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Neil Young<\/a> never wanted to be stagnant at any point in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n Any great artist knows how to evolve their sound over time, and even if not every track ended up being an absolute masterpiece, Young would have rather gone down the tubes doing what he loved than having to worry about the sales figures of every record. But being a music fan also means having to get used to the differences in technology whenever something new comes along.<\/p>\n After all, the age of streaming would have left a lot of musicians baffled had they known about what it could do in, say, 1985. The whole point of streaming may have taken a massive chunk of the revenue away from record sales, but that has helped put more emphasis on an artist\u2019s touring life, usually leading to them becoming road dogs in between making most of their records.<\/p>\n That might be a massive double-edged sword for those that hate touring, but it\u2019s not like streaming doesn\u2019t have its own benefits. Most people growing up at the time Rust Never Sleeps<\/a> hit shelves wouldn\u2019t have been able to afford every album they thought was interesting, so having an endless amount of albums online at the click of a button has at least helped people be a bit more adventurous rather than listening to whatever came off the radio.<\/p>\n If anything, Young did see the merit in using new technology, but he did realise when the business was going overboard with everything as well. His music always worked best when it sounded like a full band jamming in the middle of a studio, so when all of those human elements are stripped away, it can get a bit monotonous to his ears after a while. And once MTV kicked in, he wanted no part of that flavour of music.<\/p>\n \u2018This Note\u2019s For You\u2019 was already Young lambasting the commercial part of MTV, but it wasn\u2019t about the commercial angle. Anyone who got into music not wanting to sell things certainly picked the wrong business to be in, but even if Young was willing to play that game, he never saw the point in having the massive reverb effects and overproduction on every single pop star that came out of the woodwork.<\/p>\n