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.

Thanks to the series of posts above, I'm on a modest, if fiery, Neil kick ("modest" because I'm still listening to a lot of Akiko Yano and Sufjan Stevens' Ascension and the usual doses of Hosono + Agata). Neil has made things I love in every decade but I am sincere when I say my favorite stretch starts at Storytone and continues now -- I finally caught up with Talkin' to the Trees, and think it's fantastic. Someday I ought to get my thoughts together and try & explain WHY this period does so much for me. But at the minute, all I want to do is gush and say, even though The Visitor ranks fairly low within this 2014 - 2025 stretch of glorious records, I still love it, and especially its lovely, long, and strange closing track, Forever. I think it's one of my favorite Neil songs altogether.

World Record is sending me into raptures. It's been fun re-reading the Le Noise thread: "yeah it's not completely rational..."

I swear I'm not wrong, I swear that Neil since Storytone kicks absurd amounts of ass. Any day now, any day now, I will be vindicated! Journey with me, o resistance

Heya Tyler, did Neil ever record the full-length version of Sixty to Zero in the studio like he did Ordinary People? I seem to remember Neil making a comment about releasing some version of it in some Archives website post somewhere, but I don't recall whether he meant a studio take or a cleaned-up live one.

Listening to Barn. I love Neil's nagging on Human Race.

And cutting back 50 years -- I was never a big fan of Zuma, but the Dume edition is ecstatic! Folks always talk about how double albums should have been single albums; here's a clear instance of the reverse.

not a big zuma fan and raving about storytone! just when you think you've heard it all, haha. i appreciate your enthusiasm for Neil's last 10 years or so ... I think there's about an album and a half of salvageable stuff in there.

And to answer your previous Q, there is a very long studio version of Sixty to Zero, maybe like 18 minutes? Hasn't been bootlegged or anything but Neil did mention it. Might show up on Archives IV. I think it's just the unedited take of the version that appears on Freedom? Could be mis-remembering though.

Yo La Tengo opened their NYC Hanukkah run last night with ... Neil's "BIG CRIME." An inspired choice.

One of the things I love about Neil (including his past decade and a half) is that he's so fucking weird. That weirdness doesn't often take the Powderfinger / Ride My Llama / Will to Love mystic space salmon form anymore (but it sometimes still does), but his blunt creeds about mother earth and epic not-so-much-first-as-zeroth-take philosophy are truly bizarre. And he does it all while spitting in your eye. And still sometimes makes me cry. But not because of the spit in the eye, rather 'cause the songs are raw and aching and honest and freshly-born!

Listening to Mr. Soul on Noise & Flowers --

She said, "You're strange, but don't change"

He never did!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-trashes-amazon-greenland-free-music-1235505119/

keep on rockin' in the free world!

Who needs streaming services, I'm moving the Greenland to get Neil's discography for free.

He should record and release a Greenland-only album.

Greendaleland

All greenland residents are getting a free Pono.

lol sawdust

I was behind Neil until he recommended reading The Guardian

Greendale ... Greenland ... Guardian!

Graunland

Nuuk Mama

yikes, neil just canceled his entire euro summer tour! hope his health is decent.

Any more details released? Neil can be as capricious as he is private.

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Hmm. Hope he gets rested, though summer is a long way off to need a break now ...

Now Young just said on the Neil Young Archives page per Rolling Stone more anti-Trump stuff and that he's busy recording a new album with the Chrome Hearts and is 8 songs in

https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=A%20Message%20from%20Neil%203-9-26

Awesome. I adore the first Chrome Hearts album.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neilyoung/s/fV7RoJqbPk

New upload of the '89 SNL performance with Steve Jordan & Charley Drayton. Everybody knows and loves the take on "Free World", but their version of "No More" is just stunning. What A Band!

fantastic

wow, that's a wonderful video!

hilarious quote from shakey in comments

"I had to pretend I wasn't there. I had a dressing room, a little place with an amp in it, in another part of the building. And I walked from there into Saturday Night Live—and then left. I developed a whole new technique for television. I had my trainer, and we just lifted weights and I did calisthenics to get my blood to the level it would be at after performing for an hour and twenty-five minutes—which is usually how long I'd be onstage by the time I did that song. To perform that song the way it’s supposed to be performed, you have to be at peak blood level."

hahaha love you grandpa

guys, my Neil Young podcast is back for its second season. First episode — Ira Kaplan!

https://www.talkhouse.com/all-one-song-ira-kaplan-yo-la-tengo-on-big-crime/

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awesome! congrats

OMG MUST LISTEN

hell yeah

that was absolutely fantastic. well done, tyler! (and well done, ira!)

Thanks! Yeah, Ira brought his A game.

Fun fact (maybe mentioned in the podcast): the blurry photo under the disc of the "Painful" CD is of the leftover plate of fries from when Ira interviewed Neil for iirc Spin.

yep, he tells that story towards the end

great interview! Ira is in full Ronald Thomas Clontle mode.

LOL, I had no idea what this picture was until now.

Great interview, thanks Tyler!

thanks for checking it out — think we've got a good season ahead!

Loved this, Tyler!

will listen, thanks!
Just saw this about forthcoming CSN doc, with soundtrack incl. 33 prev. unreleased titles: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/crosby-stills-nash-documentary-2026/. Mainly interest: article reminded me about 2024's prev. unreleased CSNY live at Fillmore alb---good? I mean, considering that he's with them (but when I saw 'em in '74, he played a lot of Om The Beach, and I'm told that he frequently took over later shows---Stills: "It's like he's Tony Orlando and we're Dawn." "like"?)
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Also released version, On The Beach.

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new episode up now ... https://www.talkhouse.com/all-one-song-brigid-mae-power-on-albuquerque/

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/_newness/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/alb.jpg

er

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that's awesome, BMP is great

yeah she rules

2024's prev. unreleased CSNY live at Fillmore alb---good?

it's great, very loose and fun vibe