#102

5/5 every day; gets that for all of his classic albums and then all his weird experiments deserve praise just for sheer bloody mindedness.

Chose After the Gold Rush as the song because it’s got such a vision and sweep and poetry to it, but fuck me do I love Old Man

OLD MAN TAKE A LOOK AT MY LIFE IM A LOTTTT LIIIIKE YOUUUU
I NEED SOMEONE TO LOVE ME THE WHOOOLE DAAAY THROUUUGH

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#103

By The Band? Probably.

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#104

Another vote for Davidoff Old Man.

“Massey Hall” is probably the best man-and-guitar live album ever, and “Weld” is probably the best man-and-guitar-and-comically-outsized-amps live album ever.

5/5 just for this tbh:

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#105

Always think of summer time with this gem.

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#106

He played in town ON MY BIRTHDAY in 2008 and I didn’t go to see him :sob: :cry: with this setlist

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young/2008/edinburgh-playhouse-edinburgh-scotland-33d6bc25.html

TBF I did see The Futureheads the night before, and that meant a lot to me at that age and for discovering my own new music and not just listening to legacy acts but still … fucking fool i was

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#107

Can’t help but think there is some unspoken sexism going on between NY and Joni Mitchell’s ratings. I realise we haven’t seen the NY rating yet but it seems clear the way this is going.

Both singer songwriters who play similar stuff, and yet Joni’s languishing in the 3s where it looks likely NY will be top 5.

I’ll eat my words of course if I’m wrong, but feel it should be pointed out.

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#108

I should have given Joni a 5, though I do prefer Neil’s voice

#109

Having said that, I do recognise that Bruce Springsteen is also down in the 3s. Just feels particularly relevant here.

#110

God yes! And then when he combines that strains of harmonica like on Give Me Strength, it just blows me away.

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#111

always really liked Thom Yorke’s cover of After The Goldrush, really seems to suit his voice

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#112

I rated Joni high from what I remember, agreed they get lumped in together being both Laurel Canyon people in the 70’s. However, I feel Neil’s trajectory differs from Joni’s a lot at the start of the 80’s and on. He released a rockabilly album, electronic vocoder album, clearly got louder/more electric in production. I hear what your saying though. I feel Joni is more comparable with Dylan mind you than Neil, just my opinion.

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#113

The first two NY records I bought were ATGR and Harvest and for a while after that, I though that was Neil Young. Then I picked up Sleeps With Angels dirt cheap in a sale some time later…and man that was a bit of a surprise…

The opener sounded like a song from a muppets musical and it had grumpy old grungey songs on like Piece of Crap. I didn’t get it at all first, but kept coming back for another go. Now I’m so glad didn’t trade it in for something else I’d have undoubtedly long since stopped listening to.

In the wrong hands the songs on there would have sounded like overblown radio rock, but the production is so good. It’s so raw, but sparse enough to let the great tone of everything shine. Brilliant run of songs from Prime of Life > Driveby > Sleeps With Angels > Western Hero, capped off with an epic Crazy Horse jam in Change Your Mind.

…then hidden away at the end is this slab of eerie brilliance:

I by no means know his whole back catalogue, but I’m sure glad I lucked out on picking this one up early.

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#114

easy 5. tempted to dock him 0.1 points for Dead Man but still rounds up to a 5

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#115

The Dead Man soundtrack is the best thing about it!

#116

true but it’s a terrible film

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#117

Also if anyone is wondering why Neil will rate higher than springsteen, enter exhibit A. Bruce just has to take a back seat and let the hurricane of Neil flow.

#118

He can

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#119

This is something I’ve been thinking about when doing my albums of the decade list. In the last few years I’ve been deliberately listening to more music by women than i used to when I was younger, and it;s been great - discovered so many things i’d have overlooked and got so much value from it. Now I think I just listen to everyone equally and have no (very few) biases.

But when I look back to the start of my list in 2010-2013 there’s so few women on it. I’ve since listened to a lot more music by a variety of people from that time, but i can’t deny that the albums with all the memories and feelings attached are the standard white boy indie stuff.

So I think lots of people might have had similar experiences with big artists. You listen to NY and JM when you’re younger, as some formative-ish artists, and you just prefer the guy “for some reason”. Then it’s easy to grow up and not interrogate those feelings and just assume that’s because NY is a lot better than JM. And I think there’s people that do that, that would now be much more aware of giving due time and attention to two current male and female artists, but your opinion of legacy acts get crystallised in the time you first hear them and the views you subconsciously held at that time.

So basically JM and others like her may suffer from people (/men) listening to her “too early”, before their views improved? I think some of that made sense? Hmm.

(I haven’t listened to enough JM ever to vote for her, which may just be a different problem in it’s own right)

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#120

The greatest.

5/5

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#121

Joni is also 100000000000/5, no idea which maniacs on here would vote lower

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