(STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) NEIL YOUNG, "GREENDALE" (REPRISE)
After living for a while with Neil Young's new album, itsaccompanying 14-page booklet and the bonus DVD featuring a liveperformance of this 10-song rock opera (Neil's idiosyncratic versionof "Our Town," populated by unrepentant hippies, ecoterrorists, oldcranks railing against the intrusive media and Satan), I'm still notsure I understand the concept behind this absurdly ambitious conceptalbum. But I'm certain that that couldn't bother me less.
Young has always had some extra oomph whenever he's teamed up withCrazy Horse, the best of any of his backing bands, and not onlybecause of the much-vaunted guitar …
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