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  9362484972CD  £6.00

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Warner Bros.

Neil Young

On The Beach

Back in stockA 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

Tracklist

• 1Walk On (Remastered Album Version)
  2See The Sky (Remastered Album Version)
  3Revolution Blues (Remastered Album Version)
  4For The Turnstiles (Remastered Album Version)
  5Vampire Blues (Remastered Album Version)
  6On The Beach (Remastered Album Version)
  7Motion Pictures (For Carrie) (Remastered Album Version)
  8Ambulance Blues (Remastered Album Version)