Neil Young wants the president impeached

[someguy]

Neil Young has made an album called Living With War which is basically a huge protest album. The big song on it is called 'Let's Impeach the President,' and here are the lyrics.

Let's impeach the president for lying

And leading our country into war

Abusing all the power that we gave him

And shipping all our money out the door

He's the man who hired all the criminals

The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors

And bend the facts to fit with their new stories

Of why we have to send our men to war

Let's impeach the president for spying

On citizens inside their own homes

Breaking every law in the country

By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees

Would New Orleans have been safer that way

Sheltered by our government's protection

Or was someone just not home that day?

Let's impeach the president

For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected

Dividing our country into colors

And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he's racking down on steroids

Since he sold his old baseball team

There's lot of people looking at big trouble

But of course the president is clean

Thank God

If anyone wants I can get an mp3 up for people to download.

[outsyder]

Uh, good for Neil Young.

[Jon Lyrik]

It's a good album. There needs to be more political rock out there (and I'm not talking about punk-pop crap made by dullards like Green Day), even if it's made by 60-year-old rock veterans.

[Lynn7]

This has worked out great for him. He has been about the most invisible singer for about 30 years and now he is back and bigger than ever. Smart man.

[BakeTheMooCow]

Those lyrics suck ass.

[someguy]

Haha, I was waiting for someone to say that because they do

I like the song though

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by Lynn7
This has worked out great for him. He has been about the most invisible singer for about 30 years and now he is back and bigger than ever. Smart man.


Wow, Lynn - you'll say anything to politically discredit someone. No matter how factually incorrect it is.

MTV Video of the Year in 1989 for his commercial video satire 'This Notes For You", releases "Rockin In The Free World" in 1989 - the song is played everywhere, Oscar nomination for song written for Tom Hanks/Denzel Washington film Philadelphia, SNL musical guest 3 times since '94, became known as "The Godfather of Grunge" in early-90s due to cited influence by top bands of the genre, performs with Pearl Jam on MTV at the height of their fame, performs on MTV Unplugged, 1994 album "Harvest Moon" receives song and album of the year, composes soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, in 1997 tours with Beck and Morphine, after 9/11 he records the song "Lets Roll" as a tribute to victims of U93 - performs at America: A Tribute To Heros concert that was shown on all 4 major networks, 2002 named by UK's Q magazine as top artists to see, 2005 album Prairie Wind receives nomination for rock album of the year, Young nominated for solo performer of the year, Jonathan Demme premieres Neil Young: Heart of Gold at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005.

I mean, just the fact that his last album was widely promoted is enough, but man....

[BakeTheMooCow]

Yeah, what Bubba said.

Also, if you got to http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/default.asp and search for Neil Young.. you'll see that his records from 1986 - 1993 sold much more than the stuff he released 30 years ago. Invisible indeed.

[JohnTheHenchman]

Yikes.

Remember when great artists could write political songs without them sounding terrible?

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by Lynn7
This has worked out great for him. He has been about the most invisible singer for about 30 years and now he is back and bigger than ever. Smart man.

Invisible for about 30 years? I got into him at the tail end of the eighties via his Ragged Glory and Freedom abums. Those two albums saw a resurgent interest in Neil Young after a decade of mediocrity. Since then he's released a slew of great albums including Harvest Gold, Sleeps With Angels and more recently Prairie Wind. Can you not take your blindfold off for even a second and see that the ceaseless and constant cynicism you level at anyone who chooses to criticise your idiot president does your arguements no favours whatsoever. I'm not terrible politcally astute (so I don't normally post in the politics forum) but even I can see that the current regime in the US has done more harm than good (understatement alert).

[Lynn7]

I am not ignorant about Neil Young. I have a few of his albums. I know he has been performing and is known in the music industry and to his fans but I have never seen him in the general news at all up until the past few weeks and I watch a LOT of news shows.

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by Lynn7
I am not ignorant about Neil Young. I have a few of his albums. I know he has been performing and is known in the music industry and to his fans but I have never seen him in the general news at all up until the past few weeks and I watch a LOT of news shows.

Fair enough. But you obviously don't know enough about the guy if you think the only reason why he recorded this album was for the notoriety that would ensue.

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by Lynn7
I am not ignorant about Neil Young. I have a few of his albums. I know he has been performing and is known in the music industry and to his fans but I have never seen him in the general news at all up until the past few weeks and I watch a LOT of news shows.


So, because Neil Young isn't in the news that means he needs a gimmick to move records? By this logic, you must think that Michael Jackson has had the best selling albums for the past few years, only to just recently get dethroned by Britney Spears.

I can't think of a single "old guy band" that receives as much press as any young star (on the merit of their music alone). Even the Stones don't get as much news time as Spears or Jessica Simpson, and they have been anything but invisible.

As has been mentioned, to say Neil Young is making a political song just for press is totally without merit. He was an SNL music guest just this season (maybe last) -- and say what you will about the show, but they book musical guests based on popularity and current projects.

[The Heart Collector]

Originally posted by Lynn7
This has worked out great for him. He has been about the most invisible singer for about 30 years and now he is back and bigger than ever. Smart man.

Completely wrong.

[Lynn7]

I would've agreed with you if his song had been anti-war or whatever but the lyrics to impeach the President are totally politically charged and great for getting exposure. I don't think he was just being an artist here.

[EVILxxx]

...Well atleast the song is subtle.

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by Lynn7
I would've agreed with you if his song had been anti-war or whatever but the lyrics to impeach the President are totally politically charged and great for getting exposure. I don't think he was just being an artist here.


Wow. You're meriting what is and isn't artistic.

Tell me when the trains are a'commin' Lynn so I can be sure to have my Christian bible in one hand, and my GOP card in the other.

[jeo4]

Lynn, I couldn't possibly disagree with you more than right now. This is what I mean about your news sources being unreliable. No matter how many programs you have watched or publications you have read, there is no way you can support your argument here. Neil Young has been in the forefront of political music for almost all of his adult life. He is considered one of the best artists of his generation by many of his peers as well as music industry publications. Fluff sources like Entertainment Tonight and People could give two shits about Neil Young, because he isn't in their demographic. This is why I question so many "news sources", especially the likes of tabloid rags and shows like ET and People. They just report whatever they can get their hands on that fits their criteria, be it pop star weddings/divorces, new songs, risque material in the news, etc. And they don't care about accuracy, either. Facts aren't relevant as long as "somebody" said it. The fact here is that Neil Young hasn't been out of the spotlight for more than a couple of years at a time, really. He tours actively, records albums, and does what he loves. To say he's doing this for attention is somewhat absurd to me.

[Lynn7]

I'll bet you that I could go out on the street right now and ask 50 25 year olds if they know who Neil Young is and they would all look at me blankly. Even now, after the release of this song. But especially before this song most average people would not have known him. In fact I will ask around for hahas in the next few weeks.

There will always be a following for these old guys but whether they are "in" the news or not is an important distinction. Young is in the news right now where he hasn't been before.

What is all boils down to is that anyone who is anti-Bush is guranteed tons of airtime since the people who are in the media are about 90% Liberal (self identified).

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by Lynn7
I'll bet you that I could go out on the street right now and ask 50 25 year olds if they know who Neil Young is and they would all look at me blankly.


You could say the same thing about Jalal Talabani. That doesn't mean they are nobodies.

It's also good to see you are hinging the popularity of people on the opinions of the 18 - 26 year old demographic. Maybe you will be less critical when Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen release their protest song.

[MacReady]

Originally posted by Lynn7
What is all boils down to is that anyone who is anti-Bush is guranteed tons of airtime since the people who are in the media are about 90% Liberal (self identified).

Link please.

[Lynn7]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
You could say the same thing about Jalal Talabani. That doesn't mean they are nobodies.

It's also good to see you are hinging the popularity of people on the opinions of the 18 - 26 year old demographic. Maybe you will be less critical when Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen release their protest song.

I never said he was a nobody did I? No.


The reason I am saying about people in their 20's is because I said he hasn't been in the news for about 30 years. If he has been in the news, then people who are 20-25 would've heard of him.

[The Postmaster General]

Originally posted by Lynn7
I never said he was a nobody did I? No.


The reason I am saying about people in their 20's is because I said he hasn't been in the news for about 30 years. If he has been in the news, then people who are 20-25 would've heard of him.


Why would a musician be in the news? This makes no sense. You are basically saying that for a musician to have recognition - I'm actually not even sure what you are saying, because you have no argument. Go take your poll and get back to us. While you are at it, ask these same random people if they know what instrument George Harrison plays. Why don't you ask them if they understood the themes of Fight Club while you are at it?

You are basically saying that because an artist s not recognized by a very specific demographic, that they aren't notable. Can you possibly explain what you are doing any other way?

Seriously Lynn, I'm usually pretty tolerant of your arguments when you are totally creating your own facts, but this just doesn't have the innocent go-lucky charm that I've grown accustomed to love. This seems pretty malcontent in your reaching to be correct. This seems like a devious plot indeed. The guy hosted Saturday Night Live, he's on the Grammy's he's cited by musician after musician, he's the subject of a fairly well publicized documentary - this is all stuff that's happened within the past several months. You are basically saying this is all void because Tina The Tennie Bopper isn't watching him on Extra.

Come on, man....