Greendale

Rarely are critics so polarized by a major work by a rock legend as they were in 2003, when Neil Young dropped his confounding Greendale into their laps. Some embraced his concept album about life in a fictional, sleepy Northern Californian town as a small masterpiece that addressed important issues facing a country in crisis, and claimed that Young, reunited with his backing band, Crazy Horse, had finally produced music comparable in quality to 1990's Ragged Glory. Others found the lyrics full of clumsy sloganeering and incoherent rants aimed at everything from paranoid, post-9/11 warmongering to the endangered environment. Shot and directed with littl...