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Recorded with the Record Plant Remote Truck at Studio Instrument Rentals Stage 6, Los Angeles, California; The Omni, Oakland, California; Redwood Digital, San Francisco, California.
THIS NOTE'S FOR YOU, cut with a makeshift 10-piece R&B horn band, was the last of the sometimes mysterious, sometimes befuddling genre experiments that carried Neil Young through the 1980s. It features a jump-bluesy theme song ("Ten Men Workin"), some smoky ballads ("Coupe De Ville"), some faux-Chicago blues ("Married Man"), some upbeat Sam & Dave-y soul ("Sunny Inside") and, well, you can figure out the rest, it being a genre album and all. It being a Neil Young album, it also features what may be the great protest song of the '80s--the title track, which is about commercial sponsorship of rock music and which says in one verse what it took Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp five years' worth of interviews to articulate: "Ain't singin' for Pepsi/Ain't singin' for Coke/I don't sing for nobody/Makes me look like a joke." And if you're wondering where Young got the idea for his next great protest song, "Rockin' In The Free World," which appeared on his next album, look no further than "Life In The City," on this one.
Personnel: Neil Young (vocals, guitar); Ben Keith (alto saxophone); Steve Lawrence (tenor saxophone); Larry Cragg (baritone saxophone); John Fumo, Tom Bray (trumpet); Claude Caillet (trombone); Frank Sampedro (keyboards); Rick Rosas, George Whitsell (bass); Chad Cromwell (drums); Steve Onuska (tambourine).
Additional personnel: George Whisell (bass); Ralph Molina (drums); Steve Onuska (tambourine).
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Rolling Stone - 3.5 Stars - Very Good
Q (4/02, p.142) - "...A spirited attempt to try something different...it's subdued and crepescular stuff..." This Note's For You Music Neil Young This Note's For You Songs This Note's For You Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   Great Neil!
I had this on cassette years ago and was driving home from work and heard This Note's For You on XM radio,I'm adding the cd to my collection right now! I forgot how great this album is,any Neil fan has to have it.
Submitted by Mick (Amory,Ms) 
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 Better than you think.
Young divides this album between an upbeat swinging rock style of song,(Married Man, Sunny Inside, Hey,Hey, etc...) and a mellower, horn-heavy jazz style (Coupe-de-Ville, Twilight, One Thing etc...). Within this general scheme,Young also slips in some powerful social commentary (This Note's for You, Life in the City). This album is generally ignored by many Neil Young fans, but it's a darn good album, especially if you're a hard-luck romantic dreaming of love and sincerity, both in one's private life, and in the world at large.
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