The Losing End

I always find myself listening to this song, from Neil Young's first album with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. It's irresitably catchy, with it's loose country rythym, jangly guitar parts harmonies slightly off kilter to the main vocals. Young has said that when you listen to lyrics he prefers the listener to identify themselves in the song, rather than the listening thinking of the author's message, and that's what I do here. I go back to his music constantly as the experiences he draws upon are matched by his lyrical ambition to transend the usual cliches. Whenever I tell people I like Neil Young, they usually comment on his odd voice. I think is part of his strength; music for me isn't about pitch perfect singing, it's about feeling. Everytime I go through a rough patch, I place myself in this but as he says "I will make it somehow"...