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Neil Young · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's Deprogrammed, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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band. That's right.
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We've done all the work for you. All you have to do is press play
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and listen. My name is Justin and you can
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call me band curious, because I am indeed curious about bands.
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Sometimes they're just artists, not bands.
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Sometimes they're bands or they're artists that have bands.
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We'll get into all that, but what we like to do is I get my
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friends together, we talk about an artist and coming out of the
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other side of that is a top 10 starter kit for you to get into
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the artist that we're going to be talking about today.
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And I'm, you know, I'm not going to come up with anything clever
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because I ain't no Crazy Horse. We're talking about Neil Young
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today. And this feels like a a big one
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to finally get off the board. But last time you were here,
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Andy, like you almost immediately said, Neil Young, we
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got to do it. So talk to me about Neil Young.
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I'm surprised we hadn't already done it years ago.
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I think what was holding us back was that he pulled everything
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from Spotify for a couple years. So it's like, OK, well, that
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makes it a little more difficult to do 'cause you run the whole
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list and everything through Spotify.
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So, and then just looking at it, I'm like, this is a big artist,
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one of the great songwriters of all time.
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And yeah, of course we should be doing it.
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I mean that there's it's Neil Young.
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He's the the godfather of grunge.
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He's he wears so many different hats that literally makes him
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touch yes, very much figured. It's like that.
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He just it spans so much of his discography.
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I mean, if you go through how many albums he actually puts
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out, we could do legitimately A5 part series on everything that
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he's put out because he has I think it's 50 studio records or
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near 50 studio records, which is just insane.
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That is 5 lifetimes of Discogs for an artist and he does it at
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such a high level. He's such a particular
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songwriter. He has great lyrics.
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I mean, he's a great musician as well, and he incorporates all
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different musicians into his music.
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And every album that he does definitely takes a different
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mentality or a different Sonic identity and mixes it in.
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When it's Crazy Horse, you know that it's going to be lo fi,
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it's going to be heavy rock. When it's, you know, he was
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doing some of the country stuff, he's going to have some backup
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singers on that. He's been doing stuff with the
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Chrome Hearts recently. Hell, we got to mention it
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because the three people that are on this panel, Yep, he did
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an album with Pearl Jam, even though they were not listed in
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the liner notes because that was against the the record company.
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But Mirrorball, a great 90s Neil Young record, obviously biased
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on that, but he's worked with so many different people,
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collaborated, collaborated with Jack White a couple years ago to
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record in this 1930s booth that, you know, basically nobody on
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earth owns aside from Jack White.
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So he's just one of the absolute living legends that we still
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have around. And I mean, you go through his
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catalog here, we'll talk about what we decided to use for this
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episode. And I'll make my argument on
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whether or not this will be the last Neil Young episode.
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I know we haven't done part twos in a while, but this one may be
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an exception. I might need to do some
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convincing on it. But I mean, personally, I lived
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with this. I lived with Neil Young's music
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from the time I escaped the womb.
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And I was, you know, hearing Harvest and and everybody knows
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this is nowhere, but it's also like, you know, lest I forget to
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mention Crosby, Stills Nash and Young and Buffalo Springfield.
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Like he has done so much work outside of just his solo work
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that I mean, it's really, it's really incredible what he's put
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together. And, and when you think of songs
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that he's written for those bands, they're not on this list,
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even though they are some of the best songs that he's written
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like Ohio and Helpless and, and some of those other ones that
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CSNY had. But you know, this will be a
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really interesting list to determine because we did about
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100 songs on it, and you'll get to see a lot of different sounds
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and a lot of different characteristics of Neil.
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So I'm excited to get into it, but there's going to be so many
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incredible songs to discuss and decide whether or not they're
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deserving of this list. So Randy just mentioned so many
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songs like I feel like the last time you were here, we were on a
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nail biter 2 My morning jacket, Patrick.
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So talk to me about you. You step back in to deprogram,
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but and now it's yet another like monster catalog monster
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artist. Talk to me about Neil Young.
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So I think the thing with Neil is that you particularly the era
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that we're going to be talking about, which is we'll call it
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his prime. He's there's certainly things
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that happen post the, the time frame that we're there we're
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looking into, but it's he's arguably, if not the best, the
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the closest. You could say that he drops his
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second best in terms of prolific output and not just like
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quantity, but quality of output in the late 60s through the 70s.
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He does not have a miss in there.
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Some things are brighter than others, but it it is not a
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catalog that has any slop in it. And that makes it very tough.
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At the same time, there are things that rise to the occasion
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in order to get, you know, to bring people on board to
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understand who he is. It's that balance between I want
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you to understand and know Neil Young and, you know, potentially
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throwing somebody a curveball and saying, Hey, why don't you
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sit with me for a couple of days and and hang out and listen to
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on the beach. That maybe that, you know,
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there's there's variations of of angles that you can go with.
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And that that breadth and depth of his catalog and where he went
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from the heights of something like Harvest into his, you know,
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what was so-called the Ditch series, The Ditch series of
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albums. Most musicians would kill to
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have one of those, let alone 3. And he he then follows that up
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with a prolific run with Crazy Horse in the mid to late 70s.
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And it's just, it's just a very, very eclectic and well put
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together time period for him where he's just flourishing.
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And the words come off of his pen and the the notes come off
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of the the guitar in a way that is just incredibly profound.
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And we're lucky to be alive at the same time that he's graced
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the world with the the plethora of music that he has.
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So Brian, I again on on Randy's last episode, Randy says Neil
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Young, Neil Young and you're me like, yeah, like I I have to be
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here. So this feels like one of the
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one of the big ones that you somehow didn't miss, if if I'm
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reading into the conversation correctly.
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Yeah, this is I, I, I saw him on the list, like, you know, years
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ago. And Neil Young isn't like my top
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ten, like favorite artists of all time.
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And I'm like, it was, it was the same thing.
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Like where I kind of like where I saw like Pink Floyd on there,
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but I was like, Nah, because like, I love them too much.
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And it's it's it's impossible to break up their discography, you
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know, And even this was like, no, Neil Young is way too, you
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know, you know, you know, like Randy said, there's, you know,
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almost 50 studio albums. Like I'm like, there's no way to
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like do this justice. Like, but you know, and even
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even when we were putting a list together, I was like, well,
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let's do like three 70s and three 90s moms because like, you
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know, when I think. Of.
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Like the three, like, 90s albums, I'm like, big.
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And I'm like, I'm like, oh, well, how can we not have this?
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Have we not have this? But so it was just such a big
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undertaking that, yeah, I was kind of like, but then, yeah,
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like if you asked me flat out, like, are you going to do this?
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Like, of course I'm going to, I'm going to do it.
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And Neil Young, you know, I mean, there's, there's not much
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more you could say. He's just as absolutely
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legendary. You know, I, I don't usually
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tell like my like my discovery story.
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But because of the because of the panel that that that I'm on,
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you know, you know, I discovered Neil Young when I was 13 years
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old on a night in October at the Video Music Awards.
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And that was when I discovered, that was when I discovered Neil
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Young when he came out and played rock and the free roll
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with Pearl Jam, who had just absolutely tore the place apart
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by playing their new song Animal.
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And I was like, oh, crap. And, you know, when I was 13, I
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couldn't really get into like the older stuff, but I
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definitely got into like, like, like the 90 stuff that did have
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it, that grunge sound to it. Yeah.
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And then I discovered later that, OK, you know, you know,
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you know, he had that sound earlier in his career as well.
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And, you know, I, you know, I got mirror ball just like every
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other good pearls and fan. And it just, it's like I said,
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it's just like an encompassing thing.
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Like, like Neil Young was the first country artist I ever
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liked. He was also like the first folk
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musician that I ever liked. He was also like the first like,
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classic rock artist I ever liked.
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So like. Probably the first rockabilly
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artist you ever liked too. Yeah, like, and then, you know,
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when you listen to the old stuff, you know, and you're, you
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know, 1314, you're, you know, rock it out.
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It's like vitology. And then you, you know, listen
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to like live rust or something. You're like, oh shit, this is
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this is this is, this is apples to apples.
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So like, you know, and it just, it just took my over my world.
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And then as I got older, I got into like into like the more
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focused country stuff. And yeah, I mean, this has Neil
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Young has something for everybody.
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Like, no matter pretty much like what you like, Neil Young can
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can find you. That is kind of the great thing
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about him as an artist for sure. It makes it makes it like
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something like this a bitch and and we'll get that into that in
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a moment. But I I mean, of course, this is
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an artist like I'm aware of. You know, I'm not, I'm not blind
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to Neil. How can, how could you be a man
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of my age and not know who he is?
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Like it you can understand, like he didn't hit me the same way
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that he hit all you guys. So like, I never did any kind of
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dive on him. But like, it's kind of, I kind
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of liken it to when we did Paul Simon last year.
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Randy. It's like he's a guy who's just
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always there. You know what I mean?
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Like just always there. Anytime I heard a Neil Young
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song, I was like, Oh yeah, man, that's cool.
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I like that. Oh, cool, Neil Young, neat.
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And you know, I never, I never bought the records, never did
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the dive on on Spotify. So like he always found my ear,
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but never it never enough for me to like make the dive.
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So let's talk about the dive. Obviously, as, as you mentioned,
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it's it's 50 records that we can't cover all that.
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Like it's impossible. We had to start trimming down
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immediately and, and our version of trimming down came out to
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like 99 songs and you said it was still kind of short, but you
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were finally content. So talk to me about the massive
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undertaking of trying to fit Neil Young into 99 songs, and
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then talk to me how you put your list together.
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Yeah, I mean, it's impossible. Like you just kind of had to
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stick to one time period. So it wasn't like, Oh well,
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we're getting rid of tonight's the night for Harvest Moon.
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And like you just can't do a lot of that.
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Like I, I feel that's why I really want to do a Part 2
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because I feel like his, you know, mid life career, late 80s
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into the 90s, early 2000s is just as prolific and honestly,
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in some cases a lot different. But yeah, you just couldn't say
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no to any of it. And then I realized that, Oh
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yeah, there's a bunch of songs off of decade that aren't album
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songs like Sugar Mountain and Winter Long and a couple of
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those other ones. And I'm just like, these need to
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be included as well. And yes, when you have that many
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songs that are candidates for this huge thing and and you
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knock it down to to 20, it's it's tough.
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I had AI had an easy and difficult time all at the same
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time because I had so many songs that I was just like, yeah, no
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doubt, no doubt, of course. And it came down to like 1514 or
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15 songs that were absolute. I wasn't even going to, you
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know, take an argument on these. And then it was the other songs
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that were like, these are great songs, but how do I want to
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disperse these? And the one album that I had a
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lot of trouble with was actually Harvest.
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Great album. As Patrick was saying, Ditch
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album and I have tons from the other two Ditch albums, but the
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yeah, that's, that was a tough one because everything was like
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at the same peak and I couldn't make a decision on which of the
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bunch I should take over 'cause I only had two.
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And then today I had to make, you know, the final cuts.
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I had two songs left and I'm like one of them needs to be a
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Harvest song 'cause I'm not sitting here only, you know,
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using 2 songs from Harvest that that's just not fair.
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So I literally put them into a random name generator, spun a
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wheel and that was my pick because yeah, they were all on
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the same level. So I, it was, it was extremely
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difficult and I, I wish that there were some of those albums
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because those three are just incredible.
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I mean, that's, you know, over half my list right there.
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But some of those albums I, I had to take like one song to
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represent. I don't think I represented
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every album. I think I might have left one,
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maybe 2 albums out just because the, I had to disperse it.
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And you know, it's like, well, you, you can't leave this out.
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You can't leave this out and you just got to, you know, one.
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There was 1 record where I was like, I can absolutely not not
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take something from and I was disappointed that I only took
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one song from it. But you know that that's just
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what happens when you have a list and catalog that is, as you
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know, grand as this. So yeah, a lot of tough
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decisions on this one and a lot of songs from my end that I'm
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like maybe more the hit songs that maybe I said, well, it's I
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don't hate them. I love them just as much as
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everything else. But these other songs are like
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part of the soundtrack to my life.
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I can't say no to these. So I mean, Randy was just
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speaking to the death of these 99 songs, but I don't recall you
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you chat chiming in too much about your process.
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Patrick, Like being again, my morning jacket was a good couple
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years ago. Did you kind of take the same
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approach here or is this like a different artist, different
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approach? It probably ended up being sort
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of the same, but from a different angle.
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My approach with Jacket was more about trying to really take it
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from somebody that spent more time specifically with the
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studio records. That was my my experience of my
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morning Jacket for so long. With Neil, it was really about
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looking at it and saying, do I want to try to create a list
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that is going to please me, or am I going to want to try to
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create a list that's going to make people get interested in
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all of his music and give a little bit of flavor where I
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can. So I, I kind of separated my my
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top songs into two tiers, the ones that I think really belong
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on a a list to bring people into Neil Young's archive and a
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second list that probably would be like my personal like here's
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my 10 song mixtape that I would give to someone and say listen
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to Neil Young, knowing that that is a a little bit different.
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And and so I I kind of looked at it about what are really like
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building block Neil Young songs. And so in that, in that top ten,
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I have three that I think I couldn't possibly let go.
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And about the the other seven are, are ones that are, you
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know, absolutely great, but I don't feel like if I switch them
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with my, my second tier that I would feel like people were
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losing out on things. It's that kind of mix.
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I didn't have the same problem cutting that I think others had.
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I kind of was like I, I know what I want.
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And I know what I think makes sense.
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So I'm interested to see how this all plays out, whether
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there's a very good interweave or if it is completely off base
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with what everybody else is thinking.
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Well, only one way to find out, right?
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So Brian, being that this is like a A pillar for you, this is
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probably one that you were kind of thinking about all along.
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Did you kind of already have a list going in or I mean, it
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seemed like you're having having trouble.
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Yeah, well, I had trouble because I can't count and I made
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I made too many cuts. I only had 19, which I didn't
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find out, so I wrote them down Today were like 10 minutes
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before we started. No, this was tough and I
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struggled with harvest. So my, my, my top three Neil
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Young albums are Harvest on the Beach and Ragged Glory, which is
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not in here, but that's fine. So like, so yeah.
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So it's tough. I'm like, OK, well, I can't just
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take all of Harvest and On the Beach.
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Although honestly, that's what you should be listening to if
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you want to get into it was, it was tough.
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It was tough. I, I took like what I thought
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would you know, there are a couple songs maybe not like too
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controversial that I thought, OK, well, they'll get in whether
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I pick them or not, which is a dangerous game, you know, to,
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to, to play. But then I was like, OK, well,
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like I, I, I had some kind of game play, although I never, I
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really met Patrick before. Like I only kind of knew him
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from because like we listened to like a couple of the same
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podcast. So like I was like, can I, can I
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just play this as like a Pearl Jam fan and like, or can I just
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play this as like like a folk fan?
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Or how do I play this? And in the end I decided that
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I'm just going to just do what I usually do.
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I'm and then these are all songs that I think like everybody who
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wants to get into Neil Young to listen to.
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So I'll say it, I feel like this is going to be an unmitigated
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disaster in in all the best ways.
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Like, because like I feel like as I was going through my first
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pass, like I didn't feel like I was plucking out that many.
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And it was, it was just because I was enjoying it.
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I was just kind of listening to it and I was like, yeah, OK,
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cool. Yeah.
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And I got through and this makes sense, like 50 something songs
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on my first pass. I was like, OK, I I literally
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didn't, you know, it's like almost half, half of what we
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have available or just over half really.
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So I like Patrick, I did not. I got to a point because I asked
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the question early this time. I never, I never do that.
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We did. We hadn't set a date.
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And I was like, I'm getting ready to do some cuts.
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Let me see if I'm even on the right track, just to kind of
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see, you know, pull, pull the audience as it were.
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And I was like, OK, like I have some of these and I kept those
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because obviously I liked them enough to keep them around.
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And then it just got to a point where I was like, there's
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nothing, there's nothing I can do where I'm going to be right.
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Like I, I don't think I'm going to be wrong, but I also this
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feels like I'm not going to be right.
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And it's insane to say that 99 songs and it felt like literally
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all of them are in play. Like it didn't feel like there
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was any that were I could just easily cast aside and say
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nobody's picking that. Most of them just kind of came
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down to, oh man, this was a cool guitar lick.
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This was hey, his voice goes up high here.
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Cool, I'll pick that. There was like a good handful
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that like we're semi familiar. So I kept those.
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And then there was a good couple that the first time I heard them
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on my first pass, I was like, yeah, those And the rest I just
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kind of was like, we'll see, we will see.
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Because like I said it, it, it very quickly felt like no matter
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what I do, I'm going to be wrong.
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Like not in a people are going to yell at me wrong.
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But like, it does feel like I'm going to get you guys going a
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lot. I think we're all just going to
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do that to one another. Yeah, So, you know, I was like,
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you know what, I'm not fighting this.
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I'm not going to overthink it because I also feel like while I
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may pick songs that are going to go right into the bin, I think
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you guys will go, yeah, I get that.
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You know, like I I don't think, I don't think my 20s wrong.
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So I was like, I'm not, I'm not playing the game.
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I'm just going to go with what hit me.
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And that's how I got to my 20. That said, to have a four person
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panel on a 99 song list, Randy like that math is fucked.
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So based on everything we've said, how many do you think we
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get through unanimously? I don't, I really don't know,
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You know, I, I, I like to think that it can be a little
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optimistic and my pick won't seem optimistic at all.
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But I think that there are three in there that we'll find common
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ground on. Maybe we won't realize that we
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do find like, maybe it'll be one of those songs where it's like,
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Oh yeah, like this wasn't my top song, but it makes sense that it
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can be on the list. I think.
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I think we could get 3, we might get 2, and hell we could get 4,
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but 3 feels like enough where it's not.
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Pushing it. Yeah, I get that.
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Wow. Based on what's what's going on,
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three is off the board. Patrick, what do you think?
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I I would be shocked if we don't come up with four unanimous.
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OK. I would think that that I would
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be surprised. I think there's going to be more
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clarity than is believed. All right, Brian, what do you
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think? You've done enough of these now.
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Back to what I'm hearing I I was thinking like like like 9 like
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OK, wow wow wow OK I'm I'm going to say EI don't know man I just
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to be I was going to say I was going to pick 9 but now I'm
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feeling a little bit down so. There's a lot of songs.
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Yeah, it's just a lot of songs in a person.
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I know it's a lot of songs but there's there's so many.
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Like I feel like her home runs, maybe I'm wrong.
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See, The thing is you, I think you're probably right that
27:44
there's probably 8 or 9 between the three of you.
27:50
Yeah, you, you always got to throw me in there because I
27:52
don't, I don't know all the home runs, you know what I mean?
27:55
So it's. True.
27:57
You didn't listen to classic rock radio.
27:59
You hate classic rock? According to my friends, I hate
28:01
classic rock man. My inclination is to steal
28:08
Brian's 9 just to be a shit. Don't be a shit.
28:12
Come on, play the game. Play the game.
28:18
You know, it's ridiculous. I'm going to, you know, it's
28:23
sitting there. It, it does feel like, you know,
28:26
there might be a couple like Randy said, that kind of it does
28:30
feel like there's probably 3 that are just going to, we're
28:32
just going to agree on, right. And then there might be like 2-1
28:38
or two surprises that give us cool, thanks for that one or two
28:42
that give us get us to the five fives available.
28:46
And I like to take 5 when it's available.
28:48
So I'm going to take 5. I'll go right down the middle.
28:51
We're going to take a quick pause.
28:54
And on the other side, we're going to start playing the game
28:55
and just see if I'm correct. Unmitigated disaster or glorious
29:01
chances. We'll see.
29:03
It's been a while since I've done a disaster episode so I'm
29:06
hoping for it. We'll be right back.
29:11
And with that, the name of the game is deprogrammed and the
29:14
four of us have come through a selection of Neil Young's
29:18
discography and plucked out 20 songs that we're now going to
29:21
mash together in an attempt to create a top ten star kit for
29:23
you. In case you have never given
29:25
Neil Young the time of day. And I'm going to start here,
29:30
which is see. And this is the other thing
29:32
about I realized as we were doing it, it usually I kind of
29:38
have an idea of of where I'm how I'm going to play.
29:42
Like, you know, the first couple.
29:44
It's kind of like curling like where you know, what, what am I
29:47
going to do? What are my first couple of
29:49
moves? I didn't have that this go.
29:51
So I'm going with one of the two songs that I was like, yes, for
29:55
sure when I first heard them and I happened to get them get it as
30:02
an answer a couple times when I asked the Internet.
30:04
I'm going to start with powder finger.
30:06
Yeah. I don't have that.
30:12
Oh that. So that is in my top 20.
30:16
Hey, all right. We'll take a three there.
30:18
The hell yeah. Oh, that's just has this like
30:22
triumphant once they get to that moment and his voice raises.
30:27
I like 22 and I don't know what and and that little lick that he
30:33
does after this just so good. That's like a that's goosebump
30:37
inducing right there. I love that song.
30:40
One one in in my top five. Like that was a home run for me.
30:45
Hey, all right. I feel good about that because
30:47
like I said, that one didn't feel like a home run, but it
30:51
felt like 1 I had to have and there wasn't a ton of those.
30:54
Like there was just ones that, you know, I liked versus there
30:58
was 2 that I felt like I had to have and this was one of them.
31:01
So all right, we'll take a three there, Randy.
31:08
I'm going to start off pretty easy.
31:10
I don't know how many will get with this.
31:12
I think that this is a really good shot for a 3.
31:15
It's, you know, a fairly simple song.
31:18
It's kind of a country song a little bit.
31:19
And then it's a title track and everybody knows this is nowhere.
31:23
Should be easy, right? Oh, what?
31:28
I don't. I do not have it let.
31:32
Me see if I can see is that. Really a 10?
31:35
This is the kind of disaster I was hoping for.
31:40
All right, game on. Bring it.
31:42
Yeah. I guess I don't.
31:43
Hold on. Let me put it in the search so I
31:46
can be sure. Oh my God, you would think I
31:50
would. Be yeah, There was a lot of good
31:52
stuff on that album. It was hard to.
31:55
Yeah, that's the album that I took the most off.
31:58
Of oh. I got plenty more.
32:02
Oh yeah. Why am I not seeing it?
32:14
It's on the album. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
32:16
Yeah. Yeah, well why am I not seeing
32:19
it on? I must have scrolled past it.
32:26
This is not a bit. Everybody, no, it's not a bit.
32:29
It's not a bit. I I have it, I can save you.
32:33
I can. Oh, you do?
32:34
Oh, odd. OK.
32:36
I accidentally. Scrolled.
32:37
Past it yeah I mean, you know, and and this kind of I can't
32:42
read my own handwriting firstly Secondly, I scrolled past it
32:46
like 3 different times on the on my thing.
32:50
So all right, we take a two there 2 is still alive and
32:55
looking like it. That may be the case here.
32:57
Twos might be in play. So Patrick, how, how do you want
33:02
to start? I'm going to I'm going to start
33:07
with what I'm assuming is an obvious one, and it's my #9
33:13
song, and that is Cinnamon Girl. I got it.
33:15
Yeah, that's. Yeah, hey, OK, I was.
33:18
I had a feeling that this would be one of the unanimous for
33:21
sure. I wasn't sure.
33:23
Like, I wasn't sure if anybody was going to try to be cute on
33:26
it or if, you know, I didn't know what, what actual Neil
33:32
Young fans think of the song. You know, I know it's classic.
33:37
Yeah. So yeah, this.
33:39
Is one of those grunge songs from the 70s.
33:43
I think the pumpkins covered it at one point.
33:46
I I I'm pretty sure a bunch of 90s bands did but like.
33:49
Well, did they write a song that intentionally ended up being it
33:54
with Neil? Pearl Jam did.
33:58
Hey, Billy Corgan wishes he could be Neil Young.
34:03
I love the pumpkins. I love Billy Corgan, but like
34:06
Neil Young, he is not, although he I'd argue he's as prolific.
34:12
Like if you look at the pumpkins discography, like he definitely
34:16
checks a lot of boxes. But like anyway, that's aside
34:19
from the point Cinnamon girl is in.
34:22
All right, Brian. I'm sorry, one of my favorite
34:27
songs. I think it's one of the, I don't
34:30
think Neil intended it this way, but it became one of the
34:32
greatest, like jam band songs of all time.
34:36
You know, if you're a guitar band, if you're a jam band band,
34:40
jam band band, then you play this song I think made famous
34:47
the 20 minute version by Built to Spill.
34:50
Cortez the killer. Oh, I got it.
34:52
Yeah. Yes.
34:54
Hey, yeah. I mean, this is that's a Grand
34:57
Slam. Yeah, it is.
35:00
Yeah, I mean, I I gravitate towards Neil's jam stuff, so
35:03
that was easy. Yeah, yeah.
35:05
Have you ever heard the version from Built a Spill?
35:08
No, not the built a spill. Amazing.
35:10
It's 20 minutes. It's on like their live album.
35:13
It's on Spotify and it's it's just, it doesn't feel like 20
35:16
minutes like you just it, it just it's, it's freaking
35:20
amazing. This was one I I placed as like
35:25
the third I was going to play because it it made my list and
35:29
like 3 people answered it. So it's like OK, I'm on to
35:32
something with this one. So Boo Boo Boo Cortez the killer
35:38
gets all the way through. Find it on my list and.
35:43
There's one song when I see Dave Matthews for the first time this
35:46
summer that I hope he does. Yeah, Dave Matthews had a cover
35:49
a bit to it. Yeah, it's, I think it's a
35:52
staple of the set for sure. He plays it once in a while.
35:56
It's usually when Warren Haynes is around.
35:59
OK. All right, Cortez, the killer
36:03
gets in. We're at to a couple of my top
36:08
choices are gone. I'll go with the other song that
36:13
I heard and was like, yeah, this one's on my list.
36:16
I've got it listed as my #2 and it is something that came up.
36:21
It is one of the songs that Randy has already brought up.
36:24
It is one of the songs that Randy added like at the last
36:28
minute winter long. Oh no, I didn't take winter long
36:33
have it. I do not have it.
36:35
Oh. That's on the Pixies.
36:37
The Pixies play that live a lot actually.
36:40
Bend, OK. Great song.
36:44
Yeah, that's going to be a lot of that, I feel.
36:46
That was that was winter long is in my bonus tier, but I can't I
36:51
can't save you on that all. Right.
36:54
All right, Randy. Let's bring in after the Gold
37:01
Rush songs now. I bought that record when I was
37:08
pretty young and I bought the vinyl of it when I was just
37:11
starting to get into vinyl when I was like 20 or so, and that's
37:16
before it started to boom again. So I was at like this record
37:21
store and I think it was Ocean City.
37:25
And I looked at it, I saw it and it had this song on it.
37:30
And I didn't really know the other songs on this out.
37:32
I knew one other song that was kind of more of a hit, but I I
37:37
knew this song and I bought the album because I really love this
37:41
song. Only love can break your heart.
37:44
Yeah, I got it. Yeah.
37:46
I got it. I do not Hey.
37:49
We take it. I didn't expect 3 so that's
37:51
pretty good. Yeah, yeah.
37:53
So that's also one that I got as an answer.
37:58
Good means they got tastes. We take a three there and we
38:05
move on, Patrick. I am going to go to one of the
38:12
ditch albums and I'm going to take Tonight's the Night, no.
38:17
No. No, I don't have it as a heart.
38:25
That was a that's a tough. Guys are all crazy.
38:30
Maybe, but. No.
38:33
Maybe Neil should have wrote like less good songs, I don't
38:36
know. Yeah.
38:41
See, the the problem with the way I made my cuts is I can't
38:44
tell you what was on my first pass and where it dropped out.
38:47
Like there's going to be a handful.
38:48
I'll go. Oh man, yeah, I definitely had
38:51
that one until late. I don't know where that one
38:54
dropped out, unfortunately. So welcome to the bin friend
39:00
Brian All. Right, I'm I mentioned it during
39:05
the intro. One of my favorite albums by
39:08
him. It's also a ditch album and my
39:10
favorite my favorite song off the album.
39:13
It fits. It fit at the times in the 70s.
39:16
It fits in the time today. Revolution Blues.
39:20
Yes. No.
39:22
No, take it to that I'm pretty sure.
39:32
I know I just said I can't tell you where things dropped out,
39:35
but I'm pretty sure that was on my first pass.
39:38
So and it gets a 2 and we go around to me.
39:50
I'll try an on the beach song before I get back to like my
39:54
order. How about walk on?
39:59
Late cut don't have it. Yeah, that's in my bonus tier
40:03
late cut. But Brian did right, so we'll
40:07
take a yeah. I had it, yes.
40:09
OK. Yeah, not in the bin.
40:11
That's good. At this point, it's still alive
40:16
with two. True all.
40:18
Right, Randy? I mean, there's still plenty of
40:20
game play left, so. All right, I feel like we need a
40:25
big song now. Yeah, Yep.
40:30
I'm going to take my favorite Neil Young song, and I think
40:35
maybe my favorite chorus of any song of all time.
40:42
I just, I lose it when I hear it.
40:45
It's Cowgirl. No.
40:47
Yeah, yeah. Everybody, yeah.
40:50
Everybody but me, yeah. Three.
40:52
Yeah, that that'll go on. That's fine.
40:55
Yeah. Come on, that one harvest?
41:03
No. No, it's on.
41:04
Everybody knows it's nowhere. OK, there it is at the end I see
41:09
it. I will say again, that is when I
41:12
I know I I don't know where it dropped out, but I know I had it
41:15
on my first pass. I know that doesn't help.
41:19
But no, it means it got to you. So yeah, it doesn't help.
41:24
If it was A2 or A1, then yeah, that wouldn't help.
41:27
But since it was a three, well, we'll cut you some slack, yeah?
41:30
Yeah, OK. All right, Patrick.
41:35
You just didn't know that's. All didn't know you just.
41:39
Didn't know better. I'm going to stay away from my
41:44
top ten at the moment because everything has just gotten
41:48
sideways. So I'm going to go into my 2nd
41:52
10 and I'm going to throw out off of On the Beach Ambulance
42:02
Blues. Another good one.
42:04
I did not take it. I don't have that one.
42:08
I'll save you. I was surprised.
42:09
I'm surprised by that. I thought you would.
42:12
I took Revolution Blues, so I was like.
42:15
But I don't know. I had to pick one or the other.
42:19
Trust me, I would have taken the whole album if I could.
42:22
It gets to, too. It gets to hang out all right,
42:26
Brian. All right, I guess this is a big
42:31
one because it was I think it was a radio song.
42:36
And then there's there's two versions of it.
42:39
So we'll see how this splits up. If some people have one version
42:42
to go have the other version, maybe just count them.
42:44
There's an acoustic version and there's like a grungy version.
42:47
I took the grungy version. Hey, hey, my, my.
42:51
They are separate, yes. I took the grungy version as
42:55
well and I did it for a reason, but does anybody else have it
43:00
or? No.
43:01
No, OK. Yeah, that was my link to
43:07
especially because that was the last the last song on Russ Never
43:10
sleeps and DeVos inclusion like that.
43:13
That's a huge, you know, for for me that that's pretty big, but
43:18
that's their or that's his way of the the gateway into what's
43:25
really going to become late 80s like that could be on freedom,
43:30
Iraq, glory. Like a glory?
43:32
Yeah, fits right in. Here's what I hate Johnny
43:37
Rotten. Johnny Rotten is one of the
43:39
greatest music videos of all time too.
43:42
Here's what I hate is not having reasons.
43:45
But there just isn't, you know, there just isn't here.
43:49
So I don't have reasons. I'm going to go with my song
43:52
that's listed at #3 It is one that came up several times when
43:56
I asked the Internet. So maybe one or two.
43:59
You got it. How about look out for my love?
44:03
I don't have it, no, no. Yeah, that's it's a great one,
44:08
but that's on my my bonus tier. Bend.
44:12
All right? I haven't hit the bend too much,
44:14
but that's all right, Brandy. Oh, it's back to me already.
44:20
Dang. OK.
44:22
Oh, man. I don't know what I want to do
44:25
here. OK, let's go with like a
44:33
hurricane. Yeah.
44:37
That is in my second tier, yes. I don't have it.
44:42
I realize I got that one a lot and were IA person who is
44:48
welcome welcoming the work extra work I would have figured out a
44:53
way to get it in but I did not so gets a three.
44:58
That's fine, yeah, as long as it gets 3 then you're you're off
45:04
the hook. Yeah, all.
45:08
Right, not as big of a disaster as I thought it would be, that.
45:12
I was more optimistic, I was more optimistic Mystic.
45:15
But we haven't, I think we've hit any of the big ones from
45:18
harvest yet, so. Yeah, there's been, there's been
45:23
a little bit of hesitance there. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm
45:28
going to break that up because I'm, I'm incredibly interested
45:32
just to see about this. So I'll pick one of my two that
45:36
ended up in my top 10 from harvest and I'll go with Heart
45:44
of Gold. Yeah, I got it.
45:46
That's a no. That's a no from me.
45:49
Wow. Wow, is that three, that is.
45:54
Three. Yeah, 3.
45:54
All right. Let's take a three there, yeah.
45:57
Again, like I said, I put it in on the spinning wheel and spun
46:02
it round and round and round and it did not land on that.
46:07
Gotcha. Completely right.
46:09
Mm hmm. Yeah, No real reason, no real
46:13
rhyme. Sometimes you got to make
46:15
choices, so. Yeah.
46:19
All right, Brian, all. Right, This is another, this is
46:24
another like radio hit, but I just, it was, it's just so
46:29
powerful, the way it's sung, the way what it means and
46:33
everything. I I, I, I feel like you got to
46:36
have it. Southern Man.
46:39
No. No.
46:42
No. What?
46:44
That's a tough one. That's a tough one to do that
46:49
too. Southern.
46:51
Man. I'm so sorry.
46:54
You know why I didn't take it? I thought I had enough from
46:59
after the gold rush. That's the only reason.
47:03
I was just trying to do variety. This song basically created
47:09
Lynyrd Skynyrd's career. Yeah, it's true.
47:11
Yeah. Essentially, Yep.
47:14
They were so mad. Oh, sorry, Brian, we let you
47:21
down. You.
47:25
Let. Kneel down.
47:31
All right, I'm going to go. I've listed as nine.
47:36
It's early on and it kind of did the thing for me, even though it
47:41
doesn't technically do the thing.
47:43
How about the loner? Yes, yeah.
47:47
Yeah. It's on my bonus tier but.
47:51
All right, we'll take it through.
47:53
Three's good. Yeah, OK.
47:57
The Loner. All right, Randy.
48:03
He was. He was singing about a car, by
48:05
the way. When wasn't he?
48:10
Well, I was about to say it was the follow up to Long May You
48:14
run. He needed to write a song after
48:20
that because he didn't have a car anymore.
48:24
Nice. I'm going to take what I think
48:26
should be a lock for the top 10, but I don't even know.
48:31
Needle in the damage done. Yeah.
48:37
No, it's in my bonus tier. That was like 2122 and I got
48:44
that as an answer like towards when I was already done.
48:51
Had I gotten it as an answer towards the beginning when I
48:54
still put in my list, I probably would have just kept it in so
48:58
like. That's a tough one to have as a
48:59
two, yes, yeah, one that probably should be fought for.
49:06
Oh, there's there's. Another Yeah, you're fighting
49:08
already. I mean it's.
49:12
True. I predicted that this would be a
49:13
fight. Yeah, we all did.
49:16
And I mean, it's going to be because there's just going to be
49:19
a lot of open space that we're going to get the play with
49:23
because I mean, I'm 12345678, I think.
49:32
Yeah, 8 or 9. So I mean, we've still got a
49:35
good couple rounds in us. We can still kind of hit the
49:38
stride, but it doesn't feel like there's that many out there.
49:42
I mean, who knows, Patrick? Where you want to go?
49:45
We should hit on one more unanimous but.
49:48
Yeah, I'm, I'm hoping that this one is going to be at least the
49:51
three, if not unanimous, but down by the river.
49:56
Yeah, I got it. That's in for me.
49:59
All right, Good, good, good, good.
50:01
I didn't want to go into it be like, ah, is this going to end
50:04
up making it? Is it not?
50:06
I'm I'm glad this one's on. I was, this is what a song I was
50:10
listening to before we came on. I was like, oh, thank God, I
50:13
have this. Like, I don't have to.
50:15
I don't have to. Do that's my that's my number
50:18
two overall. Wow.
50:21
Is this Neil's best solo? It's the Best Song that he ever
50:27
wrote. Hallucinating in a hospital bed,
50:30
I mean. Love that.
50:37
I thought that was the whole Everybody's Rocking album.
50:41
Well, that could that could have been too.
50:42
I mean, you have to take it for what it's worth.
50:44
I mean, that's what he describes it as.
50:46
If you read the liner notes, the decade of the way he describes
50:49
it is that he was having some sort of hallucination episode
50:53
when he was ill. But you know, Neil has
50:56
embellished before, so who knows?
50:59
All the best. Do.
51:01
All right. Boom.
51:02
Just like that. We're at 3, so we're at Randy's
51:04
three. We can only go up from here.
51:11
Yeah, I. Would love to have this pic I
51:14
should say. Yeah.
51:15
Brian, where you want to go? Oh Jesus Christ, how about
51:22
Pocahontas? No, couldn't find room.
51:27
Can't save your brother? I got 2 strikes in a row.
51:31
OK, yeah, work on this. Pick better songs.
51:37
Pocahontas Classic. It, it, it, it is.
51:41
It's just the, the it's, it's hard to fit into.
51:47
Like when you're when I'm thinking about like giving
51:49
somebody a top 10, it's different.
51:52
Like I get, I get why I pick. It's not a song that I don't
51:55
like. That's not it at all.
51:57
It's just, it's a it's hard ones to to fit into.
52:00
Hey, let me introduce you to this guy.
52:05
All right, well, I have this one listed as my 10th and like
52:14
everything else will kind of be, we'll figure it out as we go.
52:18
How about old man? Nope.
52:22
Yes, yeah. Hey, all right.
52:24
I'll take a three there. That was another one.
52:26
It didn't land. Yeah, All right.
52:32
One of the handful that I recognized, I should say,
52:36
because I'm sure there's more that I'd heard and just didn't
52:39
clock. Other than Cinnamon Girl, of
52:41
course. All right, we take another three
52:43
there. And Randy?
52:47
Almost dreading this because it's kind of like I don't know
52:52
if I should play like a song that I think we're all going to
52:55
get together on. Because honestly, like I don't
52:58
want us to all have a four song. So maybe I just play something a
53:02
little more random and that's what I'm going to do.
53:04
Actually, this is going to be the last of the five songs that
53:09
I have off of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
53:12
This is just a song that resonates with me, and maybe
53:16
only me, but I mean, it's such a fun song.
53:21
The losing end. I don't have that.
53:25
No, no. As predicted, I didn't think.
53:30
You would go anywhere. That's why I took it, because
53:32
it's what I don't have anything to lose right now.
53:35
Playing to playing to win the spot again, it's like curling,
53:40
you're trying to stay on the button.
53:43
It's true. All right, Patrick.
53:45
Wait a second, topical. All right, I've played a couple
53:49
of easy ones, so I should go into my second tier just to to
53:54
keep the drama moving. And within that, I'm going to
53:59
pull one out from the Comes a Time album, Human Highway.
54:05
That was in the conversation, but.
54:09
No, I don't. I don't have it.
54:11
That's what I figured. I can't save you.
54:13
That's why it was in my second tier.
54:17
Because you never know. Dang it, did I scroll past it
54:24
again? Which album was it?
54:26
Comes a time. There it is there.
54:29
It is. We haven't done a lot from that
54:30
record. All right, Brian, Geez.
54:40
How about how about after the gold rush?
54:44
Yes, all right. Oh yeah, yes, I.
54:49
Cannot bring that to the fore but.
54:55
That's fine by me. Yeah, this way, this way.
54:58
Wait, I, I, I couldn't believe when you guys were getting low
55:01
number like what? No, this is like, but yeah.
55:05
He's got a lot of good songs, lots of good.
55:08
Songs. Yeah.
55:08
It's tough, It's tough. This is not CCR, you know.
55:12
Yeah. CCR, like, yeah.
55:14
CCR in Boston like we got like. Right.
55:18
We knew the. Yeah, we knew the.
55:21
Jacket ended up being like that too.
55:22
We ended up, despite the amount of albums, we actually got a
55:26
quick consensus on that, which was.
55:30
That actually surprised me. Let's see 123-4567.
55:35
I think at this point we just do one more round and and then
55:38
we'll do the dump out. Fine.
55:45
I don't know about this. I don't know about any of these
55:47
ones. These, none of the nobody.
55:49
I didn't get these as an answer. There's one from harvest that I
55:53
could do. I'll just, I'll just go.
55:59
One that found me. How about don't cry?
56:01
No, Yeah, don't cry. No tears.
56:04
That was one of the last ones I added today.
56:07
Oh. Yeah.
56:10
I'll take it to you on something I wasn't sure about.
56:14
Really solid too. Yeah, it is.
56:20
All right, Randy. The only reason why I took that
56:23
over. What did I take that over again?
56:27
Oh God, I can't even remember. It was I woke up this morning.
56:32
That was the first song that came into my head.
56:33
So I'm like, all right, well, that's that's a way to end a
56:36
conversation right there. Man.
56:41
There's a lot of these that I have left that like I don't want
56:47
to like use like, oh man, you know, as as kind of like my
56:52
rundown to be like, does anybody have this?
56:55
Anybody have this? But this one I'm looking at
56:58
right here is one of my favorites.
56:59
It's also I feel like there's not enough like legit country
57:03
country stuff. So I'm going to play comes a
57:07
time. I do have that, that's in my
57:12
second tier. Oh, is that another three?
57:15
Because I do not. I'll take it.
57:17
Yeah. All right.
57:22
So much to scroll through. Boom, boom and boom.
57:30
All right, Patrick. So I'm going to play one of my
57:34
last two remaining in the top ten that I have because I'm
57:39
fearful that both of them are not going to be there.
57:41
But I'm not going to do my number one.
57:43
I'm going to do what was my #4 And that's the old laughing
57:46
lady. Nope, no.
57:49
No, no. Yeah.
57:51
I wish I had and I know that was on my first pass.
57:54
I know that's not saying much because, like I said, I think it
57:58
was like 50 songs. So but it it it definitely made
58:02
my first pass just kind of was one of those ones I just tossed
58:05
away just because I had to. All right, Brian, all.
58:13
Right. How about for the turnstiles?
58:17
Oh, great song. And they couldn't find a way.
58:21
I don't have it. Yeah.
58:22
All right, All right. Let me shake this down and we'll
58:28
see if there's any way to get us to Patrick's four before.
58:33
There's still great songs out there and songs that I don't
58:36
have that are great songs that are out there.
58:38
Oh. Yeah.
58:39
I don't think I'm, I don't think we're going to get to 4 unless
58:44
it's something of magic that happens to be in my second tier
58:49
because I know my #1 based on the responses, nobody else is
58:53
going to. Have All right, I'm going to
58:56
start at the top here. Last trip to Tulsa.
59:01
I do have that, yeah. That is that's that's my #9 in
59:06
the second tier. That is my arguably.
59:09
And you're going to say what? This makes no sense.
59:12
One of my favorite Neil songs, but I just don't think it's.
59:15
It's a hard one to introduce people to Neil, but it is a
59:18
great great, great song. Wow.
59:20
Well. I mean if.
59:22
And I saw it. I saw it live at the Paramount
59:26
Theatre in Madison Square Garden in 1999.
59:30
That was the first time I encountered it and I immediately
59:32
went out and bought the Neil Young album LP, which I will
59:38
actually be sharing with Justin as the picture for this episode
59:43
because that was like a a huge moment for me.
59:46
That's cool. I like that there's a story with
59:49
it. It's something I would, I
59:50
thought for sure was going in the bin the way it is.
59:53
This is gone. So all right, don't let it bring
59:57
you down. Yes.
59:59
Yes, I do have that as well. I don't have that.
1:00:05
That's a very solid 3. All right, going to Harvest.
1:00:10
We'll see if this if Randy's random hit this song the title
1:00:16
track Harvest. Yes, that was that was an
1:00:21
automatic from that record. Nope. 3 or 4, That's a three.
1:00:27
That's a three. I do not have it.
1:00:29
OK. Guy closed all right, 3 is good.
1:00:32
Yeah, it looks very good. We're might hold on there a
1:00:35
couple left here world on a string.
1:00:39
Nope. Yep.
1:00:42
No, I don't have that. I thought for sure that all of
1:00:45
these were going to get bend. So like, I'm happy that I'm
1:00:47
finding anybody on these. I'm I'm out.
1:00:53
OK. All right.
1:00:55
Good for. You.
1:00:55
That's it. All right, I win.
1:00:57
Yeah, he's got it. Hold on.
1:01:01
All right, let me circle that. I got a couple left here.
1:01:04
Way to go, Randy. Come on baby, let's go downtown.
1:01:11
Nope. No.
1:01:14
All right, and last but not least, bite the bullet.
1:01:19
Nope. No, that's a good one though.
1:01:21
But no, I didn't take that one. Yeah, I think that one made it
1:01:24
to the second tier. All right, so as we mentioned,
1:01:31
Randy's 3 is going to hold out. Randy, you can make this these
1:01:36
twos a little heavier. What you got left?
1:01:40
All right, so the one song that won off of Harvest and one of
1:01:44
the points that I was going to bring up when you guys picked
1:01:47
Last trip to Tulsa is that we can basically do a geography map
1:01:52
of all songs and states that Neil has wrote about because he
1:01:57
pretty much for a Canadian, he is spread the whole entire
1:02:02
United States and wrote about every single territory.
1:02:06
So the winner of that was Alabama.
1:02:09
Do you have Alabama? No.
1:02:13
Alrighty. And then this one I think you
1:02:16
might have. This is my last one, Sugar
1:02:19
Mountain. Yes, that is my #1.
1:02:23
Wow, hey, hey, look at that boom and boom and #2 and then these
1:02:34
will, unfortunately for you, Patrick, go right into the bin.
1:02:37
But what do you got left? These are all in my second tier,
1:02:41
so I don't feel terrible about them.
1:02:44
And there's only three. But out on the weekend from
1:02:47
Harvest, Hold back, Yeah, hold back the tears from the American
1:02:52
stores and bars, which is just incredible.
1:02:56
Backing vocals from Linda Ronstadt.
1:02:59
And then on the beach from On the Beach.
1:03:02
Nice. Yeah.
1:03:06
Very solid. Dang it, I keep scrolling back
1:03:10
past these songs. There's Hold Back the Tears and
1:03:12
then On the Beach was the last one right?
1:03:15
Yep. It's just so much, just so much
1:03:19
easy, easy to scroll through. All right, let me shift this.
1:03:23
We'll run down what we've got through unanimously and then we
1:03:27
will start the conversation on these threes and go from there.
1:03:33
I'm sure as nobody took the other version of Hey hey my my
1:03:37
yeah. Me too.
1:03:39
It was on my first pass. I, you know, I don't have a
1:03:42
reason for why I didn't make it, but it was on my first pass.
1:03:46
All right, the three that got in all righty are Cinnamon Girl,
1:03:48
Cortez the Killer, and Down By the River.
1:03:50
So we're off to a good start. Let's look at these threes.
1:03:54
12345678910110 boy. All right, I've already got it
1:04:05
set for 3:00 so we can, I can shit, never mind, I can't do
1:04:10
that. We have 21 still available in
1:04:12
the conversation So let me run down these threes Powder finger
1:04:17
only love can break your heart Cowgirl in the sand like a
1:04:21
hurricane heart of gold the loner old man after the gold
1:04:27
rush comes a time. Don't let it bring you down and
1:04:31
harvest. I believe when it came up,
1:04:36
Randy, you said cowgirl in the sand is one of the ones let's.
1:04:39
Just put it in. OK, Let's just put it in.
1:04:41
Yeah, I, I'm not even, I'm not even going to ask.
1:04:45
I'm going to command and we're not.
1:04:48
No, that's not what I'm going to use as my final say.
1:04:51
Yeah, yeah. All right.
1:04:54
So Lynn, if we're we're taking that, we still have 5 spots
1:04:57
before we get to Randy's final say.
1:05:01
Are all of these picks going to come from the threes, or have we
1:05:05
essentially killed off these twos?
1:05:07
I I may take something from the twos.
1:05:12
OK, so like. If you want to pick from the
1:05:15
threes here, then then do it. I feel like there's something in
1:05:20
the twos that needs to be on the list, but if you guys decide on
1:05:26
your own that that should be in without me, then I might take
1:05:30
something from the threes. OK, so let's let's start with
1:05:34
Patrick. Is there a song When I ran down
1:05:36
those threes Now Cowgirl in the Sand Is In is the one that's
1:05:40
kind of jumping out at you is like, man, that really, really
1:05:42
should have been in. Boy there.
1:05:46
This is tough because it is not a small list, but I think it's
1:05:51
impossible to make a list of Neil's top 10 and not have Heart
1:05:57
of Gold in. All right.
1:05:59
Can I throw a stipulation in? OK, stipulate.
1:06:06
Yeah, if we take heart of Gold, I don't think we need old man.
1:06:11
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's one or the other.
1:06:17
I I would, I would agree. OK, I'm I'm fine putting it in
1:06:23
and I think I would pick heart of gold too.
1:06:26
OK, great. Sounds like everybody's on
1:06:27
board. So we will grab Heart of gold
1:06:30
and we are laying down old man. And for my final say, it's going
1:06:35
to be old man. All right, so that brings us up
1:06:41
to six. Yeah, No 5 rather 55.
1:06:47
Brian, is there one that's kind of jumping out at you?
1:06:50
Yeah, I'm having regrets on powder finger.
1:06:53
OK. Put it in.
1:06:54
Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, I I'm good with that.
1:06:58
Even though that was in my second tier, I can't argue that
1:07:01
that's a a freaking great song. There's there's electric
1:07:04
versions, there's acoustic versions, there's alternate
1:07:08
versions. It's a great 1 and I probably
1:07:11
should have had it in my top ten.
1:07:12
I just think I was being greedy about the electric stuff so.
1:07:17
So that brings us up to six, so 123-1234.
1:07:23
So we have 7 left still in these threes.
1:07:27
I mean, do we want to make it easier?
1:07:29
I mean, this is a tough question, but do we want to make
1:07:32
it easier and see what doesn't belong, Patrick?
1:07:35
Like is there one of these threes that you're like, you're
1:07:38
like man, it's awesome. But like, I don't think it
1:07:40
belongs in this 10 boy. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going
1:07:54
to, I'm going to have to go with because we've, we've been heavy
1:07:58
on some of the the Crazy Horse electric.
1:08:03
As much as this hurts, I think if we're going to pull back one
1:08:07
of the threes, let's pull back like a hurricane.
1:08:10
Oh, that does hurt, but I think. But I'm, I'm making it's
1:08:14
persuasive arguments. Not, I'm not saying it's a bad
1:08:17
song, I'm just saying it's #11. Let's, yeah, let's, let's lower
1:08:23
tier it. Let's not say completely
1:08:25
eliminate it. Yeah, we'll put a pin in it.
1:08:28
Yeah. Pin in that.
1:08:29
One I'm not, I'm not going to say no, I can't.
1:08:33
Yeah. All right.
1:08:34
Similarly, Brian, is there one that you're looking at that's
1:08:36
like it's probably just happy to be here at this point?
1:08:44
No, maybe maybe harvest, but no, you got to have nothing.
1:08:57
Yeah, because like we also got to have, I feel like we got to
1:09:00
have after the Gold Rush, I feel like we got the Loner, which is
1:09:07
the only representation we have I think of of that album, right.
1:09:13
Yeah. We have no Rep of on the Beach
1:09:17
which is sad. Yeah.
1:09:21
We don't have any threes there, they're all.
1:09:23
Twos, yeah, as you're working through this, let Well, this is
1:09:26
a good time to bring that up. Is album representation
1:09:29
important here? Like it's nearly impossible to
1:09:32
do because of the scope of what we covered.
1:09:37
Yeah, it, it is kind of impossible.
1:09:39
And like I said, like, you know, you know, like, like we said,
1:09:42
you know, this is one of the ditch albums and it it didn't
1:09:45
really get critical acclaim until like a later into your,
1:09:49
you know, you know, when, you know, people were Oh no, this is
1:09:53
fucking fantastic. I don't know.
1:09:59
The other problem with On the Beach is that it's not that.
1:10:03
It it it. Every single one of the songs
1:10:06
would be hard to get a consensus on.
1:10:09
Yeah. That, like the album itself, is
1:10:13
absolutely fantastic. It is my favorite Neil Young
1:10:16
album, but I'm not surprised that there wasn't consensus on
1:10:19
it. Right.
1:10:21
Yeah, I agree. Yeah, It's one of those that you
1:10:23
could just take the whole album and put it on there and just say
1:10:25
this. We should listen to.
1:10:27
Yep. I don't know, I maybe only love
1:10:32
can break your heart. To lay down or.
1:10:36
But then we got to have action, but then we got to have that for
1:10:39
the gold. If, if that's yeah, I mean we're
1:10:44
looking at here album representation of what we have
1:10:47
in the threes. We have 3 songs that are in the
1:10:50
top ten that are Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.
1:10:52
We only have one Harvest, We have one Rust Never Sleeps.
1:10:57
And we have one Zuma. We're not getting another Zuma.
1:11:01
We might get another rush Never sleeps, Can we?
1:11:05
No, I guess we can't. We definitely need something
1:11:09
from after the gold rush. Yeah.
1:11:12
So is that an? I would argue that if we're
1:11:15
taking them, if there's there's a couple that are still on the
1:11:21
table for after the gold rush. I think there's two that are,
1:11:25
there's three that are threes. And if if I was taking between
1:11:29
the three of those, I would agree with Brian that only love
1:11:35
can break your heart is the one that would go.
1:11:39
Sad realization, but I like, you know, I might abstain from my
1:11:46
opinion on that and just say I love, love both songs equally
1:11:50
so. But yeah, After the Gold Rush is
1:11:55
really, really good. So where does that leave?
1:11:59
Don't let it bring you down. Right.
1:12:01
Right up at the top, baby right at the top.
1:12:05
I know that's my, that's my #12 song, but I mean, it's, I don't
1:12:10
know, I, I just feel like of those, of those three, the, the
1:12:15
two that should be within the debate sphere are after the gold
1:12:19
Rush and don't let it bring you down.
1:12:22
Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm fine. Because let's see, we that would
1:12:28
be the number 7. Like I think putting in a gold
1:12:33
Rush song and now should be the priority.
1:12:38
And after the gold Rush feels like it, it can and should be on
1:12:43
the list. So do you guys want to make that
1:12:46
happen? And then don't let it bring you
1:12:48
down. We'll still be part of the
1:12:50
conversation for the next lead. How to pick?
1:12:55
All right, Yeah, Everybody is on board with after the gold rush
1:12:57
going in. Yeah.
1:12:59
OK, yes. All right, so let's do that.
1:13:02
And what does that bring us up to 7?
1:13:05
7. OK, All right.
1:13:08
So now we have a little bit of album representation taken care
1:13:13
of. Is this where we're looking at
1:13:15
dropping like a hurricane for reasons before?
1:13:18
Are we looking at because we have the loner from the Neil
1:13:22
Young record? Yes, that comes a time from
1:13:27
comes a time if we're looking. At I want to I kind of want to
1:13:30
fight for that because that's his most country song that's
1:13:34
left on this list and it represents something that we
1:13:37
just don't have part of gold is kind of country too, but that's
1:13:41
full country like comes a dime is like that is Deep South
1:13:45
country or at least like you know, Kentucky you.
1:13:50
Know if if I was if I was forced to choose between comes a time
1:13:55
and like a hurricane. As much as I love the American
1:13:59
Stars and Bars album and it won't have place on this,
1:14:05
American Stars and Bars also fits in that same sort of
1:14:08
category. Even almost weirder than On the
1:14:13
Beach because there's like 5 different versions of it of the
1:14:17
that album that were made over the years and it's a it's sort
1:14:23
of a cult classic. Comes a time would be the one
1:14:25
that I would take and I would push out like a hurricane all.
1:14:30
Right. So I was the odd man out there.
1:14:32
Yeah, so let's do. This, Brian, you agree with
1:14:35
that? Yeah, Oh yeah, I concur.
1:14:37
OK, awesome. All right, so that brings us up
1:14:39
to 8 and let's get our number 9 here.
1:14:42
Now like, is this just Best Song available?
1:14:48
It could be. What do we got the owner again?
1:14:52
We're bringing up that conversation of is it
1:14:54
representation? Cause the loner's still sitting
1:14:57
there. Don't let it bring you down,
1:14:59
still hanging out and harvest. If you had a choice between
1:15:02
those 3 Patrick, which one would it be?
1:15:05
You have to have something from his his first album.
1:15:09
So like for me, even though the Loner was on like my bonus tier,
1:15:13
it was outside of of the the top 20.
1:15:18
I, I don't think you could not have his, his his essentially
1:15:23
debut not represented. So I would I would go with the
1:15:29
loner. What do you think, Brian?
1:15:33
Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine with loner.
1:15:37
All right. And I mean, technically, I mean,
1:15:40
you're going to get a final say anyway, Randy, but you, you had
1:15:44
that. Yes, I did.
1:15:48
I mean, don't let it bring you down.
1:15:50
Not being on the list hurts a little bit.
1:15:51
Harvest not being on the list hurts a little bit, but like.
1:15:55
I think that was always going to be the case.
1:15:57
Yeah, I'll live to see another day.
1:16:01
Well, I mean, I, I think, you know, kind of what we were
1:16:03
saying at the beginning, that was always going to be the case.
1:16:05
There's there was going to be like two or three threes here
1:16:08
that you guys are going to be like, I can't believe that
1:16:09
didn't make it. So.
1:16:11
Yeah. All right, that brings us to
1:16:13
Randy's number 10. And you know, you know the rules
1:16:17
as long as it's a Neil Young song that preferably one that I
1:16:21
listen to, but. That's going to be rocking in
1:16:26
the free world. All.
1:16:30
Right. I'm going to run down the line
1:16:33
so it's everybody knows this is nowhere great song and probably
1:16:40
if it made three would have had more of a conversation.
1:16:43
That's not going to be the one I pick Revolution Blues as much as
1:16:46
I want to represent on the beach, it just falls a little
1:16:49
bit short walk on and ambulance Blues the same story there.
1:16:54
Hey, hey, my my that's it's you know, that's a grunge represent
1:17:02
representative here. But the thing with that one is
1:17:07
I'm still going to fight for a Part 2.
1:17:09
So I'm not, you know, I'm not against leaving it out because,
1:17:16
you know, we might get that sound in a different episode.
1:17:20
Don't cry, no tears, happy to be here.
1:17:22
Last trip to Tulsa and we're all on a string, the same Sugar
1:17:25
Mountain. Good song.
1:17:27
I think it just misses, I think the strongest one in this bunch
1:17:31
that I was actually really surprised that was not at least
1:17:35
a three is needle in the damage done.
1:17:37
I think you cannot make a list of Neil Young songs without that
1:17:41
being on it. So that's my pick all.
1:17:43
Right. Let me mark that I'll run this
1:17:46
down Final say if I could spell that would probably help.
1:17:51
Final has 1L Justin and then I will shift this up, read it down
1:17:56
and we'll close up shop here. Rather agreeable.
1:18:01
I feel like, you know, there was some tough discussions there,
1:18:04
but I feel like we we came to decisions pretty quickly.
1:18:08
Well, we didn't get to the hardest conversation yet.
1:18:10
Yeah, I know. Right?
1:18:14
All right, so we've got here's our 10.
1:18:16
Cinnamon girl, Cortez, the killer down by the river,
1:18:19
cowgirl in the sand, heart of gold powder finger.
1:18:21
After the gold rush comes a time, the loner and the needle.
1:18:25
And the damage done rounds out our ten.
1:18:28
I read those 10 to you, Randy. Is there one that's jumping out
1:18:31
at you as the one? Chomping at the bit because yes,
1:18:37
there absolutely is AV 1. I don't know if we're agreeing,
1:18:41
but this is my statement here. I don't think it should be a
1:18:46
surprise to anybody that's been listening for the last hour or
1:18:48
so. Cowgirl in the sand all.
1:18:53
Right. What do you think, Patrick?
1:18:54
Is it cowgirl in the sand? You know it's down by the river.
1:19:11
Wow, that's a heavyweight battle for the ages.
1:19:15
Damn, Brian, can you break a tie or do you want to throw
1:19:20
something else in the? Med No, I was going to say
1:19:22
Cortez. Oh.
1:19:25
Shit. I was going to say Cortez and
1:19:31
then between the two you guys said I have no idea.
1:19:42
I don't know, Justin. So I mean, what do we want to do
1:19:51
here? So the easy way out is down by
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the river was unanimous, right? The.
1:20:01
The next layer to that conversation is I, as I told you
1:20:03
guys, cowgirl in the sand was really close for me.
1:20:06
So like and you guys had set like it was the one that we
1:20:10
immediately put in once we got to that layer of the
1:20:12
conversation. So I think ball, I don't I'm
1:20:17
glad Cortez the killer made this list because obviously I liked
1:20:20
it. I don't think that one does the
1:20:22
trick as our number one. I do think it's between Down by
1:20:27
the River and Cowgirl in the Sand.
1:20:28
I actually think Cortez has an argument because of kind of what
1:20:33
Brian was saying before. So many bands have gone on to
1:20:37
cover that song and it's kind of been like this jam theme for him
1:20:43
that it's not a horrible selection at all.
1:20:47
I mean, these are, this is a triple threat match in their
1:20:51
prime of Hulk Hogan, Cena, and The Rock all facing at the main
1:20:56
event at WrestleMania. That's what this is.
1:21:00
Cortez is not the number one, though.
1:21:04
I would, I would, I would. I would be persuaded to go as
1:21:08
much as I want it to be down by the river.
1:21:11
I would be persuaded to go cowgirl first.
1:21:16
Here's the thing. If Cowgirl, if you had the
1:21:21
chorus of Cowgirl with the solo Down by the River, you'd have
1:21:25
the greatest song on the planet. Oh yeah, and that would be
1:21:32
easily the pick. Yeah, I don't know well if.
1:21:38
If I had to, so if I had to rank them, I think because that, you
1:21:44
know, that's what we usually end up doing is rank them.
1:21:48
I mean, so so maybe I'm playing too much in my heart is Cortez
1:21:53
and so on. But then you got for cowgirl.
1:21:59
Jesus Christ, I don't know. I don't know.
1:22:06
I would say that's we're almost that flip a coin.
1:22:10
Yeah, it'd have to be a three sided coin I.
1:22:12
Guess yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you say that, but let's
1:22:17
not discount, Patrick said. It is not Cortez the killer.
1:22:22
Yeah, he's probably right. Although like I see an argument
1:22:27
for it. I think that down by the river
1:22:30
would be my two of these three. So what do we want to put weight
1:22:38
on here? It's got to be it's got to be
1:22:44
one of the songs off of so we're everybody knows this is nowhere
1:22:53
or the the alternate non Crazy Horse version of Neil, which is
1:22:58
Harvest. That is Neil Young like that is
1:23:02
like the what he encompasses. It has to be one of the two from
1:23:08
everybody knows this is nowhere. So I would go with cowgirl in
1:23:12
the sand. It has to be one of these songs
1:23:13
that Danny Witten was involved in.
1:23:16
I mean, this is the like the essence of the DNA of Neil Young
1:23:21
all. Right, so.
1:23:24
Let's all stand behind Cowgirl in the sand, because obviously
1:23:27
it's my favorite. And I'll, I'll, I will, I will
1:23:31
bow because you also picked 3 as the the number that we would get
1:23:36
to from consensus. Well.
1:23:37
I already got my reward for that.
1:23:40
Well, I'm trying. I'm trying to make peace so that
1:23:43
we're not on until midnight. Discussing this.
1:23:47
This is not the yellow Ledbetter conversation.
1:23:50
Yeah, it's not as heated at at least.
1:23:53
So yeah, Lori, I'm with it. Let's let's go with Cowgirl in
1:23:56
the sand. Like, you know, I was at coin
1:23:58
flip from the jump. So cowgirl in the sand is going
1:24:02
to be our number one. I'll run this down.
1:24:03
We'll ask, go, and we'll get on out of here.
1:24:06
Cowgirl in the Sands, our #1 Cinnamon girl, Cortez the killer
1:24:09
down by the river, Heart of gold Powder Finger.
1:24:12
After the gold rush comes a time the loner, the needle in the
1:24:15
damage done rounds out our ten. With that, let's let Cowgirl in
1:24:20
the Sand get a moment in the sun.
1:24:26
So bad that Discord won't let you guys hear the song.
1:24:33
All right, we have done it. Maybe you were already a Neil
1:24:37
Young fan and you're just sitting there yelling at us the
1:24:41
whole time. Maybe that's the case.
1:24:43
It's possible. It may even be probable.
1:24:47
Maybe you aren't. Maybe you never listened to
1:24:49
them. Hey now, you got 10 songs to
1:24:51
check them out. You got a nice short list.
1:24:53
Give it a listen and see how we did and see if you get into
1:24:57
them. Hey, man, we're a podcast.
1:25:00
Of course, maybe you think you can do better.
1:25:02
Maybe you want to come be on the show.
1:25:05
Check the liner notes there you can click on if you want to
1:25:08
play, it takes you to a sign up sheet.
1:25:10
Let me know who you want to talk about.
1:25:12
Boom, just like that. Easier way to do that, I'll say
1:25:16
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1:25:19
Hi Justin, you do get the conversation we're about to have
1:25:23
after the fact. You get deprogrammed before the
1:25:25
rest of the world, but it also gets you an automatic invite
1:25:27
into Discord server. The Legion stupid Discord plops
1:25:30
you right into our general chat. There's all sorts of stuff going
1:25:33
on not limited to there is AD program channel.
1:25:38
You jump in there and there's a final finding panelist channel.
1:25:41
You go on that and say hey, I want to talk about this band.
1:25:44
Anybody want to talk about this band with me just like that and
1:25:47
we will work on getting on an episode and you can come argue
1:25:52
about songs until midnight because we didn't get there.
1:25:55
Just so you know we're it is not midnight, but we did we did go
1:25:59
on. Sometimes it happens.
1:26:01
Hey, so that's all the Patreon stuff.
1:26:04
You can join the Legion of stupid discord by asking for a
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1:26:09
It's OK man, I get it. Times is tough.
1:26:12
Also, though, we are a podcast subscribing, rating, commenting.
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1:26:21
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you can help me is by telling somebody that you listen to the
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and you should too. And with that, you're young.
1:26:33
Let them in love with people. We all see you next week.
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Goodbye.