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Ξ May 9th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
The Greatest Songs of All Time: Neil Young’s “Don’t Let It Bring You Down”
Released on the 19th of September, 1970, on Young’s brilliant and now classic After the Gold Rush album; the song was written by Young and the album was written and recorded between the summer of 1969 and the spring/summer of 1970. Most of the album was recorded in the homemade recording studio thrown together in Young’s home in Topanga Canyon; a very popular and famous place to live at the time for musicians due to its populace, attitude, and location in Los Angeles County, California.
It’s an acoustic song in the vein of Young’s work with Crosby, Stills & Nash, as is much of the album; quite possibly due to the immense popularity of their album with Young Déjà Vu, which was released earlier that year and quickly rose to the top of the charts.
No matter what the reasoning was behind Young’s decision to record the album the way he did, he still created a great album. Though it was originally panned by critics; it is now generally accepted as a great album, one of Neil Young’s best, which I tend to agree with; and furthermore, it has several great songs on it, including “Don’t Let It Bring You Down”:
Lyrics:
Old man lying by the side of the road with the lorries rolling by Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load and the building scrape the sky Cold wind ripping down the allay at dawn and the morning paper flies Dead man lying by the side of the road with the daylight in his eyesDon’t let it bring you down It’s only castles burning Find someone who’s turning And you will come aroundBlind man running through the light of the night with an answer in his hand Come on down to the river of sight and you can really understand Red lights flashing through the window in the rain can you hear the sirens moan? White cane lying in a gutter in the lane, if you’re walking home alone.Don’t let it bring you down It’s only castles burning Just find someone who’s turning And you will come aroundDon’t let it bring you down It’s only castles burning Just find someone who’s turning And you will come around
It is a beautiful work with beautifully simple and extremely vivid lyrics; which are powerfully brought to the forefront of the song via Young’s voice and the simple playing of his acoustic guitar.
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