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Audio CD (20 Mar 1999)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Commercial Marketing
ASIN: B000000OY9
Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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A big, bombastic synth-rock album by Neil Young? Linn drums? Synth bass? Coming, as it did, immediately after Young settled out of court with a record company that had sued him for making non-commercial records, LANDING ON WATER could easily be seen as not only the oddest of Young's mid-'80s streakof oddball records, but also as a big joke, the punch line being, "Here's your commercial album, Mr. Geffen. Have fun selling it".
Or maybe he actually means it: "Hippie Dream", whose chorus goes, "The wooden ships/Were just a hippie dream", puts a bullet through the memory of his old folkie buddies Crosby, Stills & Nash. And while "Pressure" does a pretty good imitation of Billy Joel's synth-rock hit "Pressure", it's followed by "Drifter", which manages to put a bullet through the much more recent memory of David Geffen ("Don't try to tell me what I gotta do to fit") while effectively updating an ON THE BEACH-ish blues structure for the electronic age. In short it is, despite all appearances, a Neil Youngalbum, and it foreshadows the giant rebirth that was about to come.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The eighties sound hits Neil, 11 Nov 2001

By	"thomasbirch2" - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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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4.0 out of 5 stars C'mon people, give it another listen, 18 Sep 2002

By	Mr. Stephen M Evans (Radlett, Hertfordshire England) - See all my reviews

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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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Quite possibly the worst thing ever attempted with success., 13 Jan 2001

By	Mr. R. Sullivan "Rory Sullivan" (Sudbury, Suffolk, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Of course it's strange, but not worse than other NY albums
This record is really strange and it should have labelled "only for fans" on its cover. However, having said that, the album has a couple of very good songs like "weight of the... Read more

Published 12 months ago by Claudio

4.0 out of 5 stars Consider the context & be open minded.
Although i bought my first version of this album in the 80's it's 2006 before i've said my twopence worth, to be honest my opinion now is a lot different now than it was then... Read more

Published on 23 Sep 2006 by CT FRAIEL

2.0 out of 5 stars Rock Genius decides to go John Farnham (1986 and all that)
Although a true Neil Young fan and even being won-over by theelsewhere-derided Re-Ac-Tor (New-Wave and not bad New-Wave at that) thisis truly an 80s experiment too far. Read more

Published on 27 April 2004 by Mr. M. B. Powell

4.0 out of 5 stars Landing on Water
Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, this is a great Neil Young album. The songs are excellent and while the production is very 80's it bears up surprisingly well... Read more

Published on 2 Jan 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Another brave and starkly different Neil Young masterpiece
Another brave and starkly different Neil Young masterpiece. This album combines synths, over emphasized drums, grand backing singing and the most amazing synth-bass playing I... Read more

Published on 26 Aug 2003 by A J WADE

4.0 out of 5 stars what is wrong with you people?
We all know it is great fun to slag off the eighties, but while we aren't being painfully cool, we can take a moment to consider what is good and what worked in that decade... Read more

Published on 11 May 2003 by Jacob Rollinson

2.0 out of 5 stars mmmm... not the best of Neil Young...
Well... same thing... The bad 80s sound has taken on our beloved Neil... and it hurts. Generally Young's songs grow on you, time after time... and here not. Read more

Published on 6 Aug 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Good songs, lousy production
Oh lordy, where to begin? After the perfectly nice country album Old Ways, Neil was never going to repeat any type of formula, and thus gave birth to Landing on Water, one of his... Read more

Published on 4 Sep 2000 by Joe

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