Here is the Top 10 Neil Young tracks from those who voted….
1. Cortez The Killer
2. Powderfinger
3. Like a Hurricane
4. Revolution Blues
5. Ambulance Blues
6. Cinnamon Girl
7. Hey, Hey, My, My (Into the Black)
8. Old Man
9. Southern Man
10. Rockin’ In The Free World
Full results in the thread….
Full list with points…it was a bit of a quick job so probably not audit-able…
Points
Cortez The Killer 63
Powderfinger 51
Like a Hurricane 37
Revolution Blues 32
Ambulance Blues 29
Cinnamon Girl 26
Hey, Hey, My, My (Into the Black) 25
Old Man 24
Southern Man 21
Rockin’ In The Free World 19
Down By The River 17
Don’t Be Denied 16
Heart of Gold 16
On The Beach 16
After the Goldrush 15
Pocahontas 14
Only Love Love Can Break Your Heart 13
Harvest moon 12
Helpless 11
Needle And The Damage Done 10
Thrasher 10
Change Your Mind 9
Crime in the City 9
See The Sky About To Rain 9
Unknown Legend 9
Cowgirl In The Sand 7
Ohio 7
Out on the weekend 7
Don’t cry no tears 6
I’m The Ocean 6
Tell me why 6
Tonight’s The Night 6
Alabama 5
Eldorado 5
I am a Child 5
I believe in you 5
Long May You Run 5
Love & Only Love 5
Roll Another Number 5
Borrowed Tune 4
Expecting to Fly 4
Hank To Hendrix 4
Love in Mind 4
One of these days 4
Over And Over 4
Stringman 4
Sugar Mountain 4
Time Fades Away 4
You and Me 4
A Man Needs a Maid 3
Barstool Blues 3
Broken Arrow 3
I’ve Been Waiting For You 3
Ordinary people 3
Surfer Joe & Moe The Sleaze 3
Vampire Blues 3
Walk On 3
World on a String 3
Comes a Time 2
For the turnstiles 2
Mr. Soul 2
The Painter 2
Walk Like A Giant 2
When You Dance I Can Really Love 2
Wonderin` 2
Are There Anymore Real Cowboys? 1
Birds 1
Driftin’ Back 1
Farmer John 1
From Hank to Hendrix 1
Look Out For My Love 1
Pardon my heart 1
Someday 1
The Needle & The Damage Done 1
Too Far Gone 1
Trans Am 1
Wrecking Ball 1
Remarkable Cortez came first, given it contains cod reggae, normally a killer for any track. I love it though, obviously.
Cod reggae? Must have missed that bit. (OK, live he has cocked it totally up that way and rendered it a shite-splattered shenanigan………….)
The “cod reggae” bit was onthe Live Rust version not the Zuma original.
Good work.
I am sure I speak for many by being happy to see some I like near the top. And baffled that others I like further down ….
Was an impossible task, I think harder for me than almost any other act.
Pleased to see 2 plus me for ordinary people
Hey, I put Little Wing, from Hawks & Doves, at number 1 but it got ignored! Yet Needle & The Damage Done gets two mentions. Right con.
Ahh, I carelessly assumed it was a cover of the Jimi number and ignored it. It would have come nowhere anyway…. 🙂
You don’t know that; it might have won! Good job nonetheless, Twang.
Is one conclusion from the poll that people like Rocking Neil considerably more than they like Mellow Neil?
So it would seem by the results. The mellow ‘Comes A Time’ album only features two songs on the list with a total of 3 points. I didn’t vote because I could never work out a top 5 (lame brain overload), but I’m surprised to see no-one voted for ‘Already One’ which is one of my favourites. Also surprised that ‘Long May You Run’ didn’t get much praise. Sheeeet, even on a Neil Young thread, I wonder why I come here!
No real surprises except the high placing of Rocking In The Free World which I always thought of as bog-standard rock which I soon got tired of, but hey, he still plays it live so what do I know? Also surprising was no votes at all for Don’t Let It Bring You Down which I considered for my top 5, though there are possibly better cover versions (Cowboy Junkies springs to mind).
I consider them 2 completely different people and like ’em both. (Unlike the tosser who wrote Waging Heavy Peace , who’s an eejit.)
He came dancing across the afterword forum,
With his extensive back catalogue of both acoustic and electric output
Looking for categorisation based on a voting system
In that palace in the sun.
Bummer I missed this. I do however concur pretty much with the Massive’s choices.
Now convert that to fav Neil albums.
My top 3 are:
1. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
2. On The Beach.
3. After the gold rush – 1st Neil album I bought – played to death – only recently being rehabilitated.
Everybody knows…. is one of my top albums by anyone still revisited on aregular basis – love every track on it.
My great pal @feedback_file gave me a mixtape of CSNY with a positively incendiary version of “Southern Man” on it which is utterly brilliant. I don’t know who the band is but the rhythm section is fantastic and it really grooves.
’tis CSNY but I have no ideas where I got it from (some unauthorised source on the net no doubt) so not sure of who would be on bass and drums. Great version though with Stills and Young wailing like demons
Was it the 4 Way Street version? That is fantastic.
Whaaat!! His best song isn’t even on the list.
It begins like this:
They were hiding behind hay bales,
They were planting in the full moon
They had given all they had for something new
But the light of day was on them,
They could see the thrashers coming
And the water shone like diamonds in the dew
Thrasher
It’s about half way down the list – 10 points. One of my favourites too.
Thanks Bunglie – my bad.
Unless my eyes have failed me again – there’s this soulful beauty too
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
Also as voted for by Bargepole, but it does appear on the list, albeit with a miserly 10 votes.
Interesting that 5 of the Top 7 appear on record 2 of Live Rust which was the starting point for me with Neil and I suspect many more.
Yes, me too. I love “Live Rust”.
And after all these years I finally got around to buying the DVD. Good stuff.
I seem to have missed that vote.
Was it 10 for 1st down to 1 for 10th?
If that was the case then Thrasher would probably be number 10 in the list as it is my favourite NY song – not sure I’d have included Rockin’ In The Free World so it would be down one to 11.
No love for Coupe de Ville neither!
1 = top choice, 10 = 10th choice. So Cortez is top.
Zuma best album?