ARTIST: Neil Young
TITLE: Living With War
LABEL: Reprise
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 199kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 41min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-05-09
RIP DATE: 2006-04-29
Track List
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01. After The Garden 3:23
02. Living With War 5:04
03. The Restless Consumer 5:47
04. Shock And Awe 4:53
05. Families 2:25
06. Flags Of Freedom 3:42
07. Let's Impeach The President 5:10
08. Lookin' For A Leader 4:03
09. Roger And Out 4:25
10. America The Beautiful 2:57
Release Notes:
Neil Young is very passionate about this record and he wants people to hear
it as soon as possible. He's currently streaming it on his official website
(http://www.neilyoung.com) and you'll also be able to purchase the songs as
a digital download on May 2nd. The album is scheduled to hit retail stores
May 9th, but might get there sooner or later than that, due to the rush to
release this. Our source is the official advance from Reprise (see scan)
which is much higher quality than the webstream. We hope you enjoy it.
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The Canadian-born Young, 60, who has tackled social and political themes
through four decades as a singer/songwriter, wrote and recorded his latest
studio offering over a two-week period this month, backed by a 100-member
choir, according to his longtime manager, Elliot Roberts.
Much of the album conveys a sense of outrage, vowing repeatedly in the
title track "to never kill again," mocking Bush's conduct of the Iraq war
in "Shock and Awe" and calling for his removal from office in a
provocative song titled "Let's Impeach the President."
The album also strikes a chord of empathy with soldiers separated from
their families, and features lyrics ridiculing America's consumer culture,
political corruption and religious fundamentalism.
Juxtaposed to "Let's Impeach the President" is one of the album's more
hopeful selections, "Lookin' for a Leader," with such lyrics as: "Someone
walks among us ... and I hope he hears the call. And maybe it's a woman,
or a black man after all." The album closes with an a cappella version of
"America the Beautiful."
"You're always going to rub someone the wrong way when you sing, 'Let's
impeach the president,'" Young told the Los Angeles Times. "But that's
what this country's all about -- being able to express your views."