is one of those songs (unlike, say, cortez the killer, or something) that always seems to make crazy horse sound kind of plodding and predictable though — the hold-it-down-for-the-as-many-measures-as-you-can organ chords and the hit-the-cymbals-as-loud-as-you-can drumming. s'why i wondered if he'd done it differently sometimes

i used to play unplugged a lot for the pump organ version circa age 14

guess i'll just have to listen to the mission's version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DO1nEw_xI

it's definitely funnier than any of neil young's

Mostly it's just that the chorus is a bummer; the solos are good fun and the verses are ok. I don't hate it.