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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.
- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Genre(s): Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 17
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Mixed: 5 out of 17
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Negative: 3 out of 17
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A quietly retro mix of guitars and organ-fueled songs, the music simmers rather than boils over.
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BlenderYoung sounds fresher here than he has in nearly a decade. [Apr/May 2002, p.110]
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Sure, it's nowhere near his incredible run of the seventies, but it is probably his best album since 1992's Harvest Moon.
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Just how bad can an LP produced by "Neil Young & Booker T. Jones with Duck Dunn and Poncho Sampedro" be? Not bad at all.
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The catchy songwriting doesn't sit well next to Neil's crunchy soul, and the performances feel so stiff it makes for an unusually uncomfortable listen.
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Instead of sounding like a refreshing change of pace, it's a muddled, aimless affair from an artist that's had too many middling efforts over the last decade.
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Young's surprisingly conservative new album, Are You Passionate?, is simply frustrating, and worse, often as risk-averse as a CSNY reunion.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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JohnB.May 25, 2002A passionate new work from Young.
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SteveM.Jul 16, 2002Back to his brilliant best.
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IanB.Jul 17, 2009An album that is a real grower - the soulful side of the legend. This is a lost classic.
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