Neil Young’s On The Beach.
Nice.
I wasn’t aware of this 1972 release until it was flagged up earlier this month on the 1,001 Albums list.
My broad rule of thumb with Neil Young is that you can’t go wrong, whatever the period.
Sure,, you’re going to get a change in styles over the decades, but at the base of it all, you’ll still find old Shakey, still looking for answers, and still giving shit to The Man.
On the Beach is part of Young’s ‘ditch’ period, apparently. The modern interweb tells me that he deliberately headed for the ditch, following the huge success of Heart of Gold.
Talk about a career car crash, etc.
The metaphor is even extended on the album front cover itself: Young is on the beach, on vacation and his Mustang is crashed into the sand.
DO YOU GET THIS?
But like I said - you can’t go wrong with Neil Young. He may have been trying go under the radar with On The Beach, but it’s more or less impossible for him to write a duff song.
Gosh, he’s very, very good, and over a considerable period of time as well.
