SavetheTuna wrote: 




True. He's actually looked a little like one of the hulking serial killers that used to haunt Santa Cruz for some years now, at least at times, in certain lights. But just goes to show you can't judge etc. He's a good guy if there ever was one, with the Bridge School concerts, Farm Aid, and a thousand other examples...

  If you don't have this album you should.

My god, this was released in 1974 and I have a table and chair set that looks just like that. I think it's time for an upgrade.
   In addition I do like the tune, it has been a many a year since I've heard this one, got to love RP !

Winnipeg! Who knew it would be such a font of great music.

It's all real......Neil rules !!    Although he does look a little scary on stage these days.

Great Album: other tracks are easy 9's...  Play more from On the Beach!  the crowd is clapping for that... 

Nice segue from Built to Spill.

Neil Young on, mute on. What was so special about Pavlov?

On the Beach!! Great hearing this from one of my favorite Neil Young albums. 
What a happy surprise :)

Not even close to Neil's norm.

 countyman wrote: 
So it's greatest hits to date it they're still recording. 

 Atlantis wrote: 

I disagree.  Not with the Neil Young comment, but the Greatest Hits comment.

I realize that record companies or artists will put out "greates hits" albums to fulfill contratual obligations, but how can a musician or group put out a greatest hits while they are still making music?  This practice has only come about in the last twenty or twenty-five years.

Great song!

"sooner or later it all gets real!"

Bill, thanks for this particularly appropriate nod to Neil on his birthday.

Always a Neil fan.  Saw him in a roller rink in Eureka California in 1989 - my ears are still ringing from that show. 

alph wrote:
Change that to "coolest" and I will agree with you!

Decade's one of the cooler "greatest hits" album i've ever owned (but i haven't owned many, honestly).

By no mean my favorite Neil Young, but still a solid 7 I'd say.

Wow you rate Neil and the Grateful Dead in the same catagory. I think that is good for both of them.

Stefen wrote:

No offense to Neil, but this sounds as bad as the Grateful Dead.

kazuma wrote:
I think it's "some get stoned."

Ooh baby, that's hard to change
I can't tell them how to feel.
Some get stoned, some get strange,
Sooner or later it all gets real.

For being on the Best of album, I'm not sure if it's the best take but it's a walking song none the less!

some get strong
some get strange

Iconic period.

Yippee! Another song from "On The Beach", (but not one of the best ones, IMO).
The song that was a response to "Sweet Home Alabama", which was a response to "Southern Man" and "Alabama".
From Wikipedia: "Lynyrd Skynyrd's . . . second album, 1974's Second Helping . . . featured their most popular single "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man". Today, Young claims that he and Van Zant were not rivals, that they were actually fans of each other's music, and that they had talked of collaborations together. It is often assumed that Young's song "Powderfinger" was given to Lynyrd Skynyrd to perform, speculation Young does not deny. Unfortunately, the Skynyrd plane crash happened just months after that song was penned, leading Neil Young to perform the song himself on his 1978 album Rust Never Sleeps. Furthering the rumors of friendship, Young has occasionally included the chorus from "Sweet Home Alabama" at his own live concerts, including at Young's first live performance following Van Zant's tragic death. Finally, one of the last photos of Ronnie Van Zant prior to his passing features the frontman wearing a Neil Young t-shirt."

Driving through the backroads of Georgia in (at least I remember it as) 1974 I only had an AM Radio in the company-provided car. There was a station in Atlanta in those days that, when within range, I could pick up. I forget the call letters, but it was an AM station with a guy named (once again, as I recollect it) Ross Britton. This song was on the playlist - I loved it then and I still love it now. It was a lot of years ago, done a lot of walkin' on...good to hear a reminder of distance roads past.