Essays Tagged: "Neil Young"
Neil Young in Halifax
er said that my cousin Jennifer was on the phone and she wanted to know if I wanted a ticket to the Neil Young concert coming up in Halifax. I said I did and I kind of forgot about it. ... five days I was going to witness a legend in his finest form. Some say the Neil Young is playing the finest guitar of his life these days. Some people say that he's just an o ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Video Killed the Radiostar and MTV Killed Music This paper discusses the "fall of music." It deals with the overexploitaion of artists due to media such as MTV.
ake people think. Recently music has become a for of rebellion. Legendary artists like John Lennon, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan use/used their lyrics as a way to challenge political issues. But now it s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
"When you look for truth, do not use your eyes, but look inside yourself, for there lies the truth."
ns. A good example is one of my own; I grew up listening to my parents loud rock music (Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Genesis, etc.) and I now thoroughly enjoy listening to loud guitar oriented music. Many ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Fantasy and Illusion
ing in a fantasy is a theme which many writers of novels, songs, movies etc. use. Holden Caulfield, Neil Young's song "Sugar Mountain", Jay Gatsby, all exhibit a form of fantasy. Holden doesn't want t ... n't want to let go of his childhood and refuses to acknowledge he's growing up. In "Sugar Mountain" Neil Young describes what it's like to be young and the feeling you get when you realize your childh ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Neil Young: a pop culture essay
Pop Culture EssayNeil Young has made a career out of writing intelligent, poetic music that hasrelated to a wide ... or merely turned a blind eye to the truth of the situation.In the first verse of Southern Man, Neil sings "Southern Man, better keep yourhead. Don't forget what your good book said. Southern ... cifically Alabama, in their 1974breakthrough hit "Sweet Home Alabama" While Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young had agreat deal of mutual respect for one another, and even fostered a friendship, Sk ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Lost Friend
me and only did it because I was sent to the head master for muttering all lesson to my best friend Neil Thomson. He had to see him too but we dare not speak to each other while waiting outside his of ... rched outside and positioned by a ladder into no-man's land."So, this is it then," I said softly to Neil, who had also volunteered at the recruitment office just like me.The train whistles blew, loud ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry