Are You Passionate?
by Neil Young

Are You Passionate? by Neil Young
Year: 2002
Release date: 2002-04-09
Overall rank: 9,736th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
65/100 (from 81 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2002 (187th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,684th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,736th)

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Neil Young bestography

Are You Passionate? is ranked 41st best out of 98 albums by Neil Young on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Neil Young is After The Gold Rush which is ranked number 82 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,111.

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Overall rank: 9,736th | 2000s rank: 1,684th | 2002 rank: 187th  Overall chart history
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From dihansse 12/01/2025 21:15 in My discoveries per year
“And two albums of 2002 I listened to: First an album I already own/know: Again a fairly average album of Neil Young in my opinion were it not for that excellent outlier Goin' Home which rocks on like his best tracks. The album as a whole is just ok and maybe a bit the opposite of its title because…”
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“Are you passionate? Neil certainly isn't here! I don't know to this day what devil got into my head when I bought this crappy album. Undoubtedly one of his worst albums. And there's a lot of them. Even though I could be your grandfather, when you are right, you are right.”
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This is supposed to be a soul album. The only problem with that is that there is no soul to be found here. There is also a surprising lack of chemistry between Neil Young and Booker T. & the M.G.'s. It's not surprising to me that the best song on here was recorded with Crazy Horse, Goin' Home, because it flowed. Every other song feels so stilted. But even Goin' Home is just really useless and boring. This one is definitely one to skip as it's not even bad enough to be of note. At least Trans is so bad that you can get a good laugh or two in before your inevitable plunge into insanity. Are You Passionate? does not leave me with any sort of feeling. Besides resentment towards Neil Young for wasting an hour of my life.
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I'll take Neil with Booker T and the MGs over him with Pearl Jam. I'll also take his version of Kraftwerk so what do I know?
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