Your favorite Neil Young album

[brentspeak]

So many albums; not enough poll choices. Use "Choice 10" to add your unlisted favorite album.















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[kwolf68]

1. Anything by this man works

Neil Young = Pure musician

If I had to pick I'd go with Harvest Moon just slightly over Everybody Knows...

[kwassa]

2. Magical Mystery Tour

You say goodbye, I say hello.

[wildhorses]

3. this.poll.makes.my.head.hurt.

too many correct answers:P

[swag]

4. I always like this poll.

"Rust Never Sleeps" always gets my vote.

[av8rdave]

32. Likewise...Rust is a classic

[underseasurveyor]

5. That is a question that is not allowed to be asked.

It's impossible to answer.

Oh Neil Young:loveya: be still my fooloish twa....er uh I mean heart:yourock:

[woofless]

6. I need a unit to sample and hold.

Trans



as well as all your other fine choces.

[brentspeak]

7. kick

:kick:

[brentspeak]

8. one last kick

:kick:

[johnnie]

9. Like em all

But Rust Never Sleeps gets my vote.

[jonnyblitz]

10. Time Fades Away (Other) used to be when I listened to him.

i don't listen to him anymore.

[NightWatcher]

11. Fav song: Unknown Legend

I want to meet that girl from the song.

[last_texas_dem]

12. "After the Gold Rush" is my personal favorite

I think it's both his most consistent album and probably also the album that has the most individual tracks that I would count as personal favorites (well, except for Decade but including it would probably be considered cheating!).

(I should say, though, that I've only heard perhaps half of his albums- mostly his earlier ones- so there may be something in his catalog that I'd like more but just have yet to hear.)

[mvd]

23. Me too, last_texas_dem

Always nice to hear your takes on music. I still have to fill out my Neil Young collection. I would put his new one, Living With War, right up there..

[hellbound-liberal]

13. I choose Other so I can vote for Stars and Bars, the first Neil Young album that I owned

It contained a lot of my favorite songs including: Like a Hurricane, Hey Babe, Saddle up the Palomino, Bite the Bullet and, of course, Homegrown!

[Okiojira]

14. Trans

I loves me some vocoder!

[Zomby Woof]

15. Tonight's The Night

Had an amazing impact when I first listened to it. Spent many a late night getting into the depths and anguish of this work.

[enigmatic]

16. Tonight's The Night

no contest.

[Robeson]

24. I'm feeling you on that one...

...:thumbsup:

[Melynn]

26. I voted for Tonight's the Night too

The album gets better every time you listen to it. A masterpiece.

The rest of the albums are great too.

[Lautremont]

17. On the Beach is my fave.

[Duncan Grant]

18. "Comes A Time" is an old favorite.

Goin' Back, Comes A Time and Human Highway are all great songs. Nicolette Larson sings backup on this one. :thumbsup:

ed: sp

[MassLiberal]

27. "Comes A Time" is great

also love "After the Gold Rush," "Harvest," "Rust Never Sleeps." Too hard to choose a favorite.

[otherlander]

19. Freedom

I'm listening to Rockin' In The Free World as I type.

[Joe Fields]

20. I appreciate Harvest more than anything else Neil's done....

But, having said that, I love Live Rust and Decade.

[Zomby Woof]

21. Unsung Young albums

I also want to cast votes for "Freedom", "Sleeps With Angels", and "Mirrorball", part of his extended late 80's-to-mid 90's renaissance. "Freedom" was the first album since "Rust Never Sleeps" where he actually gave a damn again, and had emotion and inspiration to burn. I taped his appearance on SNL's season premiere (this was '89) and still have it, where he performed 'Rockin' In The Free World' and 'No More' (a nice segueway from 'The Needle and the Damage Done'). His performance was revelatory.

"Sleeps With Angels" was his 1994 tribute to Kurt Cobain. It is to Cobain what "Tonight's The Night" was to Danny Whitten and Bruce Barry. It has some vintage Young trademarks, such as the extended meandering-yet-cohesive soloing on 'Change Your Mind'.

"Mirrorball" had Pearl Jam fill in for Crazy Horse, and the results exceeded my considerable expectations. This was his last great album, although since then I have been heartened by "Greendale" and "Living With War", two strong efforts equal to the classics aforementioned.

But between 1989 and 1995, he had his best extended run since the decade which closed with "Rust Never Sleeps".

[darkstar]

28. Yep that SNL appearance

was blistering, huh? The string grab and break at the end was indicative of the adrenaline pound. What a jolt.

[brentspeak]

29. Young impresses me with how productive he's always been

He releases more new stuff today, year after year, than most younger musicians.

[mvd]

22. After The Gold Rush

I like the mix of styles slightly better than on Harvest.

[brentspeak]

30. After the Gold Rush is my favorite, too

I'm not surprised to see Harvest win out on this poll, though; it's always been his most popular album.

[begin_within]

25. Decade

Because it contains most of his best songs. By the way, I did this exact same poll here sometime last year.

[vi5]

31. I chose Harvest because it's flawless...

I almost went with Rust Never Sleeps but Crazy Horse is such an integral part of that record that to chalk it up as just a "Neil Young record" would be a disservice.

I almost wanted to respond with "Trans" just to be a wiseass.

[av8rdave]

33. You put the cover of "Ragged Glory" out there, but not on the ballot

I'm calling the FEC!

[LynneSin]

34. Other: ALL OF THE ABOVE

:woohoo: