As a Marine Biologist in training it really makes me hopeful for our future to see so many people taking a genuine interest in ocean conservation, keep up the good work!
Your a marine biologist that’s hopeful for the future? Are you new? Edit- Ah yes sorry you said “in training”. I hope you manage to keep your optimism.
When I was about 19 a friend of mine and I watched a Neil young concert on VHS (Probably "Rust Never Sleeps") I was familiar with a few songs, but most of the others really stayed with me. Something so basic yet poetic.
As I understand it, the "burned out basement" line is literal. Neil's house had burned down. The Live Rust version of this song with the piano and harmonica is stunning.
It's so cool to see how many of my subscriptions are great people and help support good causes! Thanks for the great video and the support for a great cause!
Always loved this song. Neil gives a great delivery, amazingly poetic and oddly timely lyrics. I also recommend the Patti Smith cover. Obvi not as iconic and great as the original but still a beautiful rendition especially since she her voice adds something to her rendition
It's not just for the oceans. It's for the many lakes, as well. Put a stop to the Glitter industry. Glitter is the No. 1 pollutant in America's lakes because of the fact that glitter is a form of camouflage on boats.
Great cause and I would really like to hear more about niel young. My father and I both play electric guitar and he brought to rock n roll and I feel like niel young is kind of my rock father figure…
Another great video! I would love to see more Niel Young content in the future. And I hope that soon, world leaders can get their shit sorted and make real change!
I've always wondered if the movie The Fountain was inspired by this song, mainly because so much of the imagery in the Fountain is literally described in the song, such as the "knights in armor" and, of course (spoilers) flying mother nature's seed (though not so silver in the movie) to a new home in the Sun (though, in the film, it's not the Sun).
I haven’t seen the movie, but this song seems to me to be about the destruction of the planet, before, during, and after the industrial revolution. Second verse sounds like a soldier in the war.
I haven’t seen the movie, but this song seems to me to be about the destruction of the planet, before, during, and after the industrial revolution. Second verse sounds like a soldier in the war.
you should make a similar video on the eagles the last resort. in its simplicity its mostly about the harms of manifest destiny on the west and nature.
I was just thinking of Bela Lugosi is dead and you posted a video about it. Then today my father played After the gold rush and you posted this. Just crazy
I think this is the most beautiful song. We used it for our wedding vows. ( I worked at Nordstrom for years and we had an amazing pianist who did a great extended version. Terry Disley)
I like the song The Earth Is Our Mother by Oi Polloi. It’s in the same vein as this tune maybe a little more direct.- “Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself The secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men Where is the thicket? Gone Where is the eagle? Gone The end of living - and the beginning of survival”
This video makes me think Fred Neil. How he spend half his life to preservation of dolphins. I always love your work aspecially some things like this one, maybe Fred Neil helps to create another one like this.
I love the idea of removing plastic from any natural environment! But let's be honest, heat and carbon are WAY bigger issues! The ocean is absorbing the vast majority of both of these that would otherwise have made global warming far worse... The difference is that they are invisible and aren't hurting tourism very much (for the time being), so few people care enough to do anything about it. What happens when there's zero fish left in the ocean...? Do we care about that enough to stop paying for sushi? That's currently the projection so we better stop fast before there's literally DEAD SEAS! If #TeamSeas is for real, why is no one talking about the bigger issue here? BTW, I'm not blaming you, but I'd really appreciate if you looked into this more and understood the deeper predicament....
Thank you for the video, I like your interpretation, it is a lot happier than mine :-) As a kid of the 70s, I saw it as more of a commentary on nuclear annihilation. The first verse to me is an religious conflict. It is violent, knights are coming (night/darkness coming), a tree is split (to make a cross? to make firewood to burn people?), trumpets are blowing (to bring down the city walls? to rally the troops?) for the sun (or the "son"). In the second verse the war is on. The singer is on watch, waiting in a burned out basement for his replacement. It is such an ominous verse...and then the sun comes out with the full moon. A nuclear bomb detonated over a city would create a midnight sun. The next two lines speak directly to the singer wanting ti literally escape this dreadful reality through music and drugs. He remembers what a friend said. Adults talked about the threat of nuclear destruction frequently. This is preserved in phrases like 'bombed back to the stone age" or 'bomb them to hell" that we still use. Like the singer, I was always hoping those predictions would not come true. In the final verse the war is over. No one wins a nuclear holocaust. All the survivors can do is try to send their most promising community members away, the chosen ones, the ones who might be able to reseed the human race somewhere else now that we've blow our civilization up. All great art is open to multiple interpretations. This song is a great piece of art, Neil Young's best, I feel.
4:06 you are usually great about sound mixing, but this sample is significantly louder than the rest, and overall your voiceover is a bit quiet in this video.
If you haven’t covered Gorillaz and Plastic beach, it might be one to consider keeping with the environmentalist theme. Although I’m sure there are many less literal songs covering the topic. Anyway, respect to anyone helping to make the world a better place no matter the size of the effort.
There are more acres of forest in the US today than there were in the 1970's. And the air was more polluted back then. And the water was more polluted, too. I was alive back then. We recognized the problem, and because we were free and wealthy, we worked to make the problem better. Free countries have the wealth to do these things, which is why the environment tends to be better protected in free nations like Switzerland, Canada and South Korea, than they are in socialistic command economies like China, Venezuela and Cuba. If you care about the planet, you don't want socialism. You want free markets.
This is what people don't realize. The problem isn't exclusive to capitalism, it lies in human nature and the lack of responsibility at a personal level, which builds up. Socialism and command economies like China before Mao's death had unimaginable waste and inefficiencies that made it one of the worst polluters. I would argue that that system is worse than capitalism.
You don’t realise sweden switzerland etc have been wealthy countries for centuries while venezuela and cuba were extremely poor even before socialism, a lot of countries in the world aren’t doing much about the world cause they have people starving and suffering on them while switzerland and sweden have been rich for centuries, centuries am telling you and are way more advanced by cuba and venezuela which believe me, not even with free markets would’ve been at at least a fraction of the rich of Sweden
@@thisvideo8600 Actually, Venezuella was the richest nation in S. America back in the 19th century. And in the 20th century they discovered lots of oil. But they became poor because of their socialism. Cuba was a vacation place back in the early 1900's. They were doing very well. But the Socialist revolution down there impoverished people for a century. And Sweden became rich in the 1900's through free trade. Their experiment with socialism in the 60's and 70's was abandoned when it failed. Now Sweden is one of the top 30 most free market nations on the planet. Socialism hurts the poor.
@@freesk8 in those years south america was fucked as a whole dude, and socialism wasn’t all of its demise its way more complex, cuba was a turistic paradise but its streets were dying of hunger all its richness was centered in the government and high societies thats why they revolted, i am not defending socialism i don’t give a shit about it but its definitely not socialism’s fault as a whole.
It's so weird that a bunch of youtubers care/do more about this than most world governments, don't get me wrong it's amazing but it feels weird at the same time somehow
I hv an idea for a video 💡 I hv been thinking lately well u see elvis was like the most popular artist from 50s beatles in the 60s and abba , Elton in the 70s Madonna and mj in 80s . You see mj beatles elvis Madonna elton are like the biggest selling artists ever but abba though dominated 70s it is interesting to see that they don't hv much sales like queen , Elton or pink floyd did 🤔 though they are big popstars in that decade so what really happened in the 70s...? To abba .
Are we becoming more disconnected with nature, especially with the rise of virtual worlds.. food for thought. As an avid beachcomber, I remove my 1 lb almost daily
Dig the idea, but the multiple levels of demand make it as ugly as what it tries to replace. Look at it anyway you like, but it is as ugly as anything it tries to replace. Neil, I knew you back when, but when did it turn to this? If I had the money, I would contribute, but now is not then. I am not what I was. You are not what you were. Is there some way we can meet in the middle? Peace, my friend,
Hmm.. love your videos but this one feels a bit too contrived. Aside from the single line about Mother Nature being on the run, there's nothing else in the song overtly referencing environmental issues and it feels like a forced fit to try and confer specific meaning onto the lyrics
@@thisvideo8600 Not a kid... and still not an answer to my question. Go look at their website and see if you can tell where any contributions are actually going...
@@thisvideo8600 Well, where do the contributions go? It should be able to find out on their website. I couldn’t. Their financial statements should be easy to find along with their Form 990s. Lots of people get taken trying to support well-deserved causes.
As a Marine Biologist in training it really makes me hopeful for our future to see so many people taking a genuine interest in ocean conservation, keep up the good work!
Is that you Costanza?
Your a marine biologist that’s hopeful for the future? Are you new?
Edit- Ah yes sorry you said “in training”. I hope you manage to keep your optimism.
@@glynallport7133 theres a lot to be optimistic about, of course also a lot to be pessimistic about
This was my first thought after I saw the words marine biologist
@@tex.45 the sea was angry that day my friends
I was 8 years old jamming to this album. So good. My dad would always call me “50 years old” for loving it so young
One of the greatest albuns of all time!!!!!
I have it , many , many yrs. It's great.
“The island is sinking
Let’s take to the skies”~Supertramp
One of my favorite songs ever. Never quite seen such emotion in anyone like neil has in this song. Absoultely fantastic
I have absolutely loved seeing the way all my favorite TH-camrs incorporate Team Seas into their videos, and this one is no exception.
Team Seas really collabed with every single channel I subscribe to
I remember being a child hearing this and being very moved by the details in the lyrics
When I was about 19 a friend of mine and I watched a Neil young concert on VHS (Probably "Rust Never Sleeps") I was familiar with a few songs, but most of the others really stayed with me. Something so basic yet poetic.
Love Neil, easily one of the GOATs.
As I understand it, the "burned out basement" line is literal. Neil's house had burned down. The Live Rust version of this song with the piano and harmonica is stunning.
It's so cool to see how many of my subscriptions are great people and help support good causes! Thanks for the great video and the support for a great cause!
Greatest Album Ever!!!
Always loved this song. Neil gives a great delivery, amazingly poetic and oddly timely lyrics. I also recommend the Patti Smith cover. Obvi not as iconic and great as the original but still a beautiful rendition especially since she her voice adds something to her rendition
Unfortunately I can’t donate, but I will be liking and commenting so the algorithm can push it out to those who can!
Thanks for making us aware of these organizations
use to play this song as a teen, cow girl in the sand too. good campfire tunes
It's not just for the oceans. It's for the many lakes, as well. Put a stop to the Glitter industry. Glitter is the No. 1 pollutant in America's lakes because of the fact that glitter is a form of camouflage on boats.
How do you stop the game theory problem of environmentalism without going to violence?
@@SuperMannurse violence
Great video, great cause. I love Neil Young and planet Earth.
The introduction to one of the greatest span of albums across a decade (well this or Everyone Knows Nowhere if you wanna include that)
i’ve been waiting for another neil young video, thank you!
Great cause and I would really like to hear more about niel young. My father and I both play electric guitar and he brought to rock n roll and I feel like niel young is kind of my rock father figure…
Another great video! I would love to see more Niel Young content in the future. And I hope that soon, world leaders can get their shit sorted and make real change!
Let the music teach us history
God I love your videos so much. And the godfather of grunge! I honestly never caught this implication in the song's references until now
Great historical perspective - thanks.
Analysis of Neil Young music and environmental advocacy...I think I'm in the right corner of TH-cam!
My favorite tune
Back to back polyphonic videos! I like it.
Vid so nice I tried to like it twice, typical of the best music page on here
Love this album!
Have a nice day!
That looks like Robbie Robertson beside him.
yeah pretty sure it's from the last waltz
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I've always wondered if the movie The Fountain was inspired by this song, mainly because so much of the imagery in the Fountain is literally described in the song, such as the "knights in armor" and, of course (spoilers) flying mother nature's seed (though not so silver in the movie) to a new home in the Sun (though, in the film, it's not the Sun).
One of my favorite films of all time, despite how depressing it can be.
It's visual climax was DOWNRIGHT STUNNING!
Thank you! I’ve long held this opinion as well.
I haven’t seen the movie, but this song seems to me to be about the destruction of the planet, before, during, and after the industrial revolution. Second verse sounds like a soldier in the war.
I haven’t seen the movie, but this song seems to me to be about the destruction of the planet, before, during, and after the industrial revolution. Second verse sounds like a soldier in the war.
what a song
you should make a similar video on the eagles the last resort. in its simplicity its mostly about the harms of manifest destiny on the west and nature.
great stuff
save the oceans
Donated Thank you
can't donate in my country, but comment for the algorithm!
I was just thinking of Bela Lugosi is dead and you posted a video about it. Then today my father played After the gold rush and you posted this. Just crazy
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
I think this is the most beautiful song. We used it for our wedding vows. ( I worked at Nordstrom for years and we had an amazing pianist who did a great extended version. Terry Disley)
I was born in 64. My generation's Bob Dylan is called Neil Young.
I like the song The Earth Is Our Mother by Oi Polloi. It’s in the same vein as this tune maybe a little more direct.- “Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself
The secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men
Where is the thicket? Gone
Where is the eagle? Gone
The end of living - and the beginning of survival”
I never got this song until now. Perhaps Neil Young should rename it to After The Oil Rush.
Before the California gold rush, there was a gold rush in Dahlonega (pronounced Dah Lon A Ga), GA. No one ever talks about it because California.
This video makes me think Fred Neil. How he spend half his life to preservation of dolphins. I always love your work aspecially some things like this one, maybe Fred Neil helps to create another one like this.
#terraformEarth it's the only planet that is going to be not only habitable, but comfortable
Woow two in a row let’s goo
I love the idea of removing plastic from any natural environment!
But let's be honest, heat and carbon are WAY bigger issues!
The ocean is absorbing the vast majority of both of these that would otherwise have made global warming far worse...
The difference is that they are invisible and aren't hurting tourism very much (for the time being), so few people care enough to do anything about it.
What happens when there's zero fish left in the ocean...?
Do we care about that enough to stop paying for sushi?
That's currently the projection so we better stop fast before there's literally DEAD SEAS!
If #TeamSeas is for real, why is no one talking about the bigger issue here?
BTW, I'm not blaming you, but I'd really appreciate if you looked into this more and understood the deeper predicament....
Thank you for the video, I like your interpretation, it is a lot happier than mine :-)
As a kid of the 70s, I saw it as more of a commentary on nuclear annihilation. The first verse to me is an religious conflict. It is violent, knights are coming (night/darkness coming), a tree is split (to make a cross? to make firewood to burn people?), trumpets are blowing (to bring down the city walls? to rally the troops?) for the sun (or the "son").
In the second verse the war is on. The singer is on watch, waiting in a burned out basement for his replacement. It is such an ominous verse...and then the sun comes out with the full moon. A nuclear bomb detonated over a city would create a midnight sun. The next two lines speak directly to the singer wanting ti literally escape this dreadful reality through music and drugs. He remembers what a friend said. Adults talked about the threat of nuclear destruction frequently. This is preserved in phrases like 'bombed back to the stone age" or 'bomb them to hell" that we still use. Like the singer, I was always hoping those predictions would not come true.
In the final verse the war is over. No one wins a nuclear holocaust. All the survivors can do is try to send their most promising community members away, the chosen ones, the ones who might be able to reseed the human race somewhere else now that we've blow our civilization up.
All great art is open to multiple interpretations. This song is a great piece of art, Neil Young's best, I feel.
4:06 you are usually great about sound mixing, but this sample is significantly louder than the rest, and overall your voiceover is a bit quiet in this video.
Loved the video, although I think the audio mixing is maybe a little unbalanced, your voice seems to be really really quiet.
If you haven’t covered Gorillaz and Plastic beach, it might be one to consider keeping with the environmentalist theme. Although I’m sure there are many less literal songs covering the topic. Anyway, respect to anyone helping to make the world a better place no matter the size of the effort.
Maybe "Be The Rain" would've fit better to this video. But it was great anyway.
Their website is confounding! Where can I find their Form 990? Without access and transparency, no one should support this.
There are more acres of forest in the US today than there were in the 1970's. And the air was more polluted back then. And the water was more polluted, too. I was alive back then. We recognized the problem, and because we were free and wealthy, we worked to make the problem better. Free countries have the wealth to do these things, which is why the environment tends to be better protected in free nations like Switzerland, Canada and South Korea, than they are in socialistic command economies like China, Venezuela and Cuba. If you care about the planet, you don't want socialism. You want free markets.
This is what people don't realize. The problem isn't exclusive to capitalism, it lies in human nature and the lack of responsibility at a personal level, which builds up. Socialism and command economies like China before Mao's death had unimaginable waste and inefficiencies that made it one of the worst polluters. I would argue that that system is worse than capitalism.
You don’t realise sweden switzerland etc have been wealthy countries for centuries while venezuela and cuba were extremely poor even before socialism, a lot of countries in the world aren’t doing much about the world cause they have people starving and suffering on them while switzerland and sweden have been rich for centuries, centuries am telling you and are way more advanced by cuba and venezuela which believe me, not even with free markets would’ve been at at least a fraction of the rich of Sweden
@@thisvideo8600 Actually, Venezuella was the richest nation in S. America back in the 19th century. And in the 20th century they discovered lots of oil. But they became poor because of their socialism. Cuba was a vacation place back in the early 1900's. They were doing very well. But the Socialist revolution down there impoverished people for a century. And Sweden became rich in the 1900's through free trade. Their experiment with socialism in the 60's and 70's was abandoned when it failed. Now Sweden is one of the top 30 most free market nations on the planet. Socialism hurts the poor.
@@freesk8 in those years south america was fucked as a whole dude, and socialism wasn’t all of its demise its way more complex, cuba was a turistic paradise but its streets were dying of hunger all its richness was centered in the government and high societies thats why they revolted, i am not defending socialism i don’t give a shit about it but its definitely not socialism’s fault as a whole.
In the commentsection to help the algorythm
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It's so weird that a bunch of youtubers care/do more about this than most world governments, don't get me wrong it's amazing but it feels weird at the same time somehow
@@XanderDDS Well yeah, that's the whole point of a government pretty much
I hv an idea for a video 💡 I hv been thinking lately well u see elvis was like the most popular artist from 50s beatles in the 60s and abba , Elton in the 70s Madonna and mj in 80s . You see mj beatles elvis Madonna elton are like the biggest selling artists ever but abba though dominated 70s it is interesting to see that they don't hv much sales like queen , Elton or pink floyd did 🤔 though they are big popstars in that decade so what really happened in the 70s...? To abba .
wew earlier
Are we becoming more disconnected with nature, especially with the rise of virtual worlds.. food for thought.
As an avid beachcomber, I remove my 1 lb almost daily
No puedo donar así que comento para ayudar al algoritmo
I love your music content of course, but your critiques of capitalism, and pointing out the harms we’ve done to our planet make it even better!
A channel about music and social commentary I couldn’t ask for more
Many are simply too busy trying to provide for their families to virtue signal on social media.
@@blatantblasphemer7317
‘MORE’ than a life in the REAL world with other human beings?
@@deletebilderberg innit
One of his best tracks! Of so many…
And that's why we buy Bitcoin, kids.
Very topical given COP26 currently happening
Dig the idea, but the multiple levels of demand make it as ugly as what it tries to replace. Look at it anyway you like, but it is as ugly as anything it tries to replace. Neil, I knew you back when, but when did it turn to this? If I had the money, I would contribute, but now is not then. I am not what I was. You are not what you were. Is there some way we can meet in the middle? Peace, my friend,
FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRST
Humanity must stop having kids…live long, die out
Hmm.. love your videos but this one feels a bit too contrived. Aside from the single line about Mother Nature being on the run, there's nothing else in the song overtly referencing environmental issues and it feels like a forced fit to try and confer specific meaning onto the lyrics
i legit just finished listening to this album. wack
Polyphonic... how are you supporting an organization that is not without transparency?!?!?!?!?!
Learn to speak first, kid
@@thisvideo8600 Not a kid... and still not an answer to my question. Go look at their website and see if you can tell where any contributions are actually going...
@@gregponder8332 i was just saying i couldn’t understand a shit of what you said
@@thisvideo8600 Well, where do the contributions go? It should be able to find out on their website. I couldn’t. Their financial statements should be easy to find along with their Form 990s. Lots of people get taken trying to support well-deserved causes.
@@gregponder8332 i dont give a shit about that, i was just telling you that you spelled really badly on your initial comment
Isn't Neil Young known for most of his writing not having any real meaning?