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Neil Young writes anti-war album
BBC News World Edition ^ | Monday, 17 April 2006 | BBC News World Edition

Posted on 04/18/2006 12:32:01 AM PDT by 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".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aging; antiqueroadshow; hippy; musicians; neilyoung
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To: Allegra
hat decrepit old hippie isn't "Living with War." He's cooling his heels in Canada.

Actually he lives in Puako Hawaii
(part time at least)
61 posted on 04/18/2006 1:22:30 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Gee, what a shock, an aging hippie writing an anti-war song. How cliched.


62 posted on 04/18/2006 1:23:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: stentorian conservative
"This old hippie-has-been needs to just go smoke another blunt and write some lyrics in his journal with saint Sheehan"

Maybe old Neil and Sheehan will get together next week when Sheehan does her Big Island of Hawaii appearances .
Now there would be an event worthy of Freeping !
any takers?
63 posted on 04/18/2006 1:28:51 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: newnhdad
"He's still alive?"

Actually, he did suffer a stroke a while ago, but I guess he's recovered. In his day, he was one of the greats, but that was a long time ago. And I can't agree with those who call him opportunistic over this new album - he's been writing anti-war stuff since day one.

I saw him "live" just once, in his CSNY days, and I've never heard a guy play his guitar so loud; even with my hands over my ears, it was literally painful. I'm surprised he's not stone deaf by now.
64 posted on 04/18/2006 1:29:42 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: inkling
He blows with the wind...
65 posted on 04/18/2006 1:37:42 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (It's time to play Cowboys and Muslims)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Yep, he's a pinko.

Must have been all the smack he did in the 60's.

66 posted on 04/18/2006 3:03:17 PM PDT by Slump Tester ( What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: carlr

Yes! You've nailed it!


67 posted on 04/18/2006 4:07:20 PM PDT by drew
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To: LeoWindhorse
I already posted this on another thread, but

Sung to the tune of "Heart of Gold":

My career is down, it needs a boost
I'll make an album saying I hate George Bush
It worked for Green Day, a nice big pay day
Think I'll find the same new pot of gold, 'cause my schtick's gettin' old

68 posted on 04/18/2006 4:09:18 PM PDT by drew
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To: LeoWindhorse

I like some of his stuff. His Buffalo Springfield days particularly were good. Just another one of those artists where I can appreciate some of the music but don't like their politics. There are a bunch of them like that.

On the other hand, there's Ted Nugent: Agree with most of his politics; can't stand his music (except for old stuff he did in The Amboy Dukes).

60's music is one my all-time favorite decades for music; so much great stuff there, even the stuff that has hippy-dippy sentiments to it or are drug-influenced. But that's not to say that I appreciate the hippy outlook on life, or am going to start taking drugs.

Bottom line is I just ignore them when they start talking stuff that I don't agree with. It's not like Neil Young has any major influence on anything anyway, no matter what stance he takes.


69 posted on 04/18/2006 6:15:55 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger
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To: LeoWindhorse

neil young is against killing, unless its the unborn. then he is all for it. what a total effin hypocrit.


70 posted on 04/19/2006 4:07:21 PM PDT by beansox
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To: trebb
Neil Young

Go back home to Canada, you boob!

71 posted on 04/21/2006 6:06:34 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Everytime I hear Neil Young's name I....I.....
72 posted on 04/21/2006 6:13:28 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (El Chupacabra spotted near U.S./Mexican border feeding on illegal immigrants. Pass it on..)
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To: inkling
When patriotism was popular, he recorded "Let's Roll"... when Bush-bashing is in vogue, he bashes Bush. He blows with the wind...

Well, he certainly does blow, that's for sure. (And makes me want to blow chunks!)

Jag

73 posted on 04/21/2006 6:20:27 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

Lynyrd Skynyrd are more talented and patriotic. I think Neil's a Cannuck, but that's no excuse for his idiocy.


74 posted on 04/21/2006 9:23:43 PM PDT by earlyamerican
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To: inkling

Just to put the record straight:
1. Young was writing songs about the damage of drugs from the early 1970s onwards in "Needle and the damage done"
and the entire "Tonight's the Night" album.
2. His political songs go back to the shooting of four students at Kent State in the song "Ohio".
3. He was writing songs about American soldiers returning from war again in the 1970s - "Lookout Joe" - before "the Deer Hunter", "Coming Home" etc.


75 posted on 04/24/2006 2:23:32 AM PDT by zuma
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To: LeoWindhorse
"Neil Young writes anti-war album"

Is he still alive?

Does he still suck?

76 posted on 04/24/2006 2:36:10 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: AmericanDave
He may be wrong, but he's always been a brilliant song-writer and lousy singer,

Truer words were never written. Kind of like Springsteen, except Bruce sings a tiny bit better. Not much.

77 posted on 04/24/2006 2:44:47 AM PDT by brewcrew
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To: Petronius

Neil Young’s views are, as I have argued, irrelevant to the discussion. First of all, if one examines semioticist rationalism, one is faced with a choice: either reject capitalist depatriarchialism or conclude that the raison d’etre of the singer is significant form, but only if dissent is distinct from narrativity; if that is not the case, we can assume that discourse comes from the collective unconscious. The subject is interpolated into a that includes truth as a totality.

“Class is part of the absurdity of consciousness,” says Debord. It could be said that the main theme of the works of Young is not, in fact, narrative, but neonarrative. The example of subcultural nihilism which is a central theme of Heart of Gold is also evident in Powderfinger.

The primary theme of la Tournier’s analysis of semioticist rationalism is a constructive whole. However, the characteristic theme of the works of Rushdie is not theory, as expressionism suggests, but pretheory. Any number of narratives concerning the role of the artist as poet may be found.

Thus, semioticist rationalism implies that the media is a legal fiction, given that the premise of subcultural nihilism is invalid. Many constructions concerning expressionism exist. (Here’s where Young fits in.)

Therefore, Lyotard uses the term ’subcultural nihilism’ to denote a self-fulfilling paradox. Derrida promotes the use of expressionism to attack sexual identity.

Thus, Lacan’s model of subcultural nihilism suggests that the goal of the participant is deconstruction. Prinn states that the works of Rushdie are an example of mythopoetical capitalism.

However, expressionism implies that truth is capable of significant form, but only if language is equal to art. A number of discourses concerning the role of the observer as poet may be discovered.


78 posted on 03/07/2009 12:08:45 PM PST by Petronius (Ezekiel 23:20)
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