A friend and I are going to see Neil Young at the Air Canada Centre on Thursday, and I'm getting pumped by listening to the Neil's latest album Greendale. Supposedly the show consists of this entire album followed by some of his old great hits. It should be great.
The new album is interesting. It's not classic Neil Young in a sense. There is only one acoustic song on the entire album, and all the songs have a little bit of a strange side to them. (the non-acoustic aspect of it might be due to the fact that it is Neil Young and Crazy Horse - his band.) It's a concept album pertaining to his invented town of Greendale. Critics are saying it's not as good an album as previous Neil Young, but I'd still say this is pretty good stuff after only one listening.
I still hope to hear some older Neil stuff at the show, especially some of his beautiful acoustic songs like After The Gold Rush.