NEIL YOUNG & CRAZYHORSE "BROKEN ARROW" LP
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NEIL YOUNG & CRAZYHORSE "BROKEN ARROW" LP
Catalogue: 9462911
Reprise Records 1996
Rare original US Double LP pressing
BROKEN ARROW is the third straight album on which Neil Young has splattered loud electric-guitar notes all over his folk-rock melancholy. You'd have to go back to Young's amazing mid-1970s records to find a similar streak, and you'd have to go back just as far to find Young in a groove this consistent, this good. In his '90s incarnation, Young seems to be upping the ante each go-round. It's as if he's completely enveloped in his own noise, and taking great pleasure in seeing just how much he can get away with. The first three songs on BROKEN ARROW are nearly a half-hour long between them, and they reach that length through long, scratchy, meandering solos that evoke both jazz and punk-rock (think Sonic Youth) in their simultaneous bid to be transcendent and noisy. In "Loose Change", Young solos for a miraculous six-and-a-half minutes over a single chord. By the end of the third song, Young appears emotionally spent, desperate to break the mood. The second half of BROKEN ARROW consists of comparatively light and compact electric folk-rock songs, a cosmic acoustic number and an odd little live recording of bluesman Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me To Do". It's a potpourri that belies the strength of songwriting and performance that this wayward rocker has carried into middle age. "I'm still living the dream we had/For me it's not over", he sings over a haze of guitar distortion in "Big Time". At age 50, in fact, he sounds as if he's just starting.
This copy graded as NM/NM The vinyl has never been played, and was only unsealed to add extra anti-static inner sleeves. Shrink wrapping featuring original sticker still entact, all original inserts included. The cover has also been protected by a resealable polythene sleeve.
1. Big Time
2. Music Arcade
3. This Town
4. Baby What You Want Me To Do
5. Loose Change
6. Slip Away
7. Changing Highways
8. Scattered (Let's Think About Livin')
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