Are You Passionate? - Neil Young
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54 out of 100

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8.6 out of 10

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  • Summary: This mellow, soulful effort features backing from Booker T & the MG's as well as a single track with Crazy Horse.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. E! Online
    83
    A quietly retro mix of guitars and organ-fueled songs, the music simmers rather than boils over.
  2. Blender
    80
    Young sounds fresher here than he has in nearly a decade. [Apr/May 2002, p.110]
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  3. The A.V. Club
    60
    For the most part, Are You Passionate? feels like an after-hours session, its songs weary and a little lost, but at times, Young makes those qualities work for him.
  4. Neumu.net
    30
    It's not bad, it's just so goddamn mediocre.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  1. JohnB.
    9
    A passionate new work from Young.
  2. SteveM.
    9
    Back to his brilliant best.
  3. IanB.
    9
    An album that is a real grower - the soulful side of the legend. This is a lost classic.

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