Great new song from Neil Young – about Covid-19. Shut down the old ways – it’s time for something new; something that takes nature into account.
Neil Young – Heart of Gold
I just had to share this one with you. Such a great song.
I’ve spent my life searching for hearts of gold – found some too!
I’ve been wanting to spread a little gold on the planet and make it a better place. Not sure I’ve managed that too much!
Life’s a search for love, experience, fulfilment and poetry!
If you’re not making it better you’re probably making it worse! Let’s make it better!
Today’s Music to help me through another day in Isolation!!
Music is a great lifter of spirits! I’m enjoying focussing on one band or artist a day. It keeps me sane (well relatively).
Today’s music is Neil Young. I’ve always loved Neil right from when I first heard him with the incredible Buffalo Springfield! One of the top songwriters, great guitarist and singer. I love the versatility – from acoustic Folk songs to hard rockin’ Grunge. It all works for me!
So today I’ll be sampling my vast collection of Neil and blasting it out (Liz tells me I have to think of the neighbours – so I will think of the neighbours while I blast it out!)
Music is so important for mental health!!
Keep on Rockin’!!
Neil Young’s tribute to Phil Ochs – Changes
Some Neil Young Quotes that make sense to me.
Some Neil Young Quotes that make sense to me.
I rate Neil Young up there near to Dylan. But he’s a complex man. I don’t go along with everything the man comes out with. Here’s a few quotes that make sense to me.
I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.
The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
I don’t like war. I particularly don’t like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we’re going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
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Neil Young – Rockin’ in the Free World – lyrics about social inequality, homelessness, drug addiction and the damage to society and children.
Neil Young – Rockin’ in the Free World – lyrics about social inequality, homelessness, drug addiction and the damage to society and children.
Inequality is the basis behind most of the world’s problems. The division between the have’s and have-nots is immense. The judgement of a good civilised country is how it treats its underprivileged, needy and disabled.
I was shocked by what I saw in America and what I see in Britain. There is a heartlessness in many people’s actions; they seem to believe that the homeless and down-and-outs deserve all they get. They should have worked harder at school, achieved higher qualifications, got themselves a job.
I am not referring to the hapless free-loaders. There are the scroungers who need to be made to contribute.
Before making judgements people should listen to the stories of the people concerned. There are many sad tales of neglect, abuse and disaster. Many are traumatised and unable to function.
There but for fortune.
The worth of a society is its benevolence. It seems that the greatest nations on Earth are content to have people living rough and scratching round dust-bins for food – as if they were vermin.
I think that is an indictment on those nations. It is cold, heartless and uncaring. We should be better than that.
The children brought up in the degradation created by poverty, desperation, prostitution and drugs will grow up to have a blighted life. It needs addressing and we are rich enough nations to address the issues properly. There is far too much greed and selfishness.
Neil Young highlighted the problems in this song. The ‘Free World’ should set an example and show the world how compassion is done!
“Rockin’ In The Free World”
There’s colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign
on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’
we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign
on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’
we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
Neil Young – Cortez the Killer – a track that got him banned!
Hernan Cortez led a successful invasion of South America in 1519 in which there was the brutal overthrown of the Aztec empire. It only took 2 years. One can only imagine the impact of the Spanish, with their horses, armour, galleons and superior technology. It was the equivalent of a superior race of aliens landing today. The Aztecs were utterly demoralised.
In their lust for gold Cortez committed atrocities, tortures and massacres.
Neil rather idealised the Aztec culture which had its own barbarism but did, for me, capture the brutality of the cynical Western European invasions of the Americas, Australia, Africa and around the world. Having developed a superior technology they set about ruthlessly invading the world, pillaging, raping and practicing genocide, setting up their empires and extracting wealth.
All largely sanitised in the history books.
What a great song. For some reason it was banned by Franco in Spain!!
“Cortez The Killer”
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.
And his subjects
gathered ’round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.
And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood
straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.
Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.
They carried them
to the flatlands
And they died along the way
But they built up
with their bare hands
What we still can’t do today.
And I know she’s living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can’t remember when
Or how I lost my way.
He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer.
Neil Young – Ohio – A protest song of magnitude!
This is one of my favourite Neil Young tracks. It has real emotion and fury.
Richard Nixon had just announced an escalation of the Vietnam War at the beginning of May in 1970. There was an expansion into Cambodia. The student antiwar protest movement was infuriated. There were widespread protests.
Trouble had been fermenting for days. On the campus of Kent State in Ohio a large group of students protested. The National Guard were called out in strength by the governor of the State Rhodes. State troopers with fixed bayonets and live ammunition confronted the protestors. The protestors did not disperse and the State troopers fired into the unarmed crowd killing four students and injuring nine others one of whom was paralysed.
The incident became known as the Kent State Massacre and provoked widespread fury and protest across the States.
Neil Young was incensed and wrote Ohio. It was quickly recorded by CSN&Y and put out while the venom was hot.
I rate it as one of Neil’s best songs.
Neil Young – Ohio
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Read more: Neil Young – Ohio Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Opher’s World pays tribute to genius.
Neil Young – Opher’s World pays tribute to Neil Young