Youngian archetypes
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re-act-or
If I'd never heard of Neil Young and you told me to go listen to a 1981 album by a sixties hippie-rocker, pretty much thrown together as the final release of a record contract, and met with poor sales, and critical disapprobation I wouldn't bother. Which made me wonder if I was kind of making allowances for this because I like Neil Young's earlier work.
To these ears, Re-act-or sounds strangely timeless, and that helps. Also, you have to accept that Young has that special something that makes it all work.
I'm not the first to have noticed that this album contains the precursors of grunge, especially in the magnificent final track, Shots. Actually, I like this track more than all of grunge.
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