Top five....
No one has mentioned "Time Fades Away"...I love that record.
Four others -
1) First album
2) Tonight's The Night
3) Rust Never Sleeps
4) On The Beach
5) Comes A Time

modar wrote:Trans!

I really, really like Trans and Reactor.

Of the more "traditional" Neil records, On The Beach wins for me. It's a good first date record.

I also like parts of Everybody's Rockin'.

I would say "Dead Man" soundtrack. Everyone who wants to learn how to paly guitar shold listen to it as the good example.

tonights the night
time fades away
zuma
mirrorball
greendale

Just noticed this thread.

Here are my Top 5 Neil Young Records. (I feel like those guys in High Fidelity. Jeez-os.)

This has taken a lot of consideration: even though I knew what my Top 5 Neil records were in about a minute, I had serious trouble ranking them. It's all possibly subject to change. The first three are almost interchangeably great for me in different ways. (I am not one of the people who reverence Tonight's The Night unquestionably above everything else he did, though it is one of the three best albums he's made.)

1 - On The Beach
2 - Tonight's The Night
3 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
4 - Rust Never Sleeps
5 - After The Gold Rush

I have always felt that, with the obvious and towering exception of "Cortez The Killer," Zuma is pretty overrated.

SecondEdition wrote:I have always felt that, with the obvious and towering exception of "Cortez The Killer," Zuma is pretty overrated.

No! Try this album again and again. I thought it was overrated at first...now it's a favorite Neil album.

Here's mine:

1) Tonight's the Night
2) On the Beach
3) Zuma
4) Rust Never Sleeps
5) Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

The five spot kinda rotates.

Minotaur029 wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:I have always felt that, with the obvious and towering exception of "Cortez The Killer," Zuma is pretty overrated.

No! Try this album again and again. I thought it was overrated at first...now it's a favorite Neil album.

Here's mine:

1) Tonight's the Night
2) On the Beach
3) Zuma
4) Rust Never Sleeps
5) Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

The five spot kinda rotates.

Ehhh...well, okay, but it's not in my immediate priority list. I don't even think "Danger Bird" is that good, and "Through My Sails" and "Stupid Girl" really don't cut the mustard. "Drive Back" is fucking great, though.

(Actually, dammit...now I want to listen to "Danger Bird," because I can't remember how the damn song goes, at all, at this moment. This definitely makes me look a bit like a chumpington.)

1. Harvest
2. After The Goldrush
3. On The Beach
4. Neil Young
5. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Through My Sails is my favorite song on Zuma

Daffodil Column wrote:1. Harvest

Through My Sails is my favorite song on Zuma

Definitely the exception amongst most Neil fans here, I reckon.

For me -

On the Beach
Zuma
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Tonight's the Night
After the Goldrush

chrome dreams
everybody knows this is nowhere
on the beach
zuma
harvest