Young, Neil - Wonderin' Lyrics

He's so cute. And hysterical. Thanks Neil! <3

Big yellow taxi.....lol

it is quite obvious from this video that Young has a quirky sense of humor,but he does indeed have a sense of humor

Neil looking a bit like Doug Stanhope in this one.

I remember this on MTV way back when and I always thought it was goofy, and I made fun of it. It popped into my head for some reason, so I looked it up and here I am. Now though, it’s actually great! I love it. Such a catchy tune and unique video. Maybe just nostalgia, but I’m glad that I revisited this song and video.

The coolest F U to a record company ever! :)

Looks like jack Nicholson . Great song/ video

I always liked this vid. Not the song so much, just the quirky vid.

I remember my older brothers, sisters and myself as kids watching this music video on TV way back then in the mid 80’s. They found him so funny and thought he was awful. I, however, was entranced by the weirdness and really liked the song.

Y con Neil Young Al Noa-Noa

Love everything that Neil Young does.

What do you think a guy like this would do for a living?

This should be added to the National Historical Registry

I think David Geffin hit the dislike button 10 times

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At 1:06: is that a real cop? Good song and video. Takes me back to the early days of MTV. Thanks batmanmmv. Cheers!

The homeowners probably called them, and said there is some homeless guy in front of our house. Lol

You used to work at all American burger

Hilarious! Neil tried so many different things. Some didn't work out but the humor in this one makes it work.

1:15 cracks me up so much. Imagine having crazy looking Neil dressed like this as your neighbour

This album, of 50s throw-back doo-wop rock, came out on August 1, 1983 -- and outraged fans and Geffen. Yet ONE WEEK LATER, Billy Joe's throwback to doo-wop rock, "An Innocent Man," came out and was an epic hit. Hilarious video.

I'm wonderin' about 6 people.

Neil young- the original Kramer

Looks like Beck in the Devil’s Haircut video.

Great song!

In 1982 we didn't have MTV yet. But on HBO there was Video Jukebox where they played about 15 minutes of music videos five or six times a day. And that's where I saw this video for the first time.

i fell in love with him after this... i was 8, peed my pants laughing over this video. i NEVER liked his music before, sure got my attention.

Before, like in kindergarten? :-P

There was absolutely no real good reason I can give for liking this song or this video. 🤔 However since the first time I saw it on MTV back in the day I was hooked. It was just too damn catchy. 😚😚😚

This album and Trans are conclusive evidence that Neil Young is incapable of sounding bad in any genre

omg..remember seeing this on Mtv back in the early 80s!!

The Shocking Pinks thing was a genius move and over almost everyone's heads. I never got why it got put down so much, I loved it when it came out and still do, and it's just extra fun that it pissed people off and baffled others. This video takes the craziness even further. Only Neil could have pulled something like this off. I would have loved to be at the screening of this at Geffen.

I had this record on cassette tape when it first came out. Does Neil still sing this live?

I never really thought much of the video or the song at the time but since it brings me back I guess I've learned to appreciate it more .

I was 13 when this came on MTV. My friend Dave and I saw this and were blown away by how funny and catchy the song was. We didn't know who this "old" guy was but we knew cool when we saw it. We used to laugh whenever it came on. Back in those days you used to have to watch MTV 24/7 to see your favorite video.

Very creative. Interesting Neil's work.

Strange Neil but it's ok. Good music really.

Neil Young is a Genius...

Tim Pope directed this video - really brilliant - check out the Adam buxton podcast with Tim Pope for the whole story - fascinating

Some brilliant Neil Young stories on that podcast. All of Adam's pods are worth listening to btw.

Brought me right here. Love it.

The podcast brought me here!

Adam's podcast with Tim brought me here, so to speak. A class little video and underrated song too!

Amusing video.

The 3 thumbs down are Geffen, his boyfriend, and Neil's dentist.

love his teeth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sooooo CUTE

Maintenant il y a 10 thumbs, je pense que le coiffeur a participé et peut-être quelques uns des 97000 signataires de la pétition pour la sortie de TFA en CD ( je ne parle pas de la dernière pétition pour qu'il change son nom... ).

J'ai oublié le marchand de chaussures (cf. Démarche de zombie à 0:20)

I like this! But I'm not sure why.

Melanie B It's catchy...………………….?

Neil doing whatever it took to sabotage his career. This is probably my fave video of all time.

Geffen did sue him over this album and the one before it (Trans), claiming it sounded both uncommercial and "unrepresentative" of the artist. Young then retaliated by filing a $21 million countersuit, insisting he'd been promised creative freedom in the written contract, and Geffen eventually apologized for the interference.

This album was supposed to have been a country/western album called _Old Ways,_ which Young did release in 1985; however, in interviews, he referred to the released version of that album as _Old Ways II._

This video is so bizarre you gotta love it! ;)

its better to burn out than to fade away!

at first i didnt relize it was him when i saw the video on MTV so many times but it was a catchy tune so left it on til the next music video and then one day "snap" thats Neil young!! ive always wonder what happened to this video after all these years but thanks to you tube!

pure excellence

GREAT song,and the amatureish level of the video makes it REALLY terrific.

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!

This is the reason that I keep my head shaved.

Fuck you, David Geffen! Love you, Neil Young! :-)

The record company asked him to dress up for this, he looks like a psychotic wino, love it!

Philip Dallmayr He DID dress up. He's wearing a tie!

Philip Dallmayr for Neil Young, this is dressed up!!!

me too!!!!

Neil and Tim Pope are a match made in heaven.... Tim was one the first music video innovators. This video is proof of that, back in 83, this was very visionary...

I still remember falling asleep in front of the TV and waking up to this !! This scared the crap out of me because Neil looks so crazy here... and this was about the time The Shining came out and he kinda looks like Jack Nicholson here. Funny now. But this is a great song.

When I watch this I am reminded of the winos that used to live down by the railroad tracks when I was a kid.

LOL yeah he does

the best music video ever

yeah it is

Jouni Hartikainen yeah, you can tell that it must have cost a fortune to make this video!!! 😅😂😂😁👻🐈👊👊

This scratched an itch!! I have been trying to find this video for EVER!!

i too remember this video from way back then....great song and even better video...thanks for the find!

a great lil' NY gem !

possibly my favorite music video ever. not sure if neil was put up to making a video by geffen (well, it was the height of the 80's video craze) or if he just wanted to do it, but the simplicity of this vid is so awesome: drive around LA in a convertible caddi and shoot at random locations and just let neil be neil in front of the camera. like someone else said, he's adorable... and endearing and goofy and hilarious... and perhaps mixed with just a slight shade of jack nicholson? (anyone else see that?)

anyway, i just love this video. i really love how many sides/aspects there are to neil and his music... this kind of whimsy is the best.

i also had no idea this was a song neil wrote before 1971 until just tonight. so many times i've only heard to the shocking pinks version.

+jimlahey90 When he's standing in front of the oil pump thing it's very reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. Totally saw that too.

agreed. you have good taste

Neil old teeth !

This video still makes me laugh. Thanks for posting!

I remember seeing this on AL TV....on Mtv

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I remember seeing this particular video on Friday Night Videos years ago. It was the first time I saw Neil Young in a music video. I was 13 years old at the time. It also happens to be my all time favorite Neil Young song with Rockin' In The Free World ranking a close second. Neil's Geffen years are grossly underrated. IMHO, his Geffen albums represent some of the best music in his career. It also showed that Neil Young  is a great artist who could do anything with his music and make an statement artistically, if not commercially, which I know that Neil Young doesn't care about as he never did things for commercial reasons nor purposes anyway.

I love all his songs but this is one of my top favorites along with Sample and Hold, Cinnamon Girl, and Cortez the Killer.
All different but all Neil Young!

This video used to be so funny to my husband and myself  because my father in  law looked similar to Neil Young. .Space in between his teeth. too  lol .

My favorite Neil Young song and video of all time. 

An atypical retro tune done nicely by Neil Young. I remember seeing him do this song at a concert in about '82 or '83. The audience booed him big time. They just didn't get it. They wanted to see Neil Young the hippie. Rock concert audiences are too often a bunch of morons who don't understand or appreciate a true iconoclast. They go for the packaged rebellion instead. What is that, like a '57 Cadillac?

+TheCanine2 I remember this video in the early MTV days. As a 12yr old kid, I would have agreed with the people in the audience back then. I really hated this song at the time, but listening to it now, I think it is much better than I gave it credit for. I had no idea who Neil Young was at that time. I just knew he wasn't Van Halen or Motley Crue, so onto the scrap heap he went, as I endeavored into the next 10 years of really bad hair band music. lol

Glad you can appreciate it now. The man wrote some fantastic music. This song is SO different from the rest of his music but it has a quirky appeal.

Well said. Couldn't agree more. Some of his fans are single-minded.. They try to keep the artist in a box and they hate it when he pops out of it. Surprise. Neil cant be contained.

The Barenaked Ladies sang about this in the song 'Box Set' from the album Gordon.

favourite neil young song ever

This was actually was an old song at the time -- ther's now a live version from 1970 out. This version is a bit more campy, at a faster tempo. But I liek them both, so I put them in my Neil playlist. Thanks for the upload!

I love this odd little tune.  I first heard of Neil when he joined Crosby, Stills, and Nash.  Just a kid - I didn't know who any of those guys were, but man, did I learn!

danny whitten did this song when neil first got together with crazy horse

The guy who say's he don't get Neil Young is an idiot.

Like my ex-drummer, for instance.

@Lefty Bass
i guess dave or phil said ,sing drum for existance.libre expresson selon moi

Neil Young and The Shocking Pinks!  Great stuff.  Check out a video on here from them called Cry, Cry, Cry.

1:06, Westec Security, protecting celebrities and gold plated neuritics for many years in Los Angeles... !

Love the cop cruizing past sketchy Neil. Love that it's in the promo shot for the vid.

"sketchy" Neil!

is there any other kind?

Cheers!

Think the homeowners called the cops, and said some homeless guy is in front of their house. Lol

its funny how dated this looks now. but in 83 it was new looking'

It looks old even for 1983

Pretty sure that was the whole point of it

memories of late summer 83. this was on rotation on mtv ...

I still don't get Mr. Young thankfully. Maybe that's why I'll just can't stop listening to his stuff. 30 years so far. The damage done.

great comment.  Ol' Neil's been doin' this since mid-60's.

The day someone "gets it" is the day Neil will retire, cause it's better to burn out than it is to fade away....

Cheers!

The Neil and the Damage Done...

thank you for this I remember seeing this On MTV when It was good and this video rocks love the hair kinda like mine most times lol Neil young is Great

I was wonderin' when I would ever see this video again!  Awesome, thanks for posting ... been looking for this!  I loved back then too - it was soo different even back then.  And I don't think MTV played it 8,000 times like some of the other videos of that time.

I like what you did, there.

Simple, maybe obvious, but still well-played, sir.

Cheers! 

This is an episode of trolling music business

so fucking egregious and funny!

Great editors there at VH-1 or MTV or what-the-fuck-ever they call themselves these days!

Cheers!

Neil always gave his record label the proverbial finger!

It was Neil's way or the highway!

Cheers!

Neil VERY Young here!

Cinnamombunz, his record company wanted to sue him for the album not being "Neil Youngy" enough.

HA! I can NOT believe I've never seen this before now. What a HOOT!
One of my all-time favorite music makers.
Thanks so much for this!

This song was in Neil's system going back to the 70s. There is a great version with the original Crazy Horse lineup from Fillmore East in 1970 that is an interesting take.

And the big middle finger goes out to the management at Geffen Records. The artist determines the genre David.

The Clarences love & support Neil Young & The Shocking Pink!

I need a pink jacket so bad!

Great video! No flash or trash... just perfect!

Thanks for hi-quality on this. Yeah, I was 16 when I first saw this video in '83. I bet I saw it no more than 5 times back then and loved it.....after that I never heard the song again, until I found the video on utube in '07.

5 stars!

Yup', I truly miss Night Flight on USA network as well. Best program ever to appear 'and sadly disappear' on cable TV.