Music CD - Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Weld (2 disc set)

	Music CD: Weld (2 disc set) Artist: Neil Young & Crazy Horse List Price: $24.98 Our Price: $15.38 Your Save: $ 9.60 ( 38% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) 2. Crime In The City 3. Blowin' In The Wind 4. Welfare Mothers 5. Love To Burn 6. Cinnamon Girl 7. Mansion On The Hill 8. F*!#in' Up
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075992667128 Format: Live Label: Reprise / Wea Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Reprise / Wea Release Date: 1991-10-22 Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Magnificent noise! Comment: Ah, what glorious noise! This is one of my favorite live albums, in which Neil Young and Crazy Horse take his songs and "play them at 22". I love feedback and noise, and this album is drenced in it. The songs are all brilliantly performed, and many are better than their studio versions. The version of F***in' Up has a much more intense guitar solo, with some impressive feedback that probably shattered a few eardrums for those in the front row. Blowin' in the Wind is a great cover, and Hey, Hey, My, My is better here than on the studio. Like a Hurricane gets the epic treatment here, and it's fantastic. I saw Neil Young once (after this tour though), and he's phenomenal live. Neil is still kicking it, making bands half his age try and keep up with him. Neil (along with Dylan) got a nice renaissance in the 1990's, and they're still plugging on admirably. Customer Rating: Summary: Rocking in the Sunshine Comment: When all is said and done, all that matters when you crank it up and just sit back and listen is; Does it get you to where you want to be? The answer is: Absolutely! Customer Rating: Summary: Distorted, deranged pulchritude Comment: "This is the story of Johnny Rotten" - no s#it; "Rockin' In The Free World" - nihilistic, sarcastic, unforgiving - could have oozed outta PiL's Album (remember "Home"). On Weld, classic NY&CH epics get nailed SHUT. And it's all done with wrists - no whammy bars on these abused Gibsons. All those gnarly Cheap Thrills' leads blast outta the crypt. Urban dystopia inflicted. "Welfare Mothers" and "Crime In The City" (the latter among Young's most barbed, and lucid, storytelling) drag the listener into fierce noise and despairing nihilism. Then, the humanism erupts with "Blowin' In The Wind," a sure Hendrix phantasm. Hippie frisson abounds on "Cortez The Killer" and "Roll Another Number" - succumb. It's also "grunge." Jad Fair might have written "Like A Hurricane" - if he possessed the endorphins. To the point, it's all about Crazy Horse; they can play Madison Square Garden like a St. Louis bowling alley. Every fuzztoned note is blood, telepathy, exorcism. A cluster of unfortunate observations, made euphoric. Customer Rating: Summary: Ferocious...and better than "Live Rust" Comment: Very few live albums are as angry and snarling as this live set. Crazy Horse never sounded better, and Young--angry at the outbreak of the Gulf War in '91--unleashes a set of songs, some old, some new (what an amazing cover of "Blowin' in the Wind"!!) that more or less define the grunge attitude in the early 90s. Coupled with the 30 minute feedback montage "Arc", this double disk set is positively breathtaking. You can just feel the energy and volume. Wish I coulda been there... Customer Rating: Summary: Good, but not as good as Live Rust Comment: I don't understand how people think this is better than Live Rust. It's good, but not as good as reviews would lead me to believe. Some songs are great, but others kinda drag. Love the Album Ragged Glory, but the live versions of songs from that album aren't as good as the studio versions. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Live Rust gets the most props, but if you're looking for a live document of Neil Young and Crazy Horse at their speaker-shredding, stage-scorching best, Weld is an absolute must-own. Fired up by the success of 1990's Ragged Glory, and outraged by the eruption of the Gulf War, Young and his cohorts attacked their 1991 tour like men on a suicide mission. An angry, gunshot-laced version of Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" is the closest thing here to an acoustic reverie; the rest of the album offers up staggeringly intense electric versions of Neil songs both current ("Crime in the City," "Love to Burn," "Rockin' in the Free World") and classic ("Cortez the Killer," "Cinnamon Girl," "Powderfinger"). The back-cover photo of a disheveled Young cradling a broken-stringed guitar pretty much says it all--no one could have unleashed a sonic onslaught this brutal, and emerged unscathed from the experience. --Dan Epstein