Review Courtesy All About Vocals.com
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Young Living With War/Reprise / Wea |
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Reviewed By: David Cooper Even if you don't agree with Neil Young's politics,
then listen to the music. One cannot help but be daunted by the intersection
of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months.
The genius of Young is so vast, it is almost unbelievable to think and
artist can channel indignation and moral disgust in such a coherent
and commanding way--without sacrificing any of the vivid imagery, passion,
or the competent level of musicality that we have come to expect from
Young over the past four decades. That is not what elevates this album
to its highest potential: it's his unabridged, naked, deep-seated reaction
to the Bush administration's foreign policy, building on a battery of
outrage that finds its beginnings with 1970's "Ohio," penned
in the aftermath of the Kent State student deaths. The work of art begins
by filling in the lines that he began to draw on 2003's Greendale about
a family caught in changing times. Young comes full circle when he is
done with musing about lost ideals. On Living with War, he demands much
more from his audience, and himself. Young has certainly expressed his
freedom of speech. |
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