I know it must feel like this is slowly becoming a Neil Young fan site--but I can't help myself. His latest album is so great and so relevent it's hard not to let it seep into my writing. If you get the album, you'll notice it also has a DVD along with the album. The DVD has acoustic versions of the songs performed in Ireland along with Neil discussing the songs and telling the story. You are cheating yourself if you don't sit down and watch it.
Anyway RollingStone has an interview with Neil Young in which he talks about the hopeful side of his album. "The energy in the last couple of songs ["Sun Green" and "Be the Rain"] - that's youth rising out of this. It hasn't gotten to the point where things have started moving yet, but this period is the biggest breeding ground for revolution in this country since the mid-Sixties. I don't think there's been a more ripe time for a generation to come along and rebel against all this.
Amen to that.
They ask him about TV later on in the album and he says, "But these reality shows -- who are they kidding? What reality is that, with a camera on you all the time? How stupid are people? "
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