Neil Young - On The Beach

she isn't 4'4" really is she?

Damn I just looked it up and she's taller than I am!

Google tells me she is 5'4" (1.63 m)

In a further thread-derail, and having found how easy it is to Google people's height..., I'm disappointed to learn that Iggy Pop is not actually Five Foot One, but 5'7".

Prince is 5'2" right?

You never know......

40 years young today

He should have taken a chance and held it back for three weeks--could have released it the day Nixon resigned.

heh heh.
i've been listening to this album for 20+ years now... still so good.

Motion Pictures should have been much, much higher

What would've been perfect: if Altman had interspersed the title track into The Long Goodbye the same way he used "The Stranger Song" in McCabe & Mrs. Miller

(Though I guess this album was released a year too late for that...)

Robert Altman came to my school for a Robert FIlm Festival and said that the idea for McCabe and Mrs. Miller appeared to him (in snowy images of the title characters) while listening to an LP by L. Cohen, forget which one, He was high at the time but he remembered (made notes).
As said on CSNY thread, I saw them on tour in Memphis, about five weeks after OTB was released, I think, although I hadn't heard it, and it was so exciting to encounter some of those surgin' songs in the midst of all that porridge. Y warbling true after all the "harmonies," then S-Y guitar wars wah-wahing all over C & N's hapless handclaps (okay, some of the group efforts worked, but best on Young & Stills songs). I realized that he wasn't just gonna run that Harvest sound into the ground, or turn into James Taylor. And the audience as a whole really woke up for his new stuff (though prob some wanted to get back to the mellow).

Robert Altman Film Festival, not just any Robert.

Neil Young, 6' 0" (1.82 m)

Stood in a record store and held the Ditch box set in my hand yesterday. So much money--$179. Happily, no need for it.

The Pono versions won't be near as expensive.

Idk it's hard to imagine the long goodbye having any other theme song than the long goodbye.

Wow I thought Neil was taller, not that 6 feet is short but I guess the ppl he's in band's with must by short

i'd rather start all over again

the world is turning

yow, neil played "revolution blues" last night in texas ... first time since 1987. those promise of the real-ers must be real on the beach heads.

really dug the show I saw w them even tho we didn't get any deep cut/rarities like that honestly I might put them just behind Crazy Horse as his best backing band

I like every song on this record, but could probably agree if they were ranked according to these poll results.

Feeling totally appropriate after the chaos of Christmas Day.

Underrated part

Remember your guard dog?
Well, I'm afraid that he's gone
It was such a drag to hear him whining all night long
(mocking whine)

According to setlist.fm, Vampire Weekend debuted a cover of--wait for it--"Vampire Blues" w/opener Kingfish Ingram (new blues dude) at their Austin shows,

this was one of my all-time favorite albums in college. for some reason in the past decade i haven't been putting on that much neil, but homegrown put me right back in the position to really take in how brilliant this record is on every level from songcraft to arrangement. those screaming guitar tones in "walk on" @_@

i love every song on this album

would've voted for the title track because it's the perfect encapsulation of being stoned and depressed, just this long bummed-out smear of an experience

Motion Pictures should have been much higher.Agreed on Vampire Blues though- i always skip that track

motion pictures would have been my vote

the solo on motion pictures is glorious

Can’t remember if I voted in this, but Motion Pictures is like a top 5 favorite song for me, so that would have been it

I have such vivid memories of hearing this album for the first time when I visited LA for the first time in Summer of 1999.

A friend got me super high after a night of drinking and he gave me his discman and a bootleg CD of OTB that he had burned. The first side just blew my mind and I think I passed out after Revolution Blues.

It's only been within the last five years or so that I realized the second side is just as good.

get out of towwwwn...think i'll get outta toowwwwn

Best song

the title track and 'cortez the killer' share a lot of dna--both sun-scorched slow burns. if one of those isn't my favorite neil song, the other one is.

idk about these results. i think "revolution blues" is one of the weaker tracks, along with "see the sky about to rain"

"walk on" probably one of the best songs ever by anybody, that would've been my vote

the rest are top-tier neil, with possibly the exception of "vampire blues" which has great lyrics but, insofar as its more or less a genre exercise, for me functions as a bit of funky levity before the devastating closing trio of tracks

also "vampire blues" guitar solo v underrated, it's so creepy and garbled, a complete subversion of what you'd expect from "blues rock"

Young's electric piano in "See the Sky About to Rain"

.......

I know it was easily available on vinyl, but it was a huge fuckin' deal in my circle when Young reissued it in 2003.

I love "Vampire Blues" but that may also be related to having actually seen him do a very rare live performance of it a few years back. I do think it works perfectly in the context of the album in terms of sound and feel.

xp yeah i love that wurlitzer / steel guitar combo

yeah, not gonna tolerate any 'see the sky' slander. inevitably the first song i played the few times i've sat in front of an actual wurly

it's not slander, it's an excellent song that's on a record full of perfect songs

I know it was easily available on vinyl, but it was a huge fuckin' deal in my circle when Young reissued it in 2003.

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Yeah, this getting reissued that year was my gateway into NY. Read lots of press around then about this masterpiece was getting rereleased. Thankfully, this was around the time you could still buy used vinyl copies of albums like that at record stores for just a few bucks.

There's gotta be a Bernie Sanders cover out there somewhere.

I saw it today but don't remember where

Am7 has never sounded better than the opening chords of On the Beach