This Note's for You

This Note's for You
Studio album by Neil Young & The Bluenotes
Released	April 11, 1988 (1988-04-11)
Recorded	November 1987 – January 1988 at Studio Instrument Rentals, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Heartland rock, R&B, blues rock
Length	39:25
Label	Reprise
Producer	Neil Young, Niko Bolas
Neil Young chronology
Life (1987) This Note's for You (1988) Freedom (1989)
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This Note's for You is the seventeenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released in 1988. It was originally credited to Young and the Bluenotes. Most of the album's concept centered around the commercialism of rock and roll, and tours in particular (the title track is a social commentary on concert sponsorship). The music is marked by the use of a horn section.

The video for the title track famously included a Michael Jackson look-alike whose hair catches fire. The video parodied corporate rock, the pretensions of advertising, and was patterned after a series of Michelob ads which featured contemporary rock artists such as Eric Clapton, Genesis and Steve Winwood. The video also featured parodic inserts from other commercials featuring singers including impersonators of Jackson and Whitney Houston, as well as popular characters including a look-alike Spuds McKenzie. It was initially banned by MTV after legal threats from Michael Jackson's attorneys (although the Canadian music channel, MuchMusic ran it immediately). After becoming a hit on MuchMusic, MTV reconsidered their decision to yank the video and put it into heavy rotation, finally giving it the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video of the Year for 1989. The video was directed by Julien Temple and written by Charlie Coffey. It was nominated for a Grammy in the category of "Best Concept Video" of 1989 but lost to "Weird Al" Yankovic's Michael Jackson video spoof of "Bad", "Fat".

Since Harold Melvin, founder of the R&B group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, took legal action against Young over use of the "Bluenotes" name, the album is now credited as a Neil Young solo recording. The backup band Young used for this album was renamed "Ten Men Workin'" (after the album's lead-off song).

The cover of this album is reportedly a photo taken in the back lane of the 200 block of Main Street Winnipeg, which housed the Blue Note Cafe. Neil was known to play unannounced in the Blue Note Cafe while in Winnipeg.^{[citation needed]}

"Ordinary People", an epic 18 minute outtake described as "Cortez the Killer with horns" , finally saw release in 2007 on Young's Chrome Dreams II.

Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young

1. "Ten Men Workin'" – 6:28
2. "This Note's for You" – 2:05
3. "Coupe De Ville" – 4:18
4. "Life in the City" – 3:13
5. "Twilight" – 5:54
6. "Married Man" – 2:38
7. "Sunny Inside" – 2:36
8. "Can't Believe Your Lyin'" – 2:58
9. "Hey Hey" – 3:05
10. "One Thing" – 6:02

Personnel

• Neil Young – vocals, guitar
• Chad Cromwell – drums
• Rick Rosas – bass
• Frank Sampedro – keyboards
• Steve Lawrence – lead tenor saxophone
• Ben Keith – alto saxophone
• Larry Cragg – baritone saxophone
• Claude Cailliet – trombone
• John Fumo – trumpet
• Tom Bray – trumpet