Neil Young - Wonderin'

[Scotirish60]

Neil and the best vid ever....Thanks Canadian Bro!

[zappahart]

you want a rock and roll album ...you got it..a great song by the only person that could do this!!!in this way!!

[11xzxzxz]

Great song and love to see Neil doing his Frankenstein walk. I wish Neil would have his hair like this still.

[MrTimothyWatts]

@11xzxzxz Yeah same, the stubble and shirt looks great too

[NETWORK23STUDIOS]

CLASSIC 80'S AWESOME!!!!!!

[horseytown]

I think this song stands above the rest of this album not only because it has a nice Orbison quality to it, but because it wasn't originally a part of the joke.

There is at least one version of this dating from 1970 kicking around and it shows up on most of the Neil Young rarities compilations that have circulated for years. Google "KQED TV rehearsal" and "1970" and "Neil Young" and you should find some five or six disc homemade compilations of rarities for download.

[MrsElliottSmith]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

<3

oh que je taime Neil Young

[mr100raychapman]

Don't talk to it.

[sk8freak3000]

nooooo way first i hear the weird techno neil young song and now this ;s

old neil young is the best

[mr100raychapman]

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[g5uk]

SUCKS.....big time

[mr100raychapman]

FAST-4

[mr100raychapman]

manchurian jew boob

[mr100raychapman]

Forget Those Birmingham Shitsuckers

[scanner1133]

Super!

[mr100raychapman]

Dont talk to it

[mr100raychapman]

Don't talk to it

[mr100raychapman]

Stop J-Pole Tretinoin

[turkeytrot123]

Who else has his sense of humor? About no one!

[klmullins65]

Is it me or does this video not have the crazy stop-motion video that was orignally played on MTV?

[Pentdad]

lol wasn't this album like one big joke? They said do rock and roll so he did this hehe

[GSKrenyt]

go to my Youtube site for lots of great NY interviews and performances.

[earlymtv]

in 2006 there was a perfect mint quality version of this video with a classic vh-1 logo on it. Its gone now. i wonder why?

[TheGoodfellas1990]

1:23 - 2:08 favorite part of song. The video doesn't matter as much as the music in my opinion, this is a good song.

[rockabillycat1954]

I wouldn't call this rockabilly, it's more doo wop than anything. btw, this is funny as hell, with neil just kinda popping up in every scene. where is he... oh there he is! great stuff.

[mouser35]

it's soooo bad...........it's good!

[phipsiguy1530]

Cool video, especially because of Neil's I've-been-on-a-three-day-drunk appearance. And yes, Trans(love to see a modern version of it) and Everybody's Rockin' are both wonderful albums completely ignored by Neil's fans(I being one). Go figure. P.S. David Geffen is the slowest man in the music business!

[smilingpug]

Great song. Great video. A master doing his thing.

[odinwillbeatyoudown]

Such a strange video. I love it.

[Zato1718]

Neil has actually covered that song going way back to the late 60's. I will try to get am old version and post it

[proman84]

Some of Neil's best work. Seriously.

[jokerjunior2]

I think it is rather catchy.

[Infernolord]

Trans and Everybody's Rockin' are ridiculously underrated

[GSKrenyt]

aggreed!

[dogmunch]

HERE HERE... 80's neil is so underated.. people think it's nonsense.

hawks&doves, reactor, trans, everybodysrockin, oldways, landingonwtaer, life, thisnotesforyou, eldorado, freedom.. how can all this amazing material be underated??..

P.S Geffen is an idiot

[eartant]

No acounting for taste, but I like it cos it's not a typical Neil Young song. Plus it was kind of a 'Fuck You' to Geffen records who wanted him to do an ordinary folk rock album and he decided to try something different ( for him )

[GSKrenyt]

i AGREE. Give him the latitude to experiment. Way to go Neil!!

[Broadsword95]

@GSKrenyt

As I heard it, his record company insisted he record a rock n roll album (rock n roll in the context of the 1980s, or whenever he recorded this) so he recorded a proper 1950s-style rock n roll album to give them the big "fuck you, go and market that" and to school them in music. Legend.

[LesSmith45]

@Broadsword95 absolutly what i heard also. A big middle finger to Geffen. They hated it the dumbass critics. This album is pure classic. I think it is one of his very best. The songs are so short that they need to add about 10 more great oldie covers. Goes to show you how diverse talent he has. This song was written over 20 yrs before he recorded it. If he was performing back in the 50's he would have been huge.

[librarianeric]

Pffft! This is one of his best songs ever!

Everytime I see him I'm hoping he does it, but he never does.

I've never thought of Neil Young as being an especially humorous kind of guy. But this song just shows he can do anything.

And as much as I initially liked "Sample and Hold" the single from his previous album, THAT song really hasn't held up well. Sounds like an unholy cross between Peter Frampton, Styx and Kraftwerk.

But how can you NOT like "Wonderin'"? Think I'll watch it again!

[Seasass]

@librarianeric Before introducing Elliot Roberts (then Geffen's business partner) to Young, Joni Mitchell apparently said "You gotta meet Neil ... He's the only guy who's funnier than you are." Maybe Canadian humor (humour?) is a little different, so it catches us off guard.

[blueknight5754]

great song...its a 50's ish throwback and awesome video!

[sickasamoo]

This isn't half as bad as they made it out to be - I might buy this if I see it around, seems like a nice record.

[mylittledecoy77]

I loved this is '83 and still love it. David Geffen sued Neil over this, claiming he made this as a joke and it "wasn't representative of Neil Young or commercially viable." Geffen has done much for the music world but in this case he had something large stuck up his ass. As I recall that while Wonderin' and the LP didn't break any sales records, they did all right thank you. Not to mention a freakin' HILARIOUS video.

[wheelerwood]

He looks like he smells... love the vid.

[charlespeterwatson]

Doesn't Neil sort of remind you of Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" every once in a while in this video?

[ghettogary]

I thought that the very first time I saw this video back in the day!

[desertdc123]

Funny that you say that...he looks a bit twisted like Jack here! Great song...I think Neil Young has performed about every good genre of music existing...

[dohertykaki]

1982 Norfolk, Viginia- Neil and the Shocking Pinks, opening band- The Fabulous Thunderbirds. That was a good time!!

[Khultan]

I want this version of the song, not the live one one off.

[freepussy]

Excellent doo-wop with a touch of rockabilly

[pasy2006]

I am wondering if Neil Young is still around, love the song:)

[GSKrenyt]

Yes he is. Check out Harvest Moon, Neil Young and the Blue Notes, Sleeps with Angles and Living with War. And more too!

[pasy2006]

I will, thank you for the comment:)