LIVING WITH WAR.
| Neil YoungLIVING WITH WAR.
Living With War is the 27th studio album by the Canadian musician Neil Young, released on May 2, 2006. The album's lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration; the CTV website defined it as "a musical critique of U.S. President George W. Bush and his conduct of the war in Iraq". Written and recorded over the course of only nine days in March and April 2006, its lyrics are in line with the early 1960s albums of folk artists such as Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan, although they are set to what Young calls "metal folk protest music" courtesy of Young, bassist Rick Rosas, drummer Chad Cromwell and trumpet player Tommy Bray. - WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
2006 - this album features an elder rock statesman making an effective protest record thanks to a raucously communal approach.
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RollingStone
2006 - is one man’s opinion.
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Ultimate Classic Reviews
2016 - he said this kind of frank discourse was needed during a time of pitched debate over the direction of the country.
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The Guardian
2006 - It would be nice if Living With War's speedy, reactive gestation indicates Young rousing himself from a decade of cosy torpor.
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BBC
Living With War is another fist in America’s gut.
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AV/MUSIC
2006 - an angry shout against the war in Iraq in particular, and the Bush administration in general.
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sputnik music
2006 - Not groundbreaking musically or with anything new to say, really, it simply steps up and says what it says in plain language and in no uncertain terms.
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ALL MUSIC
Living with War stands as a very strong, effective Neil Young album that will continue to have a punch long after the George W. Bush administration has faded into the history books.
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The New york Times
2006 - 'Living With War' Shows He Doesn't Like It.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Young’s heart is in right place, and Living With War is a likeable, if slight, late career effort.
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Adrian Denning
perhaps looking at the wider picture of war and politics.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
is extremely short on ideas, both politically and musically.
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Mark Prindle
Neil Young's grunge folk protest album, but also the most incredible example of a 'rush release' ever created.
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Don Ignacio
this is another good Neil Young album and certainly one of his best of the '00s.
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paste
2006 - the album has the instantaneous feel of a blog, a quickly jotted, rough-hewn piece of work where lyrics care less for meter than meaning, melodies are peculiarly familiar and the playing is mostly gut-level power chords.
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popMATTERS
2006 - Neil Young may not have been born in the USA, but on Living With War he sounds born to run.
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Robert Christgau
more news event than musical milestone. But a really great news event--believe me, the '60s never produced an album that felt this much like a peace march.
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