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stickfig13stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
edited July 2008 in Other Music
I gave this album a listen today and confirmed that it's a big steaming pile of crap!

Just thought I would share....
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  • DanimalDanimal Posts: 2,000
    stickfig13 wrote:
    I gave this album a listen today and confirmed that it's a big steaming pile of crap!

    Just thought I would share....

    What about The Restless Consumer? That is a great song!!!!
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  • stickfig13stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    Danimal wrote:
    What about The Restless Consumer? That is a great song!!!!


    Best of the worst....

    Looking for a leader lyrics:

    Yeah maybe it's Obama
    But he thinks that he's too young
    Maybe it's Colin Powell
    To right what he's done wrong


    Listen to this song.....it's terrible!
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    Lyrically, it isn't his best, but the RAW version without the chorus is much better.
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  • stickfig13stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    I heard he recorded it in a week or something....

    98% of the album reflects it

    Some of the lyrics sound like he's making them up as he goes....
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  • DanimalDanimal Posts: 2,000
    I think Shock and Awe is good too. Then again Neil could record a burp and I would buy it.
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  • John Briggs 2008John Briggs 2008 Posts: 1,024
    Uncle Neil wrote this very rapidly and got it out here to get his views and message out. I do not think he was too concerned with quality of lyrics so much as the message itself. As long as it poses discussion and thought for or against it's doing what he set out to do.
  • ZosoZoso Posts: 6,425
    neil young wrote this quick and it's an obvious fuck bush and the war album and i think he got the point he wanted to make quite strongly out on this album. Clearly the music wasn't meant to be shakespeare but I think he just wanted to get his points of view across in a shuddering manner... You gotta love it.
    I'm just flying around the other side of the world to say I love you

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    I love you forever and forever :)

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  • stickfig13stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    Zoso wrote:
    neil young wrote this quick and it's an obvious fuck bush and the war album and i think he got the point he wanted to make quite strongly out on this album. Clearly the music wasn't meant to be shakespeare but I think he just wanted to get his points of view across in a shuddering manner... You gotta love it.


    It's still crap....
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  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    I think it's crap, too. I'm pretty sure he even talks about diarrhea in one song. I love Neil Young and everything, but I don't want to listen to him sing about diarrhea.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Roger and Me is very good.
    Lookin for a leader is very good.
    Restless Consumer is very good.

    Hell there are a lot of songs on it i dig actually. i think it is a nice addition to a guys catalog that has about 30 something releases already.

    Unlike some bands that take 5 years to put out an album he popped that one out real quick.
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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    atleast its not as bad as "lucky thirteen" :D

    still pretty shitty though! and theres few things of neils i dont love
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  • CopTheRiotActCopTheRiotAct Posts: 953
    i like the restless consumer and shock and awe....80% have the exact same drum beat and tempo. it all sounds the same..
    ...The Moon is Rollin' Round....
  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    I love this album
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Murder wrote:
    i like the restless consumer and shock and awe....80% have the exact same drum beat and tempo. it all sounds the same..
    Well neil admits all of his stuff is all the same song :)

    just listen to year of the horse he'll tell you that himself :D
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Julien wrote:
    I love this album


    Me too. There's an immediacy to it that's been missing from some of Neil's other recent albums (cough, AYP, cough). Everybody rips on bush these days, but very few musicians were willing to speak out against him, even in 2006. I like the fact that Neil has continued with the concept on his website:

    http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    "Piece Of Crap"

    Tried to save the trees
    Bought a platsic bag
    The bottom fell out
    It was a piece of crap

    Saw it on the tube
    Bought it on the phone
    Now you're home alone
    It's a piece of crap

    I tried to plug in it
    I tried to turn it on
    When I got it home
    It was a piece of crap

    Got it from a friend
    On him you can depend
    I found out in the end
    It was a piece of crap

    I'm trying to save the trees
    I saw it on TV
    They cut the forest down
    To build a piece of crap

    I went back to the store
    They gave me four more
    The guy told me at the door
    It's a piece of crap
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  • robowskirobowski Posts: 143
    i'd probably listen to neil take a dump - and like it!
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  • Can You Say Octopus?Can You Say Octopus? Posts: 105
    So cool and the videos are great in the RAW version

    Neil is amazing
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  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Neil has said himself he wasn't trying to do it to get acclaim, but I think it is full of a man singing with urgency and anger and his classic tone dirtied up even more adds so much to it.

    Love the choir too.
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  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    gobrowns19 wrote:
    Neil has said himself he wasn't trying to do it to get acclaim, but I think it is full of a man singing with urgency and anger and his classic tone dirtied up even more adds so much to it.

    Love the choir too.
    I haven't heard it, but after reading reviews, this pretty much seems to sum it up. Made quickly and in anger. I will check it out for sure and if I know Neil it will stand the test of time. :)
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  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    It isn't his best work, but I still like it. "After the Garden" is a great song. "Shock and Awe" and "The Restless Comsumer" are pretty damn good too.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    i dont mind it, but i can see both sides of the coin. take it for what it is, a protest record recorded in a week and rushed out to market to make a statement and still be relevant.

    I LOVE NEIL.
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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    it sounds like post brain surgery.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • augustwestaugustwest Posts: 739
    I'm sheep

    Neil is God

    Loved that CSN&Y toured with this cd...and some people complain about PJ being political...that CSNY tour was um miles above anything ev has ever said on any tour!

    Let"s Impeach the President for Lying
  • DanimalDanimal Posts: 2,000
    And Trans RULES! Don't care what you all say! HAHAHA.
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