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Tracing the path of Neil Young’s ‘Helpless’

Cutting through all else, the song is a simple call back to a childhood home, the inevitable stage for all the confusion and turmoil that comes with maturity. It’s simple structure — the song never breaks from that D-A-G path — runs in contrast to the weight of growing up, growing old and moving out.

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Neil Young throws out the concepts with ‘Le Noise’

According to Nick Tavares, Neil Young’s new album, Le Noise, is not about the environment, or cars, or war, or whales, or the 2004 Red Sox, or anything else that would get old after two listens. No, it’s just good. How about that?