Neil Young - On the Beach
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Artist: Neil YoungEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Walk On
- See the Sky About to Rain
- Revolution Blues
- For the Turnstiles
- Vampire Blues
- On the Beach
- Motion Pictures
- Ambulance Blues
Free Music Notes for On the Beach
Free Music Review: "Though your confidence may be shattered..."
Hit: 5 Stars
Neil Young is worthless to me when he's happy. Well, okay, maybe that's an exaggeration; I'm sure he had a smile on his face when he wrote "Cinnamon Girl." But aside from that, Young's best songs have almost always come from the darker regions of the human experience. His music is at its most powerful when dealing with angst, disillusionment, and uncertainty. By that token, this may very well be Neil Young's best album. Released in 1974, On The Beach rounds out a trio of albums commonly referred to as the "Ditch Trilogy," the other two being Tonight's The Night and Time Fades Away. Of the three, this is probably the most fully realized and fleshed-out installment. It's a collection of tense, brittle, rock songs and sickly ballads, of apathetic insults and haunted introspection. It's an album full of bitterness and black humor, and it's dark and mean and weary and absolutely, positively perfect. Well, maybe not "perfect," per se- "See The Sky About To Rain" is somewhat tedious - but it comes close. Very few songs in this world can match "Motion Pictures" or "For The Turnstyles" in terms of sheer spooked ennui, Fewer still can hope to compete with the vicious sarcasm of "Walk On." "Vampire Blues" is a cruel slab of mid 70s disillusionment that features, among other things, a guitar solo (or should I say anti-guitar solo?) that sounds exactly like a vampire suckling the last few drops of blood from a victim's neck. It's also got lines as deliciously bummed out as "good times are coming/ I hear it everywhere I go/ good times are coming/ but they're sure coming slow." Brilliant! The whole thing closes with "Ambulance Blues," which is a gorgeous and absolutely epic take on life after the storm, with its weary melody (nicely lifted from a Bert Jansch tune) and lyrics that are full of poetic imagery and symbolism. Great stuff.
On the Beach Poster
2003 remastered reissue of 1974 album. This dark yet triumphant album, with guests Graham Nash, David Crosby & The Band's Rick Danko & Levon Helm, initially peaked at #16 & achieved gold status. Eight tracks. Reprise.Sparse, underproduced, and at times downright dour, On the Beach was Neil Young's first studio album after Harvest had transformed him into a mainstream superstar two years before. It was a career move akin to "pissin' in the wind," as the artist himself describes life on one of the album's most famous lines. Young had already recorded the harrowing Tonight's the Night, his indictment of '60s drug culture and the damage done, but his label rejected it as too abrasive. So the artist gave them this instead. Less mournful but still haunting, the album is basically Young's rejection of rock stardom and what had become of the counterculture, covering a range of subjects, including Richard Nixon and Patty Hearst (the epic "Ambulance Blues"), his affair with actress Carrie Snodgrass ("Motion Pictures"), and, most famously, years before it became "chic" to do so, Charles Manson (the rocking "Revolution Blues"). "Vampire Blues," meanwhile, seemed to be about all those topics, as well as Young himself. Full of despair and little hope, On the Beach would nevertheless eventually come to be reappraised as a rock culture masterpiece. --Bill Holdship
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