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Neil Young "On the Beach"
« on: April 28, 2007, 07:00:10 pm »
I have recently decided that this is pretty much Neil Young's best album.

Any other thoughts on this issue from the party people in this house?
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2007, 07:42:18 pm »
...don't go on the beach, Pat.

...but no, I have never listened to this album.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2007, 09:44:58 pm »
"After the Gold Rush" is pretty damn good too.  Definitely switches between those two based on which one I listened to last.

Also, have you heard the new official bootleg that came out- "Live at Massey Hall", it is amazing.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2007, 10:19:52 pm »
I have a particular fondness for "Rust Never Sleeps".  Also "Harvest".  Also "After the Gold Rush".
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2007, 11:01:42 pm »
Neil Young has about 50 albums and most of them I would classify as fuck*ng awesome.  On The Beach is definitely one of those.  After the Gold Rush is a contender for greatest album ever made.

I feel a Neil Young jag coming on.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2007, 11:34:01 am »
Yeah, either On The Beach or Tonight's the Night I think is my favourite Neil Young album. Everybody Nows This Is Nowhere is great too, infact I think the only Neil Young Albums I'm not too fond of are Time Fades Away and some of the 80s stuff (Landing on Water, Trans etc)
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2007, 05:23:50 am »
You are either going to rock a bunch of Neil Young or you are going to hate him. I'm loving Rust Never Sleeps, Harvest, Mirror Ball, On The Beach, After the Gold Rush, American Stars 'N Bars . . .

Of course, he's the same as Prince, or Jimi Hendrix, or Frank Zappa - he's got albums and albums in the vaults. As long as you don't mind his tedious rhyme scheme (side, side, hide, ride) - he's just fine. He's perhaps better after several bong hits.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2007, 06:06:23 pm »
Well, what isn't?  CSPAN is totally watchable if you're baked.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2007, 04:06:51 pm »
Neil Young has never put out anything I'd consider a perfect album.  Every album has at least one song I don't care for at all: Harvest ( "There's a World,""A Man Needs a Maid" ), After the Gold Rush ( "Cripple Creek Ferry" ), Rust Never Sleeps ( "Welfare Mothers" ).  My tolerance for Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere varies: sometimes I think "Down By the River" and "Cowgirl In the Sand" are amazing tense jams and other times they bore me to tears. 

That said, even though they're not perfect, those are all pretty great albums, along with Live Rust and Decade. 

The Doom Trilogy / Ditch Trilogy records left me sorta cold.  I like some of the songs off of Time Fades Away ( title track, "Don't Be Denied,""L.A." ); I tried to get into Tonight's the Night and failed; same thing with On the Beach.  I'm listening to some OTB cuts as I write this, and I'm thinking it's time to give the Trilogy another chance. 
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2007, 10:22:15 pm »
Quote from: Limmo on May 03, 2007, 04:06:51 pm
Neil Young has never put out anything I'd consider a perfect album.

Interesting.  Now I'm thinking about albums I do consider perfect (if any).
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2007, 11:01:50 pm »
A "perfect" album, at the very least, doesn't have a single song that makes you lunge for the clicker or iPod.  At best, a "perfect" album creates a tiny little universe unto itself, where the songs are arranged in an order that can't be improved upon, and that ideally makes you want to start the whole journey over again once it ends. 

Led Zeppelin IV is a perfect album.  Led Zeppelin III isn't because it ends with the unlistenable "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper."  If it had ended with "Hey Hey What Can I Do," it would have been a perfect album.

Right off the top of my head, I'm thinking of:

Revolver
Kind of Blue
Paul's Boutique
siamese dream
Axis: Bold As Love
The Pearl

I can't think of any others right now.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2007, 11:51:12 pm »
I think it is alright to skip the first or last track, as these do not disrupt anything. Also, "Taxman" from Revolver has basically no merit whatsoever. By my standards, though, this is Not a Problem.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2007, 12:07:31 am »
Really?  I find it hilarious.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2007, 12:59:00 am »
um, wtf, that song is awesome! Fuck you!

also: led zeppelin 4? really? not so much. Going to California? Misty Mountain Hop? No.

Axis? really?

We obviously are opposite in taste.s.
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Re: Neil Young "On the Beach"
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2007, 01:08:20 am »
I'm all about Misty Mountain Hop myself.

I'd add Dark Side of the Moon and Halfway Between The Gutter and the Stars to that list. The Beatles' White Album would have made the list if they'd listened to George Martin and kept it a single album.
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