Neil Young - Trans
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Free Music Review: STRANGE...
Hit: 3 Stars
Thats all that I can say about it. This album is odd. Neil Young doing electronica? Like years before electronics was popular? It's just weirdness. How did he even get the urge to do this thing? I think somebody must have given him some machines, and he was like, "check it out, I can do anything!"
I can't say that the album is a failure though. If you dig the likes of bands such as The Flaming Lips (I always thought of that band as very Neil Young sounding... and I would imagine that the band maybe copped some of their style directly from this album...)listen to The Lips album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and compare to Neil's TRANSFORMER MAN from this album (prolly the only track on this album that actually works, and done better on his unplugged album) It's Neil Youngs voice, only filtered through machines. Again, strange. Most of the songs are like that... including an electronic version of his classic song MR. SOUL, but besides the two tracks mentioned the sound gets very old fast, and at some points is so primitive that it hurts.
Besides that there are a few somewhat ok songs that don't go over the top in electronica, the best song on the album being the nine minute final track LIKE AN INCA, which is completely out of place with the rest of the album, but it's good to have if you somehow find yourself with this album.
A curiosity at most. Some interesting stuff, mostly just repetitive, early electronics used very much over the top. Hard to even consider this a Neil Young album... 3 stars.
Free Music Review: "Sample and Hold" fans beware: you'll hate this CD
Hit: 3 Stars
This is another album I bought when I was much younger and didn't know anything about Neil Young. Being a part of the Flock of Seagulls, After the Fire, Gary Numan etc. generation, I loved the vocoder-laden "Trans", with its muted synthesizers and hyper-distorted guitar riffs, and I now recognize it as a very entertaining experimentation by Neil Young, a lighthearted flight of fancy into a quasi-techno vein. However, I want to warn those of you who, like me, remember "Sample and Hold" and would consider buying this CD to get hold of that tune. Do not do it. The version included on this disk is some sort of watered-down Muzak version. The drums are practically inaudible, replaced by an obviously synthetic "swish" snare drum and a completely straight four-beat with synthetic hand claps. I think this remix was a very poor attempt to appeal to the European techno-pop crowd (Chemical Bros, etc.--note that this disk is an import, from Sweden), but they ruined the song in the process. "Computer Age", "We R In Control", and "Computer Cowboy" have survived intact, and because I really enjoy those tunes I give the disk three stars in spite of the fact that the producers ruined the best song on it.Free Music Review: Great for collectors or fans of the weird, otherwise...
Hit: 3 Stars
If you're just a casual neil young fan, get out while you still can, because this isn't even vaguely what you expect. If you're a big neil fan, however, this is definately worth owning, if nothing else just so you can try to puzzle out what the hell he was thinking. If you keep an open mind to all the synths, you'll find some good songwriting here, and you'll hear some cool things sonicly that were quite ahead of their time. Unfortunately, almost all of the songs are flawed in some manner. It seems to me that this album was perhaps too far ahead of its time to be executed properly. The biggest flaw is neil's vocoder laced vocals, often rendering him totally unrecognizable. Sometimes this is cool (sample and hold, first verse of computer age) but other times its just distracting (second verse of computer age, transformer man). Anyway, if your a fan of neil and your open to experimentation, then I say try it, just don't expect a masterpiece.Free Music Review: Look Into The Future
Hit: 3 Stars
Released in 1983, Trans is an extremely experimental album from Neil Young. In fact, Mr. Young uses a vocoder that distorts his voice throughout most of the album. The album is a foray into electronic music and is awash in futuristic sounds. The album opens on a "normal" note with "Little Thing Called Love" that sounds like regular Neil Young fare, but then slides into the future with "Computer Age". The songs have great lyrics, but the experimentation gets a little extreme at times and ruins some songs like "Transformer Man". "Mr. Soul" is rendered almost unrecognizable in its version here, but despite the weirdness, Trans is an interesting listen.Free Music Review: This is not his best, but it isnt bad
Hit: 3 Stars
Neil fans could be shocked by his departure from 60s and 70s classics. All in all, its a weak album by Niels standards, and mediocre in general. But I happen to like it. Being a Niel fan, and enjoying the 80s sound and heavy use of a vocoder, this is OK.Not as bad as 'Landing on Water'
Not a good place for a first Niel album. But collectors may still enjoy this one.
Transformer man is a good track.