NEIL YOUNG “On the Beach” orig LP REPRISE floral inner cover 1A/1A NICE
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Description
Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Title: “On the Beach”
Label: REPRISE ~ R 2180. Label is tan with black text. Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.
Jacket has the printed floral pattern on the inside - a sure indication of a legitimate first pressing.
Year: 1974
Condition:
DISC: Vinyl is nice VG++/NM- with full original gloss. Has been played a small number of times and handled with care. There are a couple small, light marks on Side 1 that produce a few very soft tics, but no loud clicks, pops, or distractions. Side 2 is flawless. Overall the LP plays very enjoyably with consistently superb fidelity. Labels are clean. A very fine playing copy.
JACKET: Jacket is nice VG+ with floral printed inner artwork. Front is clean, except some faint smudging. There is a small jigsaw cut at bottom left corner indicating the LP was originally sold as a deletion/cutout. Reverse has minor ring wear at the top; otherwise clean. Seams and spine show a bit of wear and rubbing at center of top seam, but no splits. No writing, stickers, or other issues. Overall a very presentable jacket to accompany the great sounding disc.
Track Listing:
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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