Living With War

Overview Edit

Living with War is a 2006 Grammy and Juno Award-nominated studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. The album's lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration; the CTV website defined it as "a musical critique of U.S. President George W. Bush and his conduct of the war in Iraq". Written and recorded over the course of only nine days in March and April 2006 its lyrics are in line with the early 1960s albums of folk artists such as Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan, though it is set to what Young calls "metal folk protest music" courtesy of Young, bassist Rick Rosas, drummer Chad Cromwell and trumpet player Tommy Bray.

The Cromwell and Rosas rhythm section and "Volume Dealer" co-producer, Niko Bolas, were also at the core of Young's 1989 album Freedom, itself largely an angry criticism of Reagan-George H.W. Bush America. There are other links - Bray also performed on Freedom and Freedom's hit single "Rockin' in the Free World" also contained a quote of a President Bush: "a thousand points of light".

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Record label:

Reprise Records

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Release dates:

May 8 2006 in United States

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Not for the faint of heart

This is electric Neil, not acoustic Neil.

I'm one of those people who is (I suppose) middle of the road and when i heard about this album was interested in how Neil would deliver his 'message'. Well, it's direct. Brutally so.

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Shock and Awe is an all time classic Neil song (think Rockin in the Free World on steroids). Bank on that. The Restless Consumer is another great song. Families is a toe tapper. Let's Impeach the President is, well, a pretty decent song (musically a cousin to Powde…

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Written by Mark A. Cartier "Cartier"

as a devoted Neil Young fan

I must say that this cd, although certainly not his best, is perhaps the most important. In the 60's and 70's protest music was in its prime with people like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan creating protest music, but now protest music is harly apparent, with the forrunners being State radoi and most recently Pearl Jam. Although the music may not be his best, the message is the most important,and ultimatly more endearing aspect of this cd.

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After the Garden