For me, it's Bob Seger. I hate myself for how much I love Hollywood Nights. Also, I feel like Seger was probably just another one of those barely talented white boys who made it big because he literally stole a ton of stuff (melodies, basslines, hell even lyrics) from truly talented Jazz, R&B, and Blues musicians...but maybe I'm wrong. Just a gut feeling
Neil’s albums always felt like cohesive and instantly identifiable works, whereas CSN and CSNY albums felt more like another batch of songs, although Deja Vu is a classic (still not Neil good though)
On The Beach and Tonight’s The Night are two of the greatest albums of all time
For Real. My favourite song on Deja Vu is 'Almost Cut My Hair', precisely because I feel like it has little fragments of Revolution Blues in it (even though its a Crosby song rather than Young). They both have this paranoid, angry atmosphere that really captures a feeling of the context of violence in which the counter culture was taking place and the anger that the peace and love version of that period effaces
Well said, and Almost Cut My Hair is a great track, but nothing any of the CSN guys have ever done can give me chills the way the last verse of Revolution Blues does (and every verse for that matter)
Ambulance Blues feels like the perfect vignette for the failure of the counter culture
Oh yeah, both those tracks are absolutely incredible. Damn, I've got to listen to that album now lmao
I like the old thing about Like a Hurricane, where it's said Neil does the 2nd best guitar solo in rock history, sings a bit, and then does the best guitar solo in history. Its hyperbole, but still.