Living With War

Rock · 2006 · 10 tracks

Living With War

A blistering nine-day sprint of distorted garage rock and a hundred-voice choir. Raw, topical, and relentlessly focused on the human cost of conflict.

Neil Young got mad at the news and recorded a heavy rock protest album with a 100-person choir in a single week.

A relentless, confrontational energy fueled by moral indignation and a deep sense of national mourning.

Living With War · vs · Neil Young

Protest+3.7σ

The writing leans far further into protest than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks

01

After the Garden

3:24

02

Living With War

5:05

03

The Restless Consumer

5:48

04

Shock and Awe

4:53

05

Families

2:26

06

Flags of Freedom

3:42

07

Let’s Impeach the President

5:10

08

Lookin’ for a Leader

4:03

09

Roger and Out

4:25

10

America the Beautiful

2:57

Moments Worth Waiting For

The jarring inclusion of George W. Bush soundbites over a distorted blues riff on Let's Impeach the President.

The massive wall of a hundred voices rising to meet Neil's ragged guitar on the title track.

The sudden, stark transition into a traditional choral arrangement of America the Beautiful to close the record.

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