> **Neil Young**
> Like the poor and Pauline Fowler, Neil Young is always with us, a reminder of the drearier things of life. Venerated by paunchy Mojo-reading types, Young – whose reedy voice is the exact timbre of a continental dial tone – has changed neither his riffs nor his plaid shirt since he left Buffalo Springfield in 1968. Forever droning on about a mythical, moral America, Young has even-handedly bored three generations equally thoroughly, and unleashed some unspeakable musical atrocities. His last record, Greendale, was a concept album apparently scripted by William McGonagall, the anti-communist dirge Rockin‘ In The Free World remains one of the direst songs ever penned, and so relentlessly maudlin is Young that poor, impressionable Kurt Cobain quoted him in his suicide note. The apologists who boast that Neil Young has „never sold out“ forget the main reason things don’t sell out: people don’t want to buy them.
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1365982,00.html](http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1365982,00.html „Don’t believe the hype“)
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