A friend recently argued that even Neil’s failures are never boring. He’s almost right, as evidenced by several compelling failures on this list, but Fork In The Road, a concept album about the electric car, belies this bold claim. What might have been an intriguing concept album about America’s overreliance on oil, the short-sightedness of shady tycoons, and sheeple resistant to change, turns out to be, well, mostly a bunch of songs about electric cars. The music makes even less of an impression than the lyrics, and it’s hard to imagine someone choosing to listen to Fork In The Road over pretty much any other Neil Young record. Even the acoustic numbers fall flat: despite a classic Badlands melody and swooping pedal steel, “Light A Candle” is a yearbook quote masquerading as a song, while the gospel-leaning “Off The Road” reaches for poignant and lands at puffy. “It’s all about my car,” Neil repeats in the listless and vaguely rap-damaged “Cough Up The Bucks.” You can’t say he didn’t warn you.