Sedan delivery
| Sedan delivery | |
|---|---|
| Neil Young | |
| publication | 1979 |
| length | 4:40 |
| Genre (s) | Rock music |
| Author (s) | Neil Young |
| Label | Reprise Records |
| album | Rust Never Sleeps (1979) |
Sedan Delivery is a song written by Neil Young that was released on his 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps . It also appears on Live Rust (1979).
background
Like other songs on Rust Never Sleeps, including Pocahontas and Powderfinger , Sedan Delivery was originally recorded in 1977 for the unreleased album Chrome Dreams . Sedan Delivery was offered like Powderfinger Lynyrd Skynyrd , who ended up using none of the songs.
Music and lyrics
The Sedan Delivery version on Rust Never Sleeps is faster than the version recorded for Chrome Dreams - like many punk rock songs of the time. In the bridge the tempo is halved. Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald describes these slow bridge passages as "almost psychedelic."
The texts depict surreal scenes: a woman with varicose veins playing pool , a visit to the dentist, a film about Caesar and Cleopatra, and the delivery of chemicals to a mad scientist. Greenwald interprets the texts as a stream of consciousness of the modern world and a state of confusion in a young person.
reception
In 2014, Rolling Stone rated Sedan Delivery as number 30 of the Neil Young songs of all time .
Cover versions
- 1986: The Feelies on their EP No One Knows
- 2010: Julian Lynch: A Fundamental Experiment. (different musicians)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glen Boyd: Neil Young FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Iconic and Mercurial Rocker. Backbeat Books, 2012.
- ↑ a b Sedan Delivery - Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Song info. Retrieved August 18, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Various - A Fundamental Experiment. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .