Young's Anti-War Album a Growing Drumbeat

[MSgt213]

NEW YORK (April 20) - If the snippets Neil Young is posting on his Web site are any indication, his upcoming album, "Living With War," will be a serious musical broadside against the Bush administration and the Iraq war.

Young isn't alone in his feelings of discontent.

Pink, known more for her slams against bubble-headed pop stars than political figures, assails President Bush in the searing attack "Dear Mr. President" on her album "I'm Not Dead Yet," released this month. And the new single from Pearl Jam - always politically minded - is titled "World Wide Suicide," about a soldier's death.

All represent a steady, if not increasing anti-war sentiment since the war began in 2003. Whereas even superstar acts like the Dixie Chicks and Madonna faced backlash when they uttered opposition to the war in comments or song, more mainstream acts are more comfortable these days expressing critical thoughts.

"People were, certainly in the first couple of months, very cautious, and they are less so now," said Sean Ross at Edison Media Research, which conducts research for radio stations and others. "So it took people time to get past whether they were willing to say things."

After the 9/11 attacks, Young released the song "Let's Roll," about the passengers who helped prevent United flight 93 from reaching its target that day. It was embraced as a patriotic message during a time of crisis.

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[regnaD kciN]

1. Big Whoop...

Just wait a few months, and Neil will be bashing Dems and fondly recalling Raygun yet again. :eyes:

[DesertRat]

2. Remember "Rockin' in the Free World"

Neil Young wrote this in 1989 about the Reagan/Bush era:

"Rockin' In The Free World"
There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. you go neil! he only mentioned a politician and a royal chimp!

In an interview on CNN, he seemed to endorse KERRY, since other than our Decider-in-Thief he was the only political figure Young mentioned.

[Ice4Clark]

4. Here are the lyrics to I'M LIVING WITH WAR

LIVING WITH WAR lyrics


I'm LIVING WITH WAR everday
I'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart everday
I'm LIVING WITH WAR right now

And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls, I pray for PEACE
Try to remember PEACE (visualize)

I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in PEACE
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again

I'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart
I'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart and mind
I'm LIVING WITH WAR right now

Don't take no tidal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was won
But when the curtain falls, I pray for PEACE
Try to remember PEACE (visualize)

In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember PEACE

The rocket's red glare, Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night, that our flag is still there
I'm LIVING WITH WAR everyday
I'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart everday
I'm LIVING WITH WAR right now

[Ice4Clark]

5. Here are the lyrics to FAMILIES

FAMILIES

When you try to bring our spirit home
Won't you celebrate our lives In a way that's right for our children
and families

When you write you songs about us
Won't you try to do us justice
Because we want to be just like you
and you FAMILIES

I see a light ahead
There's a chill wind blowing' in my head
I wish that I was home instead
with my FAMILY

There's a universe between us now
But I want to reach out and tell you how much you mean to me
and my FAMILY

I'm goin' back to the USA
I just got my ticket today
I can't wait to see you again
in the USA

[Ice4Clark]

6. Here's Neil in an interview on CNN

It's at youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utryGZ25dg