Young has spent most of the past fifty years arguing for environmental causes, even (or especially) when nobody was keen to listen. On occasion, he has veered toward tenderhearted folk rock, as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and on records such as “Harvest,” his fourth LP and the best-selling album of 1972. This song is in that tradition.Since 1968, Neil Young-who was born in Toronto in 1945-has been making raucous, astringent guitar music, both as a solo artist and with his longtime backing band, Crazy Horse. We should leave nature alone it is better without us. They are in the tradition of Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi. While the lyrics might seem out there, they are not. If every jam had this many motifs, I could go along with it. There is not a large selection of jam band songs on this list, because I find most of them indulgent. For a great piece of historical fiction about this time period check out Aztec by Gary Jennings. Young’s point is that it was better before we got there. Sure, Aztecs did do human sacrificing to appease the gods. The Aztecs were a great civilization that was doing just fine before the Europeans came along and spread their diseases and religion and slavery. The gist of the message has been expressed in different ways before. ![]() Any guitar aficionado has to love this song. The riffs and solos and all the guitar work are legendary. Put aside the historical accuracy debate for a minute, Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer” is just a kick-ass song.
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