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- ‘Homegrown’ The title track of a country-rock LP Young recorded in the mid-Seventies but legendarily shelved — finally releasing it in 2020 — this ode to DIY hemp cultivation doubles as an ode to self-made creative work of all sorts.
- ‘Walk Like a Giant’ “Me and some of my friends, we were gonna save the world,” Young sings two minutes into this 16-minute jam. But this is no sentimental Sixties lament.
- ‘He Was the King’ “When I was a little kid, I thought Elvis was pretty hot,” Young said. This tribute offers images from throughout the King’s life — Young even throws in a “thankyuhverymuch.”
- ‘When God Made Me’ The first nine songs on Prairie Wind were finished in the days before Young underwent brain surgery. The 10th, “When God Made Me,” came later, after one of his incisions reopened and he again lost consciousness.
- “Down By the River” (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969) The centerpiece of his solo career-establishing second album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, the nine minutes of grinding delirium that constitute “Down By the River” pointed to a trailblazing future for Young beyond his stilted self-titled debut and Buffalo Springfield tenure.
- “Hey Hey, My My (Out of the Blue)” (Rust Never Sleeps, 1979) Few songs can claim to provide as much of the connective tissue for rock n’ roll history as Neil Young’s crunching Rust Never Sleeps closer, reaching across the decades between early rock and punk and grunge and ensuring timeline continuity, for better and for worse.
- “Heart of Gold” (Harvest, 1972) While Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and his breakthrough After the Gold Rush album established Young as a major talent at the top of the ’70s, his Billboard 200 topper Harvest and its Hot 100 No. 1 “Heart of Gold” made the reedy-voiced, lanky Canadian one of the decade’s unlikeliest stars.
- “Southern Man” (After the Gold Rush, 1970) The tracklist of After the Gold Rush is mostly reserved for lilting ballads and folky interludes, but there’s one big clear out toward the end of side one for five and a half minutes of Neil Young’s most righteous raging in the form of “Southern Man.”
Neil Young Song list. A Man Needs A Maid (1972) A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop (2015) Act Of Love (1995) After The Gold Rush (1970) Alabama (1972) Albuquerque (1975) Ambulance Blues (1974)
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- “After the Gold Rush” – After the Gold Rush, 1970. An otherworldly surrealistic plea to save the planet – “Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s” – as relevant now as when it was first recorded, incorporating space ships, aliens and time travel.
- “Cinnamon Girl” – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 1969. This justly famous guitar anthem was written in one day in an astonishing burst of creativity along with “Cowgirl in the Sand” and “Down by the River”, as Young lay in bed with a 103-degree fever.
- “Ambulance Blues” – On the Beach, 1974. On this rambling acoustic masterpiece, Young reminisces about his early bands, aims pot shots at his critics and ruminates on changing times in Watergate-era America.
- “Heart of Gold” – Harvest, 1972. Both a blessing and a curse for Young, but a standard all the same, “Heart of Gold” was so good it made Bob Dylan very jealous indeed.
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