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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is an album by Neil Young, released in 1969. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 123 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Cinnamon Girl”, on 69 lists with a best position of #31.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Neil Young's second album, came out on Reprise in May 1969, and it's the first time he plugged in with Crazy Horse, the scruffy backing band who'd be riding shotgun with him for years to come. Young produced it himself, and he plugs in hard.
This is where his guitar gets ugly in all the right ways: distorted, droning, lurching solos that go on as long as they need to. "Cinnamon Girl" slams its riff home fast and hard, while "Down by the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" stretch out into long, jagged jams, the high, lonesome tenor riding over the din. It started slow, a sleeper hit that caught on while Young was busy with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and it stuck around for 98 weeks on the chart before going platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cinnamon Girl | 69 | #31 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 2 | Down By the River | 28 | #85 | – | 1991–2026 | |
| 3 | Cowgirl in the Sand | 23 | #87 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 4 | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | 3 | #462 | – | 2001–2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.