Why aren't there more knockout Neil Young cover songs?

Not to mention bands that totally ripped off his sound, or Crazy Horse's sound in places :



(Okay, they did collaborate with him the year prior but this song is without Neil/Crazy Horse).

Or Dinosaur Jr. People praise Jay Mascis' guitar playing but at the same time I always hear samey songs with a Neil Young type guitar sound/solo every time.

 

Supergrass - The Loner

 

Eleventh Dream Day - Southern Pacific

 

All these covers show how, at the core, these are just fantastic songs that work in different arrangements!

 

Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done" by Gregg Allman, Derek Trucks & Warren Haynes:

 

Jay Farrar backed by Canyon does a fantastic version of Like a Hurricane. Here's Lucifer Sam segueing into Hurricane at the 5:40 mark:

 

The Waco Brothers did a great version of Revolution Blues. Unfortunately their studio version is not on youtube.

 

Golden Smog did a lot of Neil covers live, as did Minus 5.

Eric Ambel also did Revolution Blues and Vampire Blues

 

This is all kinds of beautiful

 

Map of Wyoming

 

I absolutely cannot believe there hasn't been a single mention of The Flaming Lips' blistering take on "After The Gold Rush." For shame.

 

Forgot about this one! Fantastic take

 

It's been 48 yrs since I heard this! It went Top 30 in Boston. Couldn't believe they got a local hit with it since Neil's version was played all the time on FM prog radio the previous year. It's a decent cover but not a killer.

 

Wow, Matthew Sweet has been mentioned twice and nobody listed his best Neil cover:

 

My favorite obscuro Neil cover is Velvet Crush's cover of "Prisoners of Rock & Roll". Sadly, no official release, I've only heard it on a live b**t.

 

I've come to really like Neil's version of that song. Buried on a really bad album.

 

You think "Life" is a bad album?