Well, the three famous songs - "Cinnamon Girl", "Down By The River" and "Cowgirl In The Sand" - are the three most memorable, and together comprise more than half of the running time of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. As to the others, the title track is one of those jangly mid-tempo semi-rockers that Neil does well, and is indeed quite good, "Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)" is a slow, not unpleasant but basically forgettable tune, "The Losing End (When You're On)" comes back to the mid-tempoisms, and "Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)" comes across as a kind of drunken dirge (it could be the strings).
As that summation suggests, this record is, for me, one of two parts - the three songs I knew, and then the rest. In fact, those three basically orient the album, which is bookended by "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl In The Sand" and seems to cohere around "Down By The River" at its centre. So, while I suppose that it must be good, it's hard for me to listen to it as a whole because, depending on how I'm listening to it on the particular occasion, either the famous ones or the ones I hadn't heard before tend to 'bulge' out as a group.
