NEIL YOUNG “On The Beach” orig FIRST PRESS LP REPRISE floral cover NICE COPY

$

50

Artist:  NEIL YOUNG                                     

Title:   “On the Beach”

Label:   REPRISE ~ R 2180.  Label is tan with black text.  First pressing on medium weight vinyl. 

Jacket has floral pattern on the inside (indicative of first pressing).

Year:  1974

Condition: 

DISC:  EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or problems.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  This hard-to-find LP is one that you will never need to upgrade.      

JACKET:   EXCELLENT with nice bright artwork.   Panels are clean, except light traces of ring wear on the reverse.  Seams and spine show a bit of light wear, and corners have been bumped.  No writing, stickers, or cutout indications.  Overall a very fine jacket.  

Side One:

• Walk On
• See the Sky About to Rain
• Revolution Blues
• For the Turnstiles
• Vampire Blues  

Side Two:

• On the Beach
• Motion Pictures
• Ambulance Blues
  

Review:

“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 style 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.”

(courtesy William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com.)  

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