History Music / NeilYoung

* CanadaEh

* LeFilmArtistique: ''Journey Through the Past''. Possibly ''Human Highway'' too.

+ Music/{{Beck}}, Music/{{Devo}}, Music/DinosaurJr, Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/PearlJam, Music/{{REM}}, Music/{{Radiohead}}, Music/SonicYouth, Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/UncleTupelo, Music/{{Wilco}}

* ExactWords: See GenreAdultery below. Geffen was annoyed with Young attempting to create electronic music on ''Trans'' and requested he put out something more representative next time:

* GenreAdultery: When he signed with Creator/GeffenRecords in 1982, he released ''Trans'' (a synthesizer based album) followed in the same year by ''Everybody's Rockin''' (a rockabilly album). He was ready to release ''Old Ways'' (a country album) before Geffen filed a lawsuit against him for making music "unrepresentative" of his previous work.

!! He/His Work Contain Examples Of:

* CoolOldGuy: Like a lot of rockers from the '60s who are still working, he's graduated to one of these.

** "Thrasher" from ''Music/RustNeverSleeps'' is taken as an oblique attack on [[Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung Crosby, Stills,[[note]] Weirdly, the song was written at a time Neil was most pissed off at ''Nash'', of all people, as he'd got used to Crosby being unreliable and Stills being cussed, but was raging to friends about Nash's wanting to be the peacemaker ''all the goddamn time!'' [[/note]]

* NonIndicativeName: No, "Star of Bethlehem" is not a [[ChristmasMusic Christmas song]].

** "Thrasher" from ''Music/RustNeverSleeps'' is taken as an oblique attack on [[Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung Crosby, Stills, and Nash]].

** Also lampshaded on the 1997 LiveAlbum ''Year of the Horse'' (not [[NamesTheSame quite]] the same):

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Invoked with "Borrowed Tune", which outright admits it's lifted from Music/TheRollingStones' "[[Music/AftermathAlbum Lady Jane]]".

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Invoked with "Borrowed Tune", which outright admits it's lifted from Music/TheRollingStones' "[[Music/{{Aftermath}} Lady Jane]]".

Though well-known in America and currently living in California, Young was a Canadian citizen until 2019. Wishing to vote in the upcoming presidential election, he applied for American citizenship status, and now holds dual citizenship, calling himself a "Canarican". He has always been very vocal about American policies and politics, and is a well-known liberal activist, focusing especially on environmental issues. He is also an active philanthropist, having founded The Bridge School and the benefit concert, Farm Aid. He is also a sometime engineer-inventor, whose most recent projects are a prototype electric car[[note]]which has been constantly catching fire for nearly 20 years, according to Neil's autobiography.[[/note]] and the PONO music system which plays extremely high-resolution digital sound.[[note]]which may have been a fundamentally misguided venture from the very beginning, as both FLAC and 320kbps [=MP3=] existed when PONO was first conceived of by Neil. He may have simply listened to a very low-quality [=MP3=], and believed that all [=MP3s=] just sounded like that.[[/note]]

Though well-known in America and currently living in California, Young was a Canadian citizen until 2019. Wishing to vote in the upcoming presidential election, he applied for American citizenship status, and now holds dual citizenship, calling himself a "Canarican". He has always been very vocal about American policies and politics, and is a well-known liberal activist, focusing especially on environmental issues. He is also an active philanthropist, having founded The Bridge School and the benefit concert, Farm Aid. He is also a sometime engineer-inventor, whose most recent projects are a prototype electric car[[note]]which has been constantly catching fire for nearly 20 years, according to Neil's autobiography.[[/note]] and the PONO music system which plays extremely high-resolution digital sound.[[note]]which may have been a fundamentally misguided venture from the very beginning, as both FLAC and 320kbps MP3 existed when PONO was first conceived of by Neil. He may have simply listened to a very low-quality MP3, and believed that all MP3s just sounded like that.[[note]]

Though well-known in America and currently living in California, Young was a Canadian citizen until 2019. Wishing to vote in the upcoming presidential election, he applied for American citizenship status, and now holds dual citizenship, calling himself a "Canarican". He has always been very vocal about American policies and politics, and is a well-known liberal activist, focusing especially on environmental issues. He is also an active philanthropist, having founded The Bridge School and the benefit concert, Farm Aid. He is also a sometime engineer-inventor, whose most recent projects are a prototype electric car and the PONO music system which plays extremely high-resolution digital sound.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Averted in ''Greendale'', where the FBI harass Sun, [[spoiler:kill her cat, and (it's implied) set her up on drug charges.]] The CIA are not mentioned at any point in the story.

* ArtistAndTheBand: * Several of his albums also feature Crazy Horse (some albums credit the two as "Neil Young & Crazy Horse" or "Neil Young With Crazy Horse). Crazy Horse was originally a doo-wop band called Danny & The Memories (fronted by Crazy Horse lead singer '''Danny''' Whitten) before connecting with Neil in the late [[TheSixties sixites]] and re-establishing themselves as a rock act.