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2008-02-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Music cannot change the world, says Neil Young

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Posted by gorb 2008-02-09 03:11|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Young said he deliberately included interviews with unimpressed critics and soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan in the documentary of his band's "Freedom of Speech" reunion tour, which earned them both praise and death threats.

Not to be nitpicky, but wouldn't people actually have to see this "documentary" to have that kinda reaction? Although I'm sure it'll be on the Sundance Channel, which plays movies that are so bad that it's part of my basic cable package, soon.

"Otherwise I thought it would just feel like a bunch of old hippies. And nobody would care. I would not, I would have left," said Young, who directs his films under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey.

Make that "very rich old hippies"...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-09 09:48|| 2008-02-09 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Whiny asshat.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-09 10:15|| 2008-02-09 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 "Music cannot change the world, says Neil Young"

It never could, idiot - that was a leftie fantasy from the git-go.

And your "music" sucks, too.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-02-09 10:17|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-02-09 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 This southern man don't need you around anyhow.

Posted by Beavis 2008-02-09 10:34|| 2008-02-09 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Neil actually was kinda gung-ho right after 9/11, with songs like "Let's Roll". The the hippy instincts kicked in.
Neil's made great music. If I screened my music for moonbats, I'd have practically nothing less.
Musicians and movie stars and the like are basically overpaid extended adolescents. It's what they do for society ... most of us go and get a job, raise a family, etc ... we pay Neil to facilitate our fantasy that someday we could still learn some bar chords and hit the road.

Posted by docob 2008-02-09 10:35|| 2008-02-09 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 The above should read: if I screened my music for moonbats, I'd have practically nothing left

Posted by docob 2008-02-09 10:38|| 2008-02-09 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 As a baby boomer from a family with many in uniform at the time, I have never forgiven him for this refrain:

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down ...

Watching the shameful abuse of those national guardsmen, spitting and rock throwing and more. And that young kid who panicked and fired and felt awful afterwards ...

And then this slimemold makes a fortune off of it with his self-righteous song?

SPIT

(Not that I feel strongly about it or anything ...)

Posted by lotp 2008-02-09 10:47|| 2008-02-09 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 From "Let's Roll" to "Let's Run" in how many years? If musicians are so flimsy in their own opinions why the hell should we give them any credit.

I think Crosby Stills, Nash and Young probably thought there 4 Dead in Ohio song caused the uproar about that campus shooting, as if nobody would have been offended if there wasn't a theme song guiding them.

Music can entertain and it can fill the emptiness but uninformed politics and irrational fears are still uninformed politics and irrational fears even when put to music. I still smirk when I listen to all of those anti-nuke songs from the 80s that always seemed to tilt that it was USA's fault we were spiraling into inevitable war. Yeah maybe people who live the problems day and night knew a bit more about things than those that learned about it from a Time magazine article they skimmed and the feverish rantings of a drug-soaked roadie. Maybe.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-09 10:50|| 2008-02-09 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I disagree that music can't change the world. Bagpipe music used to do a pretty fine job of it. That was before the UK began removing their spines at birth.

But of course, Lefty Moonbat music can also change the world. It turns people with brain cells into Republicans.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-02-09 23:49|| 2008-02-09 23:49|| Front Page Top

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