Here is a review of "World Record" - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse from our good friends over on Everybody’s Dummy:
When Neil’s on a roll, it shows.
Back with Crazy Horse for an unprecedented third album in a row, World Record finds the boys holed up in the legendary Shangri-La Studios, now owned by co-producer Rick Rubin. Yet the sound is just as ragged and rough-hewn as anything Neil ever recorded in a barn. The environment is the main topic again, but at least the songs aren’t as ranting or myopic as before.
The lyrical content aside, “Love Earth” is a subdued and misleading opener; kids of a certain age will appreciate that he’s appropriated the melody from the closing theme from The Magic Garden TV show. Here we also hear the “kick tub” that will feature prominently among the band’s percussion. “Overhead” is almost jaunty, with a piano and what sounds like a banjo but isn’t listed. While we can’t say it’s dreamy, the middle section that provides the title and an interlude is a good transition between the halves.
He’s said he started these songs by whistling as he walked, so we’ll forgive him for lifting his own melody from “Looking Forward” on “I Walk With You (Earth Ringtone)”. The track itself is nice and sludgy, with Nils Lofgren’s pedal steel providing another link to earlier albums. His accordion provides the other sound on the gentle “This Old Planet (Changing Days)”, which is otherwise pinned to a honky-tonk backing.
Full review of of "World Record" - Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse from our good friends over on Everybody’s Dummy. Thanks Wardo, as always!
Neil has definitely been on a roll here in 2022, for sure.
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Thanks for linking, thrasher!
ReplyDeleteHere might be a good place to plug my updated Harvest review:
https://everybodysdummy.blogspot.com/2008/06/neil-young-6-harvest.html