Are You Passionate Music Cd

Young Neil - Are You Passionate

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Are You Passionate?      Artist : Neil Young      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2002-04-09      Studio : Reprise / Wea      Label : Reprise / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (112 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Are You Passionate      Stunning! Continuation of Neil Young from the early 1970s!      Rating:      I have followed Neil Young since CSN&Y. I purchased Everybody Knows, Gold Rush, Harvest and all the albums through Rust Never Sleeps just as they came out through Tower Records. Over time, I have purchased all of Neil Young's other albums and have taken time to study most everything Neil has recorded. I own a pro DJ party & wedding business and try to play his music when I can, which helps give me rave reviews for providing unique music at events. If you particularly enjoy the following albums: Everybody Knows, After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Time Fades Away, On the Beach, Comes a Time, Everybody's Rockin, This Note's For You, Harvest Moon, . . . . then you will absolutely love this album. The first three songs just knock me off my feet with the quality and fun of the Booker T & The MGs as well as the Blues Brothers albums. Why? Well Booker T Jones, Donald Duck Dunn and the MGs Gang all play as well as some of Neil Young's favorite session players. The results are, in my opinion, some of the most fun and bass driven rockers Neil has ever done. There is the Muscle Shoals sound, Memphis Soul sound, R&B influences, blues & soul sounds resonating from all the songs making Are You Passionate the unique album that it is as well as allowing you to mix the songs in with Neil's best from the 1970s. If you like Rock, Boogie, walking bass lines, soul, R&B and blues, this album had better be in your collection. Do you like Bobby Brown's My Prerogative? Well, check out Neil's song, Differently, and ride on Duck Dunn's groovin bass lines, Booker T's soulful Hammond organ along with awesome Neil Young guitar licks. The remaining seven songs are awesome numbers that could easily fit within any of Neil's albums from the 1970s. Enjoy the album.     Customer Reviews for Are You Passionate Cd      Can't say so - Neil's good at a lot of things, but R&B isn't one of them      Rating:      There comes a time, in these days of the 80 minute CD, when someone decides to terribly abuse this new running time simply because they have an extra third of an album available to them. If that sounds anything like this album right here, that's no coincidence, because Are You Passionate? falls right into that trap. And it's almost atrocious pseudo-R&B, which Neil is still totally incapable of playing in spite of being backed by Booker T & the M.G.'s. I mean, you'd think he could do something with that. No, he cannot. Other than "Let's Roll" (the one about 9/11 with the spectacular organ and guitar stuff) and "Goin' Home" (a cool jam), this is a throwaway of an album, with indulgent running times ("She's a Healer" runs nine minutes!), crappy lyrics (title track; "Quit (Don't Say You Love Me)"; the Otis Redding-esque "When I Hold You In My Arms"; the Four Tops-inspired "Be With You"), conventional soul riffs ("You're My Girl"; "Mr. Disappointment"), and, in a fitting but predictable irony, no passion at all. You'd think Neil was asking himself the titular question, even though he knew the answer. Even "Goin' Home" tries my patience after a while. I could've rated this one even lower, but Neil occasionally does some good stuff on his guitar. But this is almost as bad as his other R&B exercise, This Note's for You. Maybe even worse.