Neil Young - Trans
NME.COM feature on Neil Young - Trans album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 24 February 1994
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- Little Thing Called Love
- Computer Age
- We R In Control
- Transformer Man
- Computer Cowboy (AKA Syscrusher)
- Hold On To Your Love
- Sample And Hold
- Mr. Soul
- Like An Inca
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Neil Young - Trans: Wikipedia Album Entry
Trans is an album by Neil Young, released in 1982. Recorded partially and released during his notorious Geffen era in the 1980s, Trans baffled many Neil Young fans. Some suggested that the album could be a satirical message that Young was trying to send about the direction music was headed in the future. A vocoder features prominently in five of the nine tracks. While the album was poorly received, some critics point out that the melodies are strong and that the album involves Young addressing new musical movements, as he did previously on Rust Never Sleeps and later with the grunge movement.
Neil Young found that when using a vocoder when communicating to his son (who was born with cerebral palsy), he was able to elicit a better response. The emotional power of this experiment shows in the lyrics, particularly in the track "Transformer Man" with the lines "So many things still left to do / But we haven't made it yet."
Portions of several tracks appeared in Young's 1982 feature length comedy film Human Highway.
One song, "If You Got Love," appeared on the LP's printed track listing, but was not included on the album in a last minute change of mind
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Neil Young - Trans Lyrics
Neil Young - Little Thing Called Love Lyrics
See somebody walkin' down the street
Hangin' head and a-shufflin' feet
Don't take much to see
What they've been thinkin' of.
Neil Young - Computer Age Lyrics
Cars and trucks
Fly by me on the corner
But I'm all right
Standin' proud before the signal
Neil Young - We R In Control Lyrics
We control the data banks
We control the think tanks
We control the flow of air.
Neil Young - Computer Cowboy Lyrics
Well, his cattle each have numbers
And they all eat in a line
When he turns the floodlights on each night
Of course the herd looks perfect!
Neil Young - Hold On To Your Love Lyrics
Hold on to your love
Hold on to your love
Though you may feel tired and blue.
The things you say,
Neil Young - Sample And Hold Lyrics
Sample and Hold
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Weight: 110
Neil Young - Like An Inca Lyrics
Said the condor to the preying mantis
We're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis
Brother we got to go sooner than you know
The Gypsy told my fortune, she said that nothin' showed.
