Neil Young Homework

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I am seeing the great man in two months.

Cant wait.

But my problem is, Neil Young has such a massive body of work that I'm afriad I wont know half the songs he plays. Obviously I am familiar with all the classics...Old Man, Cinnamon Girl, Ohio, Lotta Love, Needle and the Damage Done, Powderfinger, Comes A Time, Sugar Mountain, Rocking In The Free World etc etc etc etc...

But who can point me in the direction of some of his better songs that may be less known? Would love it if somebody can help me with my homework!!!

Cheers

 

[Gough]

Because the Horse is coming with him, he might not delve to deeply into it, but Harvest Moon is one of my favourite album.
I'd call Unknown Legend one of his better unrecognised songs.

 

[JimDocker]

Listen to these albums.

Tonight's the Night, On The Beach and Zuma.

All classics, with Neil at his best.

He has so many great albums. I love American Stars and Bars. I love Comes a Time. I love..............................

 

[blackshadow]

There's sure to be some tracks from Psychedelic Pill on his set list, it's one of my favourite albums from last year.

Also grab a copy of Weld, it's better than Live Rust IMHO.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Cowgirl in the sand... Down by the river... Like a hurricane

All are awesome. All about 10 mins long too so wouldn't think they'd have had much radio play

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Cowgirl in the sand... Down by the river... Like a hurricane

All are awesome. All about 10 mins long too so wouldn't think they'd have had much radio play

Yep know all them. Would be very pleased to hear any of them.

 

[bombermick]

Hopefully for your sake he doesn't do a Greendale and play his newest album in its entirety. Not going to help if you're like me and aren't an expert on all his stuff.

 

[JimDocker]

You can do worse than check this out on Spotify. I am listening to it right now.

Neil Young - the 100 best tracks

 

[bunsen burner]

But who can point me in the direction of some of his better songs that may be less known? Would love it if somebody can help me with my homework!!!

Add Harvest and Rust Never Sleeps to Jim Docker's 3 albums and there are his best 5.

Some tracks you should seek and listen:

From Tonight's the Night
Come Baby Let's Go Downtown
Tonight's the Night (first and last track)

From Rust Never Sleeps
Pocahontas
Ride My Llama

On the Beach
Walk On
For the Turnstiles

Zuma
Barstool Blues

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Add Harvest and Rust Never Sleeps to Jim Docker's 3 albums and there are his best 5.

Some tracks you should seek and listen:

From Tonight's the Night
Come Baby Let's Go Downtown
Tonight's the Night (first and last track)

From Rust Never Sleeps
Pocahontas
Ride My Llama

On the Beach
Walk On
For the Turnstiles

Zuma
Barstool Blues

Mate they are brilliant!! Great stuff.

I assume Cmon Baby Lets Go Downtown was sung by the lead singer of Crazy Horse? Didnt sound like Neil Young

 

[Plugger35]

Add Harvest and Rust Never Sleeps to Jim Docker's 3 albums and there are his best 5.

Some tracks you should seek and listen:

From Tonight's the Night
Come Baby Let's Go Downtown
Tonight's the Night (first and last track)

From Rust Never Sleeps
Pocahontas
Ride My Llama

On the Beach
Walk On
For the Turnstiles

Zuma
Barstool Blues

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere is pretty good too with classics like Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand.

The Decade double album which covers most of Neil Young and Crazy Horse's best songs from 1967-1977 is a good way of catching up on their old back catalogue.

 

[UpForGrabs]

Here's my Spotify playlist of the 34 Neil Young songs which I think are out and out masterpieces (10 out of 10)

Neil Young's Masterpieces

All taken from a thread I made on another board where over a two-year span I reviewed every NY track. Yeah, I'm insane.

 

[The Dawes]

Add Harvest and Rust Never Sleeps to Jim Docker's 3 albums and there are his best 5.

Some tracks you should seek and listen:

From Tonight's the Night
Come Baby Let's Go Downtown
Tonight's the Night (first and last track)
Albuquerque

From Rust Never Sleeps
Pocahontas
Ride My Llama
Welfare Mothers

On the Beach
Walk On
For the Turnstiles
Revolution Blues
See The Sky

Zuma
Barstool Blues
Cortez The Killer

Great suggestions here but I've added a couple I highly recommend too.

Also Ordinary People from Chrome Dreams 2 and Crime in the City from Freedom.

I'm off to see the great man on March 15th too. Very much looking forward to it but like the OP, not entirely sure I'll know all or even most of the songs.... and I have 14 of his albums.

 

[UpForGrabs]

Great suggestions here but I've added a couple I highly recommend too.

Also Ordinary People from Chrome Dreams 2 and Crime in the City from Freedom.

I'm off to see the great man on March 15th too. Very much looking forward to it but like the OP, not entirely sure I'll know all or even most of the songs.... and I have 14 of his albums.

IMHO - as great as the Freedom version of 'Crime in the City' is... nothing approaches the full-on blast that Weld gives you of the song



The only down side is that he cuts a couple of verses out. But when you think of it - the version on Freedom is still edited from the original version he performed in 1988 with the Blue Notes.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

This thread was a slow burner (no pun intended bunsen) but is now absolute gold

Thanks everybody

 

[eldorado]

I assume Cmon Baby Lets Go Downtown was sung by the lead singer of Crazy Horse? Didnt sound like Neil Young

Yep, Danny Whitten, who later got kicked out because of drug abuse, and subsequently died of an overdose.

The Tonight's The Night album is prettily heavily haunted by the spectres of Whitten, and their roadie Bruce Berry, who also OD'ed. Neil Young was particularly affected by Whitten's death, wondering if he could have done more, could have kept him in the band, etc etc

 

[UpForGrabs]

Which is now as good a time as any to say the Crazy Horse's self-titled debut album is a rip-roarer.

It's on Spotify (for Aussies it's the first 11 tracks on the 'Scratchy' compilation), so if you've got an account and haven't heard the album, you're in for a treat.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Yep, Danny Whitten, who later got kicked out because of drug abuse, and subsequently died of an overdose.

The Tonight's The Night album is prettily heavily haunted by the spectres of Whitten, and their roadie Bruce Berry, who also OD'ed. Neil Young was particularly affected by Whitten's death, wondering if he could have done more, could have kept him in the band, etc etc

Every junkie's like the setting sun

 

[Neese]

Yep Rust Never sleeps

Also get your hand on the live at Massey Hall 1971 i think it is. if you're lucky you can get a version with dvd of the show too.

Saw him 3 years ago in Paris and it was ****ing amazing. Did a brilliant version of Like a Hurricane which is my favourite song of his

 

[bunsen burner]

Every junkie's like the setting sun

A lot of the Tonight's the Night material was written at the harvest sessions and hence why a few common themes.

 

[Suspense]

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All taken from a thread I made on another board where over a two-year span I reviewed every NY track. Yeah, I'm insane.

um, only 9 pages in, but that is a awesome read. thanks.

nailed the on the beach review and the 3 masterpieces therein.

i would have words (between the lines of age) as a masterpiece but i have a bit of a personal attachment to it...

 

[UpForGrabs]

Love that song. Got major fanboy boners when he pulled it out on his 2000 tour. Never thought that would ever happen.

 

[Neese]

Which song?

 

[UpForGrabs]

Which song?

Sorry. 'Words (Between the Lines of Age)'

 

[Neese]

One of my faves too.
just finished waging heavy peace, man tells a great story. Anyone here read it?