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Remember Neil Young? You know, “searchin’ for a heart of gold” and all that? The fourth and most expendable part of CSN and sometimes Y, that is, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young? Yeah, only aging hippies and their likewise aging annoying younger brothers will remember ol’ Neil, whom a southern man don’t need around anyhow, but Young is indeed still around anyhow.
Neil Young is now 79 years old, and at an age when most of his peers are enjoying their twilight years in Burnout Acres Retirement Facility, Neil is still churning out hippie anthems. The hippie heyday, however, was many years and a lot of weed ago, and the old speak-truth-to-power types are now unthinking, kneejerk leftist conformists. Neil Young is chief among them. Young Neil would have wept to see it.
Not only is old Neil, in his fanatical determination to conform to whatever the leftist intelligentsia tells him to think, a repudiation of everything that young Neil once seemed to stand for; he has also entangled himself in a ridiculous self-contradiction in trying to go after the left’s Emanuel Goldstein du jour, Elon Musk.
Pitchfork reported Friday that Young’s new album, Talkin to the Trees (he’s a tree-hugging hippie to the bitter end, this guy) begins “with a reliably on-the-nose protest song, ‘Lets Roll Again,’ rallying the American car industry to ‘protect our children’ by manufacturing electric vehicles at a rate to match China, which is ‘way ahead—they’re building clean cars.’ (‘That’s hard to swallow!’ he adds.)”
Okay, so Neil wants us all driving electric vehicles, as it’s no surprise that he is a fervent adherent of the left’s climate change mythology, but there’s just one catch: he doesn’t want people getting the idea that they should go buy a car manufactured by the dreaded Musk. Pitchfork adds: “In verses to the tune of Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land Is Your Land’” (oh, brother), “Young zeroes in on Elon Musk: ‘If you’re a fascist, then get a Tesla/If it’s electric/It doesn’t matter/If you’re a Democrat, then taste your freedom/Get whatever you want, and taste your freedom.’ The video accompanies the verse with a ‘Heil Tesla’ image depicting Musk’s Nazi-style salute.”
Wow, claiming Elon Musk is a Nazi! That’s new, imaginative, and daring, Neil! What’s next? A song about how Trump is a Nazi, too? Never mind, I’m sure you have eight or ten of those already out.
Or maybe not. Young professes to be truly, deeply, madly worried that Orange Man Bad is going to go full-Nazi on him. A few weeks ago, old Neil was positively frothing at the mouth with paranoia and rage over Trump’s efforts to rid the country of illegal and criminal migrants, and warned darkly that he was afraid the boom was going to be lowered on him, too: “When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket. That is happening all the time now. Countries have new advice for those returning to America. You can read about it at the CANADA Desk. If I come back from Europe and am barred, can’t play my USA tour, all of the folks who bought tickets will not be able to come to a concert by me.”
Yeah, gosh, it would be a terrible loss for everyone concerned if they couldn’t go see Neil Young play music, but the senescent hippies need not worry, because contrary to Neil’s claims, that really isn’t happening now. If Neil Young is really worried about authoritarianism in America, he must have been enraged about the people who really were put in jail to sleep on a cement floor for walking into the Capitol as the police held the doors open on Jan. 6, 2021, and strolled around taking selfies, no? He must have been ballistic about the Biden regime trying to impose a Disinformation Governance Board upon the American people, and about how it sent spies into Catholic churches to watch pro-lifers as if they were terrorists, right?
Wrong. Neil didn’t care about any of that. The young rebel has become the old conformist. As he continues to churn out feeble music to reflect the point of view of those whom he allows to do the thinking for him, he reminds us of the truth of the old adage: there’s no fool like an old fool.
Who cares what this POS thinks.
I don’t care about Young’s political opinions. Young is a crappy “singer.”
He is not a musician/singer of any consequence or of historical remembrance.
Also avoid Carlos Santana. A concert overly amplified.
With Carlos spouting off his political opinion three times. Yet I must admit, after receiving hearing protection, the music was classic Santana. And good.
Yet NEVER again.
Dude…. who cares what you think.
You can go back to Canada now.
Good luck
Yeah, let him go suck some maple syrup out of a tree.
That’s actually pretty tasty, but I’m not sure fan of Neil Young. I used to sing like him though, very out of tune.
We don’t want that sellout back. Neil Old been a naturalized U.S citizen since 1967, if he didn’t have enough of a problem with Lyndon Johnson, and Vietnam, then he should shut his trap about Musk and Trump.
We don’t want him. Old man look at yourself.
The last Neil Young concert I attended was, in the mid 1980’s, the crowd was mostly wearing Harley Davidson biker gear, and older than me. I don’t know who would see Neil Young these days? I agree, you are an old fool, when you think you are a rebel, but you are an agitprop tool, for the man.
He took too much LSD, damaged his chromosones, had an austic kid…..and now tells us how to live??
Its a wonder Ben & Jerry’s haven’t named a ice cream after him yet…. Neal Young Free World Fudgey Wudgey…..
Neil’s Heart of Mold Swirl.
Butt nugget Neal. Extra crunchy!
What’s the Size of Youngs Carbon Footprint can anyone Guess?
Much bigger than ours, but much smaller than Al Gore’s.
Yeah, I don’t give half a shit what this washed up old Canuckistani twat has to say. What a joke!
Neil Uoung comes out against 1960s – 70s aging rockers and hypocrites.
Correction…*Young*
Who knew Mr.Soul would turn into Ebenezer Scrooge before the ghosts.
Or Thomas Mitchell toward the end of his career.
His “Cortez The Killer” could be forcibly applied to AOC.
*Cortez IS a name like *Hitler when one muses on it…
…and it would be fun to hijack one of his songs. ~~
Cortez was actually a hero, although very avaricious. Read “The Discovery and Conquest of New Spain” by Bernal Diaz del Castillo if you don’t believe me. I think that was the name of the book. It’s been forty years since I read it so give me a break.
Good book, though.
Yeah, good book. I read it too. Maybe the earliest book describing the New World.
Yeah, Youngtard. I have to give the stupid, stinky, old hippie credit, though. He has a great head of hair. And he came up with some really good songs for such a degenerate.
Sometimes God craps in his creations. You never know.
Someone disagrees–> “Lousy singer, lousy musician, churlish angry face, writer of shitty lyrics, overall pain in the ass possessing a superiority complex. Need I say more?”
I guess not?
I like his songs, though. “Harvest Moon” is sublime. So what if he has a lousy singing voice? What rock star hasn’t except John Fogerty?
I liked his 1969 album “Down by the River”. Some of his songs got too weird after that though.
He always seemed the least talented of his generation to be so successful.
As a guitar playing teenager he was impressive on television standing out front of Buffalo Springfield singing and playing his guitar with a long coil cord to a Fender Dual Showman Amp.
Later, he seemed simplistic, repetitive, and made up for it by playing louder than sanity would allow in the Santa Cruz gigs he would spontaneously appear in.
When he went pro-totalitarian, pro-vax, he just showed he was hypocrite hippie. All counter culture, and sticking it to the “Man” until it really mattered.
A Maga man dont need him around anyhow….Lenard Skynard wrote a song about this commie years ago.
Lousy singer, lousy musician, churlish angry face, writer of shitty lyrics, overall pain in the ass possessing a superiority complex. Need I say more?
I don’t think I ever owned a CD by CSN(Y), the most whiny singers ever. If I did it has long since been consigned to the used CD store. Somehow I don’t think I missed a thing.
We can tell just how lousy he was by the fact he sold so few albums and that so few people attended his concerts. Ditto for CSN(Y). Millions of fans never hoped for CSNY to reunite. Neither Neil Young nor CSN were ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Never let facts get in the way of an assertion.)
Hmmm, if CSN(Y) were so bad, why do so many readers recognize what the letters stand for? Never mind.
The comment reminds me of Derek Hunter’s assertion that all of Bruce Springsteen’s songs sound the same. Yep, that’s why he has his own station on SiriusXM.
I can disagree with a musician’s or actor’s politics while still acknowledging their excellence in their crafts. <#1 hit Heart of Gold plays in background.) Likewise, I can appreciate the politics of actors that weren't so great. Win one for the Gipper…
Lots of shitty bands sold records and had sold out arenas. So what?
Of course! You are a wimpy CSNY fan. Not surprised you like Springsteen too, the Dylan wannabe. Perfect. You are a leftover hippie with your cheap guitar and your harmonica. The guys in these fake bands are a lot like you. Overly pleased with themselves, like all leftists, but never really bothered to hone their craft.
Springsteen was never the greatest guitarist in the world. Basically a mediocre rhythm guitarist who wrote overly long boring songs. Now he is just an old man who stuck around too long, like the rest of your fossilized “heroes”.
Most of us outgrew the amateurism of the 60s. Apparently you didn’t. And you couldn’t hear the clashing of voices in the their Woodstock performance? They couldn’t sing in key to save their lives. Always out of tune except in the studio where you can overdub the life out of a song.
re: CSNY? There’s a sucker born every minute. Say hello to yourself.
Harmonicas! LOL. Every time Neal wold pull one out in concert on TV my friend would say “not the harmonica!” And he had some Forrest Gump looking contraption to hold in front of his mouth.
This is too easy. You keep putting the softball up on the tee. Trigger warning: basic logic ahead. The people going to the sold out shows and buying the records don’t think they are “shitty,” This just in: people have different tastes. Did you ever take an economics course?
“Springsteen was never the greatest guitarist in the world.” Who ever claimed he was? Talk about desperate. Tell us about Steve Van Zandt. Trump was never the greatest ping pong player in the world. What does that have to do with anything? Springsteen’s shows sell out for big bucks. I’ve seen him live twice and his shows were excellent. He’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ditto for Neil Young and CSN. I am not so pathetic that because I disagree with an entertainer’s politics that I cannot like their artistry. Let me guess! You think De Niro is not a good actor. Did I nail it?!
It wasn’t “amateurism.” They were/are professionals who made a good living satisfying people who chose to spend their money watching/listening to them. Given the average age of those still paying big bucks to attend their shows, old fans clearly haven’t “outgrown” their enjoyment of the music. What, were the old people supposed to start enjoying rap?
“Always out of tune?” Do you get a commission every time you write stupid statements like that? “They couldn’t sing to save their lives.” Why do so many people pay big bucks still to hear them? (This is going to be good.)
We’re still waiting for you to reconcile your assertion that I am a liberal with my Tea Party speeches. Watch it on YouTube to realize how pathetic and inaccurate your assertions are. You got nothing and I will continue to point that out. At the corner of Clueless and Always -Trumper, anyone who offers a criticism of Trump, however valid, just has to be a liberal. Did Trump give us President Biden with a Dem House and Senate or not? Or is this just “one of my truths?”
My band has a regular gig once a month. Hope you come out to hear us! I sing Sympathy for the Devil. Maybe you can somehow use your gift of prevaricating to tie that in with original sin.
Nuthin’!
People who live in the past will always fork over big bucks to see has beens. If you want to waste your money go right ahead.
I wouldn’t pay to see a Led Zeppelin concert because 1) the drummer passed and 2) the singer lost his voice and has enough pride not to go out and embarrass himself. He is in his mid 70s. I saw the Page/Plant tour at the Hollywood Bowl when they could still perform effectively and it wasn’t a train wreck like so many other bands.
Steve Van Zandt? Don’t care. No opinion.
De Niro? Fake tough guy who always wants to punch Trump, kind of like Jose Dementio. Haven’t cared about him since Good Fellas.
I don’t give a shit about your non existent tea party speeches. Couldn’t find them anyway. How about a link to them. You do know how to do a link right? Who’s “we are still waiting”? Your vast public at college? You are a snobby, self-centered smug liberal and you will never convince me otherwise. Most losers with low self esteem are, Mr. Associate Professor.
I’ve been on to you since the beginning Mr. 9th Grade President.. Just a small time prof at a dink-a$$ college.
I don’t think I’ll be making the trek to Monmouth Ill to hear the reincarnation of Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour. How about putting a video up on the Monmouth College website. That would be a hoot. I can only imagine the limp version of Mick Jagger you do.
Other than your endless repetition of your stock insult material, you really don’t have a lot going on in your Good Bye Mr. Chips world, do you. But you keep contacting me. Who’s in who’s head?
Springsteen only sounded good in the very early days, when he was imitating Eric Burden and the Animals.
The word for him then was *promising.
He never lived up.
I like CSN! “Carry On” is a great song.
But I never have had good taste. Hell, I still read comic books and I’m old as fuck.
“If you’re a Democrat, then taste your freedom”
A taste is as close as you’re going to get with the left. It’s like with Democracy, they haven’t ran a straight primary in over a decade, want to restrict who can be on the ballot, and want unelected bureaucrats running the government. You get a taste of voting, but that’s it.
Once upon a time many, many years ago I loved his music. Then he started trashing Alberta where I live, he said it looked like HIROSHIMA when he flew over the oil sands. Complete lie, it’s pristine because they recover every inch of land up there and it looks like it’s never been touched by machinery. Then when I got the chance to see him in Calgary the concert truly sucked I’ve never been so disappointed.
And he flew his private jet and entourage to join all the other Green fake limousine Liberals at the big Attack Fort Mac” rally they had. Best way to stop global warming is to fly you private jet, joining all the other private jets and entourages, to berate working class people for not going bankrupt in pursuit of an impossible and impractical goal that, even IF it was achieved, wold do nothing.
I’ve argued with my sister for decades… She contends that Young is the only one that can carry a tune in CSN&Y and has religiously followed his musical career. Just weeks ago he was against EVs as all of his Socialist ilk are. Now they’re going to love EVs again? I drive a Toyota Hybrid so I’ll probably piss everyone off on one day or another. Equal opportunity!
Steven Stills has by far the best voice in CSN.
Crosby lived in Marin County, he was famous for getting drunk in the local bars, getting in trouble with the law, and getting his name in the papers 🙂
There was a high percentage of the younger set in Marin County that were stoners, I wonder if anyone wrote a book about that.
Why the opinions of lowbrows like this Neil Young pinhead matters to any sane person defies logic and reason.
I’d rather listen to a monkey explain how to peel a banana than listen to anything empty headed liberal ass wipes like Neil Young and his ilk has to say.
Only a rich liberal like Young can embrace Socialism because he won’t be crushed financially by its evils the way the average citizen will be.
Some people never learn. They can’t. Their minds are clustered/brainwashed with lies from Communist fed colleges. Those are without hope.
Kelly
Good thing raw talent doesn’t require much thinking ..
The older Young and Springsteen get, the more credence it lends to Operation Mockingbird. Jim Morrison, say what you will about him called it years ago. They make songs popular by constantly playing them, especially to the drug influenced crowd! These guys were made into ‘hit makers’!
I thank God I was rescued from hippiedom. How boring.