Only Castles Burning Playlist

As I was making my way through every Neil Young album, I kept a running list of my favorites songs from each release. My intention was to distill his entire discography down so that I could just put on a playlist while working and get the songs I particularly liked from his career. Well, it turns out I like an awful lot of his songs. I took that list, compared the widely available versions of each songs, and came up with this 81 82 strong playlist, which runs a bit over 8 hours. This isn’t exactly reflective of the Top 3 I did for every album, though. I put them basically in order of recording, but since some of these are from live albums, they aren’t necessarily in order of composition. It will be fun to put this on shuffle and see what happens.

I made Apple Music, Qobuz, Amazon Music, and YouTube playlists. Spotify is not here for obvious reasons. While I will also make a playlist on Neil Young Archives, I’m not prioritizing it here because NYA user playlists aren’t shareable for some reason (and they really should be, hint hint).

Apple Music: Only Castles Burning playlist

Qobuz: Only Castles Burning playlist

Amazon Music: Only Castles Burning playlist

YouTube: Only Castles Burning playlist (may be missing songs)

Below is a list of the songs included. I’m not going to go deeply into my reasons for what’s included, but suffice it to say, this is a very subjective list, and I’m sure there are things not here that other fans would be pretty disappointed to see missing. For the most part, these are the studio versions from their original albums. When I’ve used an alternate or live take, I’ve noted it.

1. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
2. The Losing End (When You’re On)
3. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)
4. Cowgirl in the Sand
5. Everybody’s Alone (with Crazy Horse)
6. Dance Dance Dance (with Crazy Horse)
7. Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown
8. Tell Me Why
9. Southern Man
10. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
11. Cripple Creek Ferry
12. Helpless (Massey Hall)
13. Ohio (Massey Hall)
14. Out on the Weekend
15. Words (Between the Lines of Age)
16. Time Fades Away (12/15/72)
17. Don’t Be Denied (Tuscaloosa)
18. Last Dance
19. World on a String
20. Albuquerque
21. Walk On
22. Revolution Blues
23. For the Turnstiles
24. Ambulance Blues
25. Bad Fog of Loneliness (with Crazy Horse)
26. Separate Ways
27. White Line (Homegrown)
28. Danger Bird
29. Barstool Blues
30. Hawaii (with Crazy Horse)
31. Stringman
32. Pocahontas (Hitchhiker)
33. Powderfinger (Chrome Dreams)
34. Give Me Strength (Hitchhiker)
35. Captain Kennedy (Chrome Dreams)
36. Too Far Gone (Songs for Judy)
37. Sugar Mountain (Songs for Judy)
38. The Old Country Waltz
39. Sail Way (with The Ducks)
40. Little Wing (with The Ducks)
41. Human Highway (Comes a Time)
42. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
43. Thrasher
44. Comes a Time (Live Rust)
45. Grey Riders
46. Don’t Take Your Love Away From Me (Lucky Thirteen)
47. Ordinary People (Bluenote Cafe)
48. Country Home
49. Over and Over
50. Roll Another Number (For the Road) (Way Down in the Rust Bucket)
51. Homegrown (Way Down in the Rust Bucket)
52. Mansion on the Hill (Way Down in the Rust Bucket)
53. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) (Weld)
54. Crime in the City (Weld)
55. Cortez the Killer (Weld)
56. Like a Hurricane (Weld)
57. Old King (Dreamin’ Man ‘92)
58. Change Your Mind
59. I’m the Ocean
60. Truth Be Known
61. Scenery
62. Big Time
63. Scattered (Let’s Think About Livin’)
64. Slip Away (Year of the Horse)
65. Prisoners (Year of the Horse)
66. Goin’ Home (Toast)
67. Timberline
68. Daddy Went Walkin’
69. No Hidden Path
70. Love and War
71. Peaceful Valley Boulevard
72. Rumblin’
73. Travel On
74. Ramada Inn
75. Born in Ontario
76. Walk Like a Giant
77. Show Me
78. Help Me Lose My Mind
79. Song of the Seasons
80. They Might Be Lost
81. Welcome Back
82. Chevrolet

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