IN the course of his thirty-year career as a recording
artist, Neil Young has experienced as many extreme low
points of critical and commercial success as he has high,
but without a doubt, he is one of the most important rock
composers and performers North America can claim. His
signature raw nasal tone, shrill guitar playing, highly
personal lyric-writing, and hippie-cowboy loner stance have
helped shape rock and roll as it has advanced from
adolescence into maturity. Through his experimentation with
every genre, from folk to heavy metal to rockabilly to
techno, Young has created a sound and feel uniquely his
own.
Born the son of Edna "Rassy" Young, a former quiz show
panelist on Canadian Television, and Scott Young, a
sportswriter for the Toronto Sun, Young's first musical More...
every word to this song expresses how i feel about my fallen friends, a certain one in paticular. i guess in a way, it helps me understand how and what he felt..the pain, sadness and fear. the feeling of being so trapped, that death seems to be the only way out. i know it's not, but i do know that it holds very true to so many of us unfortunate enough to be plagued with the disease of addiction. rest in peace, friends.<3with love.
Neil can you deliver? | Reviewer: nemo
------ About the song Soldier performed by Neil Young
Big Neil Young fan from my youth, now 56 and come on the lyics I never saw before. Disappointed as I look to Christ for my salvation (not an evangelical war monger but Jesus prince of peace believer. Was looking forward to the upcoming Bridge School Concert, not so much now. Hurts.
Hautningly Beautiful | Reviewer: Timbro
------ About the song Soldier performed by Neil Young
Age old question well-posed in the Neil Young double entendre fashion. Refer to ZZ Tops' "Jesus Just Left Chicago."
"You might not see him in person but he'll see you just the same
You might not see him in person but he'll see you just the same.
You don't have to worry cause takin' care of business is his name.
Jesus shows up right on time; not our time, but just in His Time."
Peace and Love
hi | Reviewer: jane
------ About the album Fork In The Road performed by Neil Young
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Faithfully Jane Isaac
The Big Slide, the Full Moon, and the Will to Carry-On. | Reviewer: dave brewer
------ About the song Give Me Strength performed by Neil Young
When I was a kid, about six or seven I think, my brother and I went to this miniature golf place, and they had a superslide. Well for whatever reason the guy taking the tickets got mad at me and my brother, and we didn't go on the slide. I didn't cry, but obviously I wasn't very happy either. Most of all I was just dismayed, perhaps for the first time. To this day even though I realize there could have been a thousand other reasons this guy got mad at us which had nothing to do with us, the thought of it and this guys attitude still play a part in my memory.
The point is there's a significant amount of pain and dismay in life you're just going to run into ("the moon") and you're meant to carry it with you for the rest of your life("is almost full") because your psyche sees and knows this as a significant truth of living no matter what else you can know, happy or otherwise(except for the stars").
I also sense from lines like "the laughter in her eyes is never all" that Mr. Young is expressing his own inabilities to experience something without a world of other thoughts and feelings jumping onto it. Certainly, Neil isn't telling us anything new that "the happier you fly, the sadder you fall." What I gathered here was more my connection to the truth of such a statement and that it's in knowing such things that our strength gets sapped and we are brought down much past what the event itself should have taken us.
So is there anything positive to be gained from such sad and desolate lyrics. Of course. Why else would we be drawn to such things. The strength we are all looking for is hidden in the struggle. When we identify with someone else's pain, we bond. In that bonding, we are taken to a place outside ourselves and there seems to be a natural tendency to gather strength from such places whether you want to call it cosmic energy or compassion (even for the self.) The true beauty of this song is its transcendence from the juvenile belief that we will eventually get past our pain and that as we travel down this cold and lonely road we can find inside the pain of the afflicted human spirit in all its imperfections and with all its burdens that there lies within us all a will that seeks to carry on.
Thanks again Neil for getting me past,
awesome | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About artist/band Neil Young
my parents grew up with neil young. my brother can play some of his songs and i just sit here almost everyday and listen to his songs. we're all huge fans and i personaly hope he cotinues until he's on his deathbed because his music is just so awesome; i'll listen to it forever
memorable | Reviewer: erin
------ About the song Cowgirl In The Sand performed by Neil Young
this song is kinda memorable for me. i have a brother who's a guitarist and i used to hear him trying to learn all these neil young songs and occasionally he'd play some for me. The real problem he has is all the long solos that are in the songs; but neil young should keep doing what he's doing cuz everyone in my hous really enjoys it.
Still True | Reviewer: Todd
------ About the song Find The Cost Of Freedom performed by Neil Young
The cost of Freedom is the blood of its people. I've listened to this song hundreds of times & it still brings me to tears (and makes me want to kick Nixon's ass). Always remember to stand up for what's Right, Advocate for those who can't, and FIGHT the POWER!!!
Evil happens when good men do nothing
Only love can break.. My Heart | Reviewer: Duncan
------ About the song My Heart performed by Neil Young
One of those incredible gems Neil comes up with from time to time. I had a chance to meet him after a concert, Neil and his wife Pegi, he is so transparent, what he shows through his songs is his true soul. He is by far my favorite artist!!!
New York City, 1970 | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song FLYING ON THE GROUND IS WRONG performed by Neil Young
"This is the first dope/acid rock song I ever wrote. I was cashing in on psychadelics at the time. [Laughs] I was more into jello than anything else."
It is easy to focus on the meaning and content of Neil's more "serious" lyrics. That is unfortunate because often times his less serious stuff contains the best prose and is esoterically loaded with imagery. "Only Love" hides some real gems and has very easy to follow images and ideas. I remember a Creative Writing Professor once telling my class that the best poetry is not veiled in hidden meanings that must be deciphered. The best poetry has clear, easy to understand images that are aparent to to a wide cross section of the listening audience. Neil does that very well in Only Love. Don't ya think?
Thanx...Dave
"i'm still in love with you" | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the album Harvest Moon performed by Neil Young
this album is wonderful. love it love it love it. makes me a happy sort of sad or a sad sort of happy every time i listen to it. great music for driving long stretches of beautiful road.
I bought my 1st Neil Yonug 45 in 1973 from Woolworths and have grew up listening to all his music and i have seen him in 1989, i have a good fiend who gave me a copy of the Massey Hall concert and i think its great...i recently saw Steven Stills in 2007 and they have acomplished a lot of great music and they are storytellers of what life is about....
Rainbows and children | Reviewer: pinbalwyz
------ About the song Sugar Mountain performed by Neil Young
I often think of and quote from this bittersweet meloncholic melody. It's right up there with 'Big Rock Candy Mountain' as a nostalgaic farewell to our time, however brief, spent in the sunshine. To listen to it is to know why Peter Pan never wanted to leave that place where adults cannot enter--and yet we must. Neil's rendition lets us go back if only for a moment and touch our inner child once more.
Great | Reviewer: Sina
------ About the song Cortez The Killer performed by Neil Young
Now no one can say that neil young can't play guitar... todays "guitarists" should listen and learn from this piece of art..
wondeful song | Reviewer: Mackenzie
------ About the song Sleeps With Angels performed by Neil Young
this is a beautiful song about kurt cobains death. out of five stars, id give it 4 1/2.
Country Swing at It's Best | Reviewer: JTA
------ About the song California Sunset performed by Neil Young
Not since Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys has country swing been done better. Neil's vocal are the purest and sweetest in almost 50 yrs of recording. This album is more country than anything billed as country in almost 30 years.
Sail Away | Reviewer: Mike Morris
------ About the song Sail Away performed by Neil Young
I think this is one of Neil's best songs. The way he and Nicolette Larson sing it together just sounds great and the lyrics are simple. Basically says that people who love eachother will love eachother no matter what.
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