Though I don't personally want to defend Neil Young's lyrics, I will cite a
book of poems by Tom Clark entitled "Neil Young", published in 1971 by
Coach House Press in Toronto. I remember it as "Bolinas takes" on Neil
Young's work, while observing that Clark refers to it as his "enigma" book.
Barry Alpert
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:37:08 -0400, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Neil Young's lyrics are often appalling, I think: Portentous claptrap,
>romantic sap, bad & I mean really bad rhymes. But when he sings them with
>Crazyhorse, it all makes perfect sense to me.
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