Neil Young - Living with War
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Free Music Review: ...the first significant protest album of the decade
Hit: 5 Stars
Neil Young is a rock veteran who's been around since the 1960's. Known as one of the prominent anti-war figures and outspoken rock stars, Young revisits his old ways with this brand new verbal attack on the government's policies, specifically George W. Bush and his war on Iraq.
Since September 2001, very few artists and rock bands have made any statements regarding Bush's war on "terror", instead focusing more on the hiphop culture induced rubbish of women (or ho's), money and latest model cars; in other words, the music scene is becoming more brainless, repetitive, and just plain stupid.
Thanks to people, or artists, like Green Day (2004's American Idiot), Pearl Jam (their most recent self titled album), and now Neil Young who have made the effort of opposing the cultural norm nowadays and have spoken out against Dubya and his absurd foreign policies. I just wish all other artists will follow suit.
Living With War is an outstanding collection of 10 songs written by Young, recorded in less than a month, and released instantly to the public. Young goes straight to the point talking about how disgusted he is with the war in Iraq on After The Garden, a call for peace on Living With War, a possible solution for all the problems and lies on The Restless Consumer, where Young repeatedly chants "don't need no more lies", soldiers coming back home in coffins in Shock And Awe, and, my personal favorite, the self explanatory Let's Impeach The President, which features Bush soundbites where he is apparently contradicting himself.
Not since the days of Buffalo Springfield or Crosby Stills And Nash has Neil Young made any political statements through song, but with Living With War, he has successfully delivered the first significant protest album of the decade.
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Free Music Review: Find the cost of Freedom
Hit: 5 Stars
The sixties may be long done with and over, but someone forgot to tell Neil that. You go Neil!! This is going to be part album review/ part diatribe. Be warned. As a whole, this album is great. There is maybe one weak song, the rest rock. And by weak, I mean he doesn't sound very good.
All right, politics time, much as some may not like it. This is, by its nature, a PROTEST ALBUM. Therefore, politics must play heavily into the reviews. Neil Young has, over the years, been a talking head for what he feels is the state of our nation and of our world. When he feels the need to say "WAKE THE F@%& UP!!!" he does a protest type album.
I do not think he asks you to agree with his beliefs, just that you listen and make your mind up about what you believe. We have become, to an extent, a nation of lemmings. We know our politicians are crooked, but we want to just ignore it, hoping it will go away. Neil, I think, is saying with this, "What is wrong with you? Open your eyes!" You don't agree with him, great. You do agree, great. I personally agree. And before you call me an aging boomer, check some of my other reviews. I'm a Gen-X'er, baby. Born in 1973. My mom is a grade school teacher, my dad does IT. They weren't exactly protesters in their youth, just good down home Midwestern kids.
What makes our wonderful country great is that any one of us could have created this album and not have to worry about being assassinated, or otherwise disappearing, for our beliefs. Welcome to America. Check your Bill of Rights kids. This is peaceful protestation. We as Americans need to take a step back and see the corruption that is happening and actually do something about it. Get out there and bang the drums of protest. Loudly! Otherwise don't cry about the pathetic crap that is happening in D.C.
Peace!
Free Music Review: RIGHT ON THE MONEY!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Neil is just AWESOME!!! I've always loved his work, and I love the fact he does what's in his gut, f*** what the trends are. If he feels like doing an electronic album like "Trans" in 1980, he will do it whether people like it or not. He doesn't care. That, my friends, is punk rock. And Neil, in all his guises, is a true punk rocker, and his latest record "Living With War" is totally vital, angry, on a mission, off-the-cuff, and it really resonates. The fact he wrote and recorded the songs less than a MONTH ago and put them immediately online is as telling as the music itself.
I call it emergency rock & roll.
No, the sound quality is not the greatest (kinda like a live album), but that's not the point. His guitar still cuts through with a noisiness, grunginess, and a clarity he's always been known for. I would compare this as an album-length equivalent of "Rockin' In The Free World" if that song was released right after it was written and recorded.
I completely agree with Neil's politics, and my faves are "Shock & Awe" and of course, "Let's Impeach The President", totally spot on, with direct and correct lyrics, Neil's killer guitar, the power trio arrangements, the Taps trumpet, rightly placed + self-incriminating Bush quotes, and the 100-piece choir arranged within an hour's notice (literally).
I just have 2 questions...
1-- Do we as a people HAVE the power to impeach Bush??
2-- Will Bush actually HEAR this album or will his corrupt comrades in the White House prevent him from hearing it???
What I would do is be like John Cusack in "Say Anything"...go down to Washington, stand on the lawn of the White House, hold a boombox over my head and play Neil's "Living With War" at max volume...over and over and over and over and over again...
Free Music Review: Thank God for Canadian born American..
Hit: 5 Stars
Whether you're a fan of not, you have to acknowledge that this album is the only intelligent, honest and righteously angry response to the BS being shoved down our throats 24-7 regarding this "war". If I wasn't already a passionate Neil Young fan, this album's irrefutable logic would have converted me. "Restless Consumer" is, in my mind, the masterpiece of the album's message -- bottom line "don't need no more lies". I agree with other reviewers, "Shock and Awe" is more reminiscent of vintage 'electric' Young. But "Lookin' for a Leader" strikes me as a modern echo of "Southern Man", full of the desperate need for change and all the terrible pain of hope.
Summation?? This album needs to be played from now, till and during the next presidential election.. I have visions of setting up outside the heavily guarded gates of the no so White House and blasting this CD on a continuous loop. Someone else will have to cover Congress and the Senate.. As for the nationality debate, it's beyond ludicrous to latch at so feeble a label as 'national origin'. It's a painfully obvious, pathetic attempt to disparage an artist willing to speak the truth and shame the devil. Ironically no one bats an eye over the psychological warfare that is our daily lives or the mindless drivel we are offered as entertainment, but honesty gets everyone's underwear in a twist. Thinking is more dangerous than ever it seems.
If you can't handle the truth, stay away from this album. If you're looking for an anthem and praying desperately that the dumbing down of America hasn't worked, you'll find hope in the lyrics Neil Young delivers. Thank God the ideals of freedom transcend imaginary boundaries..and that some artists aren't fixated on their ego, sexual prowess or existential crises of the moment.
Free Music Review: This collection is all about what i am reading here...esp some low stars! LOL!
Hit: 5 Stars
Go, Neil. Ya sure hit some nerves on this one, and praise be to you for singing it out loud! People think you have to have gone to WAR's frontlines to see with open eyes the open wounds that War for War sake brings!
OMG, there sure are some clueless people who hide behind "Patriotism" with flag waving in hand without any clue as to what our leaders are truly making that a symbol for in the eyes of humanity! I've never been to WAR, lucked out with my number not coming up in the draft for 'NAM. Not a lot of my buddies, tho; and most were lost either in the conflict, the damage done to them whether physical or emotional, OR simply lost and disinherited when they came home. Poor souls! And all for what? The loss of the many for the profit of the few? My family line served in numerous wars, and my mother (including her service during Korean episode) told me she did not want that for me (and my sister) if it could at all be avoided. I just lucked out, and so did my sister (no draft for females).
I support our troops.....always have and hope to always do......and, if need be, i also support them by voicing my opinion if I feel that their lives are being manipulated, mis-used, or wasted for profit, imperialism and/or politically-blinded objectives that do no service to this country I love! If we are not making the world a better place, then it is time to question just what we are doing!
"Common sense in NOT all that common!" Disreali
"Give us this day our daily faith, but forgive us our beliefs." A. Huxley
So give it up for a man who makes most of his venue to make some noise!
Like it or not, NEIL is not alone (BIG TIME!!!)! And he realizes the fact that...
"Nine tenths of problems are man-made, one tenth is necessary." A. Huxley