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Neil Young let's it rock and let's it roll with Are You Passionate. Backed by members of Booker T. & The MGs and featuring his longtime band Crazy Horse on 'Goin' Home', Young's rock n roll adds Memphis to the mix to create one of the coolest, most passionate albums of the year. Digipak. 2002 Reprise Records.
Though Are You Passionate? is Neil Young's studio-recorded follow-up to 2000's Silver & Gold, it might well have emerged on the heels of Harvest Moon. While both Crazy Horse and Booker T. & the MGs swing by to add ballast to several of these 11 brand-new tracks, gentle weepers like "
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Neil Young let's it rock and let's it roll with Are You Passionate. Backed by members of Booker T. & The MGs and featuring his longtime band Crazy Horse on 'Goin' Home', Young's rock n roll adds Memphis to the mix to create one of the coolest, most passionate albums of the year. Digipak. 2002 Reprise Records.
Though Are You Passionate? is Neil Young's studio-recorded follow-up to 2000's Silver & Gold, it might well have emerged on the heels of Harvest Moon. While both Crazy Horse and Booker T. & the MGs swing by to add ballast to several of these 11 brand-new tracks, gentle weepers like "Don't Say You Love Me," "When I Hold You in My Arms," and the softly lilting title track recall Young's aforementioned 1992 work while suggesting that the once outspoken social critic and on-again, off-again CSN&Y member is mellowing. Further proof of that can be found in the tender opening song, "You're My Girl"--a postcard from a father to a daughter on the cusp of adulthood and presumably inspired by Young's daughter Amber--as well as in the lazy, languid "Two Old Friends." Are You Passionate?'s one serious clunker, "Let's Roll," was inspired by the 9/11 cell-phone call Todd Beamer placed moments before he and other passengers on Flight 93 went down in a Pennsylvania field. You can't fault the guy for commemorating a heroic act and making a personal donation to the Beamer family, but all his talk of "going after Satan on the wings of a dove" and "facing down evil" sounds like a guy who's spent more time watching CNN than honing his lyrics. --Kim Hughes
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Manufacturer: Vapor Records
Release date: 18 November 2009
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0093624811114 UPC: 093624811114
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