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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Reprise Records
Salesrank: 72814
Released: April 9, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Are You Passionate? Track Listing:
1. You're My Girl
2. Mr. Disappointment
3. Differently
4. Quit (Don't Say You Love Me)
5. Let's Roll
6. Are You Passionate?
7. Goin' Home
8. When I Hold You In My Arms
9. Be With You
10. Two Old Friends
11. She's A Healer
Editorial Review:
Neil Young let's it rock and let's it roll with Are You Passionate. Backed by members of Booker T. & The MGs and featuring his longtime band Crazy Horse on 'Goin' Home', Young's rock n roll adds Memphis to the mix to create one of the coolest, most passionate albums of the year. Digipak. 2002 Reprise Records.
Description of Are You Passionate?:
Though Are You Passionate? is Neil Young's studio-recorded follow-up to 2000's Silver & Gold, it might well have emerged on the heels of Harvest Moon. While both Crazy Horse and Booker T. & the MGs swing by to add ballast to several of these 11 brand-new tracks, gentle weepers like "Don't Say You Love Me," "When I Hold You in My Arms," and the softly lilting title track recall Young's aforementioned 1992 work while suggesting that the once outspoken social critic and on-again, off-again CSN&Y member is mellowing. Further proof of that can be found in the tender opening song, "You're My Girl"--a postcard from a father to a daughter on the cusp of adulthood and presumably inspired by Young's daughter Amber--as well as in the lazy, languid "Two Old Friends." Are You Passionate?'s one serious clunker, "Let's Roll," was inspired by the 9/11 cell-phone call Todd Beamer placed moments before he and other passengers on Flight 93 went down in a Pennsylvania field. You can't fault the guy for commemorating a heroic act and making a personal donation to the Beamer family, but all his talk of "going after Satan on the wings of a dove" and "facing down evil" sounds like a guy who's spent more time watching CNN than honing his lyrics. --Kim Hughes
Are You Passionate? Reviews:
Unbelievable to hear wide-ranging reviews 
2009-07-31 - Come on, people!!! Can't Neil Young deviate from his usual style once in a while? I think that some of the negative reviews have more to do with the shift from his usual style, rather than the music itself, which is outstanding. This album proves that people are resistant to change. People were accepting of 1989's FREEDOM, so ARE YOU PASSIONATE? should be no exception. ALL of the songs are awesome on this album. Guitar isn't lacking here, and Neil has the grunge sound in full force on some of the songs. Most of the songs are love-based, which gives the album its identity. Standout tracks include, Differently, Mr. Disappointment, Let's Roll, and She's a Healer. Let's Roll is about 9/11, and the final moments of Flight 93. It's a very traveling-bluesy song that (despite what some say) belongs on the album. Overall, ARE YOU PASSIONATE? is one of Neil Young's shiniest moments in a stellar career that spans over four decades. 9/10
It really helps if your a Neil Young fan...
2009-05-30 - This is a great Neil Young CD. It's not easy to classify Neil and you never know what to expect so, it helps if your a Neil Young fan.
Stunning! Continuation of Neil Young from the early 1970s!
2008-10-21 - I have followed Neil Young since CSN&Y. I purchased Everybody Knows, Gold Rush, Harvest and all the albums through Rust Never Sleeps just as they came out through Tower Records. Over time, I have purchased all of Neil Young's other albums and have taken time to study most everything Neil has recorded. I own a pro DJ party & wedding business and try to play his music when I can, which helps give me rave reviews for providing unique music at events. If you particularly enjoy the following albums: Everybody Knows, After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Time Fades Away, On the Beach, Comes a Time, Everybody's Rockin, This Note's For You, Harvest Moon, . . . . then you will absolutely love this album.
The first three songs just knock me off my feet with the quality and fun of the Booker T & The MGs as well as the Blues Brothers albums. Why? Well Booker T Jones, Donald Duck Dunn and the MGs Gang all play as well as some of Neil Young's favorite session players. The results are, in my opinion, some of the most fun and bass driven rockers Neil has ever done. There is the Muscle Shoals sound, Memphis Soul sound, R&B influences, blues & soul sounds resonating from all the songs making Are You Passionate the unique album that it is as well as allowing you to mix the songs in with Neil's best from the 1970s. If you like Rock, Boogie, walking bass lines, soul, R&B and blues, this album had better be in your collection. Do you like Bobby Brown's My Prerogative? Well, check out Neil's song, Differently, and ride on Duck Dunn's groovin bass lines, Booker T's soulful Hammond organ along with awesome Neil Young guitar licks. The remaining seven songs are awesome numbers that could easily fit within any of Neil's albums from the 1970s. Enjoy the album.
Can't say so - Neil's good at a lot of things, but R&B isn't one of them 
2007-11-18 - There comes a time, in these days of the 80 minute CD, when someone decides to terribly abuse this new running time simply because they have an extra third of an album available to them. If that sounds anything like this album right here, that's no coincidence, because Are You Passionate? falls right into that trap. And it's almost atrocious pseudo-R&B, which Neil is still totally incapable of playing in spite of being backed by Booker T & the M.G.'s. I mean, you'd think he could do something with that. No, he cannot. Other than "Let's Roll" (the one about 9/11 with the spectacular organ and guitar stuff) and "Goin' Home" (a cool jam), this is a throwaway of an album, with indulgent running times ("She's a Healer" runs nine minutes!), crappy lyrics (title track; "Quit (Don't Say You Love Me)"; the Otis Redding-esque "When I Hold You In My Arms"; the Four Tops-inspired "Be With You"), conventional soul riffs ("You're My Girl"; "Mr. Disappointment"), and, in a fitting but predictable irony, no passion at all. You'd think Neil was asking himself the titular question, even though he knew the answer. Even "Goin' Home" tries my patience after a while. I could've rated this one even lower, but Neil occasionally does some good stuff on his guitar. But this is almost as bad as his other R&B exercise, This Note's for You. Maybe even worse.
Ignore them all! This is Great Neil
2006-12-16 - I love the sound on this cd. It's pure Neil with his les paul plugged into one of the loudest amps in the world. On all but one song he's backed up by one of the greatest rhythm sections in R&B history. For 'Going Home' he's with his old buddies, Crazy Horse.
This cd is amazing and deserves the highest type of rating.
