Favorite Neil Young's song

Mines Birds, these days. Such a beautiful song.

Heart of Gold...although, to be truthful, I prefer Boney M's polished and melodic version from 1978.

Oh, come on. You can't pick his most famous song and then even say you prefer cheesy disco version over it.

A man needs a maid OR Alabama

I sowwy, R3. My taste in music tends to be...uncoventional.

"Don't Let it Bring You Down"

Sugar Mountain

Tie

Needle and the Damage Done / Old Man

Needle and the Damage Done

Expecting to Fly

Helpless

R4 Do you think A man needs a maid is a misogynistic song?

It's funny I read the song titles you guys post and the songs start my head... like in a jukebox... Thanks and thank you Neil... you amazing lug you... because of amazing old farts like you, Rock and Roll will Never Die...

r12, I'm not r4, but I thought of it as misogynistic, though the term I used in 1972 was "Male Chauvinist Pig." More essentially, I thought of it as antigay, or perhaps [italic]un[/italic]-gay. I was going through the struggle to accept that the one thing I was never going to need in life was "a maid." It would be my entry in the Least Favorite Neil Young Song thread.

R13, hey, hey, my, my

The Needle and the Damage Done/Old Man/Southern Man etc.

Hmmm..I never realized I like that many Neil Young songs!!

R14 R12 The good old days when I started smoking weeds I would put on the Harvest album either Side 1 or 2. By the time the 4th track comes around I would be at peak high with the swirling music. Track 4 would be A man need a maid and Alabama. Hence my favorite tracks.

Yeah, I smoked pot, too, r16, when listening to Harvest and ATGR. But being high meant struggling with the song that much more. Thankfully, I stopped smoking pot that year.

Harvest Moon.

R14 If you take it literally. But it could be a song that criticizes that whole woman has to be a man's slave patriarchal way of thinking

After hearing it the first time, r19, I didn't really think much about the song's MCP-ness. My "this man does not need a maid" thoughts relegated that to a very distant second concern.

Of course, Everybody Ought to Have a Maid

Heart of Gold.

Old Man/Cinnamon Girl/When you dance

His little known gem called "I Took A Shit In The Outhouse In The Woods."

Ohio - CSNY, but still

Harvest Moon

"Like a Hurricane"

Another vote here for Expecting to Fly

Cassandra Wilson did an excellent cover of Harvest Moon.

I don’t know any other artists who had done a good Neil Young cover tbh

Pixies did Winterlong

On the Way Home and Cinnamon Girl

Pochahontas

Sugar Mountain

[quote]I don’t know any other artists who had done a good Neil Young cover tbh

Linda does quite a few. I never paid much attention to "I Believe in You" until I heard her version.

Nicolette Larson's cover of Lotta Love is one of my favorite songs ever.

Philadelphia

Powderfinger

There are so many. Neil's a fantastic songwriter.

"Last Trip to Tulsa" is bleak and surreal in a David Lynch sort of way, and it's been a favorite for, like, 87 years. That must have been some trip.

Slipped into the turntable, it's also the perfect way to get late-staying partygoers to go home.

I do not like him.

Anything where his horrid whinging piss of a squeak voice and his sloppy, sappy lyrics aren't involved.

Which is none of them.

Overrated more than ANY of his contemporaries with the possible exception of Rod Stewart.

You sure know music when you put Rod Stewart and Neil Young in the same sentence. Underrated if anything. Tragically underrated. Both as a songwriter and a guitar player. Sure he has a whiny voice, but that's not something person can change. There's honesty and passion in his voice and that's a lot more important than the color of the voice, Not as influential/important as Bob Dylan (another one with not that pretty voice), but for me, if I had to pick the best musician in the history of modern music, he would without a doubt be my first choice.

But what about Beyonce?

R39 is a jealous Bob Dylan.

If I could only pick one, "Old Man." The steel guitar in the background is haunting.

I also like "Helpless," and many others. He has a large catalog of good songs.

I've seen him twice in concert and both were great shows.

I've heard he is a jerk on a personal level, but I don't really care. He ditched his wife of 36 years just to be with Darryl Hannah.

I think a man needs a maid was actually criticizing misogyny. Like he was playing a role that he did not agree with.

Harvest Moon. Hey Hey, My, My On the Beach (an underrated album).

R43 Or they separated and afterwards he started dating another woman. Or his wife divorced him.

Down by the River

Heart of Gold

Wet Ass Pussy

Without Rings.

The collapse of a long marriage with all the sadness and solitude that it comes with.

The Needle and the Damage Done.

I like a lot of his songs, both with and without various members of CSNY, but that one is a killer every time.

Philadelphia was the first song of his I ever heard after watching the movie as a ten year old and in years at the end. That song touched me. Generally I'm not a fan of his, I prefer when other more capable singers do his stuff

Harvest Moon.

Underrated - Razor Love.

Crazy Horse, the Jonathan Demme concert film of Neil Young is phenomenal.

I'll say Harvest Moon too. Cassandra Wilson does an impeccable cover.

I think I got imprinted pretty early, so mine is "After the Goldrush." I had a bootleg album that featured, among other songs, "Sugar Mountain" and the yet-to-be-released "A Man Needs a Maid" and "Heart of Gold." I think that that "Heart of Gold" performance was my favorite recorded performance of his.

You have to be a bit of an artist or artistic to like him, and not just a listener or consumer of music.

Expecting to Fly

"Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"

"Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"

"Tonight's the Night" and "When you Dance I Can Really Love".

All good songs. I was flat broke, but managed to beg borrow and steal to go see him in atlanta when I was 19. It was worth it.

So many. The H’s - Harvest, Helpless, and of course Heart of Gold. Burned. The Needle and the Damage Done. Cinnamon Girl with Danny Whitten co-singing and going whoo!

Old Man

Old Man

Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

St. Etienne did a cool cover of this.

Down by the River, Cowgirl in the Sand, Powderfinger

When you dance/Castles Burning

After the Gold Rush ("Well I dreamed I saw the nights in armor")

Like a Hurricane

It sounds like his guitar is weeping.

Through My Sails