Neil Young Records Anti-War CD

I've mentioned before that there has been no good anti-war album. System of a Down recorded Mesmerize and Hypnotize, which had anti-war content but weren't hard hitting with the exception of BYOB.

That appears to no longer be the case:

Harp magazine reported on its Web site Thursday that Demme had confirmed in an e-mail, “Neil just finished writing and recording -- with no warning -- a new album called 'Living With War.' It all happened in three days… It is a brilliant electric assault, accompanied by a 100-voice choir, on Bush and the war in Iraq… Truly mind blowing. Will be in stores soon.”

The magazine continued: “Details are pretty scarce, but the featured track, titled ‘Impeach the President,’ features a rap with Bush’s voice set to the choir chanting ‘flip/flop’ and the like.”

Young has always been a maverick politically as well as musically. Although he has recorded a few songs that drew cheers from liberals, such as "Ohio" and "Southern Man," he also drew criticism from the left for pro-Reagan comments many years ago.

If there was one person who could write an album that will be devastating, that person is Neil Young. He is a maverick, he wrote Let's Roll soon after 9/11 about the heroic people on Flight 93.

Update: Down With Tyranny got a taste of the CD today. The lefties are getting all jacked up about this. So am I.

Update 2: Previous posts on Neil Young here. Jeff Goldstein channeled Neil Young here.