Review
It begins with a pleasant back-porch ditty about a bluebird. And just as you’re wondering what’s for lunch, Neil Young lurches into “Ordinary People,” an 18-minute dystopian hallucination of fixed prizefights, drug lords, vigilantes, the collapse of domestic industry and worker revolution. Young’s Les Paul erupts, horns nod to Springsteen Americana; it all recalls vintage mid-’70s Young LPs like Zuma and American Stars ’N Bars. (This album is named for an unreleased 1977 set, Chrome Dreams.) But vintage doesn’t mean nostalgic. “Dirty Old Man” is the pissed, hilarious antithesis of his wide-eyed ’70s signature “Old Man,” and it rivals Nick Cave’s “No Pussy Blues” (see Grinderman) as the year’s best song about a deranged, horny graybeard. When this dude tours nursing homes, he’s gonna burn ’em down.
Download: “Ordinary People,” “Dirty Old Man”
Download: “Ordinary People,” “Dirty Old Man”
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