Similar Albums:
First Album,
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: The Best of the Band Live in Concert,
Truth Decay,
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions,
Paradise and Lunch,
Lonesome Jubilee,
Copperhead Road: Rarities Edition,
Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly,
Ragged Glory,
Lone Justice,
Tonight's the Night
- Artist: Neil Young
- Rating:
- Release Date: 1988 04
- Total Time: 38:53
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
A collective groan from Neil Young fans could be heard when it was announced that, as his return to Reprise Records, Young was engaging in yet another genre experiment, this time recording blues and R&B with a six-piece horn section. If Landing on Water and Life had been lackluster, at least they hadn't been as embarrassing as Young's forays into rockabilly (Everybody's Rockin') and techno (Trans). And if you took This Note's for You on its own genre terms, it could be just as laughable. A song like "Sunny Inside," with its marching rhythm and charging horn charts, seemed to demand a forceful, gritty singer on the order of Wilson Pickett, and Young's watery tenor just didn't cut it. But the album was only half up-tempo numbers; the other half was bluesy ballads for which Young's singing was effective and on which he sounded more personally involved than he had in years. And even on the rockers, his sense of humor often carried the day. This Note's for You was the best of Young's stylistic side trips because it was the only one in which the style augmented his own instead of overwhelming him. The songs were mediocre, but the playing was spirited. The album earned much better reviews than Young had gotten lately, largely because critics tend to stand in awe of the blues in whatever form it appears. And Young got further kudos due to his contretemps with MTV when the video channel first declined to program a clip for the title song because it featured parodies of popular MTV artists and commercial sponsors, then caved in and named it Best Video of the Year. Lost in all that hoopla, however, was that record buyers never came to the party. This Note's for You was another commercial failure for Young, and it was apparent that, to lure back his audience, he would have to go back to making the kind of music his fans had liked a decade before. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Ten Men Workin' (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (6:25) |
| This Note's for You (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (2:04) |
| Coupe de Ville (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (4:15) |
| Life in the City (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (3:12) |
| Twilight (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (5:52) |
| Married Man (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (2:35) |
| Sunny Inside (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (2:33) |
| Can't Believe Your Lyin' (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (2:56) |
| Hey Hey (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (3:01) |
| One Thing (Lyrics) | Neil Young | Neil Young | (6:00) |
