Trans (Remastered) Neil Young

• 1 Little Thing Called Love 03:11
• 2 Computer Age 05:23
• 3 We R In Control 03:30
• 4 Transformer Man 03:22
• 5 Computer Cowboy 04:08
• 6 Hold On To Your Love 03:25
• 7 Sample And Hold 05:14
• 8 Mr. Soul 03:16
• 9 Like An Inca 08:12
• Total Runtime 39:41

Info zu Trans (Remastered)

Originally released in 1982, Trans was a bold and bewildering move into the 'modern age' for the veteran singer/songwriter. While it's been called his 'Electronic' album, Trans doesn't transport Neil into Depeche Mode territory. Instead, Trans finds Neil experimenting with an array of computers, keyboards and vocoders along with his standard guitar/bass/drums backbone. Nine tracks, including 'Little Thing Called Love', 'Computer Age', 'Transformer Man' and a drastically different version of his Buffalo Springfield classic 'Mr. Soul'.

"When it was released, Trans was Neil Young's most baffling album. He had employed a vocoder to synthesize his voice on five of the album's nine tracks, resulting in disembodied singing, the lyrics nearly impossible to decipher without the lyric sheet. And even when you read the words, "Computer Age," "We R in Control," "Transformer Man," "Computer Cowboy," and "Sample and Hold" seemed like a vague mishmash of high-tech jargon. Later, Young would reveal that some of the songs expressed a theme of attempted communication with his disabled son, and in that context, lines like "I stand by you" and "So many things still left to do/But we haven't made it yet" seemed clearer. But the vocoder, which robbed Young's voice of its dynamics and phrasing, still kept the songs from being as moving as they were intended to be. And despite the crisp dance beats and synthesizers, the music sounded less like new Kraftwerk than like old Devo. A few more conventional Young songs (left over from an earlier rejected album) seemed out of place. Trans had a few good songs, notably "Sample and Hold" (which seemed to be about a computer dating service for robots), a remake of "Mr. Soul," and "Like an Inca" (an intended cross between "Like a Hurricane" and "Cortez the Killer"?), but on the whole it was an idea that just didn't work." (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Neil Young, vocals, vocoder, guitars, bass, Synclavier, electric piano
Nils Lofgren, guitars, piano, organ, electric piano, Synclavier, backing vocals, vocoder
Ben Keith, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
Frank Sampedro, guitars, synthesizer
Bruce Palmer, bass
Billy Talbot, bass
Ralph Molina, drums, backing vocals
Joe Lala, percussion, backing vocals

Produced by Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan

Digitally remastered

Neil Young
geboren am 12. November 1945 in Toronto, ist Musiker, Singer-Songwriter und Filmemacher und gilt als eine der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten der Rockmusik. Er begann seine Karriere in den 1960er-Jahren mit der Band Buffalo Springfield, trat später mit der Band Crazy Horse, aber auch solo und mit anderen Künstler*innen auf. Sein unverwechselbarer Stil verbindet Folk, Rock, Country und Grunge. Alben wie After the Gold Rush (1970) und Harvest (1972) mit dem Klassiker »Heart of Gold« zählen zu den Meilensteinen seiner Diskographie. Neben seiner Musik ist Neil Young auch für sein gesellschaftliches Engagement bekannt. Seit 2020 besitzt er die US-amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft, lebt aber weiterhin teils in Kanada.

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