From Amazon.co.uk
Though
Are You Passionate? is Neil Young's studio-recorded follow-up to 2000's
Silver & Gold, it might well have emerged on the heels of
Harvest Moon. While both Crazy Horse and
Booker T & the MGs swing by to add ballast to several of these 11 brand-new tracks, gentle weepers such as "Don't Say You Love Me", "When I Hold You in My Arms" and the softly lilting title track recall Young's aforementioned 1992 work while suggesting that the once-outspoken social critic and on-again, off-again CSN&Y member is mellowing. Further proof of that can be found in the tender opening song, "You're My Girl"--a postcard from a father to a daughter on the cusp of adulthood and presumably inspired by Young's daughter Amber--as well as in the lazy, languid "Two Old Friends".
Are You Passionate?'s one serious clunker, "Let's Roll", was inspired by the 9/11 cell-phone call Todd Beamer placed moments before he and other passengers on Flight 93 went down in a Pennsylvania field. You can't fault the guy for commemorating a heroic act and making a personal donation to the Beamer family, but all his talk of "going after Satan on the wings of a dove" and "facing down evil" sounds like a guy who's spent more time watching CNN than honing his lyrics.
--Kim Hughes
Album Details
Neil Young let's it rock and let's it roll with Are You Passionate. Backed by members of Booker T. & The MGs and featuring his longtime band Crazy Horse on 'Goin' Home', Young's rock n roll adds Memphis to the mix to create one of the coolest, most passionate albums of the year. Digipak. 2002 Reprise Records.
Amazon.co.jp ホーム
マイストア
