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The Kinks
Celluloid Heroes

I talk to many people in music, and removing a small group of friends Rock fans like me, no one seems to know the Kinks, occasionally departs from the theme music of 60 and 70, and everyone is talking about The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, etc. .. but nobody seems to consider that in many respects is the best rock band in history, the inimitable awesome and Kinks.

This story begins in a humble and populous district of London, Mushwell Hill, Raymond and Dave Davies are the only male offspring in a large family full of women, the two brothers were also small for the family, with only three years apart between them but with a huge age difference with regard to his sisters. The childhood of the brothers Davies will elapse in a house full of people, with his parents, his sisters and their brothers-in-law, all living in the same house, spread out over all the attention to small.
In the living room of the old house had a piano, and the two brothers enjoyed the frequent family gatherings around him, is playing songs and stories were fun, we can say that safely counted setbacks, the children of Ray and Dave was quite pleasant.
Despite the fact that the two brothers had almost the same age, did not develop among them a relationship of friendship, each spent time with different people in the family (there were spoiled for choice) and rarely coincide in their games, in these years forged the legendary love-hate relationship of the brothers Davies, a relationship based on mutual admiration between them but also the envy and rivalry.
Although not share too many things, the two brothers soon developed a great love for music, both began to play instruments while discovering the blues songs that came slowly across the Atlantic, soon began to act together with his family and The next step was to form his own band to act on garitos premises.
That first formation of the band, with Dave, Ray and a friend of both, Peter Quayfe, was taking various names before the adoption of The Kinks and was slowly gaining notoriety in the local circuit of clubs, but often acted as simple band accompaniment of other local musicians.

Soon the roles of all the musicians were defining and Ray began to compose and sing their songs, while Dave was developing a powerful and dynamic style with his guitar, both were together at the family house to compose, and in one of these meetings emerged a song that would change forever the fate of the band and that would leave a deep imprint on popular music of the twentieth century. Legend has it that Dave was going at that time experimenting with his amplifiers to get more volume, connecting more with each other. One afternoon Ray came with the chords of "You Really Got Me" started playing the piano, Dave came up with his guitar and amplified rasgeó those same chords, days later, Ray had already prepared the letter. Both realized right away that they had created something big, not because it was wrong from that moment began to rain offers from record companies and promoters who wanted to have the Kinks in their actions.
The rise in the lists of "You Really Got Me" was simply unstoppable, and the band counted for the first time with the resources to continue creating songs, they did not take long in coming; between 1964 and 1965 the Kinks recorded two albums full ( "The Kinks "And" Kinda Kinks ") and countless singles, while frantically began to turn around Europe.
At this early stage the Kinks were a group really wild, because root of the frenetic pace of concerts beginning to emerge as the first friction between the group members, especially between the two brothers that starred truculentas sometimes fights on stage.
In 1965 the group first visited the United States offering a series of concerts, concerts on a few occasions ended in real battle royal, in addition, the acitud of group members at that time was, so to speak, little sociable, especially that of a Dave Davies who was devoted to systematically destroying the hotels where they train and bronzes went to the minimum time.
As a result, but was never clarified the exact reason, the Kinks were banned for activity in the U.S. for four years. This prohbición marked the coming of the band, since it automatically left out of the U.S. market and the margins of all the musical currents that would emerge in that country over the last years of the'60s. This ended almost definitely with the commercial aspirations of the band, which he saw as his records were becoming less popular, although this did not influence the quality of their new songs, but rather the contrary, in the period 1965 to 1969 the Kinks gave their best works.

Published in 1966 came "Face to Face", one of the key discs of his time, a record that broke with the usual theme of simplistic pop of the times by adding a series of detailed portraits of characters in British society, all this reflected in a few songs from a typical structure, addressing new and unpublished sound recordings, adding unusual instruments like the clavichord in subjects such as "Rosey Will not You Please Come Home" or "There's Too Much On My Mind"
"Face to face" had a discreet host commercial, and was widely criticized for his record company who thought that these songs are far away from the pattern of "You Really Got Me" and his rebellious image profitable and contestatory.
Despite these setbacks, the Kinks felt good its evolutionary line and the following year delivered a record even less assimilated by the company: "Something Else", an album that left even more varied now clear that Ray Davies was not a typical composer, in this record are all kinds of songs addressing issues such as unusual in the great "Two Sisters" more than an obvious metaphor of envy between Ray and Dave, or the sarcastic "David Watts," where Ray arremete with its unique and sharp irony against London's a dandy of the time.
In this record, Dave Davies, always overshadowed by the irrepressible talent of his brother, delivered one of his early compositions, the great "Death Of A Clown".

The next disc from Kinks, released a year later, is considered by much of the criticism as the best work of the band, and one of the key pieces of pop of 60, is "The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society ", a monumental double album where all the virtues mentioned above operate at its full explendor. A disc absolutely round without a single item of filler that shows even more nuances in the literature of Ray and sharp in the records of the band. All topics are impeccable, but to name any talk about the beautiful "Days" or "Monica" or the sensational "Picture Book", "Big Sky" or "Sitting On The Riverside."
After Village Green, the Kinks released yet another album of all time for his company, Pye, another superb album called "Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire" that continue despite the sublime line of its previous work either worked too well at the level of sales. In this disc are incredible songs such as the savage "brainwash" the strange "Australia" or the delicious "Shangri-La". The Kinks had already reached a level of excellence absolutely overwhelming.

In 1970 he spent several things reverted to change the course of training, the first is the end of the veto in the United States, which allowed them to return to give performances in that country almost five years later, upon arrival they found the Kinks enjoyed a position of considerable prestige in that country, with legions of fans who came almost to fanaticism.
That same year, the Kinks released "Lola", a strong theme about a transvestite who was an immediate success and overwhelming. the resulting album, "Lola vs. Powerman & the Moneygoround, Part One" at last allowed them to return to the charts with an album curiously clearly inferior to those previously commented, despite having the luxury items such as "Apema" "Top Of The Pops," or that "Lola".

Throughout the years, Ray Davies was interested in the world of television and theater, working in several areas of the BBC, one of those projects was the idea of the film "Percy", an absurd story about an eschatological man who loses his penis, the film went without penalty or by the glory worthy lockers and lost into oblivion were it not for that burned Kinks entire soundtrack, contributing some subjects such as "God's Children," "The Way Love Used To Be "or" Moments "which are among the best of his repertoire.
This soundtrack, released in 1971 was the group's last recording for Pye, started the'70s and the Kinks, tired of the apathy and indifference of the executives decided to change of scenery and punch by RCA, a company that offered them more commercial support and promotional.
The formation of the Kinks had remained practically unchanged in all these years, with the two brothers Davies as leaders and with absolute Quayfe Peter and Mick Avory in their roles as bassist and drums respectively, Quayfe left the band in 1969 and was replaced by John Dalton, and early'70s the band began to add vocals and wind sections in their direct and in her recordings.
In 1971 he was leaving published "Mushwell Hillbillies," his first work for RCA that marked a significant step forward in the sound of the band, adding elements of country music and even touches of music hall in a disc rather than symbolically significant that was presented as a return to the roots, a return to its origins. In this disc are another handful of classics like "20th Century Man," "Holiday" or "Alcohol".

The already indicated interest to Ray Davies in the world of television, serials, theater and all kinds of shows would result in successive years in a series of cutting conceptual albums that were not properly understood by either the public or by critics but contain more than moments of excellence. In "Everybody Is In Showbiz," published in 1972 and introduced some elements of this trend to later be developed more thoroughly, this is an atypical album, with popular themes of the band live and unreleased tracks from fairly quality, highlight the beauty and majesty of "Celluloid Heroes" and "Sitting In My Hotel", two issues with the unmistakable tone of melancholy Ray Davies.

The series of conceptual disc starts with "Preservations," "Preservation Act 1", published in 1973 and "Preservation Act 2" published in 1974, these albums Ray Davies presents a delirious story by chapters on Flash, a landowner who wants capitalist take power, and Mr. Black, a leading socialist which aim to prevent and oppose him. "Preservation" is a seemingly simple story of class struggle that is very complicated thank you very much to the imagination of ardent Davies, in any case, despite the fact that the concept of the play was not very well treated, these two discs contain another good selection of songs impeccable, pop-oriented, but without entering into other complex terrain less traveled. These discs are definitely little commercial and perhaps the newcomers to the work of the Kinks should begin by other details in your catalog.

In 1975 he published "Soap Opera", another concept album that was originally devised for a series on the BBC that never took place, the idea here revolves around a rock star of the media (perhaps a self portrait of himself Ray Davies) believes that can turn a mediocre people into stars, which changes his life with a simple worker in order to demonstrate how easy it is to succeed ... until it gives headlong with the stark reality and routine. In the usual brilliance of Davies lirica add here that there are a number of items, and unpayable really cool, like the original "Everybody Is A Star (Starmaker)", "When Work Is Over" or the fantastic "Holiday Romance."
It goes without saying that the disk was not well received by critics and even today is one of their worst discs in question. At the level of sales does not work too well and his company began to show signs of impatience. Relations between the group members, especially between the two brothers, not just passing on his best moment since Dave believed all this mistaken line of conceptual albums and wanted a return to primitive rock from its inception.

The next step seemed to give the reason for Dave, because "Schoolboys In Disgrace" (1975) is a disc much more rock-oriented, despite being a new concept album (a disc on the education theme, no less).
This time the songs are much more direct than in previous work, much more aggressive and dynamic, almost like a return to its early days. We find memorable songs that will become from here on classical concerts as "The Hard Way", "I'm In Disgrace" and the monumental "Headmaster".
For the concerts of this tour, the Kinks returned to their basic guitar, bass and drums and left a scene dressed as schoolchildren, offering the most powerful of his repertoire.
This line back to its origins more wild rockers and will continue in their next jobs, and for his new company, Arista.

The two albums following "Sleepwalker" (1977) and "Misfits" (1978) are considered the best recorded by the Kinks in the entire decade of the 70s, a new moment of fulfillment of a composer Ray Davies in a state of grace and a band that sounds here as a real steamroller. Both discs are round and absolutely impeccable, but worthwhile to highlight themes for its perfection as "Life On The Road" or "Sleepwalker" and the first "Rock and Roll Fantasy" or "Hey Fever" in the second, songs that are among what Best of all its catalog.
The Kinks ended the 70 delivering a new album ( "Low Budget") and with forces still left over, after twenty years of career, to continue on the road. In 1980 he left published "One For The Road", a document revealing that shows the tremendous strength of the live band.

Although 80 were productive years for the band, delivering a total of seven new studio album until "Phobia," his latest album, we do not have space here to detail each of these works, although it must be said that the level of these recordings, but not sublime, but it remained significant.
Highlight the strength of the themes contained in "Give The People What They Want" or the particular irony that flooded the courts of "Word Of Mouth," disks that Ray Davies continued to show his incomparable talent in a few letters and some compositions always vibrant and intelligent.

These few data I managed to summarize in this special are broadly the powers of a band that in its own right has always included among the best in history. Ray Davies has written one of the most glorious pages of rock, portraying, with his unique sense of humor, with his keen intelligence, the lives of ordinary people like us, becoming humble and gray stories in glorious songs immortal. because as he said himself Ray "There are stars in every city, In every house and on every street, and if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard, their names are written in concrete."

Nicholas Rodney Drake was born in Rangoon (Burma) in 1948, was the son of a major trader often forced to make long trips, one of them was born Nick, when he had four years, Drake, a wealthy British family, settled permanently in Tanworth-in-Arden, a small town near Oxford.
The education he received Nick Drake during his childhood was really painstaking, was the best colleges and soon he instilled a taste for poetry, painting and music, at school started playing the clarinet, saxophone and acoustic guitar .
His friends from the time described him as a young shy but cheerful and friendly, great athlete and good student, Nick liked much poetry (especially William Blake) and classical music.
With 17 years Nick performed alongside their peers a trip to Morocco, where drugs and discovers there are credited his first serious compositions, with 19 years, when you start studying English literature at Cambridge Nick Drake had already composed quite a few songs. And called attention powerfully in their style fluid, agile, perfect for playing guitar, and his voice, sweet and bitter, reciting and singing at the time. By then he had already discovered Bob Dylan, the Beatles, with Tim Buckley, a Van Morrison.
In 1968, Nick Drake acts in a benefit concert in London against the war, there was discovered by Ashley Hutchings, Fairport Convention bassist who was impressed by the talent of the young, Nick Hutchings speak to Joe Boyd, producer of the Convention and a multitude of British folk groups.
A year later, at the age of 21 years, Nick Drake enters the studio for the first time, his first record the name of Five Leaves Left, the name suggested in the wake of a message that came out in the cases of cigarette paper warning that only five papers.

Five Leaves left, produced by Joe Boyd collects all the songs that Nick had been composing in his teenage years, heartfelt songs, full of hope and of doubt, like pages from a secret diary where Nick is shown as it is, without hide nothing, "Time has told me" speaks to us from the pursuit of love, about finding oneself through another, "way to blue" on the pursuit of happiness, in "Fruit Tree" on doubts that generates fame.
Surprised at the incredible performance of all issues, without more support that point arrangements of strings and piano notes, Drake chaining a masterful succession of songs, from folk and jazz, from Pop and Rock, with touches of blues and soul, with jewels of the caliber of "Cello Song," "River Man" or "Day is done."
Five Leaves Left won good reviews but the disc sold well, motivated in part because the disc was introduced only in direct, Nick Drake did not feel comfortable playing live and gave throughout his life very few concerts are the few documented legendary performances, Nick sat in a chair, staring at the floor, continually asking for an apology, insecure and shy.

After his first album, and despite the commercial failure, Nick Drake decides to devote himself entirely to music, and left the university and established definitively in London, against the advice of their parents who denied any financial help, Nick feels a bit bewildered in the environment of the big city, far from the sustenance of their friends and family, new music and poetry will be their livelihoods in this era.
Joe Boyd bet decisively by Nick Drake, and decides not to repair costs for its next album, contacting all sorts of musicians from the first row, including John Cale, who still an active member in The Velvet Underground.
While Nick was very happy with the project already started to show an especially retracted, always walked stooped, worn with old costumes and a distant expression in the eyes, those who knew him described him as a very smart person, a young tall, handsome , With a special aura to it made her look tired, as if they bear a great burden on his shoulders.

In 1970, after more than nine months' work is published "Bryter Layter," undoubtedly the most ambitious album of Nick Drake, also the most diverse and the most optimistic, the disc contains three instrumentals wonderful, "Introduction" which opens the disc "Bryter Layter" and "Sunday" that closes it, including topics such as "Hazy Jane II," "At the chimes of the clock city" or "Fly", fables about love, about life, filled with a thousand shades , Drake delivers his best lyrics here, authentic poems loaded with symbolism and magic. Stresses on "Northern Sky", undoubtedly the most beautiful love song ever written by a human being, the joy of the encounter, love as the ultimate goal of existence, as the final destination of a journey marked by misfortune.
In Bryter Layter Drake extends its records, addresses lot of styles, and not based so much on his guitar, makes use of string sections, electric guitars, wind to deliver his second masterpiece, perhaps the most emphatic.
Bryter Layter also earned good reviews but not sold as expected, although his majesty and elegance that were more obvious, perhaps it was a record too complex, too perfect for the season.
From here the data are unclear and confusing, Nick Drake finally fell into a deep depression, was a time in psychiatric treatment but did not notice any improvement, made several trips, some of them favored by Boyd in an attempt to release the pressure to bear, in those days were comments that Nick Drake has left the composition, perhaps to devote himself to producing other musicians, long periods away and what really did in this period is still a secret that nobody has been able to uncover.

In 1972, suddenly, almost in secret, Nick Drake meets with his friend John Wood to record what would be his third album, "Pink Moon", recorded in just two days and with the sole presence of his voice and his guitar acoustics.
In Pink Moon we are a man who speaks directly with death, a person completely sunken, abandoned to their fate, a husking is a painful emptiness and desolation of prints, what was once hope turns into cynicism and despair, pink moon is the night, death, as opposed to the sun, a day to life. "Place to be", "Road", "Know," "Free Ride", "Parasite" or "Harvest Breed" is a tormented confession aloud from a man who sees his upcoming final.
Technically "Pink Moon" is once more perfect guitar arrangements and melodies build a truly shocking, full of sadness but a beauty hardly descriptive, Nick's voice sounds better than ever, suffer with every word that comes from his lips.
Once the album was Drake who handed himself in the master record, actually left it on a tray at the front desk and move there three days without anyone to repair it.

They followed more dark days, Nick Drake tried several things, first wanted to enlist in the army where he was admitted and then not even work as a computer programmer, in these last years he lived long periods in Paris, there comes the rumor of his relationship with Françoise Hardy, is a fact that they met and they both professed mutual admiration, but it was not known until that point came the relationship.
Drake ends up returning to his parents' house in Tanworth-In-Arden, sporadic writes songs for a theoretical fourth album that never saw the light, among the latter songs (Acquired in the essential "Time of no reply") highlights the shocking " Black Eyed Dog. "

One morning his mother, missed that Nick had not been lifted yet decided to climb to his room at the side table had a book of poems, in the player's concert Brandenburg in bed and her son died, had just 26 years.
Nick Drake officially committed suicide in the autopsy found traces of Tryptisol, an antidepressant that Nick used to combine with their sleeping pills, his death might well have happened by accident, by an inadvertent overdose, his family insists that in those days Nick was cheerful and with a lot of projects on the head.
The fact is that the death of Nick Drake helped create the myth, the legend, closing a cycle perfect. The tombstone of Drake is in the small cemetery Tanworth-In-Arden, offering faithful testimony that Nick really existed. Since then, his music was installed in bedrooms and attics of poets desconsolados of bohemians, dreamers.
While his music has never reached remarkable heights of popularity has been periodically reviewing the myth and have been posthumous editing different disks, the better the comments "Time of no reply" that also contain their latest songs, contains items such as beautiful "Clothes of Sand" or the "Time of No Reply."
There have also been edited different "Bootlegs" by collecting his first compositions homemade, highly influenced by Bob Dylan and the blues, highlighting "Tanworth-In-Arden 1967/68" and "Second Grace."
All the work of Nick Drake is absolutely crucial and indispensable, rare, very rare times we have had the opportunity to discover a man in his songs in the way that Nick is presented in theirs, they rarely have felt so close to love, despair and beauty, the unfathomable beauty of the songs of Nick Drake.

If there is one person who can condense everything he has given of whether the U.S. Rock of the past 30 years, that's Neil Young, its significance is as important as Elvis or Bob Dylan but with one crucial difference, he has known remain active and in shape during all stages of a career that already reaches the age of 40.
Neil Young has dealt with all styles of music: Folk, Country, Soul, Rockabilly, psychedelia, Techno, Heavy, and they all brought fruitful results, sometimes discussed, but always interesting.
Much of the legend Neil Young, however, is a credit to his band, a band that has always accompanied in their times more noisy, more epic in their works, in their electric discs: The Crazy Horse.
Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Danny Whitten, and gathered under the name "The Rockets' band was offered a vigorous concerts in the Chicago area back in 1968, highlighting the strength that started to get their guitars and their compositions are full of energy .
Neil Young had just begun his solo career after the dissolution of Buffalo Springfield and he was somewhat disoriented regarding the direction we had to bring his compositions, as shown by the diffuse "Neil Young" in 1968.

Young and Crazy Horse met at a Chicago club where the latter proposed to be operated and their accompanying band for a series of Shows, things worked right away, the group offered a powerful Young entramados rhythmic so that the Canadian could vent to comfortable with his guitar and his compositions.
The relationship rennet in a first album, "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" (1969), which would lay the basis of Young's electric sound, characterized by rhythmic foundation stone, largisimos developments, and an apparent dirty sound, a certain imperfection in Performance very characteristic. Topics such as "Down By the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" exceeds 8 minutes, but could last half an hour each and the listener would still perceive the passage of time, are captivating songs, epic, stunning, it is impossible to remain unmoved to the feeling of listening to four musicians giving everything they carry inside.
The disc contains another great classic: "Cinnamon Girl", one of the best and most evocative compositions Young, with reminiscences of their last stage but Buffalo Springfield and Crazy Horse through the sieve.

After that first and fruitful cooperation Young came back with renewed strength to his solo career, more focused and in the Country Folk, in his acoustic guitar and quieter, simultaneously Danny Whitten was beginning to have problems with heroin, Neil Young you would on "Harvest" (1972) a shocking warning: "The Neddle and the Damage Done".
Whitten fallecería overdose months later, when Young was preparing a tour with Crazy Horse, his death marked the final race of the Canadian, who signed some of the most shocking and obscure albums of his career: "Times fades away", "On the beach "and especially" tonight's the night "a kind of exorcism bathed in alcohol next to the Crazy Horse survivors and musicians called for the occasion, the Roadies Bruce Berry also died of an overdose at the time, is dedicated to the song that opens and closes the disc: "Tonight's the Night."

"Tonight's the Night" was the therapy he needed Young and his band to finally bury the past and look ahead, in 1975, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro enters Crazy Horse as a second guitarist, with a training set and the group enters in the studio sessions for what would be another memorable album: "Zuma", a whirlwind of electricity and offering a thousand different nuances to the listener, topics ranging from Country-Rock of "Looking for love" to short pieces Rock energetic and powerful as "Do not cry no tears," but it is long on the topics where the group once again shows its full potential, crosses unbelievable guitar, dense and hypnotic melodies, "Danger Bird" and "Cortez the Killer" . For many the best album of Neil Young.

"American Stars and Bars", the disc of 1977 was a strange experiment with cuts and issues of different periods, especially by containing highlights an absolute classic of the band: "Like a Hurricane."
In 1978, Neil Young another public record, "Comes a time", this time it was a return to the days of "Harvest" means the time between folk and country with great songs like the "Comes a Time" or " look out for my love. " Some media in the U.S. and in England by Young gave after finishing this record, seething punk, "comes a time" was an album too commercial, too affluent, Young it would soon offer a good answer ....

The answer was "Rust Never Sleeps" a monumental record, as are the monuments that appear on the cover, a compendium of his entire career and also a break with the past, a step forward by adopting the punk in their language, adding mil nuances never before seen, showing an energy and vitality that it already stood light years away from the colleagues of his generation and made it clear that the "alleged" violation punk. Both sides, acoustics, with themes such as "Trash", "Pocahontas," "Ride My Llama, and other electric, with songs like" Powderfinger "or" Welfare Brothers. " Opening and closing the disc, "hey, hey, my, my" on acoustic and electric. Without words.
A "Rust Never Sleeps" was followed by a live disc, "Live Rust" necessary to record the direct of the time.

"Hawks and Doves" (1980) was a transitional album, a work less, with a band of circumstances, about to leave his company to sign with Geffen, with Crazy Horse record in 1981 the strange "Re-Ac-Tor" recently released on CD and it would not count them until years later, already passed its pilot phase in Geffen where he recorded his album techno "Trans" (1982), a rarity in key Rocabilly: "Everybody's Rockin '" ( 1983), a Country album: "Old Ways" (1985) and the avant-garde and strange "Landing on Water" (1986)

In 1987, Young brings together the Crazy Horse for an extensive tour, after which the record would be his last album for Geffen: "Life," a disc irregular and somewhat disappointing, mixing the experimentation of their previous albums with the sound of his classic Banda, a very marked by his problems with his company and highly politicized, in the middle was "Reagan" Young is very critical in this disc with the U.S. warmongering policy a disc of transition.
"This note's for you", released in 1988 along with The Bluenotes, was another interesting parenthesis in his career, a bold approach to the Blues and Soul that its continuation would have years later, the Crazy Horse do not participate but since then it will be usual to find Frank "Poncho" Sampedro seconding to Young in his experiments and breakaways.
In 1989 arrives "Freedom", a large disk overshadowed by what would come later, with a hymn of the caliber of "Rockin'in the free world" and great songs like "The ways of love," "No more" or the hypnotic and strange "Crime in the city."

1990, in the hands of Husker Du, Pixies, Sonic Youth and many other bands, the American rock seemed to enter a new golden age, distortion, noise, smoke and Melenas begin to invade the MTV, Young was again located in an uncomfortable situation, his experiments are considered outdated eccentricities of a star, again will have to swallow their words ...
"Ragged Glory" is Neil Young & Crazy Horse at 100%, here there are no experiments with the Soul, no synthesizers, no acoustic guitars or banjos or fiddles, which are there are four types, which all add up over 200 years, playing Rock to the limit, guitars at a hellish, subjects of more than nine minutes, intensity and emotion without limits, without any concession or complacency, "Country Home", "Love to burn," "Over and Over "Or" Fuckin'up "come without problems, among the best and the most energetic of his repertoire, this disc comes his nickname" godfather "of Grunge, again Young became the mirror of thousands of young musicians.
Inevitably, as happened to "Rust Never Sleeps" this disc will be followed by a live, "Weld" (1991), Sonic Youth went on stage and mingled what would be "Arc" with snippets of guitar distortion and feedback, the set be called "Arc-Weld."
After the storm comes the calm, time to revisit the sites of "Harvest," Young musicians with the same record in 1992 "Harvest Moon" another delightful disc, which delayed even more the shadow of Canada.

The suicide of Kurt Kobain, and the phrase "It's better to burn out than to fade away" (from "Hey, hey, my, my") included in his suicide note, part deeply Neil Young, "Sleeps With Angels "(1994) is his tribute to the musician died, again with Crazy Horse, Young delivers a dark disc, Tetric, themes such as" Change your mind "or" Piece of crap "shine at high altitude.
1995, Pearl Jam, big fans of Neil Young, agree with him on several concerts and I intend to make a record together, to their surprise the Canadian accepted, "Mirrorball" (1995) tries to sound like "Ragged Glory" but it is clear that Pearl Jam were not Crazy Horse. A smaller disk for Young, the experience of their lives to Pearl Jam.
"Broken Arrow" (1996) again alongside the Horse shows obvious signs of exhaustion, repeats the formula of "Ragged Glory" and "Sleeps with Angels" but with significantly poorer results, it was time for Young to return spots and their acoustic experiments.
Earlier, following the essential documentary "Year of the horse" by Jim Jarmush, would issued a new direct, noted that once again the state of form, almost inhuman, of the band live.
Then, the remarkable "Gold And Silver" (2000) alone, and irregular "Are you passionate?" (2002) along with the Bluenotes.
Time will tell if this story needed a second part, "Greendale" mark a return to topicality of Neil Young & Crazy Horse and the future is yet to emerge from Young's guitar.