This Note's for You

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This Note's for You
Studio album by Neil Young & The Blue Notes
Released	April 1988
Recorded	November 1987 - January 1988
Genre	Rock
Length	39:25
Label	Reprise
Producer	Neil Young, Niko Bolas
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Neil Young chronology
Life (1987) This Note's for You (1988) Eldorado (1989)

This Note's for You is an album originally credited to Neil Young and the Bluenotes, released in 1988. Most of the album's concept centered around the commercialism of rock and roll, and tours in particular (the title track is a social commentary on concert sponsorship). The music is marked by the use of a horn section.

The video for the title track famously included a Michael Jackson look-alike whose hair catches fire. The video parodied corporate rock, the pretensions of advertising and Michael Jackson in particular. It was initially banned by MTV (although the Canadian music channel, MuchMusic ran it immediately) before being put into heavy rotation and finally given the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video of the Year for 1989.

Since Harold Melvin, founder of the R&B group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, took legal action against Young over use of the "Bluenotes" name, the album is now credited as a Neil Young solo recording. The backup band Young used for this album was renamed "Ten Men Workin'" (after the album's lead-off song).

The cover of this album is reportedly a photo taken in the back lane of the 200 block of Main Street Winnipeg, which housed the Blue Note Cafe. Neil was known to play unannounced in the Blue Note Cafe while in Winnipeg.^{[citation needed]}

"Ordinary People", an epic 18 minute outtake described as "Cortez the Killer with horns" ^[1], finally saw release in 2007 on Young's Chrome Dreams II.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young

1. "Ten Men Workin'" – 6:28
2. "This Note's for You" – 2:05
3. "Coupe De Ville" – 4:18
4. "Life in the City" – 3:13
5. "Twilight" – 5:54
6. "Married Man" – 2:38
7. "Sunny Inside" – 2:36
8. "Can't Believe Your Lyin'" – 2:58
9. "Hey Hey" – 3:05
10. "One Thing" – 6:02

[edit] Personnel

• Neil Young - vocals, guitar
• Chad Cromwell - drums
• Rick Rosas - bass
• Frank Sampedro - keyboards
• Steve Lawrence - lead tenor saxophone
• Ben Keith - alto saxophone
• Larry Cragg - baritone saxophone
• Claude Cailliet - trombone
• John Fumo - trumpet
• Tom Bray - trumpet

[edit] References

v • d • e Neil Young Crazy Horse • The Stray Gators Discography Studio albums: Neil Young • Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere • After the Gold Rush • Harvest • On the Beach • Tonight's the Night • Zuma • American Stars 'N Bars • Comes a Time • Rust Never Sleeps • Hawks & Doves • Re-ac-tor • Trans • Everybody's Rockin' • Old Ways • Landing on Water • Life • This Note's for You • Freedom • Ragged Glory • Harvest Moon • Sleeps with Angels • Mirror Ball • Broken Arrow • Silver & Gold • Are You Passionate? • Greendale • Prairie Wind • Living with War • Living with War: In the Beginning • Chrome Dreams II EPs: Eldorado Live albums: Time Fades Away • Live Rust • Weld • Arc • Unplugged • Year of the Horse • Road Rock Vol. 1 Soundtracks: Journey Through the Past • Where the Buffalo Roam • Philadelphia • Dead Man Compilations: Decade • Lucky Thirteen • Greatest Hits Archive Series: Live at the Fillmore East • Live at Massey Hall 1971 • The Archives Vol.01 1963-1972 Unreleased albums: Homegrown • Human Highway • Chrome Dreams Also see Buffalo Springfield • Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) • The Stills-Young Band