To me, Neil Young is the greatest musician who will ever live. He chases down ghosts and makes them sing. He wrenches beauty from brutality. He connects delicate fragments like a wise old spider. He’s a touchstone of authenticity in this false, confusing world. He’s the prairie wind, blowin’ through our heads. He’s just the coolest, most fearless artist of our time.
He’s given us so much over the years that it is difficult to appreciate the scope of his musical output. To prove that point, here’s 68 songs from his staggeringly varied and enormous catalogue, in celebration of his 68th birthday. I’ve included at least one song from every one of his studio albums, including the lesser-known records like “American Stars & Bars” and “Landing On Water”, more or less in chronological order. I do this just to prove that with Neil’s work, you can even find brilliant songs in the cracks of his less critically acclaimed albums.
If the recent passing of another legendary songwriter has taught us anything, it’s that we need to appreciate our iconoclastic artists while they are still on this earth. Please take some time to enjoy the immense body of work given to us by this great man.
Happy Birthday Uncle Neil! Long may you run.
I’ve Been Waiting for You
The Loner
Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)
Don’t Let It Bring You Down
Birds
Alabama
Soldier
Time Fades Away
Last Dance
On the Beach
Revolution Blues
For The Turnstiles
World On A String
Albequerque
Don’t Cry No Tears
Drive Back
Will To Love
Campaigner
Look Out for My Love
Ride My Llama
When You Dance I Can Really Love
Union Man
Southern Pacific
Sample and Hold
Wonderin’
Get Back To The Country
Weight Of The World
Mideast Vacation
This Note’s For You
Heavy Love
Crime In The City (Sixty to Zero Part 1)
Fuckin’ Up
Arc
One Of These Days
From Hank To Hendrix
Stringman
Driveby
Safeway Cart
Song X
I’m The Ocean
Fallen Angel
“Dead Man” Theme
Big Time
Music Arcade
Mr. Soul
Danger Bird
Buffalo Springfield Again
Razor Love
When I Hold You in My Arms
Devil’s Sidewalk
Sun Green
Prairie Wind
He Was The King
The Restless Consumer
Shock and Awe
Lookin’ For A Leader
Ordinary People
Dirty Old Man
Get Behind The Wheel
Light A Candle
Walk With Me
Angry World
Hitchhiker
Clementine
Wayfarin’ Stranger
Driftin’ Back
Walk Like A Giant
And finally: Neil & Pearl Jam doing “Rockin’ In The Free World” in Toronto a couple of years back.
Audio Reckoning 
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