Neil Young - Living With War

In case you've missed the big broohaha lately, Neil Young isn't too happy with what's going down. So he made a record about it. And it's good. Unbelievably good. Both as a protest record, and as a Neil Young record. In Young's words, it's "a metal version of Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan ... metal folk protest?" If you are looking for the Neil Young protest song to compare it to, it's much much closer to Ohio than Greendale.

The whole thing was recorded in like 12 hours with a 3 piece band (plus a hundred person choir). Then he took it down to his record company, and they decided to release it super quick like. You can stream the whole thing here. They have a good blog about making the record here. They have a side-splittingly hilarious video here wherein some Entertainment Tonight-style reporter asks, "You have a song called 'Let's impeach the President. What's that song about?" You can't make funny like that up. Anway, I'm obviously jazzed on this record.

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Posted by Mark Allen on Friday, April 28, 2006 Comments (0)