Do yourself a favor and go listen to Neil Young's Living with War album which is streaming right now. The CD won't be released until May. I just listened to it and it is a good album even without the political comment. Most of it is Neil Young and Crazy Horse. By that I mean that it is the Neil Young side which always comes out when playing with Crazy Horse as opposed to what you might call his Harvest side. The band is not Crazy Horse by the way. This is a three piece and it sounds excellent. I'm glad Neil has honed his preference for recording with as little production as possible. This enabled him to put out a quality effort like this in such a short time.

Bits and pieces:

Won't need no shadow man/Runnin' the government
Won't need no sunshine/Won't need no purple haze

We live in the garden of Eden, yeah/Don't know why we wanna tear the whole thing to the ground

I never bow to the laws of the thought police ..

From Brad's Blog: 'It may just be the Fahrenheit 9/11 of rock' ... Neil Young wants to keep on rockin' the free world.His new record, Living With War, makes very clear that if the Bush regime is allowed to continue, there may not be a free world to rock for much longer.

Don't need no ad machine/Telling me what I need/Don't need no Madison Avenue War/Don't need no more boxes I can see/Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no terror squad/Don't want no damned Jihad/Blowin' themselves away in my hood/But we don't talk to them/So we don't learn from them/Hate don't negotiate with Good

Don't need no more lies

.... Young kicks out the proverbial jams with the album's centerpiece, "Let's Impeach the President." This song is a blistering, barnstorming indictment of our Commander-in-Thief, and Young borrows a page from Michael Moore here by letting Bush destroy himself with his own words.

Thousands of children scarred for life/Millions of tears for a soldier's wife/Both sides are losing now/Heaven takes them in/Thousands of children scarred for life

We had a chance to change our mind/But somehow wisdom was hard to find/We went with what we knew and now we can't go back/But we had a chance to change our mind.

... The really remarkable thing is that the CD captures a live sound like few others do. It really sounds like you're in the room with Young and his 3-piece band as they blaze through the tunes. The album was recorded in a week with minimal overdubs, and this contributes an amazing vitality and urgency to the whole package. The choir and occasional trumpet add zing to an otherwise hard-rockin' bass-guitar-drum assault.

Do you think that you believe in yours more than they do theirs somehow?

... "I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer 18 to 22 years old, to write these songs and stand up," Young said. "I waited a long time. Then, I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the '60s generation. We're still here."

America has a leader but he's not in the house. He's walking here among us -- we have to seek him out.

America is beautiful but she has an ugly side.