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Even if you don't agree with Neil Young's politics, you can't help but be daunted by the
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intersection of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months. It is the very rare artist who is able to channel indignation and moral disgust i...
LIVING WITH WAR
Personnel: Neil Young (vocals); Tommy Bray (trumpet); Rick Rosas (bass instrument); Chad
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Cromwell (drums).Neil Young has never been one to avoid political commentary. Ever since Ohio, his classic anthem of moral outrage about the Kent State student mas...
intersection of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months. It is the very rare artist who is able to channel indignation and moral disgust i...
intersection of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months. It is the very rare artist who is able to channel indignation and moral disgust in such a coherent and forceful way--without sacrificing any of the vivid imagery, passion, or the high level of musicality that we have come to expect from him over the past four decades. But that's not what elevates this album: it's his pure, naked, visceral reaction to the Bush administration's foreign policy, building on a canon of outrage that he began with 1970's "Ohio," penned in the wake of the Kent State student deaths. But here he goes one better, filling in the lines that he began to draw on 2003's Greendale about a family caught in changing times. But Young's done with musing about lost ideals. On Living with War, he demands much more from his audience, and himself. This is nothing less than a call for fearless action in extraordinarily fearful times. --Jaan Uhelszki
Album Notes: Personnel: Neil Young (vocals); Tommy Bray (trumpet); Rick Rosas (bass instrument); Chad Cromwell (drums).
Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.226) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n indictment of the sorry state of open debate in this country...It is also an impressive measure of Young's refusal to burn out or fade away that he states his case with clarity as well as dirty garage-trio momentum."
Advantages: The best album from his most successful decade Disadvantages: Everything else stops when this album goes on
...; think of a band, somewhere, you can guarantee, they’ve name-checked him. He is as famous for stripped-down acoustic strumming techniques as his wild and excessive rockier outings (four solos to a song, anyone?). Both sides of Young are often captured within a single album; beautiful and theatrical acoustics sit (somehow comfortably) between ear-shattering scrapes with grunge, or even punk. However, I feel his complete repertoire has rarely been so successfully captured in one recording as on this album.
Released in the summer of 1979, “Rust Never Sleeps” is a live recording that has had its audience track removed, providing a scintillating and musically courageous exposure of NeilYoung at his best (ie. live), while retaining the technical manifesto of a studio-smoothed recording. Several of these tracks had been toured...
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Advantages: beautiful Disadvantages: an acquired taste
...it was something I didn’t want to be.
I didn’t like this LP. It made me feel sad. The man’s voice made my stomach twist inside. I couldn’t wait for it to be over and for the Beatles to come on, preferably singing something daft like ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ or ‘When I’m Sixty Four’. (Yes, I knew the lyrics to Sgt Pepper, but I was 9 for god’s sake, I liked the funny records best).
Anyway, I went to bed that night and found that one song in particular was playing in my head. It was from that upsetting record and it was a song called ‘Heart of Gold’.
“I want to live,
I want to give
I've been a miner for a heart of gold”
I didn’t listen to NeilYoung’s ‘Harvest’ again for many years. But I never forgot those two songs...
NeilYoung was born in Toronto, the son of a sports writer, and moved to Winnipeg with his mother when his parents...
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Advantages: amazing vocals, wonderful harmonies, thought provoking lyrics Disadvantages: one song is slightly dated, but still fun as a trivia piece
...concert. (Of course, several more albums were released without NeilYoung.)
But let’s take a look at this particular album - Déjà vu - and find out what it is that makes it so special.
The album starts out with the song “Carry On”, and what a song to start with. The harmonies in the chorus to the simple, but hopeful words /Carry on/Love is coming/Love is coming to us all/ pull the listener in, and do, indeed carry us into the song and on to listen more.
The next track is probably one of their most famous songs - “Teach Your Children”, and the one that probably influenced my life (as well as the lives of many others) more than any single song ever written. This song, written during the Vietnam war era, became a banner for many who grew up and out of those eclectic and fascinating times. The melody to this song could hardly be called rock...
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