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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quite possibly the worst thing ever attempted with success.,
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This review is from: Landing On Water (Audio CD)
On the surface, everything is wrong with this album. The cover must rank as the worst Neil Young album cover ever, if not the worst album cover ever in the history of rock. The music is almost too painful to listen to, the synthesizers intrusive, the guitars either non-existent or brutally distorted, and Steve Jordan's drums mixed so high it feels as if you are being relentlessly pummelled in the side of the head. Struggle past this initial barrage, however, and things can be allowed to fall into place. At first glance the cover might well be an eyesore, but the statement is sharp. This plane has gone down. Crashed. Almost every song conveys a message of struggle and weariness, a man at breaking point: Weight Of The World, I Got A Problem (with its outrageous scream at the beginning), Pressure. All the tracks are sung against a surprisingly sparse backing, leaving little doubt that there are really only three people at work here. Everything is badly produced and out of kilter. But the irony is that in being badly produced it only adds to the meaning. Guitars that want to scream end up being stifled; the drums, pushed well forward, beat everything else in to the background, only the synthesizers being allowed to let their presence be felt. There is great music here struggling to be heard and memorable moments throughout. Neil yelling, "I've got to fight to control (the violent side)"; the man walking away unscathed from a car accident; the double take in People On The Street. And it finishes with a veiled warning, "I'm just a drifter, I'll stay until you tie me down." Wonderfully awful stuff.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
C'mon people, give it another listen,
By Mr. Stephen M Evans (Radlett, Hertfordshire England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Landing on Water (Audio CD)
While it's not his best album by any means, Landing on Water has IMHO much to commend it. Yes, sonically it's of its' time but he does everything better than most others at any given point. The synths, drums and overall compressed sound of many of the tracks make for a vital listening experience that leaves the listener drained at the end of, for instance, Touch the Night or Violent Side. Lyrically Neil is at his most ironic in some of these tracks; 'Take my advice, don't listen to me' in Hippie Dream or 'Got to fight to control the violent side' on Violent Side for instance. Yes it's different from a lot of his other stuff but that's the beauty of Neil - his range of styles is enormous and most of it is better than anyone else's interpretation of a particular style. Anyone who gives this one or two stars should listen again.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The eighties sound hits Neil,
This review is from: Landing On Water (Audio CD)
This is generally considered to be Neil Young's worst album. The laughable Johnny Rogan, in a rare moment of coherence, took Young to task on his suggestion that the recording of this album was "like a bear waking up," commenting that it sounded more like the bear was "being slowly blugeoned to death." Indeed, the arrangements here, consisting of clattering drums, parping synthesisers, harshly distorted guitars and smooth backing vocals, don't do the songs any favours. But songs like these don't deserve any favours. Aside from "Hippie Dream" and (if one feels generous) "Weight of the World," the material here is banal and uninspired. When Young rhymes "she's so on fire" with "she's my desire," you know that the lights are on, but nobody's home. An album which highlights everything that was wrong with the 1980s from a musical standpoint.
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