Hawks & Doves

Neil Young - Hawks & Doves

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Artist: Neil Young
Brand: YOUNG,NEIL
Edition: Music CD
Music CD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Running Time: 90 unknown-units
CD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Music Label: Reprise Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Little Wing
  2. The Old Homestead
  3. Lost in Space
  4. Captain Kennedy
  5. Stayin' Power
  6. Coastline
  7. Union Man
  8. Comin' Apart at Every Nail
  9. Hawks & Doves

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Free Music Review: Neil kicks off the 80s strong
Hit: 5 Stars

This album, like so many of Neil's best, was panned on release because it followed a hugely successful album in an entirely different genre (not unlike "Time Fades Away" after the pastoral "Harvest"). Neil exhibits his right-wing politics in the last songs of the set, and he was attacked for it but I don't understand why...if a person can be left-wing, what's wrong with being right-wing? Anyway, I heard the second side a lot before getting around to the slower, moodier first, and they are completely seperate, as Neil planned. In this way, the CD is going to lose something from the vinyl, but its a minor detail. This album, like most of the other "Missing 6" (now "Missing 2"), is now regarded by many as one of Neil's best. If you want your Neil collection to be complete, get this and the other three that have been now released. "Re-Ac-Tor" is equally good, and "On the Beach" is arguably his best effort ever.
Analysis of some of the songs is in order.
"The Old Homestead" is a weird stream-of-conciousness number that seems a sequel to "Thrashers," in that he is describing, in symbolic form, his relations with bands he has shared the studio with (although the message is different here).
"Captain Kennedy" is a fantasic, low-key acoustic number which may be about Young's father, who was I believe in the navy in World War II, and the lines spoken by the song's narrator that open and close the album nicely capture the feelings of, well, "a young mariner headed to war."
"Stayin' Power" is a nice number probably written for Young's wife and their son, pledging his intention to stay with them (although I have seen it interpreted as a sappy commitment to Ronald Reagan's down-home American politics, but I disagree). "Coastline" is essentially the same.
"Union Man" is a hilarious swip at, you guessed it, unions. Young lampoons his own union, the AFM (does he even belong to it? Probably not after this) and union concerns and practices in general. Did people who found him too right-wing even listen to this?
"Comin' Apart at Every Nail" is a nice little number about the scarcity of jobs and it appears Young blames it on inadequate border protection (the fences, people slipping by).
"Hawks and Doves" is not as ambiguous as people like to believe. I think it is rather straightforward, sure the patriotism is zealous but what is wrong with patriotism? Besides, the man's Canadian. The lyric "The big wind blows, so the tall grass bends/But for you, don't push to hard my friend" is meant to say to other countries hostile to the U.S. "We're only going to take so much" (remember, this was the time of the Iran hostage crisis). Like I said above, I do not condemn Young for supporting the country or for saying he's proud to live in the USA; he has every right to feel that way even if he did write "Ohio." Besides, for all you who hate his Republicanism, I think "Rockin' in the Free World" was a pretty harsh condemnation of the condition of the country; he was changing with the times.
Well, back to this album. It is a must-own, not only for completists by any means. This and all of the Missing 6 are essential Neil albums (where the hell is "Time Fades Away"?!).
So buy it instantly.
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2003 remastered reissue of 1980 album. This controversial acoustic album initially peaked at #30. Nine tracks. Reprise.

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