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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Emma Forrest

He can't sing ... but I love him

Neil Young's Harvest has been voted the top Canadian album of all time. Before you snicker, let me say that Canada has an extremely rich cultural scene and, anyway, what's the greatest American album of all time? Thriller? I've always been a huge fan of Young: he's one of the ugliest men on the planet. He can barely sing. In Rockin' in the Free World a key lyric ends with the words "toilet paper". He looks like horses had a wee in his jeans and he decided to just let them dry and then put them back on. And he does not care, because he has written some of the loveliest music in rock.

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