An absolute gem of a video. Young's disdain for the project, the fun he has through that disdain, wonderful. He looks like an axe murderer throughout lol.
He did this to sabotage his relationship with his record company, but Neil is such a genius, this wound up being one of my absolute favorite records of his!
I was 13 when this came on MTV. My friend Dave and I saw this and were blown away by how funny and catchy the song was. We didn't know who this "old" guy was but we knew cool when we saw it. We used to laugh whenever it came on. Back in those days you used to have to watch MTV 24/7 to see your favorite video.
I remember this on MTV way back when and I always thought it was goofy, and I made fun of it. It popped into my head for some reason, so I looked it up and here I am. Now though, it’s actually great! I love it. Such a catchy tune and unique video. Maybe just nostalgia, but I’m glad that I revisited this song and video.
It IS goofy. But that's why I've always loved it. Very absurdist, tongue planted firmly in-cheek. Some people didn't get the joke. I did. Recorded it with a cassette off the TV, that's so much I liked it. And nearly 40 years on, I still like it.
I think everyone of our generation laughed at the video and made fun of it back in the 80’s. I know my sister and I did. And the other day it popped into my head and I looked it up and I had to send it right away to my sister and we were laughing. Yes it’s much better hearing it today than back then when we made fun of everything!
I remember I was in elementary school , 4 grade . Singing this Song in the play ground with my boy Rick . My favorite song of all time . Never stop playing this song .
I have always loved this song too. It was the same year Billy Joel came out with An Innocent Man, which is essentially a Doo Wop album. It must have been in the air at the time 😂
@@ackamack101 It was 50s and 60s nostalgia. The people who had been kids back then were (by the 80s) adults or getting close to middle age, so there was some desire to reach back to the music that had been part of their childhoods. Plenty of 80s nostalgia now.
Every time I watch this video, I look at Neil and think, "Yeah, there's a man who always gets a seat to himself on the bus." *And I want that damn shirt.*
That shirt belonged to Nick Pope apparently, Neil agreed to do the video but wanted to do it wearing his shirt, as explained by Nick himself on the Adam Buxton podcast a while back
I still remember falling asleep in front of the TV and waking up to this !! This scared the crap out of me because Neil looks so crazy here... and this was about the time The Shining came out and he kinda looks like Jack Nicholson here. Funny now. But this is a great song.
This has been rattling around in my brain since the 80s but I couldn't remember who did it. Needless to say I never searched for Neil Young so never found it--but Cadillac was the search word that turned it up. Flash of brilliance in his career as far as I'm concerned.
Rattling my mind since the 80s too! I thought he said, “I’m walking” until today and always looked up “Walk On” to no avail. Neil’s synchopated movements are what attracted it to me on MTV!
Geffen did sue him over this album and the one before it (Trans), claiming it sounded both uncommercial and "unrepresentative" of the artist. Young then retaliated by filing a $21 million countersuit, insisting he'd been promised creative freedom in the written contract, and Geffen eventually apologized for the interference. This album was supposed to have been a country/western album called _Old Ways,_ which Young did release in 1985; however, in interviews, he referred to the released version of that album as _Old Ways II._
@@mattkyle3511 The record company said they wanted a rock album after Trans, so Neal pondered the beginning of rock music, so he made a rockabilly album. Makes perfect sense to me, and I liked Trans and this album.
This is such a cool little jingle. I remember seeing this on mtv, and getting this chorus stuck in my head, way before I even knew who Neil Young was or anything about him. Now I'm a big fan.
An atypical retro tune done nicely by Neil Young. I remember seeing him do this song at a concert in about '82 or '83. The audience booed him big time. They just didn't get it. They wanted to see Neil Young the hippie. Rock concert audiences are too often a bunch of morons who don't understand or appreciate a true iconoclast. They go for the packaged rebellion instead. What is that, like a '57 Cadillac?
+TheCanine2 I remember this video in the early MTV days. As a 12yr old kid, I would have agreed with the people in the audience back then. I really hated this song at the time, but listening to it now, I think it is much better than I gave it credit for. I had no idea who Neil Young was at that time. I just knew he wasn't Van Halen or Motley Crue, so onto the scrap heap he went, as I endeavored into the next 10 years of really bad hair band music. lol
This song was written in 1970; you can hear the original version here ua-cam.com/video/2hE5w-2sz-w/v-deo.html this was a remake in a '50s doo wop style
There was absolutely no real good reason I can give for liking this song or this video. 🤔 However since the first time I saw it on MTV back in the day I was hooked. It was just too damn catchy. 😚😚😚
i was a clueless kid when this video came out - I had no idea he was from CSNY. Thought he was some kind of weirdo perv in the video, but loved the song and was obsessed with the video! 🤩
I love all his songs but this is one of my top favorites along with Sample and Hold, Cinnamon Girl, and Cortez the Killer. All different but all Neil Young!
I remember seeing this particular video on Friday Night Videos years ago. It was the first time I saw Neil Young in a music video. I was 13 years old at the time. It also happens to be my all time favorite Neil Young song with Rockin' In The Free World ranking a close second. Neil's Geffen years are grossly underrated. IMHO, his Geffen albums represent some of the best music in his career. It also showed that Neil Young is a great artist who could do anything with his music and make an statement artistically, if not commercially, which I know that Neil Young doesn't care about as he never did things for commercial reasons nor purposes anyway.
In 1982 we didn't have MTV yet. But on HBO there was Video Jukebox where they played about 15 minutes of music videos five or six times a day. And that's where I saw this video for the first time.
Oh wow~ laughing over here~ can't stop... seriously, oh my what a great crazy wild video. Goodness. Thanks to who found this. If ever I need an upper I'll return here. Gotta love it.
The Shocking Pinks thing was a genius move and over almost everyone's heads. I never got why it got put down so much, I loved it when it came out and still do, and it's just extra fun that it pissed people off and baffled others. This video takes the craziness even further. Only Neil could have pulled something like this off. I would have loved to be at the screening of this at Geffen.
The _1985 Rock Yearbook_ rated this the BEST VIDEO of 1983-1984 beating out "Thriller" by Michael Jackson! Hmmm... I like the pastels and the way Neil peers into the camera.... interesting.
If Saul Goodman was in the music biz, and tried to get out of a contract, this is the supplied clip the bosses at the record company would watch in silence in the board room.
Maintenant il y a 10 thumbs, je pense que le coiffeur a participé et peut-être quelques uns des 97000 signataires de la pétition pour la sortie de TFA en CD ( je ne parle pas de la dernière pétition pour qu'il change son nom... ).
Saw this video first time during MTV's 120 minutes with Frank Black sharing his favourite music videos. Love this song and I quite like the whole album, such an oddball in Neil's discography
The guys in the car look like Miquinhos Amestrados, the group of rockabilly revival from Brazil. Love this video, this music and Neil Young! Thanks for posting!
Thanks for hi-quality on this. Yeah, I was 16 when I first saw this video in '83. I bet I saw it no more than 5 times back then and loved it.....after that I never heard the song again, until I found the video on utube in '07.
possibly my favorite music video ever. not sure if neil was put up to making a video by geffen (well, it was the height of the 80's video craze) or if he just wanted to do it, but the simplicity of this vid is so awesome: drive around LA in a convertible caddi and shoot at random locations and just let neil be neil in front of the camera. like someone else said, he's adorable... and endearing and goofy and hilarious... and perhaps mixed with just a slight shade of jack nicholson? (anyone else see that?) anyway, i just love this video. i really love how many sides/aspects there are to neil and his music... this kind of whimsy is the best. i also had no idea this was a song neil wrote before 1971 until just tonight. so many times i've only heard to the shocking pinks version.
Listen to this podcast interview with the director, he talks about this video specifically open.spotify.com/episode/384WGESgn6k7mxD6dVmEmZ?si=AzXNUnThR3ilr4rOwICMjQ&
@@GallopingGallanteeno Most excellent then, just finished listening. Not only was that a great listen and insight into this video but now I have new podcast to listen to with Adam Buxton and some research to check out more of Tim Pope's work. Thanks man!
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I don’t care what any music critic said. This song (and video) is a timeless classic!
Absolutely... this is the best
Im still howling lol. I was maybe 11?
Great video and a very underrated song!
An absolute gem of a video. Young's disdain for the project, the fun he has through that disdain, wonderful. He looks like an axe murderer throughout lol.
He kinda reminds me of Jack on the shining in some weird way.
@@curtis2075Best comment!!
🔪😂
LOL he does... that out fit looks liked he slept in it
This has always been my favourite NY video. Yes, his humour shines through his disdain, and the video, to me, is absolutely hilarious!
He did this to sabotage his relationship with his record company, but Neil is such a genius, this wound up being one of my absolute favorite records of his!
Fact ❤
Love this song and this video!!!
Seriously how can you not love this song! Pure genius!!!
Neil Young....a national treasure of Canada and the U.S.A.
I love this song and I don't care what anybody says
@fumingriley I agree with you 💯💯 I like 2.❤
In the 1990's Adam Ant was listing his favorite videos....this one was one of Adam's favorites. Stand and Deliver, Mr Neil.
I was 13 when this came on MTV. My friend Dave and I saw this and were blown away by how funny and catchy the song was. We didn't know who this "old" guy was but we knew cool when we saw it. We used to laugh whenever it came on. Back in those days you used to have to watch MTV 24/7 to see your favorite video.
My favorite Neil Young song and video of all time.
I remember this on MTV way back when and I always thought it was goofy, and I made fun of it. It popped into my head for some reason, so I looked it up and here I am. Now though, it’s actually great! I love it. Such a catchy tune and unique video. Maybe just nostalgia, but I’m glad that I revisited this song and video.
Same happened to me. Its aged well.
The song sounds much better to me now, when I'm almost 50, then it did when I first encountered it on MTV in my late preadolescence.
It IS goofy. But that's why I've always loved it. Very absurdist, tongue planted firmly in-cheek. Some people didn't get the joke. I did. Recorded it with a cassette off the TV, that's so much I liked it. And nearly 40 years on, I still like it.
I think everyone of our generation laughed at the video and made fun of it back in the 80’s. I know my sister and I did. And the other day it popped into my head and I looked it up and I had to send it right away to my sister and we were laughing. Yes it’s much better hearing it today than back then when we made fun of everything!
Same here!
I remember I was in elementary school , 4 grade . Singing this Song in the play ground with my boy Rick . My favorite song of all time . Never stop playing this song .
I know Neil was flipping off his label during this time, but I actually love this song and video.
ua-cam.com/video/f-JAS7kSyVU/v-deo.html
I have always loved this song too. It was the same year Billy Joel came out with An Innocent Man, which is essentially a Doo Wop album. It must have been in the air at the time 😂
@@ackamack101 It was 50s and 60s nostalgia. The people who had been kids back then were (by the 80s) adults or getting close to middle age, so there was some desire to reach back to the music that had been part of their childhoods. Plenty of 80s nostalgia now.
memories of late summer 83. this was on rotation on mtv ...
Yep, and I loved it!
And Much Music in Canada. ✌️🇨🇦
Every time I watch this video, I look at Neil and think, "Yeah, there's a man who always gets a seat to himself on the bus." *And I want that damn shirt.*
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Man I got the flu but that comment actually made my day 🤣😂
As he talks to himself.....
lol ! Always gets a seat to himself on the bus. - Good one Dean
That shirt belonged to Nick Pope apparently, Neil agreed to do the video but wanted to do it wearing his shirt, as explained by Nick himself on the Adam Buxton podcast a while back
I'm glad Sleater-Kinney turned me on to this jammy tune.
Still play this song at least once a week . Keeps my sanity.
no it doesn't!!
Still playing this on my guitar 🎸 will be till I can't no more. One of the best tracks he ever laid down.
For Christa and my mom...may you rest in peace 🙏 🕊 and they loved Neil Young.
Great stuff.....
I watched this video on Toronto Rocks in the early 80s. Great memory!
Hilarious! Neil tried so many different things. Some didn't work out but the humor in this one makes it work.
I still remember falling asleep in front of the TV and waking up to this !! This scared the crap out of me because Neil looks so crazy here... and this was about the time The Shining came out and he kinda looks like Jack Nicholson here. Funny now. But this is a great song.
When I watch this I am reminded of the winos that used to live down by the railroad tracks when I was a kid.
LOL yeah he does
Psychokiller que'est que c'est
This has been rattling around in my brain since the 80s but I couldn't remember who did it. Needless to say I never searched for Neil Young so never found it--but Cadillac was the search word that turned it up. Flash of brilliance in his career as far as I'm concerned.
Rattling my mind since the 80s too!
I thought he said, “I’m walking” until today and always looked up “Walk On” to no avail.
Neil’s synchopated movements are what attracted it to me on MTV!
This scratched an itch!! I have been trying to find this video for EVER!!
He's a real artist thru n thru...a kook...a ball of goof...I luv that
so unbelievable good, loved that song, when I head it first, since now, babe
HA! I can NOT believe I've never seen this before now. What a HOOT!
One of my all-time favorite music makers.
Thanks so much for this!
And this concludes one of the biggest raised middle fingers to the record industry, particularly Geffen records! Love it!
Neil doing whatever it took to sabotage his career. This is probably my fave video of all time.
Geffen did sue him over this album and the one before it (Trans), claiming it sounded both uncommercial and "unrepresentative" of the artist. Young then retaliated by filing a $21 million countersuit, insisting he'd been promised creative freedom in the written contract, and Geffen eventually apologized for the interference.
This album was supposed to have been a country/western album called _Old Ways,_ which Young did release in 1985; however, in interviews, he referred to the released version of that album as _Old Ways II._
Haaa. Yeah, the joke was on Geffen...no ones ever gonna tell Neil what to do. If you try, he'll do the opposite just to spite you!
Speaking as a fellow Scorpio, it's far more complex. Neil is at constant war with himself, so he's too busy to care about "a career".
@@mattkyle3511 The record company said they wanted a rock album after Trans, so Neal pondered the beginning of rock music, so he made a rockabilly album. Makes perfect sense to me, and I liked Trans and this album.
How is it "sabotage" when the material (song, album + video) is excellent?
Nice song. Great shirt!
The funny thing is, this album is one of my absolute favorites, even if Neil was trying to make a "bad:" record.
Neil young- the original Kramer
i too remember this video from way back then....great song and even better video...thanks for the find!
just realised its Geffen...which signed numerous alternative bands in the 90s...like Nirvana. Awesome...
This was released because his record company shed Harvest Moon was to Country and he needed to make rock and roll. This is his middle finger to them.
i fell in love with him after this... i was 8, peed my pants laughing over this video. i NEVER liked his music before, sure got my attention.
Before, like in kindergarten? :-P
@@broadwater9222 hey i was listening to music in kindergarten
This is such a cool little jingle. I remember seeing this on mtv, and getting this chorus stuck in my head, way before I even knew who Neil Young was or anything about him. Now I'm a big fan.
The song has a similar feel to Bob Dylan's "Lay, Lady Lay". I love both of them.
He might just be the greatest Canadian of all time.
An atypical retro tune done nicely by Neil Young. I remember seeing him do this song at a concert in about '82 or '83. The audience booed him big time. They just didn't get it. They wanted to see Neil Young the hippie. Rock concert audiences are too often a bunch of morons who don't understand or appreciate a true iconoclast. They go for the packaged rebellion instead. What is that, like a '57 Cadillac?
I believe it's a '57 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible
I know right, some peeps can't stand this album but i love it.
i don`no .but the pink costume is pink
+TheCanine2 I remember this video in the early MTV days. As a 12yr old kid, I would have agreed with the people in the audience back then. I really hated this song at the time, but listening to it now, I think it is much better than I gave it credit for. I had no idea who Neil Young was at that time. I just knew he wasn't Van Halen or Motley Crue, so onto the scrap heap he went, as I endeavored into the next 10 years of really bad hair band music. lol
Glad you can appreciate it now. The man wrote some fantastic music. This song is SO different from the rest of his music but it has a quirky appeal.
One of my favourite videos of all time!
Timeless! Pure Neil 💓
This should be added to the National Historical Registry
Excellent
I love it! Neil Young rules
The fact that a lot of people hate this album is proof that Neil Young has never made a bad album.
The record company asked him to dress up for this, he looks like a psychotic wino, love it!
Philip Dallmayr He DID dress up. He's wearing a tie!
Philip Dallmayr for Neil Young, this is dressed up!!!
me too!!!!
I've always wondered if Neil was a psychotic wino.
You gotta love it!! This song made me want my 58 F100
Luv this song. Ever since it came out in the early eighties
This song was written in 1970; you can hear the original version here ua-cam.com/video/2hE5w-2sz-w/v-deo.html
this was a remake in a '50s doo wop style
i LOVE THIS VIDEO AND THIS SONG
I saw this video years ago and never saw it again. LOL! Happy I found it. Got love Neil Young. :-D
Dont get how this failed. I love this!
There was absolutely no real good reason I can give for liking this song or this video. 🤔 However since the first time I saw it on MTV back in the day I was hooked. It was just too damn catchy. 😚😚😚
I love it . It's fricken the legend Neil Young.
Another great Neil Young song!
My dad was really into Neil Young so I've heard all of his songs but this is the only one that I really liked. Have I failed?
I can't say why, but something about the way he hooks his thumb at the house at 1:13 cracks me up.
You’re not alone, and the way he tilts his head in the next part. It’s a masterpiece in it’s own way
the best music video ever
yeah it is
Jouni Hartikainen yeah, you can tell that it must have cost a fortune to make this video!!! 😅😂😂😁👻🐈👊👊
First time i heard this tune was my first day of highschool.
Love the cop cruizing past sketchy Neil. Love that it's in the promo shot for the vid.
"sketchy" Neil!
is there any other kind?
Cheers!
Think the homeowners called the cops, and said some homeless guy is in front of their house. Lol
The coolest F U to a record company ever! :)
trans
I remember seeing this video back in the 90s and its always stuck with me. It was on MTV.
I still love this song after all these years. The video is so quirky and fun. :)
One of those quirky videos that I remember from the early days of MTV. A catchy tune. Reminds me a lot of Dave Edmunds.
i was a clueless kid when this video came out - I had no idea he was from CSNY. Thought he was some kind of weirdo perv in the video, but loved the song and was obsessed with the video! 🤩
Neil Young was ordered by his record company to make a Rock n Roll record. this is it. 😁
Never cared for this artist but, after comming across this video he has captured my attention
Way ta go Neil
I love this f*cking song!
1:15 cracks me up so much. Imagine having crazy looking Neil dressed like this as your neighbour
I remember this from the Friday Night Videos days!
Greatest Video ever shown on Empty Vee
I love all his songs but this is one of my top favorites along with Sample and Hold, Cinnamon Girl, and Cortez the Killer.
All different but all Neil Young!
He's Canada's greatest freak. We love him so.
I remember seeing this particular video on Friday Night Videos years ago. It was the first time I saw Neil Young in a music video. I was 13 years old at the time. It also happens to be my all time favorite Neil Young song with Rockin' In The Free World ranking a close second. Neil's Geffen years are grossly underrated. IMHO, his Geffen albums represent some of the best music in his career. It also showed that Neil Young is a great artist who could do anything with his music and make an statement artistically, if not commercially, which I know that Neil Young doesn't care about as he never did things for commercial reasons nor purposes anyway.
😊clever as hell
Neil always gave his record label the proverbial finger!
It was Neil's way or the highway!
Cheers!
I'm wonderin'... where I can get a shirt like that!
In 1982 we didn't have MTV yet. But on HBO there was Video Jukebox where they played about 15 minutes of music videos five or six times a day. And that's where I saw this video for the first time.
Neil Young , possibly his best song!
No Air Play back in the 80’s
Think 🤔 Neil cared ? 😂
Great song Neil, never too scared to try something different, love the video.
Oh wow~ laughing over here~ can't stop... seriously, oh my what a great crazy wild video. Goodness. Thanks to who found this. If ever I need an upper I'll return here. Gotta love it.
The Shocking Pinks thing was a genius move and over almost everyone's heads. I never got why it got put down so much, I loved it when it came out and still do, and it's just extra fun that it pissed people off and baffled others. This video takes the craziness even further. Only Neil could have pulled something like this off. I would have loved to be at the screening of this at Geffen.
The SHOCKING Pink. I love it!
I used to stay up very late on Saturday night to watch a video show called Night Flight just to see this video. Now I can see it anytime I want.
Been there, done that
The _1985 Rock Yearbook_ rated this the BEST VIDEO
of 1983-1984 beating out "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!
Hmmm... I like the pastels and the way Neil peers
into the camera.... interesting.
If Saul Goodman was in the music biz, and tried to get out of a contract, this is the supplied clip the bosses at the record company would watch in silence in the board room.
Tim Pope directed this video - really brilliant - check out the Adam buxton podcast with Tim Pope for the whole story - fascinating
Some brilliant Neil Young stories on that podcast. All of Adam's pods are worth listening to btw.
Brought me right here. Love it.
The podcast brought me here!
Adam's podcast with Tim brought me here, so to speak. A class little video and underrated song too!
That’s where I heard about this song. Great in lots of ways…
I wish the "I'm wonderin'..." "...knowin' that I need you to save me" part went on for 20 minutes in a loop.
Fun rewrite of this song, Totally different from his Filmore East version.
How *great* is this song though, seriously?! The video is brilliant too!
The 3 thumbs down are Geffen, his boyfriend, and Neil's dentist.
love his teeth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sooooo CUTE
Maintenant il y a 10 thumbs, je pense que le coiffeur a participé et peut-être quelques uns des 97000 signataires de la pétition pour la sortie de TFA en CD ( je ne parle pas de la dernière pétition pour qu'il change son nom... ).
J'ai oublié le marchand de chaussures (cf. Démarche de zombie à 0:20)
lmao
What dentist ?? Lol
I'll be talkin all day long and still is....he he $373N
Very creative. Interesting Neil's work.
He's so cute. And hysterical. Thanks Neil!
I don't care what anyone says, its a pretty damn good song.
Im 53 & luv this song.... now im putting ot out there for a VERY SPECIAL LADY.. I LOVE YOU NANCY... 🤎🤎🐺
Saw this video first time during MTV's 120 minutes with Frank Black sharing his favourite music videos. Love this song and I quite like the whole album, such an oddball in Neil's discography
The guys in the car look like Miquinhos Amestrados, the group of rockabilly revival from Brazil. Love this video, this music and Neil Young! Thanks for posting!
Brilliant song from brilliant album
His career was never in trouble over a 25 minute album. Just hype.
Thanks for hi-quality on this. Yeah, I was 16 when I first saw this video in '83. I bet I saw it no more than 5 times back then and loved it.....after that I never heard the song again, until I found the video on utube in '07.
Classic MTV days! Love it!
possibly my favorite music video ever. not sure if neil was put up to making a video by geffen (well, it was the height of the 80's video craze) or if he just wanted to do it, but the simplicity of this vid is so awesome: drive around LA in a convertible caddi and shoot at random locations and just let neil be neil in front of the camera. like someone else said, he's adorable... and endearing and goofy and hilarious... and perhaps mixed with just a slight shade of jack nicholson? (anyone else see that?)
anyway, i just love this video. i really love how many sides/aspects there are to neil and his music... this kind of whimsy is the best.
i also had no idea this was a song neil wrote before 1971 until just tonight. so many times i've only heard to the shocking pinks version.
+jimlahey90 When he's standing in front of the oil pump thing it's very reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. Totally saw that too.
agreed. you have good taste
Listen to this podcast interview with the director, he talks about this video specifically open.spotify.com/episode/384WGESgn6k7mxD6dVmEmZ?si=AzXNUnThR3ilr4rOwICMjQ&
@@GallopingGallanteeno Most excellent then, just finished listening. Not only was that a great listen and insight into this video but now I have new podcast to listen to with Adam Buxton and some research to check out more of Tim Pope's work. Thanks man!
@@jimlahey90 you're most welcome!