Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young began his eccentric campaign last summer with the release of a concert film and a new album, both titled Rust Never Sleeps. The record illustrated his two-headed ability to craft folkie ballads and to spit sizzling rockers while avoiding accusations of hypocrisy. Young is serious about both styles, and his integrity defies critics who claim that he has never committed himself to one type of music. The final installment of Rust is the soundtrack of the movie, Live Rust, a double-album set which stands on its own as a summary of Young's 16-year career...
Live Rust fulfills the requirement of a live album; it reproduces the aura of the performance. Young sounds very alone on stage as he strums through the melodic "I Am A Child." He infuses all of his acoustic work with an honest urgency, conveying the innocence he once knew and the troubles he has weathered. His down-homey harmonica improvisation meshes well with unpretentious guitar and piano arrangements. When backed by the lastest edition of Crazy Horse, Young reveals his flair for the heavy decibels, and shows the rough, untarnished energy of his electric music...
...finale, Young returns to the amplification and distortion of old stalwarts, "Cortez the Killer," Cinnamon Girl" and "Like a Hurricane." To the delight of the crowd, he thumps "into the black" in a rousing encore of "My My." As the album ends, however, the name on Young's lips is not Johnny Rotton, but Bruce Berry, a man whose only claim to fame was picking up after Crazy Horse on the road and overdosing on smack. Young brings the audience full circle by ending with Berry's tragic story, "Tonight's the Night...
...Morrison, Saint Dominic's Preview (Warner Bros., 1972). Morrison is tuned to a station that does not come through on anyone else's radio. This album contains some of his most lilting music, underlining visionary lyrics of Celtic mystery...
...Harder They Come (Mango, 1973). The best soul music of the '70s is reggae, and this collection-a sound-track album from a mean-strutting movie-is some of the best of the best...