Greendale
| Neil Young
Greendale
Greendale is the 25th studio album by Neil Young. Young and Crazy Horse's Greendale, a 10-song rock opera, is set in a fictional California seaside town. Based on the saga of the Green family, the "audio novel" has been compared to the literary classics of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for its complexity and emotional depth in exploring a small town in America. - WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
2003 - Greendale offers ten songs with interlocking characters and story lines and comes as a CD, a DVD movie and a live performance.
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BBC
one can't help wondering why, like Dylan, he couldn't have simply shut up for a decade while he found something interesting to say.
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AV/MUSIC
2003 - Greendale still works as a Neil Young record.
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sputnik music
2006 - Over all, this album is incredible. The stories that are told keep the listener engaged, and the music to accompany the lyrics is equally impressive.
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The Guardian
2003 - Young's band, Crazy Horse, crank out rough-and-ready blues vamps as lo-fi as the White Stripes on a budget.
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ALL MUSIC
It all adds up to a very good record -- one that is interesting, and one that satisfies musically.
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The Guardian
2003 - Given its many flaws, Greendale might be nothing more than a bizarre curio like Lou Reed's Poe-faced folly The Raven - were it not for the fact that, like all Young's concept records, it is fundamentally about himself.
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Classic Rock Review
It has the tendency to wear out its welcome.
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popMATTERS
2003 - Greendale should be seen as nothing less than a serious achievement by an artist who has never been content to simply rest on his past glories.
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The Music Box
2003 - Greendale is a "musical novel" of epic proportions, and it must be heard as a complete suite instead of as individual piece.
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APHORISTIC ALBUM REVIEWS
2003 - this audio novel also probably doesn’t need to be heard too often.
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Adrian Denning
'Greendale' sounds exactly like any album Neil might have recorded in the late seventies. Only not as angry sounding.
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SOME THING ELSE
2015 - he still manages to come up with something new after all those years, albums and tours.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
it's even more longwinded and boring, thanks to endless between-song narration.
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Concert Shots
The problem with Greendale is in its delivery. With very few choruses or hooks of any kind, it becomes difficult to listen to the whole 80-minute story without becoming regularly bored.
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The Washington Post
2004 - Young's album-on-film has the heavy-handed feel of a student project.
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The Austin Chronicle
Burnt ... out ... hippie.
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Don Ignacio
I can't honestly say that I find Greendale to be such an excruciating experience.
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