Landing on Water

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Landing on Water
Studio album by Neil Young
Released	July 21, 1986
Recorded	Aug. 1983-Mar. 1986
Genre	Rock
Length	40:04
Label	Geffen
Producer(s)	Neil Young, Danny Kortchmar
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (C+) link
Neil Young chronology
Old Ways (1985)	Landing on Water (1986)	Life (1987)

Released in 1986, Landing on Water was a return to rock for Neil Young, after experimenting with Rockabily, electronica and straight country music over his last few albums. Once again, however, Neil did not play with Crazy Horse, who he had not worked with for several years, and even went as far as to claim he would never play with them again, intensely frustrating the band at the time, who found this out from an interview they read. Critical reaction to this album is generally poor, citing mainly the obvious 80s stadium drums, messy production and generally poor quality songs. Some fans, however, praise the album, believing that his album may have been an attempt to simply annoy David Geffen, owner of Geffen Records who were suing him at the time, for producing 'unrepresentative, uncommercial music'

[edit] Track listing

1. "Weight Of The World" – 3:40
2. "Violent Side"* – 4:22
3. "Hippie Dream" – 4:11
4. "Bad News Beat" – 3:18
5. "Touch The Night"* – 4:30
6. "People On The Street" – 4:33
7. "Hard Luck Stories" – 4:06
8. "I Got A Problem" – 3:16
9. "Pressure" – 2:46
10. "Drifter" – 5:05

[edit] Personnel

• Neil Young - lead guitar, synthesizer, vocals
• Danny Kortchmar - guitar, synthesizer, vocals
• Steve Jordan - drums, synthesizer, vocals
• San Francisco Boys Chorus on tracks marked (*)