Neil Young

By Lloyd Anyway so I got my hands on the Neil Young – Chrome Dreams bootleg the other day and man am I glad I have been chasing this album for so long. Besides Young’s On the Beach, which for me easily is Young’s best album, Chrome Dreams is probably the best album Young recorded in the 70s.

By Lloyd The connection between Sonic Youth and Young are well documented, it was the Youth who helped to revive Young’s career in the late eighties and early nineties when they were touring buddies, by introducing him to new audiences as ‘the Godfather of Grunge’ during the Ragged Glory era. This...

By Lloyd The latest Neil Young album, Living with War (Reprise Records, May 2006), may well be his best since 1994’s haunting Sleeps with Angels. From the first listening, one has no doubts that the folk-metal protestor is still railing against the system, refusing to sell his soul. He is disconsol...

By Lloyd Set us Free reminds me of a mellow Neil Young song from one of his many Crazy Horse albums, maybe Zuma or On the Beach while album closer Faulty Times sounds like a marching band deciding to get all rock n roll on your ass, a great little song about how shit war can be. “Because nobody likes you're...