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Landing On Water (Remaster) (Import) (CD)

By: Neil Young (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Landing On Water (Remaster) (Import) (CD) Album By Neil Young (Artist)
1   Weight Of The World  
2   Violent Side  
3   Hippie Dream  
4   Bad News Beat  
5   Touch The Night  
6   People On The Street  
7   Hard Luck Stories  
8   I Got A Problem  
9   Pressure  
10   Drifter  
 

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Title Note

Personnel: Neil Young, Danny Kortchmar (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Steve Jordan (vocals, synthesizer, drums); San Fransisco Boys Chorus (background vocals).

Recorded at Record One, Los Angeles, California.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

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 streak of 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 Young album, and it foreshadows the giant rebirth that was about to come.

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5 out of 5 stars Multi-layered masterpiece, February 6, 2008
By Burritobrother
"Landing On Water" is one of Neil Youngs least-popular albums, and for an obvious reason: it doesnt *sound* like a Neil Young album. Pretty much the same can be said for the majority of his work during the 1980s, but "Landing On Water" is different even by his unpredictable standards. The album is very electronic, with synthesizers virtually running continuously everywhere, but never intrusively Neils guitar attacks and reedy vocals shine through. The mere atmosphere of this album is enough to throw many (if not most) listeners off the scent, but when listened to carefully, "Landing On Water" is loaded with songwriting brilliance to compare with his much more lauded masterworks. Yet, its not immediate, and it takes time to get what hes doing. This is acknowledged as one of Youngs darker albums and it is many songs seem to be excursions into bipolar regions. Its not an easy record to take in. But it is well worth the effort and in the final analysis "Landing On Water", with all of its coldness and austerity, is one of his greatest achievements.

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