Neil Young - Sugar Mountain
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2009
- EDIT From April-June I am going to be collecting clips for a new version of the video. The end of the song in this one is cut off as well so for the new video I will fix that.
Thanks for watching, and thanks for all the comments!
There was nothing but covers and badly recorded live versions of this song on here, so I decided to just post this with some video clips.
Also, these clips were shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada... where he lived for a little while during his teen years. In fact the lyrics are actually reminiscences about his youth here in Winnipeg, Manitoba. - Hudba
My brother sang this song every night when he was fighting cancer. He lost his battle in 2012 . Always will remember him singing this beautiful song. Rest in peace Reefer Rick ...
RIP, Rick.....
I will be making that trip myself this year. kinda shitty
Rest in peace!!!! Didn't know Rick but he probably left us to soon!! Great song✌️ prayers to your family 🙏
@@ventureelect Cancer sucks...I've been diagnosed 3 times in 10 years.
Smoke, smile and rest a while God bless you all.
I've played this song every year on my birthday starting at age 16...I'll be 61 in a couple of weeks. I'll play it again ❤️
Here's to many more! :)
that’s so beautiful. hope you have a wonderful 61st birthday
Is this a Jojo reference 😊
Good for you. Great bday song
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing that. From One Neil fan to another.
My dad used to sing this song when I was young, we used to sit in his Mercedes late at night and listen to it. He had a broken childhood that I never completely got to understand. He was murdered when I was 9, and I'm standing here at 22. Finally, understanding the applications of what it means to be "leaving too soon". Childhood gone, stepping into the same shoes he left behind. Innocence lost just to walk that road all over again.
Sorry. I feel for you.
God bless you’re father. I respect you for telling you’re story. Greeting from quebec, canada! I’m 20yl as well
🌹
Walk with Christ. He will get you there.
may your father rest in peace no matter his sins.
My 18 yr old passed a couple of months ago, he loved this song. I listen to it almost everyday now.
I am sorry for your loss, God bless you
RIP
I'm so sorry.
So very Sorry ❤️❤️
Same here. I'm sorry. My father passed a few days ago and I also have been listening to it everyday since these were his innocent years.
this was my little brothers favorite song when he had cancer at the age of 4, when he passed away all i could think of was now he is on his sugar mountain. i always come back to listen to this song
Amen
Thats sad .
So sorry for your loss, I'm sure he's watching over you and your family!
I know, me too. Sorry , I'm crying for you too.
niko bellic that’s lovely. I’m sorry for your loss. 🙏
I was really drunk in a McDonald’s bathroom when I was 18 and this was playing at like 3am over the McD’s speakers and I had a moment
I started "adulting" when I was 14. I'm 55 now and damn tired. Just tired.
Yeah. This is what happens when you’re middle aged by middle school.
*When ya have to raise your damn parents, they’re just exhausting.*
Ya can’t check out of being a parents when we’re Littles and decide somewhere down the road you’re gonna check back in: That childhood ended while you were gone.
@ELIS You're old!
Do stuff you havent done before. There are Things left, but you Tell your self that you cant, because...
Find your passion.
Yuup. It sucks like a Dyson vacuum on steroids.
Amen Brother. I was in such a hurry to grow up and now at 59 I can't remember why.
My Grandpa was 19 when this song came out. He played it for My Dad when He turned 19. My Dad played it for Me when I turned 19. I always tell kids to listen to this when they're 19 and it really opens their eyes. Enjoy your teens.
*You will be 21, 25, 30, 35 before you know it.*
Or 60 or 70
well said
then 74
All too soon you will be 65.
Thanks for the extra dose of anxiety!
I'm 20 and this hits like a ton of bricks.
Thanks for sharing that. So gratifying as a person much older than yourself to read proof that there are young people who are into Neil Young.
If the rumors of re-incarnation are to be believed, then just maybe, you heard this song before 1999(oh and I'm 64, and I wouldn't want a life without Neil Young).
I feel ya their buddy 10 years later here i is haha freshening up on my lyrics for my acoustic
I am 30 with 6 songs under I belt I play to my children all the time
Yep.. Me too...and I'm 70...
"How 'bout we make a toast, before we get our horses?"
"To what...? We've lost everything."
This song reminds of the time when me and my cowboy buddy almost became part of a tree.
Is that a MOTHERFRACKING JOJO REFERENCE!
Barkback Mountain
Finally a damn reference! 😂
The saddest arc in Steel Ball Run imo
Bro when they’re just sitting alone it was so sad
This is such a perfect song. it fits me perfectly and have requested they play it at my funeral.
Wow. I relate to song too. Fairys or God be will you.
@Michael 00
That's beautiful. I'm having "don't let it bring you down" live, played at mine 👍
nice...im having tom petty wildflowers at my funeral
I like the way you think💕
A beautiful song about leaving one's idyllic childhood, and crossing over into the responsibility and unknowns of being an adult.
You are so right ' 65 and still workin on it
So well said ! You are leaving there to soon...
nah bro this song is definitly about coke \
my daughter and mine favorite song she died six years ago so I play it for us
Huddleston Dorrene sorry. At least you'll always have this. 😢
damn dude, trying to bring a grown man to tears? much respect for sharing.
May the Lord keep you and her in the palm of his hand. A man my age should not cry over folks he has never met.
Remember her and walk on! May you have the strength and good friends to help you in this journey!
I have three beautiful daughters, couldn't imagine. I lost my sister, when I was younger, the toughest thing I'd ever been through and I've been through some punches in life . May she rest in Love! You'll be with her again. Much love!
Well, I was drawn back to this song this evening, as my youngest son moved out this afternoon, and I sit here and sort the emotions of this monumental change, as a dad of two, the other married and now gone four years. My wife is away on a trip, so I climbed the stairs alone, to the room my boys shared all those years, hearing echoes of so many memories of youthful voices and shenanigans - only to find a silent and empty room. But this is what we raised them to do - to launch out into the world as best we could equip them. So excited for my son, and for us, if wistful over the change. But then I'm drawn back to the pivotal line in "Sugar Mountain": "You can't be 20, on Sugar Mountain..." So true - as a young man HAS to go his own way, as THAT is where his future lies - and he'll never find it staying at home!
Your comment is beautiful and so sad .
A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for.
Reminds me of something my parents told me years later as well after I moved out. Sounds like you raised great children and you are a special special father. Life is full of different emotions, but yet is truly something isn’t it
I listen to this song often and can relate. You can’t be 20 on Sugar Mountain … I hear that line and can relate. I. I have for years. But to your day and your emotions. Your story is like mine and my Wife’s. You want to raise your children to be strong and able to see after themselves and their loved ones… You and your wife did a Good Job ❤️
Haven’t heard enough Neil Young, thought I should explore his music some more. Found this, listened, read the comments, and I’m crying like a child. And I get the feeling most everyone else here would understand what I’m feeling.
It’s beautiful.
This man really is something else ....
Go buy yourself decade - the album. You won’t go wrong ! Superb. Then go explore after that !! 😎🎸
...welcome to the club boss!...its a soulful ride..you won't regret it...
Tears of joy’
Eric Clapton is still the same. His music is A1. They call him slow hand because he's so fast. He was asked about 20 years ago, "Who is the best guitar player in the world." In 1 second he said "Prince."
Neil Young used to be for the people back in the 60's and 70's. Now he's a 1%er.
Neil changed. Eric didn't. Kind of sad for Neil.
I do love the Sugar Mountain song.
@james. listen to "I am a child" by Neil Young
I can't believe he wrote this at age 19. So wise.
When I was 21, I lived in an unincorporated little part of town with a river and a walking bridge, I fell in love with a fair strawberry blonde with green eyes and an old soul, my friend and I would smoke and drink and play and sing this ballad, it was all true. We lived on Sugar Mountain, we thought we’d never have to leave, but we left there too soon, my strawberry blonde died in 2008 at the age of 46, I’ve lost so many friends, but when I hear this I go back to sSugar Mountain for 5 precious minutes,, Tj Struska
I’m so terribly sorry for your loss.
😢😭💔
I’ve breathed the same feelings next to my own love, wirey and tall with blue eyes, sandy blonde hair and a new mustache. Which poked my lips in the first awkward kisses. His steel grip rough hands were always sweet holding my mine. I inhaled him as if he was life itself. We would walk to the middle of the cherry orchard, lay on the blanket, see the stars above, get whiffs of clean, nourishing dirt soil. It’s funny but the dirt smelled clean. Welcome to pleasure never imagined. How can we be allowed to go to such paradises, heavy with love, knowing it has to end, clinging to its every fiber of time as it evaporates and we cannot stay?! Fifty-five years have passed and I am 73. God! I miss him!!
And I am indeed sorry for your loss. I’m glad you had years together. 🌹🌹🌹
I wish I was innocent again, and didn’t have this melancholy cynicism running thru my brain.
Life is not a bowl of cherries. Everyone discovers that eventually. But that does not mean that you can't have a rich life. That part is up to you.
rid yourSelf of it
Donnoha same
Same here
Me 2
I played this song to my girl friend when she was turning 20, on her birthday.... Fast forward after 41 years of marriage and I still play this song for her.... She will always be my Sugar Mountain girl - forever.
I was stunned to learn that Neil was only 19 when he wrote this and there were over a hundred stanzas. The wisdom and poetic sensibility is astounding.
I was fine and then at the very end it made me cry because it's such a wistful sentiment. And then I hear the people applaud?! This was live?! Amazing. Absolutely amazing...
lemurian chick Its called being a genius
+lemurian chick Its about an under 20 club he used to go to in Canada but had to stop because he got to old
They will only let me give you one Thumbs Up
He's an old soul . Genius beyond age.
You would expect this to be written by someone in the twilight of their life... not someone on the very cusp of beginning it... Profound...
Small club outside of town late 71', go in and have a beer. Local guy singing with acoustic not altogether that good, beered up, and just packs up and leaves. Guy walks up to the owner and asks to play and owner says I can't pay you but you can pass the hat. Guy gets his guitar and adjusts his mic and starts playing Sugar Mountain. My buddy says, "He sounds just like......" We turned around................and it was !
Not yet having achieved Rock-God like status, he used the door like everyone else.
blusmahn what a memory you have! That would have been great to witness!
I actually believe this story. It supports another one I heard about some folks picking up Neil hitchhiking near Big Sur in the same year. They spent all day on the beach with him playing and hanging out with them. Just them.
Santa Cruz!
blusmahn your a liar
A friend, mentor and fellow Neil Young fan died today. I sang this song once at a gathering, when we just met and his face lit up, never expecting to hear someone play an obscure Neil YOung song out of the blue. His name is Neil Doloricon, a Philippine social realist painter.
Thank you . Loss and grief , saw his paintings today .
"Sugar Mountain" is one of Neil's precious songs about his childhood in Canada.We are grateful for his appreciation of the wildlife and his beautiful spirit.
I loved this song in 1979 when I was a senior in high school. Thought I would be 18 forever.
how'd that work out for you? because I thought that too. Boy was I kidding my self. lol. Always love to hear some Neil Young. Makes me look inside myself
bill caldwell
Snoopdog
I didn't. Because even at that young of an age I understood how time worked. I mean I knew I would be 18 for only one year. Just like every year before.
bill caldwell Me too Bill ✌️
So many friends are gone, but someday we will jam again ✌️❤️🎶
Funny how this song just hits that vibe when you're homesick for that past life u left behind
*THE TREE IS A STAND USER*
Oh yes.
Don't you dare lying !
Humans can have stands, animals can have stands and now, the plants can have stands. Who is next? the computers? a videogame? a cell? a cloud? a mountain? the ocean? the sun? a black hole? everyone can have a stand!!
@@gonchi9657 except jotaros mother
@@shlominagar1929 She have a stand too.
This is definitely me when I have to spend $50,000, a diamond, and a bar of gold before sunset.
I’m reading this chapter right now LOL
@@Carob_55 Me too lol
It's my favorite arc in SBR
We think at this age it is worth Gold to go here , rather than spending our golden years fighting
The Silent killer lonelyness which leads or opens the door to the mass killer
Suicide
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Neil Young has a way of stirring up the deep emotions...at least for me he does. This is one in particular I have always loved...
He really does...I agree.
Can't help but feel a sense of nostalgia when listening to this -- the melody alone puts you in that headspace.
Me too
DC3893 yep
A Masterpiece.. Congratulations.
4:08-4:22
My God That lyric is so masterfully written. I'm over 40 now and have been on my own now since I was 19 and it still gets me, with how harsh the truth of it really is! Hey if any of you kid's are reading this comment, enjoy yourselves... please 🙏
You'll thank me later...
Will do Sir.
“In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock'n'roll band (...) he had just newly turned 21, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favourite haunt, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21 you couldn't get back in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it's one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore. 'Cause he was over the hill. (...) So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth. (...) And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and there's nothing after that, that's a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It's called 'The Circle Game.'" - Joni Mitchell
One of the GREATEST Songs of All Time..................
Neil Young's voice never sounded better.
jerry ball your Damn right
I feel like this is a song is the anthem of my childhood and it's is just so haunting.
Sugar Mountain.What a great song.Thanks Neil Young!
I was blessed to find this version.
"Sugar Mountain" uses an amusement park as a metaphor for childood.
When we're little kids, life seems like a magical carnival. We spend our time playing and having fun. Mom and Dad are around to take care of us, and we don't even know that we could ever want more out of life.
But time goes by, we get older, and the things that once made us happy DON'T make us happy any more. As we become teenagers, we start to take an interest in sex, and we start to develop that charming adolescent sarcasm and cynicism.
The homes and families we loved as children can start to feel like a prison, and we start to long to escape from them. "You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain," and you can't remain an innocent, happy child forever.
But even when we begin the necessary process of growing up and becoming independent, somewhere deep inside us, there's still a piece of the little children we once were, and we know we'll miss the things we left behind. Even though we know we HAVE to grow up, we sometimes wish we could stay carefree kids just a LITTLE longer.
he does not want us to lose our child innocence in the playground of it in reminding us that sugar mountain can turn into a false paradise in the illusions of love and addictions if you stay on it too long before our time to find out is real tough.
Mary Ennis Wrong.......a circus , not an amusement park..
Thank you for this comment :)
Mary Ennis that's beautiful
Right on man.
In 1978 when I did my military service my friend had Neil Young's music cassette and we listened to this beautiful song. After many years I remember those good times with a slight melancholy
This is one of the songs of my youth and it always strikes me deeply to listen to it. Today when I heard the line “the candy bars you had and your mother and your dad” it just made me sit right down and cry. Suddenly it brought be back to my childhood. I have listened to it a 1000x and never before heard that line. How we as humans tend to yearn for some of the things in life that are gone forever.
It's a good line. Though it's candy floss (aka cotton candy), not candy bars. You know, cuz he's at the faire
The raw authentic beauty of this song can never be duplicated.
😂😂😂😂😂
Amazing that at 50 years I finally hear what he is saying.
Mid-summer, 1973, Round Hill Virginia annual county fair. I was thirteen and a fifer in a Fife & Drum corps, the Mount Vernon Guard. We did two performances on that spectacular summer afternoon. As we idled away the time between performances we sky-larked around the tents and rides. Then this song came on, playing from someone's portable radio. It literally stopped me dead in my tracks. I stood stock still for a few minutes and drank in the lyrics and their meaning. I suddenly realized, with excitement and fear, that I too would be leaving the comfort and security of family, friends and familiar surroundings...my own Sugar Mountain.... as I headed off into Life's great unknown just a few short years away. I made a point to burn in every sight and detail, the early evening's blazing sunset, the gradually darkening vermilion sky, Bucky Wolford and Mikey Marx, heads back, laughing riotously over a win at a nearby arcade, the magic of beauty, innocence and youth....and yes, I had my first cigarette at that fair.
Such a hauntingly beautiful song. I can never listen to it without getting tears in my old. Such a magical melody!
Right? :)
Madeline ... :-)
Having tears right now
Every song has a story, so here’s mine.
I’m currently 17 years old. Things aren’t like they used to be, for the last year or so. I can’t enjoy stuff anymore like I used to when I was younger. I don’t care as much about things as I used to when I was younger. I used the have a new crush every week, but I haven’t felt anything like that in the last year. I figured that it could be a depression, but I didn’t feel depressed. I could still enjoy life, but it was just.. different. I can’t find the intense feeling of joy and happiness like when I was a child, and that’s when I realised: the child inside me is gone. I’m not a kid anymore. I don’t know what happened to him, maybe it’s just because I’m older, maybe it has to do with my mother passing away. But he just isn’t there.
A little while back I felt like singing Sugar Mountain, and all of a sudden the lyrics just became very real. I understood the meaning of the song the first time I heard it, but now the song really connects. It doesn’t make me sad and I’m not feeling melancholic in any way. I simply changed and that isn’t bad nor good, it’s just what it is. But this song just became so much more beautiful, and it gives me that indescribable feeling only the very best songs can give you.
To Neil Young, one of my favourite artists.
Listen to Porcupine Trees, time flies, you will feel something.
Carmine Sassano just did, and wow, that song takes you on a journey. The guitar in the beginning, the solo and the whole structure of the song strongly reminds me of “dogs” (as numerous people have pointed out before me lol), but the lyrics give the song a totally different atmosphere. I like the lyrics. It gives me the same melancholic feeling as sugar mountain, it just hits totally different. Incredible what music can do with a person.
Dang... as a 17 year old, this hit hard. I related to everything in this comment REALLY hard. In the last year or so, life has really numbed me. But I just wanna say, the child is still there, even if he’s hiding!! You can have depression but not feel “depressed” persay, depression is just your body’s way of numbing your emotions to deal with intense pain. We’re all meant to experience that intense peace/joy in life. Recently I met a girl who helped me awaken that inner child a little bit, and getting therapy helps unlock your emotions too. Life is good.
@@ddude1212 I like your way of thinking about depression. I’m not sure when I wrote this original comment, but I don’t think I was depressed. The last year, after writing that comment, has been incredibly good for me and I’ve been able to deal with all the 2020 shit pretty well. The last year I’ve experienced so many emotions, but good and bad and I didn’t feel numbed the same way I did as when I originally wrote that comment. I still feel the same about the child inside me that is gone tho, but I’ve embraced my new, matured identity. Life’s definitely good, and I’ve learned to enjoy even the worst emotions. After all, emotions are what makes life worthwhile :)
@@renze7133 This is the feeling of having one foot in childhood, the other in adolescence or one in late adolescence and the other in early adulthood.
It’s like that through all our life transitions-and you’re going through a big one now. Best wishes on your continuing journey. You’re exactly where you need to be at this time, {{{Renze}}}
Every time I hear this, I am taken back to a time that I wish I could live over. Great times in the late 60's and early 70's
Thank you Araki
yess
I can't listen to this now! I have to spend all my money or I'm going to die!
Finally a jojo comment, can’t wait till part 7 and we can assimilate this comment section
Huh!!
On what❓
Dillon Moll face masks 😷
@@vincentfisher1603 its a jojo reference
I love this song. It makes me sad though, reminds me of old days when music was music. I love you Neil
Don't be sad.. be nostalgic, for your youth... for that time in your life, when everything was perfect, and all things were possible... But it's just as Neil said... You can't be 20 forever.. you have to leave... grow up... an remember... It has it's own beauty...
Maggie Mancusi , du hast so Recht!!:-)
I pray there are poets and songwriters out in this world.
Me too Maggie. It's after 1am and I'm thinkin' just that. And the colored Baloons....
Yeah.
The music today...well its trash.
Actual garbage.
The words they say have no meaning to me
This song goes way back to my trippy hippie days...life has passed so fast..."carefree" younger days...now replaced by long lonely days...this song plays on....
Riding my ten speed over the Hyperion Bridge, listening to this tune in my head, I realized my life had meaning and I could be something special.
I also had many revelations spinning those spokes
😉💙
Thank you Araki for introducing me to this amazing Neil Young song. Sugar Mountain was one of my favorite arcs in Steel Ball Run and now the song is one of my favorite songs to listen to.
Song makes me feel weird but comfortable too. 70's kid- it's how it is. Comfort in discomfort.
true...
I think it hits home harder now that we’re approaching middle age.
universally timeless. Every generation will find meaning in this poem.... Wonder, rebellion and self realization... The human condition.
This song reminds me to always use up what I'm given before the sun sets.
I was 20 when I got married and had my first baby....That is when Sugar Mountain became an untouchable place. I’m 45 now. How beautiful and special that place was 🖤
We all have our " sugar mountain" Love Neil Young....
+Amy Lowe
Thanks for having Posted Canadian counterpart Neil Young!
Amy Lowe mine is in South Lake Tahoe
im on the mountain right now. i hope i never leave.....im 14 and can appreciate the real music in life.
How do you feel about what life becomes now that you're in your 20s?
So hows life?
Hello
Are you still living on sugar mountain?
@@rocketraymusic3204 he passed away from diabetes
My mother sent this to me today on my 20th. this song is beautiful.
You are a blessed young lady!
My life's soundtrack is "Live, Rust" . Sugar Mountain is the song my deceased baby sister couldn't pronounce when I was in high school. I can't listen to this song unless I plan ahead. Nows a good time at 4 AM. Love you kiddo.
So stunningly simple yet eternally & wistfully dreamy.
First heard this on the radio, Feb., 1971. I wept.
Neil wrote this song in 1963 (well actually at age 4 when his mom Rusty found his scrawl on the wall "Sugar Mountain Momma I want my colored balloons or I'm gonna burst". True story.
Sugar mountain is wherever you were raised.
Ain't nothing like listening to Neil Young when the world feels like it's gone crazy. His lyrics mean so much with the timeless melodies and raspy gold voice, not perfect but perfect enough. Love ya Neil. KonaRose Kona side in coffee belt ♥
Perfectly sang
I remember the first time I heard this song. I was 15 and at a summer fair in Flint Hill, Virginia, sometime around '74 or '75. I stood stock still as I listened to the lyrics which imported to me the brevity of life. I listend and looked around and realized that before long, all the people I was there with would, like life's diaspora, be heading out to lead their own lives. What I wouldn't give to see Mom and Dad once again, or Steve and Bucky and Mikey....what a wonderful time of life.
1968! That's when life was still fun. Before Charlie's family. The summer of love. Before we all grew up, had to cut our hair.get jobs. Where's all the time gone? At least we still have music to take us back. Love Ya'll. Anyway, until the Golden Seed takes us home. Peace.
This song has the unusual ability to invoke a wistful nostalgia as well as a hunting sadness.
I & a lot of my friends in Australia have been down a similar path in oz we say head up keep moving . Now I have grown up kids of my own . My mates and I get together regularly & talk about things it helps me a lot god bless them
Damn, I love this song. I get it. Sugar Mountain...been a long time since it's been around. I hope to go back there someday, though it won't be in this life. Would love to hear my Ma call me home for dinner again, see everybody at the table...Oh to live on Sugar Mountain.
this damn song still chokes me up......neil youngs voice is just so......sooo......UNDERSTANDING....thank you for being my best freind mr. young 35 yrs ago when it felt like i had none!!....lol...danger-russ
exactly
Without music this world would be a mistake.
A good friend of mine died yesterday for Covid. We shared a love of this song. and Neil Young.
my old stand by... love this song. I just saw land for sale on sugar mountain and thought of this song...
Hello Donna, How are you doing?
One of the best songs ever.
Agreed, one of the all time greats! This tune really takes me back...
And on the seventh day, God made Neil Young.
BettinaBalser - it was the eighth day. I remember cause I was telling him that he should name him “The Famous Neil Young” but
he said well we will have to wait and see about that! We didn’t have to wait long at all Neil was just a 20 year old kid when he started playing with Buffalo Springfield and grew from there into the BIG
star he became on his own and there will be a star in the sky named after him when he passes
like we all do sooner or later we all make the little flowers grow and no one gets out of Gods world alive
@@None4you2day All the rock stars back then were really young(no pun intended). Look at what The Beatles had accomplished by the time they 20! and they' re just one example..now 20 year olds are still living with their parents.actually until they're about 30 -35. Pathetic. The baby boomers did things at alot earlier ages.
There was morning and evening for each day, except the 7th. Perhaps we're still in it-
yathink?
Amen
This one always makes me misty...reminds me of younger days and continuing my life’s journey without 3 of my best friends...thank you Uncle Neil for helping to keep them in my heart and soul....💔
I dont agree with his Spotify / Joe Rogan position, but the man is an international treasure. This was the main song we played for my fathers funeral. Much love to Neil.
He should’ve just kept his mouth shut lol. all of his music gone just like that.
For YOU maybe....
He has principals, it's weird how you bring that up.
BTW, a guy called Trump came out against invading Iraq 13 years after the fact, and the same crowd who cheered on his lackadaisical management of COVID and praise his latent comments on Iraq are the same people who called Neil a terrorist-supporter in 2003 when he openly condemned the US invasion of Iraq. Talk about irony. 🙄
Such a haunting song. Now that I'm middle-aged and Sugar Mountain is far behind me, this song always brings a tear to my eye. It oddly reminds me of the "Willoughby" episode of "The Twilight Zone." It seems like many of us long for the simpler times of our youths. Thx for posting.
It has always made me think of Willoughby too!!..
Check out "Walking Distance" on Twilight Zone, too. The desire to go home again is strong, and one of the ancient themes.
Ran into an old friend from of mine from childhood. Known him for 50+ years. Time has taken it's toll on both of us, but just for a little while, we remember what it was like being just little kids with a best friend in a big friendly world.
check out Jonathan Richman That Summer Feeling for nostalgic blues
We can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain. Growing up as a child and learning that everything wonderful can't last when you grow up. Magical lyrics Neil Young....thank you.
Stationed in Denver, 1970, in the USAF, I was going to Tech School and had my radio on in the barracks late at night. This song would play almost every night, as I laid on my bed in the dark. My first base after Tech School was in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Listening to the song at night, I realized I no longer lived on Sugar Mountain. Haven't ever decided if I left there too soon...
One Of Neil Young's greatest songs.. CANADA!!
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I first heard this song late 71/early 72. It was on the flip side of Heart Of Gold. I just fell in love with it and still am to this day. It's a song that every adult can relate to.
This song just describes it so perfectly. Being young and all the happy times and getting older
Thanks Neil and thanks Araki
I swear... I haven't heard this song in 30 years or more. By the number of hits up there, its not exactly a top-40 type that's jammed down your throat, or gets much air-play anywhere... but it's a GEM, that you have to search out. It's worth the search because it gave me goose-bumps, and reminded me what a wonderful childhood I had.
Again, Neil Young, thank you. This song is magic, a big of dreaming and a bit of make believe......and a bit of where we would all love to live.
Hello Roslyn, How are you doing?
Discovered Neil through my high school boyfriend. And was changed forever. Love him still at 62!!!
Havent heard this for 40 years....those were magical times!!😎✌
Just one more great NY song, with a fine photomontage to go with it....all blends well with my cold coffee and a little of this 'n some of that @ 2:25A in a beat-up 1922 hotel, (still got a real icebox, just no place to get a block of ice anymore) on a mild night in Long Beach, (ca) - me and the roaches & Neil, looking back over this life, the wives, kids, friends, now the grandkids. There's still a part of me on Sugar Mountain. I never wanted to leave anyhow. An ageing kid of 68, I should be listening to "Old Man," but this will do, this will do swell. Thanks, Northend.
Neil has put the words to my feelings on how I miss the innocence of not knowing anything about everything but so exited to find out what it all means, but yes, he puts my feel into words as though he was in my mind......and felt the sadness that was there.
i'm a junior in high school, and i discovered this song back in middle school. my sugar mountain was georgia, where my aunt and my cousins lived. we'd go there every year, my cousins and i running through the hilly streets, my aunt being so kind to me, listening to the beatles. i can't think about how far away i am from that time in my childhood, and how little time i have left, without bawling my eyes out. can't ever make it through this song with dry eyes.
i'm turning twenty in a few days ... i really had no idea how much of a child i still was when i wrote that comment.
It’s March 2019 and I’m still playing Sugar Mountain. Timeless music.
February 2021 and yes, still.
And still yet, here in 2022!
March 2022 now :)
73 2022
One of this black Detroit chick's favorite neil young songs reminds me of my great childhood in the 50s and 60s and when I turned 20 and faced some of the ugly times of the days to come. I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday as that kris kristofferson song said. But to those who miss their love ones i say they' are are in a happy better place and you will see them again. When I saw my dad after he died I was still angry at how he suffered from cancer but he shook his head and kept smiling as to say it doesn't matter what you go through on earth just makes it to the other side with God cause he was extremely happy. I look forward to my homecoming .
The visuals that this song creates always gets me
Blew out my brother's stereo speakers on my bday (20th). Neil is my #####1!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
My parents made me bedtime CDs when I was a kid. This was always on there, and it sounds like safety and comfort but still the pain. Yknow?
One of his finest ballads, It could have been an highlight in many of his albums, but Neil has so many brilliant songs in his catalogue that he did not publish it until the compilation "decade". Neil is simply the best songwriter ever.
In college, we would have a wake for when our friends turned 20, due to this song.
Another classic from the incomparable Neil Young. A world treasure.
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This is one of my 3 fav. NR songs...Vastly underrated even by him!!!
Living legend, everything you take in is gold. Thanks Neil Young, you have made my life easier to live
I was listening to this song a lot the last time I remember my mind working right - young, drug free, happy - I distinctly remember a day of driving up in the mountains by myself all day in the fall and taking pictures of stuff and listening to this song. I got pretty bad into drugs shortly after - I'm clean now but I've never been right or fully myself since. I had totally forgotten about this song. It's a really weird vibe. I guess I was probably exactly 20 at the time being 2006 and I remember making the connection to the mountains and sugar mountain. If I remember right, I was driving through and around Bass, Arkansas. It was always kind of a mystical place to me.
I hear you there!
I took my Son to Six Flags Great Adventure, NJ. He has Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy. I can't help thinking we left too soon. Wonderful ❣️ song Neil. Thank You.
My Mother met/remarried. Was soon to be my adopted Father, played this song after proposing to her on Christmas day, in bed. I woke up to a father for Christmas of 98'.