25-07-2015, 06:36
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NEIL YOUNG & THE PROMISE OF THE REAL "the Monsanto years" cd, 2015
solo career stats:
studio albums...............36
live albums....................7
singles.........................59
this album...................#23 AU.....#24 UK
if you count the Buffalo Springfield/CSNY/soundtracks and Stills-Young studio albums that makes fifty-one studio albums since 1966,thats an average
of one a year since he started recording....that's an astonishing feat whoever the artist....
its also his sixth studio album in the last five years....
his albums over the last decade have been 'thrown together' IMO, lots of fluff with only a few gems amongst the sewerage...
this album features Willie Nelson's sons and their band as his backing band....
the song matter centres around GMO bio-chemist company Monsanto and the way theyre muscling in on the farmers of America to grow their genetically modified crops...
and Neil is not happy,infact, he is as pissed here as he was in 2005 with his anti "W" rants on "living with war"....
music here is electric,only one acoustic track to be heard..., its not has heavy as the grunge of the Crazy Horse material, but it is electric....
lots of intelligent lyrics here(whether you believe his ideals or not, he makes good arguments for his point of view), nice melodies all round and the bonus of this album
is that it comes with a bonus dvd of Neil and band playing all of the tracks live in the studio, theres also a short doco on Monsanto and snipets of interviews with Neil Young...
all up, a pleasing album, and certainly his best one since 2007's "chrome dreams II"
I LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: people want to hear about love
best track: a rockstar bucks a coffee shop
[video=youtube;UC2DpGaykaI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2DpGaykaI[/video]
tracks:
1...a new day for love **
2...wolf moon **
3...people want to hear about love **
4...big box **
5...a rockstar bucks a coffee shop ***
6...working man ***
7...rules of change **
8...Monsanto years **
9...if I don't know **
3s=2
2s=7
1s=0
rating: 2.1
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.