The apocalyptic guru, the universal pessimist, the melancholy loner, (the bucolic folk-singer, the liberal militant, the post-hippie moralist, While still grounded in a context that is fundamentally a hell on earth. Hallucination, mystical vision, philosophical enlightenment, Of suffering and redemption that, at its best, transcends in His voice, his lyrics, his melodies and his guitar style compose a message Young carries out a more complex psychological operation that, basically,īridges the idealism of the hippy communes and the neuroses of the urban While Dylan "transfers" his era's events into a metaphysical universe,Īnd Springsteen relates the epic sense of ordinary life, The inner chaos of the individual that followed the outer chaos of society. Unlike the others, though, Young is unique in targeting As is the case with the other two,įirst and foremost, a fusion of music and words that identifies with hisĮra's zeitgeist. Neil Young constitutes with Bob Dylan andīruce Springsteen the great triad of "moral" voices The social fresco of collapsing values Freedom (1989)Īnd the obscure meditation of Sleeps With Angels (1994) The anthemic hysteria of Rust Never Sleeps (1979), The electrifying lyricism of Zuma (1975) and Was the ultimate testament of the post-hippy depression, anĮlegiac concept that sounded like a mass for the dead. Tonight's The Night (1975), recorded in 1973,Īnd On The Beach (1974). Lent musical credibility to the apocalyptic angst of The mellow and melodic folk-rock and country-rock ofĪfter The Gold Rush (1970) and Harvest (1972) Such as Cowgirl In The Sand and Down By The River. Stately, extended, psychedelic, hard-folk ballads That theme and achieved a formidable synthesis of "voices" in Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) elaborated on Neil Young (1968), introduced a minstrel lost in an unexplored The spectral landscape of Last Trip To Tulsa, off his debut album, Perhaps no other artist in the history of rock music has produced so manyĭistinguished works in so many different styles and over so many years as ( Copyright © 1999-2017 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use)Įverybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), 8/10 Neil Young: biography, discography, reviews, ratings, best albums
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