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Old Man | 
| Manufacturer: Reprise
Category: Digital Music Track
Buy New: $0.99
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1398
Genre: album-oriented-rock-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 202 Minutes
ASIN: B0018AKBHI
Release Date: May 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
The track that made me finally notice Neil Young June 13, 2008
Christoph (Austin, TX)
A beautiful, touching musical microcosm of life, written for an old foreman on a ranch in California Young had bought from "these two lawyers". Every element in the song - tempo, rhythm, melody, accompaniment, lyrics, and Young's vocals - all drive the main theme and mood of the song masterfully. The main musical phrase starts off melancholy, ambling - like someone wearied of life, and then changes up to a brighter, more hopeful, though much briefer musical phrase. This dichotomy goes back and forth maintaining a balance of sadness and joy that is echoed in the lyrics and melody.
Aside from the quiet profundity and rural poetry in the lyrics, the way the song is written is a deeply touching metaphor of life in general, and the lives of, in particular, the two people in the story of the song (viz. the singer and the old man) and their relationship, and all of that is what makes it such undeniable genius.
There are plenty of legendary artists I still have yet to "get" -- e.g. The Rolling Stones, Elvis, The Beatles (hmm, are there any bigger 3?), Dylan -- and I hadn't experienced Neil Young until this song. "Old Man" answered, in 3 and a half minutes, whatever question I had about whether or not Young is worthy of his status: He resoundingly is.
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