Neil Young writes anti-war album

BBC News World Edition ^ | Monday, 17 April 2006 | BBC News World Edition

[LeoWindhorse]

Veteran singer Neil Young has recorded an anti-war protest album on which he reportedly lashes out at George W Bush in a song called Impeach the President.

The Canadian star has described Living with War as "metal folk protest".

[LeoWindhorse]

air sickness bags required

[SoothSayerONETIME]

what a dumbshit neil young is....truely a smaktard

[inkling]

When patriotism was popular, he recorded "Let's Roll"... when Bush-bashing is in vogue, he bashes Bush. He blows with the wind...

[antceecee]

NEIL YOUNG WHO?



(...usless, has-been tries to mount a come-back).

[Berlin_Freeper]

President Bush was reelected with the most votes cast for him in US History.

Meanwhile the maggot Young has filled his pockets with gold by perpetuating a drug culture and thereby destroying many thousands of lives.

Go speak with the deranged lunatic dope addicts that dwell under bridges... I bet they are all big maggot Young fans.

[NRA2BFree]

Talent wasted on another liberal.

[Reform4Bush]

We already impeached Clinton. Neil must have been out of touch for a few years.

[Pro-Bush]

Every time I hear his music I get depressed - what a negative, half-filled loser!

[Bush gal in LA]

He's an arrogant POS. As a kid in St. Louis I went to see him give a concert. He came out and started playing some song nobody ever heard of. After the song was over someone in the audience screamed out ''Southern Man''. He immediately became outraged. I guess he was angry that somebody dared to yell out a request.Then he jumped up and left the stage..... He never came back. After one song!! I was so mad, and knew, even back then that the fame had gone to his head........

[MedicalMess]

Neil Young


So tired... so old... so predictable...

[napscoordinator]

No skin off my back. How many records will this really sell? Who cares and why are we worried about this singer who is not even popular.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

'Well I hope Neil Young will remember,
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow'

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Attention Neil Young, the 60's are dead, and so is your career, if this is all you can come up with.

[RWR8189]

It seems that Mr. Young does not abide by his own advice that "its better to burn out, than to fade away..."

[rawcatslyentist]

A Southern Man don't need him around anyhow!

[mkjessup]

Give Don Imus a guitar and you get Neil Young.

Both unintelligible, both ignorant dumb asses, both of them vastly overpaid.

[Petronius]

Geez, I burned all my Stones CDs and now Neil Young? Plus I have to retroactively dislike him. Winston Smith, help me to remember, "Neil Young sucks; Neil Young has always sucked."

Play it safe, folks: only Ted Nugent is Ideoligically Pure.

[Dallas59]

Who?

[kb2614]

Ah geez, I don't care. This doesn't bother me. I mean really, who cares what the "hope I die before I get old" then didn't generation thinks. Celebcritters are silly, vain, and are dumb as a brick.

Down by the River & Like a Hurricane are great tunes though. ;-)

[chasio649]

I thought that was Jim Morrison....i may be wrong.

[Allegra]

That decrepit old hippie isn't "Living with War." He's cooling his heels in Canada.

The troops....they're "living with war." The Iraqis and Afghans are "living with war." We civilians over here are "living with war."

What a pompous ass Neil Young is.

[USCG SimTech]

...so this is going to be an album against mindless, murder by militant extremist Moslems that want to exterminate all in the world that's not like them... right?

Not about how wrong it is to defend yourself and try and save civilization... right?

ya... right.

[RWR8189]

Nope its from My My Hey Hey on Rust Never Sleeps...

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, back when they were marginally good.

[carlr]

Calculated marketing decision.
They are banking on the rabid nuttiness of the Bush haters to buy the record to make a statement.
Probably most won`t even listen to it.

He will be laughing to the bank at the fools buying it.

[chasio649]

Why have i always thought that was Morisson? I definitely learned something today! :)

[LanPB01]

Young should never have been allowed to record this song by himself. These kind of unilateral, illegal, cowboy antics have no place in our modern society. He should have been required to get the permission of Crosby, Stills, and Nash first.

[shekkian]

Neil Young ... Didn't he make an album a long time ago?

[mylife]

Now that is funny!

[manwiththehands]

"Hey, hey, yuck, yuck. Neil Young still sucks."

[edpc]

To paraphrase RVZ and Lynyrd Skynyrd:

I hope Neil Young will remember.....Americans don't need him around anyhow.

[mylife]

Ive always liked Neil Young. At least he isnt Pop

Sadly his view of the world seems somewhat out of line with my own in recent years.

A saw him a couple years back and the show rocked.
The pretenders opened for him and Neil and Chrissy Hynde did an absolutely fantastic version of "all along the watchtower".

Sadly Chrissy couldn't keep her yap shut ant started spewing her political commentary during the show, tainting an otherwise enjoyable summer evening

[DJ Frisat]

Neil -- jumping the shark again doesn't undo the first time...

[mylife]

"him and Neil" L0L

Im not awake here L0L

[Mr. Thorne]

Hope Neil Young will remember…

Southern man don't need him around, anyhow...

[AppyPappy]

Have you ever noticed that these people only write anti-war songs when the US is at war? If two countries in Africa go at it and kill 50,000 people, you never hear a word.

[Eddie01]

Fact: Neil hasn't had a hit since the seventies.
Fact: Neil is a really good musician. No kidding saw him live at the Embarcadaro San Diego '94. (boaties were present)
Fact: Neil's believes he has a legitimate point.
Fact: Neil doesn't.
Fact: No one cares about Neil Young's career.

Fact: He's so much better at heroin overdose songs.

[alrea]

two countries in Africa go at it and kill 50,000 people, you never hear a word

you need to add some zeros to that. two countries in Africa go and kill 500,000 and you never hear anything. you never hear from the black caucus either. the liberal machine only gets involved when they can acquire funding or control through election.

[Nephi]

I was ready to post the same line.

[LibLieSlayer]

He just blows!

LLS

[Flavius]

awesome is it in arabic

[trebb]

Veteran singer Neil Young

Translation: Old, washed up, drug-damaged kinda used-to-be

[commish]

Alternate Title : Washed Up Has Been Finds Out How Far His Fanbase Has Shrunk.

[FreedomPoster]

The Needle and the Damage Done is hardly a pro-drug song, but you go right along and rant.

[stentorian conservative]

This old hippie-has-been needs to just go smoke another blunt and write some lyrics in his journal with saint Sheehan. What a sad,sad existence. Grrrrr--these people make me ill.

[HHFi]

The interesting thing about this is that by making an anti-war, anti-Bush album, Neil Young is suddenly the topic of major news headlines. My question: when was the last time a new Neil Young album was headline news anywhere, even in Rolling Stone?

The answer to that will tell you an awful lot about both Neil's motivations and those of the media.

[two23]

Off key, tone-deaf, riff-mauling, aging stoner from Toronto...pffffttt.

[redlenses]

This is no big deal. Just another example of tired, old '60s thinking trying to pass for "progressiveness."

[tigtog]

You have to hand it to Neil, his timing is spot on. Let's write an anti-war, anti-Bush album when Bush has two years left on his watch. Brave, and cutting edge. Hey Neil, here in America we respond when we are attacked. If you don't like it go back to Canada and pay their taxes with your millions. Shoosh. Nothing worse than a cheap socialist.

[Lee'sGhost]

I hope he makes two so I can refuse to buy both of them.

[AmericanDave]

His most famous song may be "The needle and the damage done".
He has been consistantly anti-war since viet-nam, nothing new here......

He may be wrong, but he's always been a brilliant song-writer and lousy singer, LOL!