![]() All the more reason Young’s haunting ballad is a rare moment of sparse desolation in the otherwise exuberant Phish live experience. Most Phish songs, even their slower ballads, exude positivity. Originally On: Tonight’s the Night (1975) Bringing in just enough Yorkian melodrama to split the difference, the Radiohead frontman nervously plays a personal hero’s song on the instrument it was written on, with its writer watching from the sidelines. For most, it takes hearing Thom Yorke’s reverential cover of Young’s “After the Goldrush”, live from the 2002 Bridge School Benefit, to really elucidate the similarities. Though both singers are more often than not soaring above the proverbial clouds, their vocals straddling the otherwise thick lines between anthemic and whiny, rarely are the two compared. Originally On: After the Gold Rush (1970) So, while you’re trekking through track after track, just think: This all goes back to one man. Everyone from Smashing Pumpkins to Roxy Music, Patti Smith to Radiohead are included here, and that only speaks volumes to Young’s expansive influence. Something to take away from this project: It’s an eccentric group of names, to be sure. Because we couldn’t include them all, the list has been cut to a healthy collection of 25 solid inclusions. There are plenty - hundreds of them - and they stretch back as far as the ’60s and ’70s. In celebration of its release, Consequence of Sound decided to turn the tables and put together a list of our favorite covers of Young’s exhausting back catalog. Neil Young and Crazy Horse recently issued Americana, their first album in nine years, comprised entirely of reworked classic, American folk songs. ![]() We’re reposting it today in celebration of Neil Young’s new album, Peace Trail. This feature originally ran in June 2012.
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