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Living with War
Neil Young
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 2006-05-08
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
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Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Even if you don't agree with Neil Young's politics, you can't help but be daunted by the intersection of his genius and ire on his second album in less than seven months. It is the very rare artist who is able to channel indignation and moral disgust in such a coherent and forceful way--without sacrificing any of the vivid imagery, passion, or the high level of musicality that we have come to expect from him over the past four decades. But that's not what elevates this album: it's his pure, naked, visceral reaction to the Bush administration's foreign policy, building on a canon of outrage that he began with 1970's "Ohio," penned in the wake of the Kent State student deaths. But here he goes one better, filling in the lines that he began to draw on 2003's Greendale about a family caught in changing times. But Young's done with musing about lost ideals. On Living with War, he demands much more from his audience, and himself. This is nothing less than a call for fearless action in extraordinarily fearful times. --Jaan Uhelszki

2) Album Description
The Canadian music hall of famer and former member of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young is responsible for hits like Southern Man, Heart of Gold and Harvest Moon. But on his newest record, to be titled Living with the War, Young is taking a page from Bob Dylan and putting together an album of protest songs against the actions of American President George W. Bush. One of the tracks on the upcoming release, which as of yet has no release date, is said to feature the single Let's Impeach the President whose subject is fairly obvious. Not a stranger to protest music the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tune Ohio was written in reaction to a protest against the Vietnam War.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

1) Drums Across The Potomac   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
It's Neil. It's a stupid war. Kids are killed,daily. It's a great message. The drums are a little for-front and high-toned. So what?It's still a stupid war. My brother has been bush-wacked. I see "W" on back of cars. I see cut-out magnet ribbons in multi-facet colors demanding: "Support Our Troops". I see yard signs: "Troops Out Now".You know, the troops are 20 years old. Some are nineteen, some are twentytwo, twenty four, or more. A lot of them come back home dead. It's the "restless consumer" that keeps it going. "Heave-Ho". I see some of Bush's crew is calling it quits and going home. I wonder if the troops would like to do that too? Oh well, it all in the cd.

2) Worst Neil Album Ever   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
Do yourself a favor and buy Chrome Dreams 2. This CD has one decent track and the rest were thrown together in a week. Is Neil screwing with his record company, again? I tried to sell mine to play it again records days after it came out and they already had too many. This will make a good collectors item, though. Because I guarantee it will be OOP and never see the light of day, again. I can't believe Dylan's not going to sue him for stealing one of his songs. Flags Of Freedom is an inferior rewrite Chimes Of Freedom. Some of the songs are just ripoffs of his own music I already own.

3) (2.5 stars) More about the message than the music, if you "axe" me...   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Yeah, when I first heard this I was like, "Oh, yes! Anti-Bush album! Come on, stick it to the man!". Needless to say, I don't like G.W., and I love how Neil's taking this opprotunity to rip him and his stupid oil war to tiny, tiny pieces. Here's what I don't like: Neil gets so wrapped up in the message that he forgets a fundamental part of making music is, um, actually MAKING music, rather than stealing the structure from Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom" ("Flags of Freedom") or his own classic Rust Never Sleeps-era sound ("Families"; "Roger and Out"; "Shock and Awe"). And if I hear one more over-the-top cover of "America the Beautiful", I will move to Canada, which is something that I want to do in the first place because they have universal healthcare and because Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are Canadians themselves. Of course, I'll probably hear overblown versions of "Oh, Canada" up there, so maybe not. And speaking of over the top, Neil goes all-out on the dull title track, with horns, strings, choirs, dulcimers, sitars, accordions, bagpipes, organs, orcarinas, flutes, organs, oboes, bassoons, saxophones, banjos, pedal steels, combs on paper, kazoos... So, let's talk about the good stuff. Obvious pick as it may be, my favorite is "The Restless Consumer", a criticism of how George Bush told everyone to "Keep shopping" after the blatant disgraceful human rights violation 9/11. Because we all know Americans needed more crap over that. Seriously, you'd think we'd have more to worry about than buying stuff? But that led to an upswing in SUV's with little American flags on it, because it doesn't matter if you're pumping CO2 emissions into the atmosphere if you have an American flag bumper sticker on your car, because you're being PATRIOTIC about pollution. "Lookin' for a Leader" has insightful lyrics about how maybe old white men can't run countries after all; "Let's Impeach the President" has great, funny lyrics; and "After the Garden" has a great guitar part. And I love the message of this one! Just not all the music. Oh well. Whatever. Both Prairie Wind and Chrome Dreams II are better, though.

4) This collection is all about what i am reading here...esp some low stars! LOL!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Go, Neil. Ya sure hit some nerves on this one, and praise be to you for singing it out loud! People think you have to have gone to WAR's frontlines to see with open eyes the open wounds that War for War sake brings!OMG, there sure are some clueless people who hide behind "Patriotism" with flag waving in hand without any clue as to what our leaders are truly making that a symbol for in the eyes of humanity! I've never been to WAR, lucked out with my number not coming up in the draft for 'NAM. Not a lot of my buddies, tho; and most were lost either in the conflict, the damage done to them whether physical or emotional, OR simply lost and disinherited when they came home. Poor souls! And all for what? The loss of the many for the profit of the few? My family line served in numerous wars, and my mother (including her service during Korean episode) told me she did not want that for me (and my sister) if it could at all be avoided. I just lucked out, and so did my sister (no draft for females).I support our troops.....always have and hope to always do......and, if need be, i also support them by voicing my opinion if I feel that their lives are being manipulated, mis-used, or wasted for profit, imperialism and/or politically-blinded objectives that do no service to this country I love! If we are not making the world a better place, then it is time to question just what we are doing! "Common sense in NOT all that common!" Disreali"Give us this day our daily faith, but forgive us our beliefs." A. HuxleySo give it up for a man who makes most of his venue to make some noise!Like it or not, NEIL is not alone (BIG TIME!!!)! And he realizes the fact that..."Nine tenths of problems are man-made, one tenth is necessary." A. Huxley

5) Fascism Comes To The U.S.A.   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
While this may not be Neil Young's most entertaining CD, it is certainly one of his most important musical statements! Personally, I feel Neil was a little soft on critizing Bush and the war worshipping Republicans. Recall 1937 Nazi Germany when masses chanted "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil", before Hitler, and then fast forward to the 2004 Rebuplican Convention when many guilible Americans chanted "USA, USA, USA". In both cases, it was a chant of ignorance and begging aggresion. The 2000 Election was stolen by Clown Bush and God knows Bush is not worshipping the true God of love! I'm in shock and awe of the many pregnant Iraqi women who were killed by American bombs! President Gore would never have sent the United States into war to benefit big oil and ruin the reputation of the U.S. around the world. If Abraham Lincoln was living, today, he would undoubltly be a Democrat, because his Grand Old Party (GOP) has become the party of Greed, Oblivion, Propaganda!