{"id":2614,"date":"2026-06-09T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:04:13","slug":"3-neil-young-bangers-that-foreshadowed-grunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/3-neil-young-bangers-that-foreshadowed-grunge\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Neil Young Bangers That Foreshadowed Grunge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the late 1960s, Neil Young formed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles with Bruce Palmer, Dewey Martin, Stephen Stills, and Richie Furay. They played psychedelic folk rock, but there was something about the way Young played guitar that differentiated Buffalo Springfield from like-minded folkies at the time. Later, when Young assembled his backing band, Crazy Horse, he further increased the volume of country and folk, later earning the nickname the Godfather of Grunge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let\u2019s travel back to a time when grunge was something you might try to remove from dirty jeans and revisit three pioneering bangers by Neil Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cCinnamon Girl\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cinnamon Girl (2009 Remaster)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jREf47BPe5w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are an aspiring grunge rocker, there are two essential lessons you\u2019ll want to absorb from Neil Young: tune your low guitar string down to D, and buy a fuzz pedal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/neil-young\/cinnamon-girl\">\u201cCinnamon Girl\u201d<\/a> features an epic guitar riff by Young. However, beneath the ear-bleeding distortion is the kind of sweet melody that also translates to an acoustic guitar. See Nirvana\u2019s <em>MTV Unplugged <\/em>set. Or just watch Young\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cDown By The River\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Down by the River (2009 Remaster)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KflCXmEX6BY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sticking with Young\u2019s first LP with Crazy Horse, \u201cDown By The River\u201d also appears on <em>Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere<\/em>. The title echoes the disillusion that defined grunge in the 1990s, proving the endurance of restless youth. But here, Young plays a dark blues that suggests a jealous man has killed his lover. When Meat Puppets released their iconic second album in 1984, they continued Young\u2019s punk Americana, which Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden brought to mainstream audiences when grunge broke in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cCortez The Killer\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cortez the Killer (2016 Remaster)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uX9k9aoX6gk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Young\u2019s epic from <em>Zuma<\/em>, you\u2019ll notice a blueprint for Pearl Jam\u2019s music. Out of all the Seattle bands, Pearl Jam is most associated with classic rock in the 1970s. \u201cCortez The Killer\u201d is an electrified and jam-oriented folk song from 1975 that feels like an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pw4VEW3StIw&amp;list=RDpw4VEW3StIw&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ancestor<\/a> to many tunes on <em>Vitalogy<\/em>. By their third album, Pearl Jam had tried to claw back whatever normalcy they could after they\u2019d become rock stars. Like Young, they revolted against their own success and opted instead for uncompromising rawness. It all came full circle when Young collaborated on an album with Pearl Jam in 1995 called <em>Mirror Ball<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Michael Putland\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Neil Young assembled his backing band, Crazy Horse, he increased the volume of country and folk, later earning the nickname the Godfather of Grunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":973477,"featured_media":2617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"byline":{"profiles":[{"type":"byline_id","atts":{"term_id":316,"post_id":2139}}]},"savage_platform_role_ideator":[],"savage_platform_role_editor":[],"savage_platform_role_senior_editor":[],"savage_platform_role_photographer":[],"savage_platform_role_illustrator":[],"savage_platform_role_translator":[],"savage_platform_role_as-told-to":[],"savage_platform_role_reviewed-by":[],"savage_platform_disable_recirculation":false,"savage_platform_article_type":"news","savage_platform_vice_article_type":"article","savage_platform_article_intent":"","savage_platform_show_affiliate_disclaimer":false,"wp_curate_deduplication":false,"wp_curate_unique_pinned_posts":false,"savage_platform_featured_image_caption":"Photo by Michael Putland\/Getty Images","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","savage_platform_subheadline":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[109,48],"byline":[316],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lists","tag-grunge","tag-neil-young"],"savage_platform_primary_term":{"category":{"term_name":"Lists","term_id":14,"term_link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/category\/lists\/"},"post_tag":{"term_name":"grunge","term_id":109,"term_link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/tag\/grunge\/"}},"hide_from_homepage":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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