Neil Young 1976-1988

[CRAZY-HORSE]

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE "life" 1987, #75 US, #69 UK.

NY,Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp got together to form "farm aid" in 1986 to do a series of shows throughout the US to raise money for struggling farm famillies,this along with Bridge School charity concerts still go on annually to this day. it was during the 1986 start of the farm aid project that Young got Crazy Horse back on stage with him, an event which led to the group appearing on his following album, this one.
sure, theres several reasonable tracks on this one,two ballads, the superb "long walk home" which is classic Young, and the very good, "when your lonely heart breaks", the other two okay tracks are "too lonely", a good Crazy Horse rocker, but not as good as their previous rockers and "prisoners of rock 'n' roll" which is a dig at David Geffen primarily and the music business in general in the 1980s. apart from those tracks theres the terrible attempt to recreate "cortez the killer" in "inca queen" and four other forgettable tracks. the worst thing about this album is still the use of those horrible overbearing drums at times.
after this Geffen would make a futile attempt to sue Young for making "non commercial records and un-Neil songs" since joining Geffen, the case was thrown out and Young moved back to Reprise records where coincidently his material would start to get better and become more 'neil-like' in the process.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: mideast vacation
best track: long walk home

tracks:

1. mideast vacation*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPVHE0ip0fk live
2. long walk home***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csraH3H5yzQ live
3. around the world*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ4E38IKosU live
4. inca queen*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNos0A5s0uQ audio
5. too lonely**
6. prisoners of rock 'n ' roll**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1N_Lp6s5uo live audio
7. cryin' eyes*
8. when your lonely heart breaks**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4p0LfSG0Wo live
9. we never danced*

3s=1
2s=3
1s=5

rating: 1.5