NEIL YOUNG Released His 29th Album ‘LIVING WITH WAR’ Today 20 Years Ago – Painfully Relevant Again Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
2 May 2026
Rock icon NEIL YOUNG released his 29th LP, titled
LIVING WITH WAR, on 2 May 2006, today 20 years ago.
The album’s lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical
of the policies of then-President George W. Bush‘s administration.
The record is incredibly, painfully relevant again today with that rudderless orange narcissist in the White House who fucks up the world’s economy with his unfounded
and illegal Iran war.
Neil Young about the LP’s crucial track Let’s Impeach The President:
“When I wrote “Let’s Impeach the President,” a lot of people criticized it as a crappy song,
that it was such a terrible melody. What am I going to do, write a song like that and use a
good melody? That doesn’t make sense. You want a melody that pisses people off, that’s so stupid and repetitive that it aggravates people. ‘Ohio’ is about kids getting killed.
It’s about people you cared about personally, your own brother and sister. That’s when you
put everything you have, poetic, musical, performance-wise, at your command. Because you believe in it so much. “Let’s Impeach the President” is a political song about something that’s so wrong that the only way to point out how wrong it is by doing a song that’s wrong: smashing and pounding away at it. It was very successful in that respect.”
Neil Young, Brussels 2025 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Pitchfork wrote: “Like Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions,
this album features an elder rock statesman making an effective protest record
thanks to a raucously communal approach. Living With War’s short gestation benefits Young‘s performance, inspiring him to make his loudest, rawest release of new
material since at least Ragged Glory.
With his guitar re-tuned to its characteristic distorted snarl, and the clearly live
mix preserving bum notes and sloppy harmonica or trumpet solos, Young returns
to the spontaneous recording style of albums like Tonight’s the Night that best suits
his talents.
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