With the 25th pick in the draft, habby selects Neil Young in the Canada category.
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers. In a career that extends back to his mid-Sixties roots as a coffeehouse folkie in his native Canada, this principled and unpredictable maverick has pursued an often winding course across the rock and roll landscape. He’s been a cult hero, a chart-topping rock star, and all things in-between, remaining true to his restless muse all the while. At various times, Young has delved into folk, country, garage-rock and grunge. His biggest album,
Harvest (1972) , apotheosized the laid-back singer/songwriter genre he helped invent. By contrast,
Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Young’s second-best seller, was a loud, brawling masterpiece whose title track, an homage to Johnny Rotten of the
Sex Pistols, contained the oft-quoted line “Better to burn out than it is to rust.”
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/neil-young
Needle and the Damage done may just be the most incredible simple song I have ever heard. It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.