Nobody has done more, and nobody has done it better. And he just keeps going and going. Does anyone (arguably Dylan) come close? Naw. Nobody is even in the same ballpark, so to speak. Congrats Neil - you’re the best musician of the last century (and possibly this century, too.
Hearing Neil Young on the radio wants me to cut my ears out with a butcher knife and run them through a meat-grinder so I can’t possibly use them again.
The man may indeed have talent, but IMHO an absolutely horrible “singing” (if you can even call it that) voice.
Just goes to show how opinions vary.
Oh, please.
Yes, far better than Ellington, Davis, Goodman, Copland, etc. And that’s just AMERICAN artists.
Don’t confuse quantity with quality Kalt.
Where would Neil Young be without Bob Dylan, who made it OK to be a terrible singer?
Oh, c’mon. Better than Stravinksy? Better than Schonberg? Better than Gershwin? Better than Ellington? Better than Monk? Better than Rogers and Hammerstein? Better than Dylan? Better than the Beatles? Heck, is he even better than Tom Waits and Elvis Costello?
Try and remember NOT to sniff an entire bottle of glue before you go posting on the boards, m’kay?
Neil Young isn’t even in the Top 50.
You need to work on those spelling errors, buddy. The name of the best artist of the 20th Century is spelled J-I-M-M-O-R-R-I-S-O-N.
Anything else I can help you with, just let me know. 
“I hope Neil Young will remember
Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow”
Lynard Skynard
This assertion is even sillier than Kalt’s.
Snooooopy, so you’d rather Young and Dylan sound like, who, Tony Bennett? I don’t think “Like a Rolling Stone” would have quite the same effect, if, say, Nat “King” Cole crooned it. 
Yeh his voice is high and different, but he’s got one of the greatest rock voices of all time. Up there with Plant.
I think that Neil Young’s entire career has just been a giant parody of Bob Dylan’s. He knows he can’t sing, and has made it into one big VERY effective performance art piece.
That said, Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World* is a great song.
Dammit. My first ever coding error.
Even within the genre, Dylan is just hands-down better. In fact, I was listening to Time Out of Mind last night, and thinking how honored Yound must be for Dylan to have written “I’m listening to Neil Young” into one of the songs.
There’s an interesting scenario!
“How does it fe-ee-eel? … Thank you, everybody! … How does it fe-ee-eel? To be on your own … Thank you so much, everybody, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal! … like a rolling shooby-dooby-dooby stone, doo-wah, doo-wah, doo-wah.”
Sounds like a Top 10 smash to me!
Good lord, Neil Young wasn’t even the best member of CSN&Y. Every single song of his performed solo sounded better when CSN&Y performed it. And he didn’t even write the best songs out of the four of them.
Seems like I recall when Neil Young was singing his part of Northern Lights’ song “Tears Are Not Enough”, and someone mentioned to Neil that he was singing off-key. His response - “That’s my style.”
Put me in the “rather saw my ears off and flush them down the toilet than have to listen to Neil Young sing” camp. Or Dylan either, for that matter. Or Leonard Cohen. Or Tom Waits.
Dylan at least knows how to use the fact he can’t sing. How many of Dylans songs are more spoken style than actually sang? This is because Dylan actually has a few working brain cells. Young is just a pretentious demogogue who thinks he can sing.
While Neil Young is certainly very talented (I never would have thought I’d make that admission when my college roommate played his stuf constantly, but as time went on, I grew to appreciate him), calling him the best is just fanboy nonsense (I doubt Neil would ever claim that for himself).
There are too many other candidates (Gershwin, Dylan, Copland, the Beatles, Cole Porter, etc.)