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Young can always be counted on to sing exactly what's on his mind right now, and apparently now (2009 anyway) that's his badass Lincvolt, whether the rest of us care or not. Well, that and the much more relatable Wall Street bailout. Strangely enough the best tracks are about the car. The melancholy "Just Singing A Song"**** would have fit perfectly on Living With War except for references to his ride, likewise the propulsive "Johnny Magic" (about his mechanic, who cares). "Get Behind The Wheel"***** is a slab of garage-y R&B, a combo of This Note's For You's riffs and Ragged Glory's overdriven blast, as are "Hit The Road" and the title song, the former with less life, the latter an ad-libbed throwaway (though it has a couple good lines, and the video with Young's headphones plugged into a red delicious is hilarious). "Fuel Line" adds some pretty cool mechanical guitar noise. Though several verses about green fuel are a bit much, I'll look forward to feeling pretty silly walking around singing that joyfully dumb "keep filling the old fuel line, fill er up!" chorus. But speaking of throwaways, the album even has its own "T-Bone", the thrown-together "Cough Up The Bucks". The two acoustic tracks, "Off The Road" and "Light A Candle" are nice but unremarkable, so maybe the fatally flawed gems win out here.
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