GREAT SONG! ~“Feeling”~ ~“led”~ almost ~“compelled”~ to ~“write”~ my(free)~“book”~ ~”DIVINE 9/11 INTERVENTON”~@ LOVEGODISLOVEdotORG ~“thusly”~ I ~“discovered”~ a ~“77”~ ~“alignment”~ of ~“seven...”~'s ~“hidden”~ in the book of ~“Revelation”~! Do you think ~“this”~ ~“physical evidence”~ of ~“Spiritual Intelligence”~(i.e.~“God”~)might cause more of ~“us”~ to sit up and take notice of what it ~“truly”~ means to ~“Love thy neighbour as thyself.”~! Here on YouTube watch “The Curtain is Moving Again”.
This song reminds me of my ole man... He'd be blasting this at 2am after killing off a case of beer.. And now at 23 I listen to this and it takes me back to those rough times as a teen back when my parents still together and it really hits a soft spot in me. Love you Mom n Dad..
@xRyan5 Whole steps are one note differences. So...if you played a D, then an E would be one "whole step" higher. An octave is the same note, just higher or lower on the piano. Changing the key to make singing easier is sort of like using a capo on a guitar.
I would like to share my experience with this song. I went to see Neil for the first time a few months ago at his solo show. The crowd was mostly older so there wasn't too much singing along. But when Neil sang the line "I was lying in a burned out basement, with the full moon in my eye." Everyone sang along. It just sort of captured that side of humanity that you don't always see in other people. Neil brought it out in a group of thousands.
@keylago220 it's actually about drug addiction. The beginning and end represent the fantasy and where he's happy, and the middle represents reality. When he says "I thought about what a friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie" shows his denial towards the reality of the situation :]
@luciddreamer225 Maybe somewhat... more like the musings of a solemn stoner, not junkie desperation. If you interpret it as an actual dream; the repeated sun imagery is hopeful, positive, the burned out basement like the unconscious torn to shreds by the sad truth of reality that the friend said, such as mother nature on the run which could be damage to self from abuse. Maybe too dreamy, too dire otherwise but hopeful. You can tell a song is good when it can be interpreted so many ways.
Neil is the best. Have an anursym and have a nice day dang mean people.... so I spelled it wrong...be a whole lot nicer....Genius is genius.be better.
i was 15 and high for the first time. my brother played this album. i've never been the same. not so high just thinking Neil young was God. I'm 48 and am still trying to think he's not.
dont mean to take away from how beautiful this song is, just so amazing. but i think its so cool how he has the line 'there was a band playing in my head and i felt like getting high'' because neil young n crazy horse are hte band playing in my head when i feel like gettin high haha.
I cry when I play this song. My grandpa died in a car crash and he was cremated and wants his ashes spread over Canada from a plane while this song is playing.
@kevleisa we are, ive honestly yet to met a canadian that doesnt at least enjoy one neil young song, and im only 21 so my peers are not really his target audience anymore eh. haha i didnt even mean to put that as a joke i just typed it. haha we even type EH haha
I really love this song and I'd like to undersand what does it mean, but i'm not english .., can somebody tell me a little what this song talks about? thank yyou so very much :)
@musiclandify my interpritation of this track is that some of the planets population were being taken to populate another world to start a new life far removed from the terrible horrors that man has created on earth but thats my view a simple one but i go with it regards kev
This song makes me angry that we can't go back to the day when music was meaningful and inspirational, something beautiful and to be proud of. Now society is consumed by meaningless music with lyrics an autistic dog could make. I really don't understand how someone can chose Kesha or Rihhanna over gold like this
@uni4life1619 Sure, but there was meaningless pop music on the radio then too. We just remember the good stuff. Great music is being made today, you just have to find it.
Neil Young is such an amazing songwriter. I remember my dad singing this song (among others) to me when I was little, and I don't know if he actually has a good singing voice or not, but to me, it was beautiful. So to everyone who says that Neil Young cannot sing, I say: Compared to what? The song is beautiful. Maybe someone else hits the notes 'better', but how would you know? This is how it's meant to sound. Perfect.
@gluebum13 - totally agree with you. He and Bob Dylan will go down as the best songwriters, in my book anyway :)
My wife and I got a chance to see him in Detroit about 10 years ago. Man, he literally needs no band. He plays 20 instruments on stage, many of them simultaneously! And, they all sound like we are in studio.
The key to both of these great song writers is that they both were inspired by some essential Universal truths which makes their music timeless. You just don't get much of this kind of spiritual connect with the modern music deluge of fluff.
I don't think most people are fully aware that Neil was inspired to write this song based on an apocolyptic vision of WWIII destroying most of the planet in a 'gold rush' of light. Altruism and humility are the only true cures of all ills.
There's a lot of truth in this song. As for Niel Young's voice, all I can say is that the 60's and early 70's were a golden age of music. We who lived through that era were so fortunate, to witness first hand the talent and diversity. I loved the fact that you could recognise individual artists, they were realo people singing rather than vocally trained clones, and they were singing from the heart.
Good Lord Amen to that! Music has lost its soul. At some point people have to get sick of all the garbage that is today's music. Its all about looks, glamor, being fabulous and selling the product. Today's music is only about 10% of the equation and people eat it up like its real talent. Now a days all you need is a hot image and an excellent marketing team to make it. Sorry for the rant but it burns my heart that the days of REAL songwriting is over. @realzoomy
I am envious of only one heart on this earth. It belongs to Eminem, the greatest communicator ever born. He was recently threatened by the big boys of commerce and law. What did he do in response? He threw a song like a javelin, that will remain in its straight-line trajectory forever. His words and passionate delivery of them has injected courage into the hearts of an entire generation whose future was stolen by fearful Christian hypocrites.
I like hardcore rap & I LOVE this song. I honestly broke down to it. Reminds me of fucked up shit i went through i have to always be crazy to survive music is the ONLY thing good about this fucke dup world. Believe it!
Calling Neil Young's singing caterwauling is like saying Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan can't sing, either. Their voices (and their minds) are unique, and in this case, the lyrics and his singing gave a voice to the pessimism young people were feeling about the world that was being handed to them.
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This guy wrote this? Maybe he should stick to songwriting as his horrible stangled caterwauling is just dire. Prelude's unaccompanied version every time sorry.
I always felt close to Neil Young when I heard this song; that he understood something important and I was in complete agreement. He put to music thoughts so many of us were having at the time. However, he was the apex...
@TheDeadhead14 Warner Music Group. A record company that is headed for a long dirt nap unless they come to their senses and stop trying to profit off every single solitary time someone plays one of their songs. YouTube threw them off for awhile because they were such greedy pricks.
whoah! 80's baby......remember those years when apples and grapes aren't for everybody and only for the priviledged one's. black and white TV's, camera rolls, rota aire, billboard top 20's, beta max, old manila, and of course you can legally run in the street naked.
Sigh! reminds me also of my beloved kuya edwin and kuya efren who are a fanatic of the genre til now.for you guys! old school rocks!
80's baby! remember the days when apples and grapes aren't for everybody. black and white TV's, camera rolls, long hair for men, shorty shorts for women. beta max, old school washing machine, rota aire, vans, hush puppies, billboard top 20's hosted by Casey Kasem......sigh..... it brings back memories of my Kuya edwin (RIP) such a fanatic of old school, and my kuya efren who still enjoying this song... this song is for both of you..
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been looking for the original of this song for months. I wish Neil Young would get off his crazy horse and release more tunes. Come on, Neil. Add a commercial or do whatever you have to. Your fans want to hear your original versions, not just the live ones! OMG, edgehillnet, you did it!
Well, I just clicked through the dispute process yesterday & they have restored the sound track. I simply said it was for fun and I'm not making any money from it.
I'm glad to share any profits with them. They'd be wise to jump onboard & put an ad for buying the song here, that's all I can offer and others are happy with that.
trai1trash- wow! how do you know that? moving.
dougvdzz 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
This song was playing in the cockpit of the first plane to hit the world trade center on 9 11
trai1ertrash 3 weeks ago
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GREAT SONG! ~“Feeling”~ ~“led”~ almost ~“compelled”~ to ~“write”~ my(free)~“book”~ ~”DIVINE 9/11 INTERVENTON”~@ LOVEGODISLOVEdotORG ~“thusly”~ I ~“discovered”~ a ~“77”~ ~“alignment”~ of ~“seven...”~'s ~“hidden”~ in the book of ~“Revelation”~! Do you think ~“this”~ ~“physical evidence”~ of ~“Spiritual Intelligence”~(i.e.~“God”~)might cause more of ~“us”~ to sit up and take notice of what it ~“truly”~ means to ~“Love thy neighbour as thyself.”~! Here on YouTube watch “The Curtain is Moving Again”.
a77white 4 months ago
god called, he wants his song back.
sickwickert 4 months ago
ive been looking for one on the web with a horn solo, not no hermonica or piano
MicroShaughft 5 months ago
Beautiful, pure, and true. I wish someone would come along in today's music and make me feel the way Neil Young always does.
ehilmer42 5 months ago
Nice Lyrics, nice song
Chaddersman 5 months ago
This song reminds me of my ole man... He'd be blasting this at 2am after killing off a case of beer.. And now at 23 I listen to this and it takes me back to those rough times as a teen back when my parents still together and it really hits a soft spot in me. Love you Mom n Dad..
CROSSisBOSS712 5 months ago 3
i get high to this
JaegerBomb112 6 months ago
@JaegerBomb112 I used to till probation got me. I will again in a few more months .
xxspliffsmokexx 5 months ago
Only one word can describe this song......Beautiful.
takeitoutify 6 months ago
Song makes me weep every time.
greatcthulhu24 6 months ago
Thom Yorke's cover of this song is amazing
ndbballdrummer 6 months ago
flying mother nature silver seed to a new home in the sun
andrewf4506 6 months ago
so many memories of summers as a kid when everything was fun and easy and my mum making marmalade while I played in the garden...
Tottibytes 6 months ago
I just learned how to play this on piano. Fun. Except I have to play it 2 whole steps higher because I can't sing this high.
AreaCode978 6 months ago
@AreaCode978 Yep, I do it with guitar and I sing a full octave lower. I can sing it high but it feels wrong for my voice.
edgehillnet 6 months ago
@AreaCode978 Are whole steps just another word for octaves? I know how to play this song, but I can't sing along to it thanks to my low voice.
xRyan5 5 months ago
@xRyan5 Whole steps are one note differences. So...if you played a D, then an E would be one "whole step" higher. An octave is the same note, just higher or lower on the piano. Changing the key to make singing easier is sort of like using a capo on a guitar.
AreaCode978 5 months ago
@AreaCode978 Ohh, I see. Thanks a lot, that'll make things a lot easier.
xRyan5 5 months ago
@AreaCode978 Yep, his voice was definitely a one of a kind voice.
takeitoutify 4 months ago
I would like to share my experience with this song. I went to see Neil for the first time a few months ago at his solo show. The crowd was mostly older so there wasn't too much singing along. But when Neil sang the line "I was lying in a burned out basement, with the full moon in my eye." Everyone sang along. It just sort of captured that side of humanity that you don't always see in other people. Neil brought it out in a group of thousands.
fallenpumpkinhead 7 months ago 12
@fallenpumpkinhead that was beautiful :]
luciddreamer225 7 months ago
Very good. No, the best...
bearmassaro 7 months ago 2
i thought it was a song about war.thought neil was a anti-war activist.
keylago220 7 months ago
@keylago220 it's actually about drug addiction. The beginning and end represent the fantasy and where he's happy, and the middle represents reality. When he says "I thought about what a friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie" shows his denial towards the reality of the situation :]
luciddreamer225 7 months ago
@luciddreamer225 Maybe somewhat... more like the musings of a solemn stoner, not junkie desperation. If you interpret it as an actual dream; the repeated sun imagery is hopeful, positive, the burned out basement like the unconscious torn to shreds by the sad truth of reality that the friend said, such as mother nature on the run which could be damage to self from abuse. Maybe too dreamy, too dire otherwise but hopeful. You can tell a song is good when it can be interpreted so many ways.
edgehillnet 6 months ago 2
@edgehillnet so true :)
luciddreamer225 6 months ago
I can't be the only person on this earth who gets goosebumps from this.
smackin618 8 months ago 6
@smackin618 You're not :)
weebl46 7 months ago
Song is really amazing <333
kAyA1562011 8 months ago 3
my dad wants me to learn to play this song on the piano and guitar and to learn to sing it because he says that it is just a song for.
hateisastrongword8 8 months ago
I'd love to see Neil Young and Leonard Cohen perform together.
BTLfanIam 9 months ago 4
Neil is the best. Have an anursym and have a nice day dang mean people.... so I spelled it wrong...be a whole lot nicer....Genius is genius.be better.
silshay 9 months ago 3
Neil's absolute best!
bigredoneder 9 months ago
French horn! :) yep!
OlaOberda 9 months ago
I listened to this when my dog died.
IbcmanKilzHoz 9 months ago
Wish I was born with his talent. I don't care what kind of music you're into - if you don't see the raw talent this guy had you're missing out.
atomicpunk48 9 months ago
this is one of the few pieces that will survive
forever..
emoticonsftw 10 months ago
3 people think this video was about gold... screw wall street people !!!
SIRSIG 10 months ago
i was 15 and high for the first time. my brother played this album. i've never been the same. not so high just thinking Neil young was God. I'm 48 and am still trying to think he's not.
klawhea2d196 10 months ago 14
@klawhea2d196 I am 15 and under similar circumstances.
idonttouchkids 1 month ago
dont mean to take away from how beautiful this song is, just so amazing. but i think its so cool how he has the line 'there was a band playing in my head and i felt like getting high'' because neil young n crazy horse are hte band playing in my head when i feel like gettin high haha.
MrChetwannabe 11 months ago
I cry when I play this song. My grandpa died in a car crash and he was cremated and wants his ashes spread over Canada from a plane while this song is playing.
VeGa62095 11 months ago 2
a top track that will and is standing the test of time like most of his work canada must be so proud of this gentleman
kevleisa 11 months ago
@kevleisa we are, ive honestly yet to met a canadian that doesnt at least enjoy one neil young song, and im only 21 so my peers are not really his target audience anymore eh. haha i didnt even mean to put that as a joke i just typed it. haha we even type EH haha
MrChetwannabe 11 months ago
"His message is he saw God land in a silver UFO and he came to take only the chosen people of the planet at doomsday with him"
rbertagopetah13 11 months ago
@rbertagopetah13 you know he wrote this song on a acid trip right?
highvan420 11 months ago
I really love this song and I'd like to undersand what does it mean, but i'm not english .., can somebody tell me a little what this song talks about? thank yyou so very much :)
Long live to this incredible musician
musiclandify 11 months ago
@musiclandify my interpritation of this track is that some of the planets population were being taken to populate another world to start a new life far removed from the terrible horrors that man has created on earth but thats my view a simple one but i go with it regards kev
kevleisa 11 months ago
thanks edgehillnet.
jojosiojo 11 months ago
This song makes me angry that we can't go back to the day when music was meaningful and inspirational, something beautiful and to be proud of. Now society is consumed by meaningless music with lyrics an autistic dog could make. I really don't understand how someone can chose Kesha or Rihhanna over gold like this
uni4life1619 11 months ago
@uni4life1619 Sure, but there was meaningless pop music on the radio then too. We just remember the good stuff. Great music is being made today, you just have to find it.
magicmike323 11 months ago
Neil Young is such an amazing songwriter. I remember my dad singing this song (among others) to me when I was little, and I don't know if he actually has a good singing voice or not, but to me, it was beautiful. So to everyone who says that Neil Young cannot sing, I say: Compared to what? The song is beautiful. Maybe someone else hits the notes 'better', but how would you know? This is how it's meant to sound. Perfect.
xXlaura4neverXx 11 months ago
Neil Young is one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
crzapppa008 1 year ago 2
@crzapppa008 Along with Bobby Dylan.
bbdoghalo 1 year ago
This always makes me think of Tolkien's The Silmarillon. The feeling of sad and lost battles, the world being never the same again after...
58Mellon 1 year ago 2
Anyone else get chills? Especially with the horn at 2:17 - 2:27?
Beattodeathlikeadog 1 year ago 2
Fuck i'm high
superpker518 1 year ago 5
I consider Neil Young to be one of America's best song writers and lyricists...
...except that he's Canadian. ;^P
gluebum13 1 year ago
@gluebum13 - totally agree with you. He and Bob Dylan will go down as the best songwriters, in my book anyway :)
My wife and I got a chance to see him in Detroit about 10 years ago. Man, he literally needs no band. He plays 20 instruments on stage, many of them simultaneously! And, they all sound like we are in studio.
danderoeck 1 year ago
@danderoeck
The key to both of these great song writers is that they both were inspired by some essential Universal truths which makes their music timeless. You just don't get much of this kind of spiritual connect with the modern music deluge of fluff.
I don't think most people are fully aware that Neil was inspired to write this song based on an apocolyptic vision of WWIII destroying most of the planet in a 'gold rush' of light. Altruism and humility are the only true cures of all ills.
gluebum13 1 year ago 2
look at mother nature on the run in the 1970s.....
solcion1 1 year ago 2
There's a lot of truth in this song. As for Niel Young's voice, all I can say is that the 60's and early 70's were a golden age of music. We who lived through that era were so fortunate, to witness first hand the talent and diversity. I loved the fact that you could recognise individual artists, they were realo people singing rather than vocally trained clones, and they were singing from the heart.
realzoomy 1 year ago
Good Lord Amen to that! Music has lost its soul. At some point people have to get sick of all the garbage that is today's music. Its all about looks, glamor, being fabulous and selling the product. Today's music is only about 10% of the equation and people eat it up like its real talent. Now a days all you need is a hot image and an excellent marketing team to make it. Sorry for the rant but it burns my heart that the days of REAL songwriting is over. @realzoomy
booth231 1 year ago
I am envious of only one heart on this earth. It belongs to Eminem, the greatest communicator ever born. He was recently threatened by the big boys of commerce and law. What did he do in response? He threw a song like a javelin, that will remain in its straight-line trajectory forever. His words and passionate delivery of them has injected courage into the hearts of an entire generation whose future was stolen by fearful Christian hypocrites.
Eminem will not live to next Christmas.
Very Sad.
SnoozeButton57 1 year ago
I like hardcore rap & I LOVE this song. I honestly broke down to it. Reminds me of fucked up shit i went through i have to always be crazy to survive music is the ONLY thing good about this fucke dup world. Believe it!
FUXUPSSHITBRA4569 1 year ago 2
Reminds me of about 1971 or 1972. Great time to be young. One of the top 5
singer /songwriters in American popular music. And he's still pumping it out!
mickbrian1231 1 year ago
Calling Neil Young's singing caterwauling is like saying Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan can't sing, either. Their voices (and their minds) are unique, and in this case, the lyrics and his singing gave a voice to the pessimism young people were feeling about the world that was being handed to them.
cliftongal51 1 year ago 5
this was great man, thnx for putting it on here, makes me feel peaceful.
ozzyfanatic92 1 year ago
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This guy wrote this? Maybe he should stick to songwriting as his horrible stangled caterwauling is just dire. Prelude's unaccompanied version every time sorry.
mattbod 1 year ago
Any song with a french horn solo is fine by me...
cliftongal51 1 year ago 4
@88hanimart88 Thanks Annie. Some cool footage and of course one of my all time fave Neil songs!
curiousgeorge555 1 year ago
Great shots of the Bay! Grew up there. Best place in the world imho.Thumb up to ya!
curiousgeorge555 1 year ago 2
This slideshow is really awesome, along with the music.
Flashwarior 1 year ago
reminds me of all of the good things of life and forgeting about of all of reality.
ThePrefontaine 1 year ago 4
what a beautiful song
Gunsfann 1 year ago 2
I always felt close to Neil Young when I heard this song; that he understood something important and I was in complete agreement. He put to music thoughts so many of us were having at the time. However, he was the apex...
cliftongal51 1 year ago 4
now how can anyone rag on his voice when you hear a song like this personally I think hes a pretty good singer
EddieVH666 1 year ago 2
This is my favorite song !
Joshpp1 1 year ago
This song literally brings me to tears...
thelemonsong13 1 year ago 57
@thelemonsong13 me too....trigger soem good memories of a time that is long gone.
shymama8 1 year ago
@thelemonsong13 Same
1989lfm 6 months ago
@edgehillnet: yeah it might be, never born yet at that time...don't get me wrong i appreciate classics, whatever circa it is.
lianrykellei 1 year ago
@Cook1993 what's WMG?
TheDeadhead14 1 year ago
@TheDeadhead14 Warner Music Group. A record company that is headed for a long dirt nap unless they come to their senses and stop trying to profit off every single solitary time someone plays one of their songs. YouTube threw them off for awhile because they were such greedy pricks.
cell9song 1 year ago
Yep.
edgehillnet 1 year ago 2
whoah! 80's baby......remember those years when apples and grapes aren't for everybody and only for the priviledged one's. black and white TV's, camera rolls, rota aire, billboard top 20's, beta max, old manila, and of course you can legally run in the street naked.
Sigh! reminds me also of my beloved kuya edwin and kuya efren who are a fanatic of the genre til now.for you guys! old school rocks!
lianrykellei 1 year ago
@lianrykellei i think you might be getting a bit over-nostalgic. the way i remember it, the 60's were just as good, if not better.
TheDeadhead14 1 year ago
80's baby! remember the days when apples and grapes aren't for everybody. black and white TV's, camera rolls, long hair for men, shorty shorts for women. beta max, old school washing machine, rota aire, vans, hush puppies, billboard top 20's hosted by Casey Kasem......sigh..... it brings back memories of my Kuya edwin (RIP) such a fanatic of old school, and my kuya efren who still enjoying this song... this song is for both of you..
lianrykellei 1 year ago
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been looking for the original of this song for months. I wish Neil Young would get off his crazy horse and release more tunes. Come on, Neil. Add a commercial or do whatever you have to. Your fans want to hear your original versions, not just the live ones! OMG, edgehillnet, you did it!
keaster55 1 year ago
Nice music!!, from a great composer!!!
mercedesgarciablesa 2 years ago
fukin awsom
bak3rm8 2 years ago
We even had a very large multi-level club in the 70's and 80's called "After the Gold Rush."
CelticLady44 2 years ago
. . . and the rest of the pigs. They leave the stuff alone for years and then decide that it's time to get greedy and screw us all over.
Glad you got the audio back, but don't be surprised if they come a-knocking again: that's how my first account got disabled.
oldnick65 2 years ago
yeah
good job
chadreed136 2 years ago
Well, I just clicked through the dispute process yesterday & they have restored the sound track. I simply said it was for fun and I'm not making any money from it.
edgehillnet 2 years ago 3
love this song : )
AlexanderROCKS518 2 years ago 24
i agree they support dowloading this way... luckaly i have the cd ;)
rusjones 2 years ago
I'm glad to share any profits with them. They'd be wise to jump onboard & put an ad for buying the song here, that's all I can offer and others are happy with that.
edgehillnet 2 years ago 3