YOU MUST HEAR THIS

Neil Young is still the real thing, baby.

He has a new album out, "Are You Passionate?," and you can hear every note of it online at his site. So I went there and fired it up. At first I was just cleaning the house, thinking the music was something like his albums from the late '80s, like "This Note's For You" and "Life" (the one with "Mideast Vacation") because there's a bluesy, melodic electric guitar line leading some of the songs. Nice, kind of mellow, good for cleaning the house to...

And then came song No. 5, "Let's Roll." You have to hear it. Go to the site and click the link to hear the whole album. If you don't have time for all of it, you'll have the choice to click the song you want. Play "Let's Roll," then play the next song, "Are You Passionate?" to come back.

There are some other goodies on there, if you're a Neil Young fan, but even if you aren't, you gotta hear "Let's Roll."
http://www.neilyoung.com

Love ya,
Maria

Let's Roll, baby!

Maria - not only good for cleaning house, but also while hitting the college school books. Like you said, kind of mellow ...
Love the beat and the words.

Are you passionate... Are you dreaming now ... Are you loving it ...

Thanks,
Sabra

Yeah, mighty nice of him to put the whole thing on the internet.

Did you get why Let's Roll brought me to a standstill? It's the Pennsylvania plane -- United Flight 93 on Sept. 11. Todd Beamer was a passenger who told an operator by cell phone that the passengers herded in the back were going to try to do something about the hijackers. The last words the operator heard him say were, "Let's roll."

I think it's a great song. But, yeah, I also think I love this new album.

Maria

goosebumps here ...

Yeah, it got me in the heart and spread outward. It must have been the second verse when I caught on and stood up, stuttering, "That's...that's..."

Maria

Maria...

Are you ok??

Sending {{{{hugs}}}}

luv

Sabra

Whoa Maria, thank you!

quote:

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No one has the answers
But one thing is true
You've gotta turn on evil
When its coming after you
You've gotta face it down
And when it tries to hide
you've gotta go in after it
And never be denied

Time is running out ...
Let's roll!

Let's roll for freedom
Let's roll for love
Let's go in after satan
On the wings of a dove
Let's roll for justice
Let's roll for truth
Let's not let our children
Grow up fearful and confused

Time is running out ...
let's roll!

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Yesss!

Love,
Greg

Tell me this song was written AFTER 9-11.

Otherwise...

Goosebumps won't begin to describe the way I feel!!

HI guys

Love the song - I listened to the album last night while I was falling asleep. I love Neil Young

Peggy - Yes, it was written as a tribute to the passangers of the plane that went down in Penn. I think (and I might just be imagining it here) that I heard him play it live on one of the concerts for NYC. That would have been only a couple weeks about 9-11, so if I am remembering it right he got it down really quick.

Oh and I really LOVE artist who put their albums on-line. I think I love it b/c big record labels hate it so much...but when you have Neil Young on your label, you kinda have to make him happy...

Love,
Terri

All,

Here is an excerpt on Neil Young's album Are You Passionate? and the timing of the song "Let's Roll" that I found. Basically it is what Maria and Terri already mentioned above. The link is below if you want to read the rest of the article.

Sabra

quote:

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Neil Young's worldwide audience got a unique preview of Are You Passionate? late last year with "Let's Roll," a song written and recorded shortly before Thanksgiving and subsequently rush-released by Reprise Records. The song was inspired by the last words of a cell phone call from Todd Beamer, a passenger on Flight 93 who led an attack on the terrorists, foiling their presumed plan to strike a Washington D.C. target. The jet was brought down in a Pennsylvania field, killing all on board. Neil Young has also made a personal donation to the Beamer family fund.

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Neil Young

wow.

Sabra, yes, yes, I'm OK, lol. I didn't mean to make it sound like a had a heart attack or something. That's just my Leo rising dramatic self -- and I LOVE it when an artist can get something so right on that it just floods me with the spirit of the thing. Actually, see, I was just crawling around the floor picking up Barbie doll clothes when the realization of what I was hearing dawned on me, and I had to rise. Thanks for finding that link. I'll go read.

Did you get the PM I sent you about the interpretations you sent me? The one where I said I saw how they fit me?

I've been really busy the last two days and was dead tired last night. Went to bed early but still was up in the middle of the night. Tonight I'm going to zone out.

Maria

Yes! Greg.

The song and the spirit evoked in it goes beyond the situation that inspired it...doesn't it? Onward and upward. Let's roll.

Maria

Terri,

Yeah, I love him too. I think I had read something about that concert and then had forgotten about it. I did see him do Imagine at one of the concerts for New York, and I posted on a different bulletin board that I was glad it was Neil Young who did Imagine because he has the credibility as the longtime song-warrior for love and true peace. Probably no one on that board had any idea what I was talking about.

I'll bet God rocks out with the best of them.

Maria

Maria - good to hear you are okay .

I will have to get that cd. I really like the songs on it. I use to listen to Neil Young when he was jamming with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

I got your PM - thanks . I sent a response yesterday answering a few of your questions. Let me know if you didn't get the PM. I can easily re-send it. Go ahead and zone out first.

Put on the Inti-Illimani and pass the hummous.

Hasta la Libertad
Happy zoning

Peggy and Dani

Maria

Sabra,

I didn't get it. Do resend. Probably my system was too tied up playing that album all day, heh. Do you have CSNY's American Dream? From the time before this last time they got together. It's really good.

It's nighttime for the generals
And the boys at the CIA
Power gone mad in the darkness
Thinking they're God on a good day
They giveth and they taketh
But they love...
They love to take it away.

I don't know if you like the political stuff, but I have to admit I listen to certain rockers like they're another newspaper, or better.

Maria

Maria,

I resent the PM. I will try again if you still didn't get it. I don't have American Dream. I searched a little on the net and found the lyrics but not the music. I like the verse you wrote down.

Speaking of me liking political stuff - have you ever seen the 60's movie, Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick?

"an insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop."

Or Catch-22 by Joseph Heller?

Sabra

Catch-22 I've read and seen, but I'm hugely prejudiced in favor of warm, fuzzy movies and against movies that bring me down, so I probably didn't get as much from it as you probably did.

I don't think I've seen Dr. Strangelove, but I may have seen a spoof with Peter Sellers. Does that ring a bell? Sometimes movies are just on in the background while I'm reading, so I catch pieces, lol.

Maria

Maria,

It was a hilarious dark comedy that was poking fun at politics in the 50's and 60's era. Peter Sellers played three different characters in Dr. Strangelove.

The movie was a cold war satire set at a time when everybody was getting too comfortable with that concept while spoofing the whole military strategic system and how easily things can go wrong. It also was making fun of all the bureaucracy and politics and how inflexible they can be. Kind of a wake up call to the stupidity of the "bomb".

Kubrick was trying to show that it was not men at the mercy of machines, but machines at the mercy of men. Also I like Kubrick because his directorial style seems different than most other movie directors. When you mentioned "political stuff" and with all the political hoopla going on now, this movie came to mind.

My father-in-law use to that too. He would turn the tv on and sit down with a thick novel. But then I would catch him with one eye in the book and one eye on the tv, reading and watching at the same time, lol. I don't know how he did that.

see ya,
Sabra

Maria, you must see Dr. Strangelove if you haven't. It's a "dark comedy," yes, but not a downer movie at all - Peter Sellers is at the peak of his comic genius. Who else could make you split your sides laughing at a movie about nuclear annihilation!

Love,
Greg

He's a Virgo you know

I love Peter Sellers.

So then...I know I did see some small part of Dr. Strangelove. It must have been on someone else's TV when I was visiting, but I'll see if I can find it to rent.

The thing is...I hated A Clockwork Orange. That's Stanley Kubrick, right? That's one of two movies that, years later, I still wish I had never seen. Decades later for A Clockwork Orange! The other is The Silence of the Lambs. Great actors; despicable movie. It's not just the violence factor -- for instance, I liked Pulp Fiction a lot. An awful lot, actually.

The movies I don't want to see and wish I never saw are the ones that seem to me to glorify ultra-cool, stylized violence by some idealized "hip" or "brilliant" but heartless character.

Now I'm feeling more squeamish about posting this than I did about anything on the religious thread, because I'm thinking that for all I know, you guys (Greg and/or Sabra) might have loved A Clockwork Orange, and here I am puking on it, lol. That's just me. No offense intended.

Maria

Maria, I hated A Clockwork Orange too ... although to be fair to it's successful dramatic impact I must say that it was so disturbing that after all these years I can still remember scenes and dialog from it vividly. I do understand what you mean, I think ... I feel the same about Dostoevsky. I admire his writing skill but the sense of life he portrays is so vile that I'll never read another of his books.

Do watch Dr. Strangelove, though, it's a real treat.

Love,
Greg

Maria,

No offense taken - you are speaking your mind. Although I like Kubrick, I don't like all the movies he directed. I hated A Clockwork Orange, so I am joining you in puking, lol.

Awww, you like Pulp Fiction because John Travolta was in it - just kidding. I liked Pulp Fiction also, but not as much as you because when I first saw the movie I came off thinking that John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson characters protrayed to what you just mentioned, "glorify ultra-cool, stylized violence by some idealized 'hip' or 'brilliant' but heartless character"

I remember in one scene Travolta said "The car hit a bump." when he inadvertently killed someone. Other than that I did enjoy Pulp Fiction. But it wasn't a warm, fuzzy movie, lol.

Sabra