LIVING WITH WAR.

| Neil Young

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LIVING 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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