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Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records "Impeach the President" Song
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Posted on 04/14/2006 9:13:32 AM PDT by slowhand520

Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records "Impeach the President" Song

By E&P Staff

Published: April 14, 2006 11:40 AM ET

The 60's relics are so precious ain't they? Is this guy even American?

NEW YORK As an E&P "Pressing Issues" column recently noted, rock star Neil Young is the son of a famed Canadian journalist, so it should not surprise many that he recently recorded a song in California with a very reportorial -- or at least pundit -- feel to it.

It’s called “Impeach the President,” so there can be little question what it is about.

Apparently it was recorded with a 100-voice choir. Rumors have circulated the past few days on the Web, but E&P has tracked down the strongest confirmation in a blog kept by Sherman Oaks, Ca. musician/singer Alicia Morgan.

Previous reports quoted hints by Young and Jonathan Demme (who directed the new documentary “Heart of Gold”) that Neil was working on a hard-rocking political or “anti-Bush” CD.

Last Friday, Morgan wrote on her LastLeftB4Hooterville blog that she had been “summoned” to a local studio to sing on the new record with 99 others. “I'm not going to give the whole thing away, but the first line of one of the songs was ‘Let's impeach the President for lyin'!’ Turns out the whole thing is a classic beautiful protest record. The session was like being at a 12-hour peace rally. Every time new lyrics would come up on the screen, there were cheers, tears and applause. It was a spiritual experience. I can't believe my good fortune at being a part of this.

“We finished the session by singing an a capella version of 'America the Beautiful' and there was not a dry eye in the house.

“Neil said it should be out in 6 to 8 weeks."

Harp magazine reported on its Web site Thursday that Demme had confirmed in an e-mail, “Neil just finished writing and recording -- with no warning -- a new album called 'Living With War.' It all happened in three days… It is a brilliant electric assault, accompanied by a 100-voice choir, on Bush and the war in Iraq… Truly mind blowing. Will be in stores soon.”

The magazine continued: “Details are pretty scarce, but the featured track, titled ‘Impeach the President,’ features a rap with Bush’s voice set to the choir chanting ‘flip/flop’ and the like.”

Young has always been a maverick politically as well as musically. Although he has recorded a few songs with a "liberal" slant, he also drew criticism from the left for pro-Reagan comments many years ago. Most of his albums contain few if any political songs.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)


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To: Incorrigible

It would be a scream if Crosby, Stills, and Nash joined him in a charity concert for impeaching the president. That would be scream (especially if one of them has died the way imfamous rockers typically die).


141 posted on 04/14/2006 8:00:52 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: Revolting cat!
Young has always been a maverick politically as well as musically. Although he has recorded a few songs with a "liberal" slant, he also drew criticism from the left for pro-Reagan comments many years ago. Most of his albums contain few if any political songs. Herein lies Young's motivation:

The best way to earn the admiration of your peers and reap critical acclaim from the elite of your industry is to do something liberal. That's all. It doesn't even have to be good. Just left-wing. Some evangelizing for your religion.

142 posted on 04/14/2006 8:09:53 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (All it takes for evil to triumph is for Republicans to befriend, act like, and give in to, Democrats)
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To: Captainpaintball

I remember reading articles about Young in the so-called "alternative" press, maybe a dozen or more years ago that painted him as a political maverick, leaning conservative or libertarian. They couldn't bring themsleves to criticize him, after all, he was a Woodstock boy, and he didn't express support any nasty fascist Republicans. But to me he sounded like another joe palooka, as he does today, not well read, or particularly deep, just against certain things we all ought to be against, but for no reasons in his case that were intelligently articulated or well thought out. As I said, joe palooka.


143 posted on 04/14/2006 8:18:08 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Revolting cat!
Right. But as someone else posted earlier, he was beaten down in the mid 80s by the Geffen/Pink Mafia and has been trying to atone for it ever since. I would like to do a little research on this and see what he did between his lawsuit and 1989's Freedom, which started his comeback, of sorts.
144 posted on 04/14/2006 8:37:26 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: dmz

Finally. Somebody who does appreciate the good stuff, but my favorite is Cowgirl in the Sand


145 posted on 04/14/2006 8:49:27 PM PDT by SaintDismas
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To: slowhand520

Out on the weekend



Think I’ll pack it in and buy a pick-up
Take it down to l.a.
Find a place to call my own and try to fix up.
Start a brand new day.

The woman I’m thinking of, she loved me all up
But I’m so down today
She’s so fine, she’s in my mind.
I hear her callin’.

See the lonely boy, out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay.
Can’t relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can’t begin to say.

She got pictures on the wall, they make me look up
From her big brass bed.
Now I’m running down the road trying to stay up
Somewhere in her head.

The woman I’m thinking of, she loved me all up
But I’m so down today
She’s so fine she’s in my mind.
I hear her callin’.

See the lonely boy, out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay.
Can’t relate to joy, he tries to speak and
Can’t begin to say.


146 posted on 04/14/2006 9:10:04 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Incorrigible; slowhand520

This article has it overblown, knowing Neil's past work I'm sure the "political content" of these songs will cut both ways. Mark my words. When the CD comes out, we will post the lyrics here and let the flaming begin.

Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps and Harvest Moon were great albums! Prairie Wind isn't bad either. I don't care if he plays one note - Live Rust was the best concert film of the 70's. Don't forget Crazy Horse. Pure Rock!

Pompous asshole? no doubt. But great sounds over the years.


147 posted on 04/14/2006 9:10:22 PM PDT by bagadonutz
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To: bagadonutz

Rockin' In The Free World
by Neil Young



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.


148 posted on 04/14/2006 9:25:44 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Liberty Valance

I do not agree with Neil about the "Impeach Bush" tune. But i must say it is his right...wait a minute.....is he a Canadian or American or (the blessed among us) dual citizenship? Oh well, I certainly like his music and have heard some really good things about him and his family. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, not that he needs that.


149 posted on 04/14/2006 10:18:58 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: Liberty Valance

neil young
Lets roll





I know i said i love you
I know you know its true
I got to put the phone down
And do what we got to do
One's standing in the aisle way
Two more at the door
We got to get inside there
Before they kill some more

Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll
Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll


No time for indecision we got to make a move
I hope that were forgiven for what we got to do
How this all got started i'll never understand
Hope someone can fly this thing and get us back to land

Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll
Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll

No one has the answer but one thing is true
You got to turn on evil when it's coming after you
You gotta face it down and when it tries to hide
We gotta go in after it and never be denied

Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll

Lets roll for freedom
Lets roll for love
Going after satin on the wings of a dove
Lets roll for justice
Lets roll for truth
Lets not let our children grow up fearful in their youth

Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll
Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll
Time is runnin out¡­ lets roll



150 posted on 04/14/2006 10:41:49 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: slowhand520

Neil, you are so 1969. Just shut up and sing about drugs and cinammon girls and such, k?


152 posted on 04/15/2006 5:27:01 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: BunnySlippers
Do you mean Reagan?

that poster is correct, I remember a televised news report where Neil Young endorsed Reagan over Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election.

153 posted on 04/15/2006 5:40:22 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Republictarian.....)
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To: BunnySlippers

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/ptma/reagan.htm


154 posted on 04/15/2006 5:48:39 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Republictarian.....)
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To: catfish1957

Yes, I did, duh. That's what happens when you don't preview.


155 posted on 04/15/2006 5:51:09 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: slowhand520
the whole thing is a classic beautiful protest record

In the unlikely event it actually is, it would be the first because there is no such other record.

156 posted on 04/15/2006 5:56:01 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (The MSM is a hate group and we are the object of their disdain.)
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To: slowhand520

The angry loony left strikes again...

157 posted on 04/15/2006 5:59:58 AM PDT by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Tokra

The idiots do not refer to all yankees, only those who look down on us southerners.


159 posted on 04/15/2006 9:35:22 AM PDT by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: susannah59
Sorry, Young was a great, great songwriter. Skynyrd had their moments, but their whiney response to Young's song in Sweet Home Alabama just made them sound defensive. Who cares if someone makes a political song we don't agree with--free speech is about making controversial statements. Let's be real here, Young was addressing people who really DO exist, so let's not pretend he just invented them out of whole cloth and the South was "slandered" or something.

For a period in the 70's Young was bursting with creativity and good tunes. Since the 80's, he's had occassional successes, but he's an example of one of those artists who has to work at what used to come naturally.

Are we all supposed to think Skynyrd were great because they said "Yeah, well we don't like YOU either!" in response to an interesting, original song that had some relevence to the time when it was penned? I won't buy this song or CD, and I think Young is uninformed and stupid about this situation. But while Skynyrd had a good tune or two they were pretty plain, a glorified bar band. In terms of originality, creativity and artistry, he kicks Skynyrd's butt all over the place, his ignorant politics notwithstanding. We shouldn't let politics determine our "loyalty" toward musicians. IMHO, of course.

160 posted on 04/15/2006 1:08:29 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (By 2004, annual inflow of foreign-born persons was down 24% from its all-time high in 2000--PEW)
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