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- Summary: The singer-songwriter recorded this strongly political (and anti-Bush) ten-song set in just two weeks earlier this year.
- Record Label: Reprise
- Genre(s): Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 24
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Mixed: 3 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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Los Angeles TimesThe sheer brazenness of this collection is refreshing after years of timidity in the upper echelons of the pop world. [6 May 2006]
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OK, more news event than musical milestone. But a really great news event.
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He has not written and recorded with such emergency since "Ohio."
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Living With War's short gestation benefits Young's performance, inspiring him to make his loudest, rawest release of new material since at least Ragged Glory, maybe even Rust Never Sleeps.
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With few exceptions, Young's own "Ohio" being one of them, moment-specific protest music tends to dry up and blow away. But that's for the future. For now, Living With War accomplishes exactly what it sets out to accomplish, loudly.
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[The songs] manage to be unified in a way that Young wanted Greendale to be but didn't quite pull off, yet they also stand on their own and are, overall, more memorable than those on Prairie Wind.
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New Musical Express (NME)Really, what's to be gained from simplistic sloganeering like, "We don't need no more lies!" [20 May 2006, p.33]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 36
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Mixed: 2 out of 36
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Negative: 1 out of 36
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JohannaPDec 23, 2006a compelling and beautiful complete work for a world that needs to find peace inside and outside the heart beat.
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GBurgessMay 9, 2006
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MarcyKMay 13, 2006It rocks wth passion and truth.
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MatthewWMay 16, 2006
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FoxyladyDeeAug 7, 2006
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Mr.RabidJun 29, 2006
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QuaidMay 6, 2006
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