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Reprise Records

Neil Young – On The Beach (US)

€149,99

Early Santa Maria pressing has “STEREO” on labels, ® located at the bottom of the :r and no Warner Comm. ‘w’ logo.

Following the 1973 Time Fades Away tour, Neil Young wrote and recorded an Irish wake of a record called Tonight’s the Night and went on the road drunkenly playing its songs to uncomprehending listeners and hostile reviewers. Reprise rejected the record, and Young went right back and made On the Beach, which shares some of the ragged styles of its two predecessors. But where Time was embattled and Tonight mournful, On the Beach was savage and, ultimately, triumphant. “I’m a vampire, babe,” Young sang, and he proceeded to take bites out of various subjects: threatening the lives of the stars who lived in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon (“Revolution Blues”); answering back to Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose “Sweet Home Alabama” had taken him to task for his criticisms of the South in “Southern Man” and “Alabama” (“Walk On”); and rejecting the critics (“Ambulance Blues”). But the barbs were mixed with humor and even affection, as Young seemed to be emerging from the grief and self-abuse that had plagued him for two years. But the album was so spare and under-produced, its lyrics so harrowing, that it was easy to miss Young’s conclusion: he was saying goodbye to despair, not being overwhelmed by it.

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Reprise Records R 2180 LP, Album, Stereo 1974 US Santa Maria Pressing, Stereo On Labels, ®

Side 1.

1. Walk On 2:40
2. See The Sky About To Rain 5:03
3. Revolution Blues 4:02
4. For The Turnstiles 3:13
5. Vampire Blues 4:11

Side 2.

1. On The Beach 7:04
2. Motion Pictures 4:20
3. Ambulance Blues 8:57

Credits:

Art Direction, Design – Gary Burden
Calligraphy [Lettering] – Rick Griffin
Liner Notes – Rusty Kershaw
Photography By – Bob Seidemann
Producer – Al Schmitt
Producer – David Briggs
Producer – Mark Harman
Producer – Neil Young
Written-By – Neil Young

Media Condition: Mint- (M-)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M-)

 

All songs published by Silver Fiddle (BMI) except A2, published by Broken Arrow Music, Inc. (BMI)

All songs recorded at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, except A1 and A4, recorded at Broken Arrow Studios, San Francisco

 

 

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout (Side A label): 31716
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): 31717
Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): R2180 31716 RE-1-1A S
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): R2180 31716 RE-1-1A 2
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): R2180 31716 RE-1-1A S A9 Kurt Schmierer
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): R2180 31717 RE-1-1A 2 C 5 Kurt Schmierer
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 3): R2180 31716 RE-1-1B \ S A4
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): R2180 31716 RE-1-1A 2 S D1
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 4): R2180 31716 RE-1-1A S 4 A
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 4): R2180 31717 RE-1-1A 2 S C3

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Weight0,5 kg
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