Posted on 06/23/2006 7:12:54 AM PDT by pissant
Andrew Purcell reports on why US rock's reaction to the Iraq war has been dominated by the old guard.
Neil Young's latest album, Living With War, was supposed to be more than a collection of protest songs. To optimistic critics of the occupation of Iraq, it heralded a tipping point - the moment when the silent majority would finally make itself heard. One month on, as the album slides down the charts and George Bush's approval ratings climb steadily off the floor, the disappointment is deafening.
Impeach the President is not the anthem the anti-war movement has been waiting for, and Young cannot be the figurehead it needs. His proud record of conscientious objection has earned him unwaveringly loyal fans, but it also makes him an easy target, readily dismissed by Neo-Cons as an ageing Canadian hippie and a counter-cultural burn-out. In the overheated climate of public opinion in the US, it is mud that sticks.
"I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer 18 to 22 years old, to write these songs and stand up," Young told the Los Angeles Times. "I waited a long time. Then I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the 1960s generation." The songs will be played live for the first time next month, by original longhairs Crosby, Stills Nash and Young.
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Neil Young,way back when,had a good deal of talent...but he's *always* taken himself *far* too seriously.
The generation that pines for another Watergate to "recapture that feeling."
The generation that's defined by their protest of the Vietnam War.
The generation that's been lost ever since.
Yup, was a great songwriter. My favs are the Harvest and Trans albums--ten years apart, both were apolitical.
He can still write a decent tune, I imagine. Certainly more talented than the other flotsam in CSN&Y. But, like most "artists", he doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground.
Way back when is right -- his last good album was Rust Never Sleeps ('79), and his last great album was Tonight's the Night ('75, but recorded in '73).
And he sold about 16 copies of his latest crap. LOL
Too bad it didn't include singing..........
And his last name is Beard, of all the darn things.
He's the one who sings with a whiney voice?
And his name, of all things, is FRANK BEARD
And his name, of all things, is FRANK BEARD
Yes. And the one that Lynyrd Skynyrd responded too in Sweet Home Alabama.
They made a thread about you!
Where's a Hellfire missile when you need one...
The generation that did most of the drugs, got most of the divorces and ran up most of the national debt.
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