Neil Young’s latest, much anticipated album went “live” on this website yesterday.
The music is streaming for free, but not for download, so it’s not quite “free.” But you can listen, and the lyrics are sort of available – you click on the song title to see them stream across the screen ticker-style (and if you click the license plate to see the title list and get to where the ticker scrolls, the music cuts off).
It sounds pretty rough – reportedly, it was written, recorded, and marketed in a hurry. There’s a lot of feedback – and I bet there’ll be tons more feedback in the figurative pouring in to Young’s inbox and Warner Records’, too.
Title list:
1. After the Garden
2. Living With War
3. The Restless Consumer
4. Shock and Awe
5. Families
6. Flags of Freedeom
7. Let’s Impeach the President
8. Lookin’ for a Leader
9. Roger and Out
10. America the Beautiful
Over at the official blog for the album (and isn’t that a commentary on itself on music marketing in the 21st century) some people evidently had the website open, or Myspace.com open, Friday morning at midnight when the music started streaming. The time signatures go on all that night, and last night, too.
I think I like it best when the chorus kicks in on the songs, because they take the rough edges off – Young’s voice was never a favorite listen, although I always loved his words.
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