Neil Young – Landing On Water (1986/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Neil Young – Landing On Water (1986/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:58 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen

Landing on Water is the 15th studio album by Neil Young. The album was released on July 21, 1986, by Geffen Records. Several of the songs on the album were resurrected from Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s failed 1984 sessions – a set of sessions where, according to longtime producer David Briggs, the musicians “played like monkeys”.

Backed only by co-producer Danny Kortchmar on guitar and Steve Jordan on drums, with all three playing synthesizers, Neil Young turns in an album that attempts to mix the raunchy rock thrust of his Crazy Horse-style music with contemporary trends in pop, especially the tendency to turn the drums way up in the mix. It’s an uneasy combination in which Jordan’s forceful drumming dominates the tracks, with Young’s vocals nearly buried. But that only means that the production has ruined a group of songs few of which were any good anyway. The only one that offers the promise of being one of Young’s better efforts is “Hippie Dream,” a sober criticism of what became of ’60s idealism in general and Young’s erstwhile bandmate David Crosby in particular. But if Landing on Water was not a good album, at least it seemed to point Young away from the stylistic dabbling of his last three albums and back toward the kind of rock he did best, and at least some of his fans returned as a result, giving him a slight uptick in sales. – William Ruhlmann

Tracklist:

01. Neil Young – Weight Of The World (03:41)
02. Neil Young – Violent Side (04:22)
03. Neil Young – Hippie Dream (04:13)
04. Neil Young – Bad News Beat (03:17)
05. Neil Young – Touch The Night (04:30)
06. Neil Young – People On The Street (04:33)
07. Neil Young – Hard Luck Stories (04:09)
08. Neil Young – I Got A Problem (03:19)
09. Neil Young – Pressure (02:46)
10. Neil Young – Drifter (05:04)

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