What's your favorite Neil Young song?

[red dog 1]

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10 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Are You Ready for the Country
	0 (0%)
	Cinnamon Girl
	1 (10%)
	Heart of Gold
	2 (20%)
	Helpless
	3 (30%)
	Down By the River
	1 (10%)
	Ohio
	1 (10%)
	Old Man
	1 (10%)
	Rockin' in the Free World
	0 (0%)
	Southern Man
	1 (10%)
	Tired Eyes
	0 (0%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[flotsam]

1. Opioid Crisis

Needle and the Damage Done...

[LisaM]

2. Of these choices, "Helpless".

I also love "Unknown Legend".

[cemaphonic]

3. Powderfinger

2nd is probably "After the Gold Rush"

[yardwork]

29. Powderfinger is an amazing song.

[RGinNJ]

4. Sugar Mountain

[Danmel]

5. Sugar mountain makes me cry every time I hear it

Like puff the magic dragon.

My kids make fun of me.

[onethatcares]

6. "tonites the night"

then Powderfinger.

[Miles Archer]

7. Down By The River

Basically the "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" album.

"Down By The River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand" and "Cinnamon Girl" on the SAME album? What other artist could pull off something like THAT?

Crazy Horse changed radically when Danny Whitten was fired / passed away. Frank "Poncho" Sampedro is a good foil for Young, but the Young / Whitten interplay was more like Garcia / Weir. Sampedro didn't bring any of that to the table. He's a heavy hitter. Granted, "Cortez The Killer" is a distant cousin to "Down By The River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand," but more often than not, the modern-day Crazy Horse has been more about power and intensity.

The "Harvest" album was far too smooth for me. Like Young himself, I saw it as a journey to the middle of the road, and was happy it only lasted for one album. I appreciate his acoustic work, but in a more raw and primal state.

[red dog 1]

20. + 1

Thanks for that info

"Down By the River" is now poll choice # 5 so you can vote for it now.

[Miles Archer]

21. Thank you, just did.

I've heard a LOT of versions of this song, but my favorite is from Austin City Limits in the 80s.

He was touring behind the "Old Ways" country album with the International Harvesters. The majority of the hour was a set of Cowpoke Neil. And in typical Neil fashion, he closed the show with a slow-boiling version of Down By The River.

The part of the performance that slayed me originally comes at the 7 minute mark, where he ramps up the solo, and at 8:30, where he repeats "Be on my side...," and punctuates each repetition of the lyric with a nice little bee-sting solo snippet, bringing in the whole thing for a soft landing at 9:30.

I've seen him do almost half-hours of this thing with Phish and Promise of the Real (both at Farm Aid), but other than the original (which I have memorized and played note-for-note in various bands in the past), this is my favorite.

[MichMan]

8. Cowgirl in the Sand (electric version)

Neil is my favorite artist of all time

[ooky]

10. Acoustic version

4 Way Street version.

[geardaddy]

9. Harvest Moon

[lame54]

23. Our wedding song...

[geardaddy]

25. Nice!

[msongs]

11. cortez the killer. nt

[Codeine]

12. No choice for Down By the River?

Well, I like Cinnamon Girl almost as much.

[red dog 1]

19. That's 2 votes now for Down By the River, so up it goes as a poll choice

(You can vote for it now)

[LuckyCharms]

13. Cortez the Killer.

[mpcamb]

14. Four Strong Winds

Ian Tyson song from the early 1960s and recorded by Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia.
Neal's version is great- a bit of Canadian soul.

[Upthevibe]

16. There are simply too many of his for me to choose a favorite....

Two of my favorite albums of all time are:
After the Gold Rush and Harvest

[Skittles]

15. Like a Hurricane

yes INDEED

[malthaussen]

17. Like a Hurricane

Ah, Skittles beat me to it.

Pretty good guitar work.

-- Mal

[Va Lefty]

18. Only Love Can Break Your Heart

[lame54]

22. Sedan Delivery

[Zorro]

24. The Needle and the Damage Done

[chuckstevens]

26. My, My, Hey, Hey. Acoustic!

[Cartoonist]

27. Two faves

The Loner
A Man Needs A Maid

[CanonRay]

28. After the Goldrush

[Botany]

30. Thrasher