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Look out man, your whole world will change soon... Neil leads to others you have no idea about yet.

I discovered him at 25 years old, probably roughly your age atm-- from there I found a lot of others..

Neil Young is definitely one of my favorite artists. At least a few good things can come from the internet.

But.. hey, have any reccommendations from your own country of things we might not know???

PLAYER57832 wrote:Neil Young is definitely one of my favorite artists. At least a few good things can come from the internet.

But.. hey, have any reccommendations from your own country of things we might not know???

Isn't Neil Young Canadian? Definitely give Nick Drake a try, from the UK side, if you've not come across him yet.

Yes, Neil is Canadian.

notyou2 wrote:Yes, Neil is Canadian.

At least he inspired Lynyrd Skynyrd.

They were mad at him for what he wrote about the south. See the lyrics of Neil's song Southern Man.

Talking about songwriters, I'm surprised no-one has mentionned Leonard Cohen.
His lyrics are just so...

maxfaraday wrote:Talking about songwriters, I'm surprised no-one has mentionned Leonard Cohen.
His lyrics are just so...

Good call. Nick Cave is also good, and Tom Waits.

notyou2 wrote:They were mad at him for what he wrote about the south.

Some people should be embarrassed by the lyrics of Southern man
and equally Ohio if they feel singled out by those songs. Ohio, live in 2000

This One is good too.

Symmetry wrote:

PLAYER57832 wrote:Neil Young is definitely one of my favorite artists. At least a few good things can come from the internet.

But.. hey, have any reccommendations from your own country of things we might not know???

Isn't Neil Young Canadian? Definitely give Nick Drake a try, from the UK side, if you've not come across him yet.

The OP mentioned being from a non-English speaking area. Nothing in my post infers I thought Neil Young was born in the US. We here do tend to hear a good deal from the UK, Canada, etc. .. but not other countries.

PLAYER57832 wrote:We here do tend to hear a good deal from the UK, Canada, etc. .. but not other countries.

If you want to hear about songs originally written in French, you might want to listen to Bowie's covers of Jaques Brel's "Ma Mort" (My Death) and "Amsterdam".

I listened to Neil Young in Highschool. He was my morning coffee and a cig music before heading out.

The thing that makes neil so great is that he never bowed to the system, be it corporate or government.

His music is always evolving. He is an artist not afraid to take risk. You wont find that in music these days.

notyou2 wrote:Yes, Neil is Canadian.

Technically he's Canadian. But he's lived in the U.S. since 1966, some three-quarters of his life, does 90% of his recording in the U.S., owns land in California and somewhere in the Midwest as well, so at this point keeping his Canadian passport is just a conversation piece.

Dukasaur wrote:

notyou2 wrote:Yes, Neil is Canadian.

Technically he's Canadian. But he's lived in the U.S. since 1966, some three-quarters of his life, does 90% of his recording in the U.S., owns land in California and somewhere in the Midwest as well, so at this point keeping his Canadian passport is just a conversation piece.

Neil Young anchor babies!

A toehold!!!


Get more troops into the breech!!!!

musical genius

One of my all time faves..he's done that in about six of his concerts and it's always different yet awesome

oVo wrote:

notyou2 wrote:They were mad at him for what he wrote about the south.

Some people should be embarrassed by the lyrics of Southern man
and equally Ohio if they feel singled out by those songs. Ohio, live in 2000

This One is good too.

I agree that the lyrics to Southern Man are a bit uhh... generalizing. Don't get me wrong I love the song, but he presents a pretty simplified, and vilifying view of Southern life.

Ohio not so much so. since it's a protest song and referring to a specific event.

maxfaraday wrote:

PLAYER57832 wrote:We here do tend to hear a good deal from the UK, Canada, etc. .. but not other countries.

If you want to hear about songs originally written in French, you might want to listen to Bowie's covers of Jaques Brel's "Ma Mort" (My Death) and "Amsterdam".

Thanks. I am interesting in world music, in general.. but its hard to access it from the US. That is, I don't have the time to wade through the thousands of possibilities to find a few I might like.

For anybody who likes Neil Young, you should check out Magnolia Electric Co.:

At Least the Dark Don't Hide It


Such Pretty Eyes for a Snake


The Last Three Human Words


-TG

Ooh almost forgot this one:

Cowgirl in the Sand


-TG

So has anyone seen that odd movie Dead Man with Johnny Depp? Good movie, but the instumentals were written and performed specifically for the movie by Neil....excellent tunes....

Another great album from the "Harvest" era is "Comes a Time"... I just bought "Psychodelic" /Neil Young & Crazy Horse and on the first listen was a bit disappointed. It will likely grow on me in time as I haven't had the chance to give the double cd a good listen, if you like his drawn out long jams this new release is probably for you. I also like his "Hawks & Doves" and "Everybody's Rockin' albums.

In a similar time to early Neil Young is my two favorite Grateful Dead albums,
American Beauty and Workingman's Dead.

Arlo Guthrie is always a good show worth going out of the way to attend. Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits are both in leagues of their own.

fyi... if you like listening to a broad range of music
there's a broad spectrum of sounds here.

Those 2 Dead albums, in my opinion are their best studio albums, but everyone knows they were a live band, not a studio band.

Ovo did you ever get to see them when Jerry was alive?