Re-ac-tor [Original recording remastered]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
2003 remastered reissue of 1981 album. This hard rocker initially peaked at #27. Eight tracks. Reprise.

Tracks:

Op-er-ra Star
Surf-er Joe And Moe The Sleaze
T-bone
Get Back On It
South-ern Pac-i-fic
Mo-tor Cit-y
Rap-id Tran-sit
Shots

Album Description

2003 remastered reissue of 1981 album. This hard rocker initially peaked at #27. Eight tracks. Reprise.

Customer Reviews:

primal beauty.......2007-05-11

I remember somebody putting this on the boom box while we were playing basketball the park, circa 1982. I had a new respect for that guy after that.

This is a great album.
Not only is it a great album, it is Neil Young's greatest album.
It may the greatest album of all time.

Seriously, considering all of the misses that Neil released, how can you complain about this one? T-Bone is primal beauty.

I would much rather listen to this than, say, `Are you passionate' or half the catalog that followed.

Past the angry tide, the mighty diesel whines..........2006-07-24

Look here -

When you see a bunch of people giving this 5 stars and falling all over themselves with superlatives, and then a bunch of other people giving it 1 star and calling it the worst album Neil Young ever made, you gotta know something interesting is going on...

Reactor is perhaps best for listeners who have enough self-esteem that they are happy to be thought fools for enjoying something like Reactor...that is, listeners who can let go enough to enjoy music that has been stripped of all the trappings we ordinarily think of as nuance and sophistication.

Moronic? Repetetive? Relentlessly inane? Maybe so, or much of it. But after all, what is "T-Bone" but the lyrical equivalent of the great one-note guitar solo? And I'd be willing to bet these folks who are so disappointed in Reactor think "Cinnamon Girl" is a brilliant song, and never even realized the guitar solo was a one-noter (talk about an over-rated song...blech)

I personally found it very refreshing that with Reactor, Young felt he could largely scrap his quasi-sophisticated sentimentalism just for once, and be satisfied to rock for rock's sake. (He's somebody, satisfied with winning...) No, you won't be getting another "Harvest" here, or even something as brilliant as "Tonight's the Night." Reactor is far more dangerous and uncompromising. It's just a pure freaking melt-down of an album, and deserves to be recognized as one of Young's best pieces of work. Turn it up. Louder.

One of Many Fascinating Neil Young Artifacts from the 1980s.......2006-03-18

The reviewer below who assumes that Bob Dylan has never written the kind of arbitrary, redundant lyrics found on Reactor's "T-Bone" is profoundly mistaken. This is just more of the entirely unfounded pretense with which so many close-minded fans fuel misinformed criticism. Take these lines from Dylan's song, "Wiggle Wiggle", the opening track from his 1991 album, "Under The Red Sky".

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like satin and silk,
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a pail of milk,
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, rattle and shake,
Wiggle like a big fat snake.

Now, call me crazy, but I'm fairly certain that this fails to meet the aforementioned reviewer's standards for "songwriting". That is exactly the point: Neil Young's "Reactor" is much-maligned for applying an aesthetic fraught with ruthless feedback and distortion to a weak selection of songs, but to object to Reactor on those grounds completely misses the point.

If this album's flaws are more of the same-old Neil Young "flakiness", it is the same "flakiness" that characterizes rock 'n roll's legacy--a legacy Neil Young defines as accurately on Reactor as on any other record. Reactor's snotty abandon and feedback-laden indifference constitute the kind of temperament that great rock 'n roll thrives on, and if it fails to conjure greatness on Reactor, then it is, at worst, a powerful tribute to the soul of rock music.

A boundless ambition pervades Reactor that is at once charming and confounding: the frenzied wail and shriek of "Shots", the thumping, deceptively political railroad anthem, "Southern Pacific", which made for a killer acoustic tune at some of Neil Young's live solo shows back in 2000, the 10 or 11 minutes of Neil Young shouting "ain't got no t-bone!" amid Crazy Horse's famous thrash-and-grind sound. These performances exemplify what is great about rock 'n roll far more powerfully than any of those contrived classic rock anthems you crank up on the radio at work every day.

Take a chance on Reactor. Listen to something different, something that refuses to make friends, something too sincere to earn air time on any of America's thousand crummy classic rock stations. Few experiences are more gratifying than getting weird looks from other drivers when you crank up this album on your car stereo at a red light with the windows down. It proves you're listening to something that's true. Reactor is the real thing: are you?

GodAwful.......2005-10-19

How can the people above give this 4 stars? There is one song on it "T-Bone" where he repeats the same lines over and over. That ain't song writng. Never see Bob Dylan write something like that. You know it stinks becasue I've never seen Neil play any of the songs from this album live.

top 6 .......2005-09-19

This is in Neils top 6. Who could bash this this cd?This is Neils rock and roll.Neil caught the big one and some people let it go but not me. If you don't want to crank up the stereo don't get this Neil cd.By the way. Could some of you please shorten up your review. You're not getting a grade and you are not impressing me at all. Got mashed potatoes!!!

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Average customer rating:

Re-ac-tor
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Manufacturer: Wea/Warner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000AN10O
Release Date: 2003-09-22

Tracks:

Op-er-a Star - Neil Young
Surf-er Joe and Moe the Sleaze - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
T-Bone - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Get Back on It - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
South-ern Pac-i-fic - Neil Young
Mo-tor Cit-y - Neil Young
Rap-id Tran-sit - Neil Young
Shots - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Album Details

Digitally remastered Japanese version.

Average customer rating:

Re-ac-tor
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Manufacturer: Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00009YXAG
Release Date: 2003-08-18

Tracks:

Op-er-a Star - Neil Young
Surf-er Joe and Moe the Sleaze - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
T-Bone - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Get Back on It - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
South-ern Pac-i-fic - Neil Young
Mo-tor Cit-y - Neil Young
Rap-id Tran-sit - Neil Young
Shots - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Album Description

First time on CD, digitally remastered reissue of 1981 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. This hard rocker initially peaked at #27. Reprise. 2003.

Average customer rating:

re-ac-tor

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Rock | Styles | Music

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000BH1OCU

Average customer rating:

Re-ac-tor
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Manufacturer: Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00016XMPI

Tracks:

Op-er-a Star - Neil Young
Surf-er Joe and Moe the Sleaze - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
T-Bone - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Get Back on It - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
South-ern Pac-i-fic - Neil Young
Mo-tor Cit-y - Neil Young
Rap-id Tran-sit - Neil Young
Shots - Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Album Description

Japanese remastered reissue of 1981 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Reprise. 2004.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

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