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I humbly disagree, Neil Young is an incredibly good song writer and decent musician. If you have ever tried to sing, play a guitar and a harmonica all at the same time, it is very difficult.
However, his voice is high pitched and very nasally. I am sure Simon would not have given him a yellow ticket on American Idol.

I think he is by far the best of CSNY. He was good with Buffalo Springfield prior to CSNY. He was good with Crazy Horse after.

I have to confess,Neil Young Decade was the FIRST album I ever bought. I still have it in stereo cabinet.

“Powderfinger” is a classic. One of my personal favorites.
I guess I will have to download his music before I lose it on my Spotify account.

FYI, a few years ago I was on the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. About a 1/2 mile north of our hotel was a well known spot that the sea turtles would hang out at. Mrs Woodbutcher and I walked up. There were about six turtles hanging out in this very shallow ocean front pool.
Neil Young's former house was right there too. It was at south end of a dead end road with a gate at the end blocking the road. His former house was about 20’ from the beach. He had sold it because too many tourists were always hanging out in front of his house.

I loved Live Rust. That was my favorite album for the latter part of 1979. I personally loved Cortez the Killer and Sedan Delivery.

But over the years I've grown more appreciative of Steven Stills and Graham Nash while David Crosby descended into WTF-ville.

Granted, Young Neil is way better than Springsteen (though that's setting the bar low) and I'll listen to him before RATM. And I am probably hypocritical for turning off Neil's music and turning on NFL playoff games.

That all said, points taken and I still rank him as #3.