Neil Young .... This isn't about money .....

Living With War is Neil Young's hastily recorded yet very classy and tight anti-Bush, anti-war and anti-thought police album.
It is available pre-release for streaming listening at http://www.neilyoung.com/
Quote: "Let's impeach the President for lying", and for "spying on citizens in their own homes breaking every law in the country / tapping our computers and telephones."
"Let's impeach the President for hijaaking our religion and using it to get elected... dividing our country into colours and still leaving black people neglected"
The song ends with sound bytes of Bush talking what has since been proved to be total shit.
Mr. Young wants the album heard as a whole. The online streams play through from beginning to end
"Even if it turns out that we can't sell it with the news in it, we won't sell it, we'll just stream it," he said. "We don't have to sell it. We can still get it out there. This has nothing to do with money as far as I'm concerned."

I have never been a Neil Young fan, but this album is great. Neil seems to say what he feels. In the 60's it was the excellent song about the poor unfortunate four dead in Ohio.
Since then, he has apparently supported Ronald Reagan and later the war on terror following 911. As the neocons used this event to speed up their anti-world imperialist big brother agenda, they became more and more blatant, and despite a compliant and fawning media, via word of mouth world-wide over the internet people began to see what really is going on, and have become very concerned and alarmed. The majority of Americans have taken longer than the rest of the world to wake up, but now there seems to be a groundswell. Neil Young is very passionately part of this groundswell. At heart he is still a Raa Raa flag waving Yank (yes, I know he is Canadian, but listen to his interview!), yet things have got to a stage where he feels complelled to speak out.
I don't believe in Nationalism myself, it is jingoistic and dangerous. At least Neil Young's is like Kris Kristofferson's, where the patriotism isn't blind, my country right or wrong crap, it is aimed at redeeming and improving his country.


Sample lyrics from Neil Young's upcoming

album, Living With War:

Back in the days of shock and awe

We came to liberate them all

History was the cruel judge of overconfidence

Back in the days of shock and awe

Back in the days of "mission accomplished"

Our chief was landing on the deck

The sun was setting on a golden photo-op

Back in the days of "mission accomplished"

-- from Shock and Awe

Don't need no Madison Avenue War

Don't need no more boxes I can't see

Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

Don't need no more lies

-- from The Restless Consumer

Won't need no shadow man

Runnin' the government

Won't need no stinkin' WAR

Won't need no haircut

Won't need no shoeshine

After the garden is gone

-- from After the Garden

Lookin' for a leader

To bring our country home

Reunite the red white and blue

Before it turns to stone . . .

Yeah maybe it's Obama

But he thinks that he's too young

Maybe it's Colin Powell

To right what he's done wrong

-- from Lookin' for a Leader