On the Beach

Neil Young - On the Beach

On the Beach
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Artist: Neil Young
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Walk On
  2. See The Sky About To Rain
  3. Revolution Blues
  4. For The Turnstiles
  5. Vampire Blues
  6. On The Beach
  7. Motion Pictures
  8. Ambulance Blues

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Free Music Review: Haunting and Moody, Neil's Best
Hit: 5 Stars

In my opinion, this is Neil Young's finest album. The album is sparse, with personal, enigmatic, and sometimes bleak lyrics. I first heard this when I was lucky enough to find a used LP in a head shop when I was in college back in the late 90s. Needless to say, the album blew my doors off. I'd already gotten in to Neil, courtesy of a classmate, but this album proved to be a real find. I was elated when it was finally released on CD.

On the Beach is probably my favorite Neil song of all time. The lyrics are interesting and the emotion conveyed is incredible. In addition, I don't think Neil's guitar ever seemed as plaintive as it does here. Simply beautiful despair. Crack a bottle of wine and put this one on with the lights low.

On the Beach Poster

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
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.

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