Help! Stuck in Greendale!!!!

[darkstar]

I posted late last night on yesterday's relase of the latest Neil Young album, Greendale. Then, I was pumped up upon my first listen, dancing around the house singing lyrics "Hey Mr. Clean, You're dirty now, too!" from son "sun green." Didn't read the extensive narrative and expositional context you get in booklet.

Later, when I went to bed, I watched the solo accoustic DVD that comes with it--all for $14.99. He does every song in sequence and talks LOTS between the songs, providing the narrative backdrop found in the booklet and for much of the last 4 songs--"sun green" among them--my eyes were brimming with tears.

Tried the album today during work break, reading the text this time and felt the tears coming on so I turned it off. Listened to the last three on the way home and turned into a side street and sat there and cried real tears.

Has anyone else listened/watched this release yet? I'm telling you, it is a force to be reckoned with. It is heartbreakingly powerful. Or perhaps powerfully heartbreaking.

As per several threads I've seen here at DU, all my subjectivity is gone. I don't know if I was simply at my breaking point and Young just touched on the right spots to send me over the edge *or* if he has in captured a significant portion of America's post-9/11 collective unconcious which has previously gone untapped and spewed out all these intertwined anxieties, fears, and angry demons in a single blast. And boy are there some deserving targets--media, biz, consumerism, exploiters of every stripe--for the latter!

It's been a long time since a pop-culture product has leveled me like this. And when it has, it's usually, say, a more personal story and not as intense. This, however, is like an elegy for America tempered only by the possibility of redemption by an activist generation younger than Young's or mine, one that is moved by nature-spirit to stand up to the BIG LIE.

What should one do when they become obsessed with something that exposes so many raw nerves? I know many of you here at DU saw the shows and I read your reviews w/ interest and would really like to hear retellings of your experiences. But I would also really like to talk with someone who's got the CD/DVD thing and experienced these songs in a more private manner for perhaps a second or third time now.

Sincere thanks in advance for any response. I really do feel the need to talk to somebody about this...