Who’s listining to this masterpiece march 2024 ? 👏🏽

I'm 72 years old (2024) and have watched Neil Young age like the finest of wines since "Harvest". "It's better to burn out then to fade away or rust". 60's child still running wild! Rocking on...👨‍🚀✌

I consider this one of the most flawless performances ever recorded.

I'm listening in Japan 8/26/2020. I am 64, and I have loved and listened for more than 50 years. Neil is my best favorite！

My brother got married tonight. I saw my mom for the second time in 14 years. I'm drinking a beer and listening to Cortez. Life is good.

Who's listening to this masterpiece with me in 2020?!!!

Any other grown men get emotional when listening to this song?

I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse last night in Forest Hills , Queens , NYC at the old tennis stadium . This was the opening tune and it melted the place

2023 and this still hasn’t gotten old 🖤💕🌸he’s definitely on my bucket list

This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. It moves me to tears.

The man wrote this when he was 17, in history class, when he learned about cortez.

2024 .... en France... et ce morceau qui m'a toujours émerveillé ...les paroles..la voix...et ce jeu de guitare . Merci Neil Young de m'avoir accompagné durant ces 57 années !!!

Today my uncle passed away. He had corona, now i'm listening this song in loop. In this song is something like longing for good. I wish you all stay healthy, Lord loves each of you.

Cortez the Killer is an alternate universe that we get to glimpse once in a while when a musician finds a wormhole into it, but they can only keep the wormhole open for between 9 and 20 minutes or so. The musical soundscape of that universe is eternal and all-encompassing, and it would be incomprehensibly cool to exist there, but we can only get filtered short bursts of it. Thanks, Neil, for finding it.

What’s amazing about this song is that the lyrics and chords are pretty straight forward - Neil wrote the song when he was 15. And who knows what it might have sounded at that time. But this performance- it’s a man who has lived a lot and puts such incredible emotional depth into his singing, the solos and interacts with the band so seamlessly. I like that I can hear the boy and the man in this performance

This is honestly a masterpiece. Truly a legend Neil Young

Dear God, this is beautiful

Post-rock and grunge owed alot from Neil Young, his such a beautiful mess and full of emotions in his tune: his guitar and his vocals. Long live Neil Young.

Best version I’ve ever seen

I got this album in 1992, and it's never left my walkman, mini-disc player, portable CD player, MP3 player, android device since. Especially this song. This song is high school, confusion, first love, nights wondering, darkness, dreams, this song is everything.

That tone, that coordinated slopiness,, that slightly off-key singing.... it just all works together so perfectly!

Still a masterpiece today in 2024!

We are all listening to this Masterpiece by The Master Neil ❤❤❤❤

Slow burning, shimmering, hypnotic , lyrical, melodic , emotional - Simply a thing of beauty that refuses to age and become fizz less .

Good ol Neil, lookin like a homeless frankenstein's monster and playin his heart out.

Who knew one click on an obscure song I stumbled into breaking a cycle of mindless binging KZfaq would inspire such emotion and be the most beautiful guitar song I’ve ever heard wow. What a song so much emotion in those sound waves.

Listening now at 63 yrs old and it's 2024...his greatest song ever the man is a genius

First time I heard this I cried, to date the only song that’s actually made me shed a few tears because it was so damn perfect

If you're going to play a few songs today on KZfaq, save this one until last, as nothing can follow this. This is what it's all about.

how many times had he played this song already, yet here he plays it like his life depends on it! Absolutely amazing performance, when so many other bands literally go through the motions....

In the bedroom with my love, dancing she said "I never knew Neil Young was so incredible". Oh how I miss you Jillian. ❤

How lucky we are to have captured this masterpiece.

This is what a garage band looks like when it reaches the stratosphere. Awesome.

Neil Young is a kind, yet deep sasquatch with a heart of gooey gold that some Canadian hunter trapped, shaved & taught the gentle Bigfoot how to play gnarly riffs with bar chords. Then he set the beast loose & told him, "Go tell nature's story." God bless Uncle Neil, the hairless sasquatch Goonie Goo Goo

no fake artists, no face tattoos, no fucking stories just a damn masterpiece

And I’m still listening to this masterpiece in 2024. Wondrous wondrous stuff !!

One of the greatest TRUE ARTISTS in music history. Writes it. Sings it. Plays It. Feels It. And most of all conveys it... for all of us to enjoy! Damn I love this guy. 40+ years ago and still today!!!

I was there live. And it still shakes my soul today. Neil is by far, without exception, the greatest artist ever. I am so thankful to have lived in his time and to have been able to experience his greatness. No one can match his soul shaking magnificence. Thank you for being a part of my life!

5:46 to 7:06 is so unfathomably beautiful. The absolute peak of all guitar solo performances, in my book.

The guitar work in this particular version is actually unreal. It's not that there's just a blistering solo in it, and there is, but it's some of the most technical, experimental, and emotional playing I've ever heard. Watermelon in Easter Hay kind of stuff. Dream gig/show for all involved.

Neil doesn't play fast or a lot of notes in his solo's............................but he plays THE RIGHT ONES !!

I'm listening. Listening since the late 70s. I've aged but this hasn't,

Who doesn't love Neil Young

His hands plays what his soul feels.

Sometimes when I forget how good Mr. Young's guitar skills are I remind myself with "Cortez the Killer" "Like a Hurricane " and "Rust Never Sleeps " rock on Sir !

The "Godfather of Grunge" killing it onstage!!

Respect

One of the greatest versions of this song ever played praise Neil Young

In 1977...Neil was hanging out in Santa Cruz...... neighbors complained about Late Night Jam sessions at Jeff Blackburns Ranch.... We , the Locals were so thrilled to have Young play the local clubs for $2.00 That was Neils hold out ..... 2 bucks.........Thank God there were No Cell phones in those glorious days..... The secret would have got out in days.... it lasted about 4 months... neils guitars got stolen , people found out he was hangin in SC... and he flew away.... The Ducks have flown South for this lifetime... Aloha Brother Duck

Neil has played with many great musicians but the chemistry with Crazy Horse is unique!

I’m now a young 67 year old and just love the classic rock

I'm 70 years old, Neil Young is a part of my life soundtrack. Three simple chords and great solos to make a masterpiece. WHAT A POET!!!!!!

He looks like *The Hulk* in mid- transformation.

Neil's playing here is amazing. The tone and feel are amazing and his use of feedback is heavenly! Neil Young is such a legend.

50 years a rock fan I'll never love any one as much as " shakey" NEIL YOUNG. God bless him.

The first time I heard this song I was frankly hypnotized by the eerie sound and style of play. There is no one like Neil Young. He holds a special place in my heart and soul; growing up in the 70's. He stands out completely.

You can throw out every other song Neil Young composed and leave this one and we’d all still know his name.

Some people laugh at me when talking about best guitarists ever, I always mention Neil along with Freddy Mercury or Steve Marriot as among the best vocalists as well. They can laugh all they want but I KNOW I'm RIGHT. He's also one of the best songwriters along with Dylan, Lennon & McCartney

First time I listened to this masterpiece I cried. That’s how you never forget a song.

I grew up on punk rock but Neil Young is an undeniable force of nature

I'm listening here in Sydney, Australia. Stay safe from Covid the Killer and fix your once Proud Nation’s Pain in November.🙏🙏🙏

Neil Young - for me still simply the best. His music, idealism, straightforwardness, clearity, joy and depth. A lot of light shining through his words, music and eyes. Listening to this song and watching this performance ... I have no words to describe how deep it touches.

For a song so full of dissonance every note is perfect. Ultimate respect.

Total genius, my favorite performance of this masterpiece... everybody has said it all already, and it is clear this is something very special. All I can add, possibly, is that Crazy Horse know exactly what NOT to play, and how NOT to rush the pace at all. It's unreal...

Some of the finest guitar playing ever performed on a stage.

All his emotions, frustrations,feelings comes pouring out here! Of course this is one of his best songs ever ...

I'm listen in 2020. Great tunes.

I listen to a lot of music, but this, this is music I feel.

First time hearing this and I’m hypnotized

Eerie. Probably the most beautiful electric guitar playing ever.

After a two year boycott of Spotify, in which he protested the site's allowing of disinformation and false narratives to poison the streaming site, Neil Young has officially allowed his music to return! This was the first song that I played to celebrate.

This was a magical night. Other performances of this song on KZfaq are good but this one is incredible.

Sit in a beanbag chair, put on headphones, fire up and be glad others can give you their talent and make you happy

when the instrument is the artist, and the guitar a tool, this is a deeply personal expression of artistic expression in a soundscape. Beautiful.

One of the best song, performance, video... NO WORDS!

WoW. The one part with the dude with the long hair playing guitar....even Neil smiled at him. Gorgeous.

The amazing thing about this song if you imagine the characters, is that they sound perfectly represents the art, sophistication, fear and desperation of each man. Montezoma and Cortez. Cortez who burnt his own ships, so his men would know they had to succeed or die. Montezoma fought for his home, but still wanted peace, supposedly killed by his own men in disgust "... suddenly such a shower of stones and darts were discharged that (our men who were shielding him having neglected for a moment their duty, because they saw how the attack ceased while he spoke to them) he was hit by three stones, one on the head, another on the arm and another on the leg, and although they begged him to have the wounds dressed and to take food, and spoke kind words to him about it, he would not. Indeed, when we least expected it, they came to say that he was dead." So tragic but confusing this must have been to see on either side, except for Cortez. "Better to die with honor than live dishonored", "I love to travel, but hate to arrive", "We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure." Cortez was a man getting his gold, and one wise enough to realize what his bottom line was, the point in which man will do scary things. What a Killer

this could be an never ending song ❤

Best live version ever.

the beginning guitar riff keeps shining bright in my head. Just have to play it again and again .....can't get it out my head. such an incredible song.

Uncle Neil is just like a fine wine... he just gets better with age. A wizard

In 91 we thought Neil was a living legend and he was still playing and making cool songs- what does that make him now?

IMHO the best live guitar work ever

Immense piece of art...

I saw this tour on March 10, 1991 at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida. Social Distortion followed by Sonic Youth, followed by Neil Young & Crazy Horse. It just may have been the greatest concert ever.

He plays every note as if it were a whole song! He sums up every feeling he wants to express! Grandmaster

Im 42 an grew up to his music , i feel for kids these days an what is offered up as music for them

Ah Neil - I was there - and YOU will never be lost! Rock on forever Neil!!! We ARE Still listening!!!

Never forget Mr. Young when talking about the best guitarists. He's up there.

Neil Young uses his guitar like a choir wrapped in emotion.

Each notes is pain 👊🎭

of all the songs of electric neil, this really transcends the studio cut. it has the most feeling and most soul of all. the solos just drift over you and into your pulse. it's just ......there

I love that guitar tone

Kids today , I ask you PLEASE have a listen ;cause this is the real stuff.....this is what a musical soul sounds like...can’t make my mind up between this and’ Like a hurricane ‘. Anyway they are all wonderful, when we loose these guys who in the hell is there to replace them......? God bless you Neil.

Why tf this song makes me cry everytime? Neil Young is a legend! And before I forget: Fuck you, Spotify!

What an amazing performance! He's dying with his guitar! How could someone love his Wipro after so many years! Neil Young is outstanding!

Incredible power in this song...and every single note from that guitar reaches deep inside. Brilliant.

What makes this song brilliant is it’s simplicity.

I’m sitting here on May 19th 2021, sobbing. i have listened to this song daily, for many years. It never fails to make my eyes water. Neil Young, you are truly the best.

Heard many versions of this. This is outstanding, slow and soulful. Backing vocals perfect. Just absolutely brilliant.