"Chrome Dreams II" (Neil Young)
New Neil Young album
the record’s centerpiece, “Ordinary People.” The song is a leftover from the late eighties, when Young was playing with a full horn section and calling his band the Bluenotes. A massive ode to our collective humanity, it runs for nine long verses and more than eighteen minutes: that’s three times as long as “Like a Rolling Stone” and longer even than “Sister Ray.” It’s also a major composition, passing through scenes of hope, justice, ambition, and disappointment as the guitar stings and the horns surge. “Some are saints and some are jerks,” Young sings, cataloguing his subjects more specifically as he goes—“alcoholic people,” “patch-of-ground people,” and even, in a wonderfully perverse refusal to update lyrics, “Lee Iacocca people.”
[From Chrome Never Sleeps: Recordings: The New Yorker]
I never really got into the Bluenotes, I should give 'em another listen
