Top 5 Neil Young songs?

Not his biggest fan as I find a lot of his work to sound kind of . . . "ordinary." But there's good stuff in there. These come to mind:

The Loner (although Stephen Stills' version is better)
The Painter
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Harvest Moon
Mr. Soul

Don't care for his work with Crazy Horse at all even though I generally prefer hard rock to acoustic folk. But I just don't think he's a convincing rocker at all, and he's not a good enough guitarist to make that music really groove. I do like his acoustic playing. It's not perfect, but there's more soul to it than I hear from his electric.

 

It's OK. But I don't find the narrative interesting or profound and it's hard to tell what the point is. Except family = good, corruption = bad.
It would have helped if the music had been more interesting.
As Neil's said: "When I was writing this I had no idea what I was doing, so I was just as surprised as you are"
Gotcha.

 

Revolution Blues
Little Wing
Alabama
Mr. Disappointment
Hey Babe

 

Agreed - it's not profound.

 

Revised:

Star Of Bethlehem
Cowgirl In The Sand
Computer Age
Will To Love
Wonderin'

 

Agree 100%
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For the Turnstiles
Old Man
Don't Cry
Powderfinger


Or maybe

Tonight's the Night
Cortez the Killer
The Old Laughing Lady
Birds
Words

Really it's Neil Freaking Young.....I can't decide!

 

Broken Arrow
Expecting To Fly
Down To The Wire
Pushed It Over The End
Country Girl
(and about 100 others.)

(and a special mention for C'mon Baby Let's Go Downtown.)

 

Will to Love
Mellow My Mind
Powderfinger
Down by the River
Barstool Blues

 

wow, you're the silliest arguer I've run into here yet. I said it is a good record.

 

1. Here We Are In The Years
2. Expecting To Fly
3. On The Beach
4. Broken Arrow
5. Dreamin' Man
6. The Loner
7. The Old Laughing Lady

sorry, it's 7

 

My go to Greendale is the audio copy I made off the DVD of the acoustic performance from Dublin. This is how I learned the record and I think it comes across much better than the electric one, though it has helped me to appreciate the electric more. It has one of my favorite Neil lines: "Back in the day, folks wore what they had on"

 

Yeah, I agree that it's better in acoustic form.

 

My bench:

Albuquerque
Little Wing
See The Sky About To Rain
Look Out For My Love
Cowgirl In The Sand

 

At the moment:
Acoustic Down by the River off Massey Hall
Gallows Pole
Danger Bird
Philadelphia
Downtown

 

Cinnamon Girl
Campaigner
Heart of Gold
Hey Hey, My My
Cowgirl in the Sand

 

Powderfinger
Love To Burn
Like An Inca
Like A Hurricane
On The Beach

 

Computer Age
Bound for Glory
Prisoners of Rock & Roll (full live version)
Inca Queen (live version without overdubs)
Two Old Friends

 

Top 6 LONG songs:

Ordinary People (18:12)
Down By the River (9:27)
Cowgirl in the Sand (10:06)
Over and Over (8:27)
Love and Only Love (10:18)
Change Your Mind (14:39)

Bonus song:
Southern Man (14:39)
(live version off CSNY's Four Way Street... "A really long song, and we're gonna play it really slow for you tonight)

 

"Comes a Time"
"Helpless"
"Powderfinger"
"Birds"
"Long May You Run" (if it counts)

 

God I love Over and Over and Change Your Mind.

Two early 90s underrated near-classics, imo.

"Over and over again my love
Over and over again with you"

Check out this version of CYM

 

Time Fades Away
Long May You Run
Human Highway
Thrasher
Little Wing

honorable mention: the Bridge, Down by the River, Sugar Mountain and every other song he ever did

 

I should re-listen to 15 albums before doing this, but here goes:

Helpless
Winterlong
Ambulance Blues
Big Time
Old Man

 

Down By the River
Thrasher
See the Sky About to Rain
Over and Over
Cortez the Killer

 

Winterlong
Love To Burn
Harvest Moon
Down By The River
Tired Eyes