Wonderin’ – Neil Young and The Shocking Pinks

Groovy! Everybody’s Rockin’ is a 1983 album by Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks. The album was recorded with the Shocking Pinks (a band made up just for the occasion), and features a selection of rockabilly songs (both covers and original material). Running less than a half of an hour, the music is unlike anything else in Young’s career. However, Everybody’s Rockin’ is typical of his 1980s period in that it bears little, or no resemblance to the album released before it (Trans (1982), a synth-heavy, electro-rock album), nor the one released after it (Old Ways (1985), which is pure country.) Everybody’s Rockin’ is Neil Young’s shortest album, clocking in at less than 25 minutes. In a 1995 interview with MOJO, Young said that the album was supposed to have included the songs “Get Gone” and “Don’t Take Your Love Away From Me” (which later appeared on Lucky Thirteen), but that Geffen, his record company, cancelled the recording sessions. The album was also notable as the first for which Young made commercial music videos – Tim Pope directed the videos for “Wonderin'” and “Cry, Cry, Cry”. Tim Pope was invited to America for the first time in 1983 by Neil Young who asked him to film the video for his song “Wonderin”. Young personally drove him around Los Angeles on a guided tour to see the sights, using the car that was ultimately to feature in the famous “Wonderin” video, filmed with its idiosyncratic speed-up, speed-down style. Pope shot many more videos for Young until 1997 …