Audio CD review:
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re-ac-tor

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re-ac-tor

Band: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Title: Re-ac-tor Rating: Release Date: 19 August, 2003 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Op-er-ra Star 2: Surf-er Joe And Moe The Sleaze 3: T-bone 4: Get Back On It 5: South-ern Pac-i-fic 6: Mo-tor Cit-y 7: Rap-id Tran-sit 8: Shots

Customer Reviews Great garage band album This is the testament of a garage band with the door open on a hot summer night kicking out the jams for the parents to cringe and the kids to party. Rock from true believers. Neil and Crazy Horse toured with this album 10 years after it was released. Sonic Youth opened. 'Nuff said. primal beauty I had a new respect for that guy after that. I remember somebody putting this on the boom box while we were playing basketball the park, circa 1982. This is a great album. Not only is it a great album, it is Neil Young's greatest album. It may the greatest album of all time. Seriously, considering all of the misses that Neil released, how can you complain about this one? T-Bone is primal beauty. I would much rather listen to this than, say, `Are you passionate' or half the catalog that followed. . Past the angry tide, the mighty diesel whines... Look here - When you see a bunch of people giving this 5 stars and falling all over themselves with superlatives, and then a bunch of other people giving it 1 star and calling it the worst album Neil Young ever made, you gotta know something interesting is going on. . Reactor is perhaps best for listeners who have enough self-esteem that they are happy to be thought fools for enjoying something like Reactor. . . that is, listeners who can let go enough to enjoy music that has been stripped of all the trappings we ordinarily think of as nuance and sophistication. Moronic? Repetetive? Relentlessly inane? Maybe so, or much of it. But after all, what is "T-Bone" but the lyrical equivalent of the great one-note guitar solo? And I'd be willing to bet these folks who are so disappointed in Reactor think "Cinnamon Girl" is a brilliant song, and never even realized the guitar solo was a one-noter (talk about an over-rated song. . . blech) I personally found it very refreshing that with Reactor, Young felt he could largely scrap his quasi-sophisticated sentimentalism just for once, and be satisfied to rock for rock's sake. (He's somebody, satisfied with winning. . . ) No, you won't be getting another "Harvest" here, or even something as brilliant as "Tonight's the Night. " Reactor is far more dangerous and uncompromising. It's just a pure freaking melt-down of an album, and deserves to be recognized as one of Young's best pieces of work. Turn it up. Louder. . You can see a complete list of all Neil Young & Crazy Horse discography, or go back to the Neil Young & Crazy Horse tabs