Favorite Neil Young songs

[hatredisnotavalue]

Me? Don't Let it Bring you down...but I am sure there are tons more....What a brilliant guy!!! His lyrics are just incredible.

[Swede]

1. Pocahontas is one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUVX-_i6Sg&feature=related

Aurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Paddles cut the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man
To the fields of green
And the homeland
We've never seen.

They killed us in our tepee
And they cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin' on the ground
But the firesticks
And the wagons come
And the night falls
On the setting sun.

They massacred the buffalo
Kitty corner from the bank
The taxis run across my feet
And my eyes have turned to blanks
In my little box
At the top of the stairs
With my Indian rug
And a pipe to share.

I wish a was a trapper
I would give thousand pelts
To sleep with Pocahontas
And find out how she felt
In the mornin'
On the fields of green
In the homeland
We've never seen.

And maybe Marlon Brando
Will be there by the fire
We'll sit and talk of Hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the Astrodome
And the first tepee
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Pocahontas.

[hatredisnotavalue]

2. wow, that was great

thanks so much

[mix]

3. hey hey my my

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6uLQDLAlE

[hatredisnotavalue]

4. wow, i forgot about that one...

thanks so much great link!!!!!

[SoxFan]

5. Hey, Hey, My, My (Into the Black)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYV6PAckr5w

And a kick-ass cover version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSN7_wIsD0o

[hatredisnotavalue]

7. i just found this cover by annie lennox of don't let it bring you down

i can't stop listening to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-1tJ3e9Lc


cool cover...thanks so much

[nomorenomore08]

6. "Powderfinger," "Cowgirl in the Sand," "Walk On," "Rockin' in the Free World," "Eldorado,"

"Dance Dance Dance" (AKA "Love Is a Rose" with different lyrics), "Harvest Moon" (the song, not the album), "Cortez the Killer," "Mansion on the Hill," "Like a Hurricane," etc. etc. Honestly, I own only a fraction of the guy's albums and it'd *still* be almost impossible for me to come up with a single-disc "best of." Maybe one electric disc and one acoustic? :shrug:

Awesome acoustic take of "Powderfinger" I just heard for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-wZIQcCsmI

And here's "Dance Dance Dance," which wasn't released in any form (except by a Young-less Crazy Horse) until a couple of years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7h9QPzclWk

And to balance out that stuff, here's a nice long live version of "Like a Hurricane": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obfci1CIqq8

[hatredisnotavalue]

8. all supreme!!! thanks so much for sharing

love, love like a hurricane

[begin_within]

9. So many:

After the Gold Rush
Alabama
Cinnamon Girl
Don't Let it Bring You Down
Down By the River
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Harvest
Heart of Gold
Helpless
I Am A Child
I Believe in You
Like A Hurricane
The Loner
Love Is A Rose
A Man Needs A Maid
Mr. Soul
The Needle and The Damage Done
Oh, Lonesome Me
Ohio
The Old Laughing Lady
Old Man
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Southern Man
Sugar Mountain
Tonight's The Night

[nomorenomore08]

10. I'm familiar with almost all of those, and none I can think of are less

than solid, while many are all-time classics. :thumbsup:

[WCGreen]

11. Harvest Moon...

It's a nostalgic tune that people my age really appreciate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQXnvNwGTAY

[nomorenomore08]

13. Well I'm only 24, and I think it's an amazingly beautiful song. So there.

:P

[WCGreen]

15. It's a throw back to Harvest...

The album that came out when I was in 8th grade...

The song has a lot of meaning to me but it is a song that can be fully enjoyed even without the gauzy remembrance of an aging man.

[hatredisnotavalue]

14. what a great song...thanks so much n/t

[ornotna]

12. So many to choose from

So I'll add this to the list.

Cortez the Killer



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfjoAyqfLs

[RagAss]

16. Powderfinger !

[hatredisnotavalue]

17. Neil was really a romantic....his lyrics are just so beautiful

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. CSNY's "Country Girl"...

...it's probably the best CSNY track, period.

Wolfgang's Vault has posted a few CSNY concerts (including a nice two-parter, 09/08/74 Roosevelt Raceway, NY). In some of the commentaries they mention the fact that CSNY's on-stage harmonies often suffered as a mix of poorly set-up sound systems and too many pre-show "refreshments." I've heard some truly horrendous CSNY live bootlegs.

But in the studio, "Country Girl"...what a MOTHER of a track.

This is the track listing from the Neil Young mix CD I have in my car at all times (obviously a "Volume One")...

The Loner
I've Been Waiting For You
Cinnamon Girl
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Down By The River
The Losing End
Cowgirl In The Sand
Tell Me Why
Southern Man
Oh, Lonesome Me
Don't Let It Bring You Down
When You Dance I Can Really Love
Country Girl (CSNY, from "Deja Vu")
Carry On (CSNY, from "Four Way Street"...OK, it's a Stills song, but it's also a guitar dogfight with Young)

:toast:

[hatredisnotavalue]

19. any youtubes i can scoop up>>>

[OwnedByFerrets]

20. Like a Hurricane....nt

[Skittles]

51. my favorite too

:thumbsup:

[stewartcolbert08]

21. Heart of Gold!

I love it!

[hatredisnotavalue]

22. with phish...down by the river

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YK_XPZ_Xhg&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

26. That is absolute sickness.

Trey and Neil jamming... It cannot get better than that. be sure t check out the Runaway jim/Arc there too. Again absolute sickness.

[NYC_SKP]

23. "Cinnamon Girl"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roB7FAD7KDI


:applause:

[gmoney]

49. One of the great one-note guitar solos... (eom)

[donheld]

24. Philadelphia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0KzuiqDDZU

[PRETZEL]

25. My favorite is "Old Man",

but my daughter absolutely loves "After the Gold Rush"

Every time she burns a cd for me she has to include it.

[SacredCow]

27. Keep on Rockin' in the Free World....

What can I say? I love bonehead 3-chord rock songs....

[Sky Masterson]

28. Heart of Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5gkwLeHfU

[Bennyboy]

29. A great Neil Young show for you all!

Neil Young Solo
Carnegie Hall - NYC
12-5-70
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tz2vha

1 Down By The River
2 Cinnamon Girl
3 I Am A Child
4 Expecting To Fly
5 The Loner
6 Wondering
7 Helpless
8 Southern Man
9 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
10 On The way Home
11 Tell Me Why
12 Only Love Can Break Your Heart
13 Old Man
14 After The Goldrush
15 Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
16 Don't Let It Bring You Down
17 Cowgirl In The Sand
18 Birds
19 Bad Fog Of Lonliness
20 Ohio
21 See The Sky About To Rain + Sugar Mountain

From this thread which has over 1000 live shows+links to other catalogues of live shows. http://www.phantasytour.com/phish/boards_thread.cgi?threadID=1828639

[Tuesday Afternoon]

30. I go through Neil Young phases. Currently, my fave by him is

Out on the Weekend

Think Ill pack it in and buy a pick-up
Take it down to l.a.
Find a place to call my own and try to fix up.
Start a brand new day.

The woman Im thinking of, she loved me all up
But Im so down today
Shes so fine, shes in my mind.
I hear her callin.

See the lonely boy, out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay.
Cant relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Cant begin to say.

She got pictures on the wall, they make me look up
From her big brass bed.
Now Im running down the road trying to stay up
Somewhere in her head.

The woman Im thinking of, she loved me all up
But Im so down today
Shes so fine shes in my mind.
I hear her callin.

See the lonely boy, out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay.
Cant relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Cant begin to say.

http://www.youtube.com/v/UCElUItrLZc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1

[Swede]

31. Harvest was a great album.

It's always been one of my favorites.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

32. mine too. I almost wore out my album. -

Heavy rotation on my play list. :hug: :hi:

[Swede]

33. Good Tuesday morning, Tuesday Afternoon.

:hi::hug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

35. *giggle* -

So far so good. If today at work goes as well as yesterday...I will be well on my way to having one of the best weeks Ever at my job. Keep your fingers crossed becasue I am in a real snake pit.

How are things with you? :pals:

[Swede]

38. No so bad,but I'm mightily sick of winter.

I have a wedding to go to,the weekend after this one,so it will be good to see the clan all together.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

40. I can understand...

It is really nice where I am. I think Winter is over here. Friday was the first day of spring and I have little blooms in my yard. I need to cut back my liriope (monkey grass?)

[MrCoffee]

34. Cortez the Killer; Heart of Gold; The Needle and the Damage Done; Like a Hurricane;

Down by the River; Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)

so many, many more.

[gmoney]

50. Matthew Sweet's version of Cortez is a real killer...

...as is the Pixies version of Winterlong.

[vi5]

36. Like A Hurricane, but anything off of Harvest.....

Harvest is just such an incredibly evocative record. I can't listen to just one song off of it. I have to consume the whole thing every time.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

37. "Old Man" definitely.

Musically, I like "Southern Man," but I think the message of the song paints too much of a broad brush against all southerners.

[Arkansas Granny]

39. Heart of Gold. I have a lot of good memories associated with that song.

Good times, good friends.

[guitar man]

41. Powderfinger

Sugar Mountain, Old Man.....

[applegrove]

42. I love his version of Lotta Love.

[Zomby Woof]

43. "Down By The River"

"Like A Hurricane"
"World On A String"
"Powderfinger" (written for Lynyrd Skynyrd, in fact)
"Cortez The Killer"

[Magrittes Pipe]

44. Like a Hurricane

[MrScorpio]

45. Southern Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_qmRjetdE

[cemaphonic]

46. Yeah, Powderfinger for me too

[Bryan]

47. Nobody's mentioned "Barstool Blues"

To rectify that, here's an excellent cover by Maria McKee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQp7iM_nBL4

[Doc_Technical]

48. "Expecting to fly"

Buffalo Springfield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpbMitv5Ypo

[victoryparty]

52. Distant Camera (this century) On the Beach - whole album (20th century)

[cleveramerican]

53. King

its about his dog
"King went running after deer, wasn't scared of jumpin' off the truck in high gear"

[mentalsolstice]

54. Helpless, but I like k.d. lang's cover better. nt