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Young At Heart

I may have been a bit harsh with my opinions on Neil Young.

Don’t lie. His voice sounds like a goat being interrogated by the Mossad.

He wrote some decent songs.

Yeah, the one with two chords and the obvious lyrics or the one with two chords and the nonsensical lyrics?

He was in a band with Rick James.

That’s pretty cool.

Yeah.

Don’t lie because people got upset: you enjoy these four minutes by an artist named “Young” far more than anything Neil Young ever did.

Hey, man: moves need to be busted.

True, fam.

38 Comments

  1. spencer

    I love this song. I also want teddy bear pants

  2. maggiemay

    My parents’ wedding song was Harvest Moon. I’ve grown up with Neil in the house. HE IS AWESONE

    • thoughtsonthedead

      DO NOT LET NEIL YOUNG IN YOUR HOUSE HE WILL TAKE OVER YOUR BASEMENT FOR HIS MODEL TRAINS

    • Sir Luther Von Baconson

      Harvest Moon as wedding song story…..a good friend of mine lied to his future wife, played Harvest Moon on his guitar to her when he was courting her & said that he wrote it. they got married and HM was the wedding song. some time later she found out it was Neil who wrote it (a few of us having called her husband out). a minor bump on an otherwise happy marriage……i think Neil would like that story.

      • spencer

        Pre-internet days?

      • Sir Luther Von Baconson

        Welllllllllll…a weak argument best….his wife, whom I do love dearly, let’s just say she wasn’t Neil-centric. which is understandable.

      • spencer

        It was much easier back in the day to pull that off.

      • Sir Luther Von Baconson

        yeah. frikken intrawebs. have to re-tool my World of Lies.

      • maggiemay

        That’s so funny! It’s a little strange, but I’m glad it worked out.

    • seangrexa

      My wedding song was also Harvest Moon and I feel very old now.

      • maggiemay

        Aw, don’t feel so. My parents are only nearing 50 and they got married 20 years ago. I mean, I don’t know how that information helps, but, don’t feel old. It’s okay.

        🙂

  3. duncan

    whaaat!!? Neil may be the greatest rocker of all time. Jim Jarmusch’s film about Crazy Horse is a must-watch. The trailer…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weGcK3-oVE0

  4. Boogaloo

    >>>>Yeah, the one with two chords and the obvious lyrics or the one with two chords and the nonsensical lyrics?

    Congrats, you pretty much just described Scarlet – Fire.

    • Morning Deuce

      dang…

      • thoughtsonthedead

        He does have a point.

      • Robin Russell

        Scarlet Begonias has three chords.

  5. J. Eric Smith

    I like the one with the five-minute one-string guitar solo.

    • ste4ve

      “The one”?

      • J. Eric Smith

        There’s only one song. It just has different names at different times.

  6. Boogaloo

    Aint singing for Pepsi
    Aint singing for Coke
    Aint singing for American Express
    The End

  7. Estimated_0 (@Estimated_0)

    You realize the entire repertoire of the Red Hot Chili Peppers was derived from this one song. I saw the whole thing.

  8. WoundedSlug

    Okay, his voice can sound like a chain smoking tom at 4am but, But, BUT: Powderfinger, Broken Arrow, Love is a Rose, Unknown Legend, Don’t Let it Bring You Down, Southern Man – which earned him a line in the all time classic country hippy rocker that’s not Freebird.

    • Sir Luther Von Baconson

      On the Way Home. a hot brilliant sunshine day on the Gulf Islands, through a staticky AM station.

  9. seangrexa

    Tonights the Night and the Stills / Young Long May you Run. All the Neil you really need. Plus Decade.

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