 On The Beach (1974) [ larger cover art ] |
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Well, we live in a trailer at the edge of town
You never see us 'cause we don't come around.
We got twenty five rifles just to keep the population down.
But we need you now, and that's why I'm hangin' 'round.
So you be good to me and I'll be good to you,
And in this land of conditions I'm not above suspicion
I won't attack you, but I won't back you.
Well, it's so good to be here, asleep on your lawn.
Remember your guard dog? Well, I'm afraid that he's gone.
It was such a drag to hear him whining all night long.
Yes, that was me with the doves, setting them free near the factory
Where you built your computer, love.
I hope you get the connection, 'cause I can't take the rejection
I won't deceive you, I just don't believe you.
Well, I'm a barrel of laughs, with my carbine on
I keep 'em hoppin', till my ammunition's gone.
But I'm still not happy, I feel like there's something wrong.
I got the revolution blues, I see bloody fountains,
And ten million dune buggies comin' down the mountains.
Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars,
But I hate them worse than lepers and I'll kill them in their cars.
| drivingunit103 (around the 4 western provinces) | Posted: May 11, 2013 - 05:47 ...those iconic tail lights again. (fantastic song by Neil aswell) |
| meadowwoods (Dane County, WI) | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 19:50 Johnny-smooth wrote: I love this song, hell I love this whole album, not a bad cut in the entire thing. Probably my favorite album of his and that is a very tough decision, he's put out so much good stuff over the years. I have to agree. Love this album  |
| Bobert_ParkCity (Park City Utah) | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 18:07 "I hate them worse than lepers, and I kill them in their cars," Gotta love a guy who speaks his mind. Guess Joni turned him down... Great record. |
| Foot (NorCal / Wine) | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 18:06 You can only see it live but The Baseball Project (Steve Wynn, Peter Buck, Linda Pitmon, Scott McCaughey) version of Revolution Blues is stellar too. |
| robbeek (the foothills above El Lay....) | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 18:03 Nothing left to say but....thanks Neil, for everything! |
| dboseman | Posted: Feb 25, 2012 - 08:16 Thanks Bill for turning me on to this song and album. I love the man. |
| p2h2d2 (On the Lake) | Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 13:24 bregs wrote: Fantastic song - one of his finest! Ditto...wearing shades sitting cross-legged outside Laurel Canyon  |
| midnightcurry (villefranche sur mer/france) | Posted: Jul 19, 2011 - 04:47 midnightcurry wrote: Sheer genius (bar some electro crap and over the top country voyages) from an artist always at the top!!  |
| bregs (Edinburgh) | Posted: Jul 19, 2011 - 04:36 Fantastic song - one of his finest! |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 21:45 Johnny-smooth wrote: I love this song, hell I love this whole album, not a bad cut in the entire thing. Probably my favorite album of his and that is a very tough decision, he's put out so much good stuff over the years. You're preachin' to the choir, Johnny-smooth!  |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Apr 15, 2011 - 08:04 Johnny-smooth wrote: I love this song, hell I love this whole album, not a bad cut in the entire thing. Probably my favorite album of his and that is a very tough decision, he's put out so much good stuff over the years. I've got to pull this one out and give it a listen. It's been a while! |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Apr 15, 2011 - 08:02 JBarDom wrote: What can be said? A modern classic. ...at fourty years old?..in the formal sense, the era was post-modern, and in the literal sense, it's antiquated - kind of misses modern from both ends... |
| araujokrl (the county) | Posted: Apr 15, 2011 - 08:02 tough and also good to shake your booty to. |
| JBarDom (Mexico) | Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 20:55 What can be said? A modern classic. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 20:55 Cheers to you as well, On_The_Beach wrote: I believe it! Cheers, Rickvee. |
| mapman (East Coast USA) | Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 12:14 I can't give much by NY a not so good rating, including this....... |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 16:00 i got the revolution blues i see bloody fountains and a ten million dune buggies comin' down the mountains i hear that laurel canyon So, you met Charles Manson at a party and are impressed by the fact that he was so wacko that he slaughtered some people who were partying. That, in my opinion, is phoning it in. -10 for lazy, self indulgent lyrics. +10 for not caring what I think and making independent art. No rating. |
| Photo-John (Nor Cal to SLC) | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 15:59 lemmoth wrote: If you like them then shut the fuck up about the vocals. This is rock and roll man. I like your style, sir! |
| Johnny-smooth (On my bicycle) | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 15:59 I love this song, hell I love this whole album, not a bad cut in the entire thing. Probably my favorite album of his and that is a very tough decision, he's put out so much good stuff over the years. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 15:57 paraclete wrote: Ok . . . Tom Petty, then Nick Young . . Next should be Bob Dylan for the Nasal Singer Trifecta!  Great talents all, with skilled turns of the phrase, great licks on the ax, but just a bit whiney. Even tho I like'em If you like them then shut the fuck up about the vocals. This is rock and roll man. |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Nov 08, 2010 - 21:07 Rickvee wrote: You better believe this is a 10. Pure greatness. I believe it! Cheers, Rickvee. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 09:11 pauleywalnuts wrote: great song, great album, great artist! ...great guitar player! Far from being a perfectionist, but that's exactly what is GORGEOUS about him! Neil plays with heart and soul! |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 09:08 HarvestMoon wrote: A masterpiece! Love the lyrics - only Neil can tell stories like that. ABSOLUTELY TRUE - though I did not know this album was good too! It is...? Possibly the only one I do not own and know! By the way: A new album is on the way - coming out this year! |
| HarvestMoon | Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 23:19 A masterpiece! Love the lyrics - only Neil can tell stories like that. |
| cathenley (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Jun 02, 2010 - 15:46 One of my very favorite LPs.... |
| Foot | Posted: May 01, 2010 - 22:37 Also try the Steve Wynn/Minus 5/Baseball Project version 2009 - one of the best songs they did on tour |
| fingerpin (OhiO) | Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 09:06 Watched American Masters last night featuring Neil. Really interesting. There was an amazing amount of film footage. They bought the Caddy fin at a junk yard and the furniture at Pier 1. I love Neil.  |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet this is not my home) | Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 09:06 Took me forever to find this album! Thanks bill! Love it.... |
| Rick_V (New Orleans) | Posted: Nov 25, 2009 - 09:05 Unbelievable song. |
| EssexTex (Smoke Pit) | Posted: Sep 23, 2009 - 09:48 Neil...before him |
| gillespp (Portland, OR) | Posted: Aug 22, 2009 - 21:40 God, I love this song . . . |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Jul 22, 2009 - 07:23 jnhashmi wrote: When you buy an iPhone. I just got one, added the portion of the web site that has a link to the 3G network to my home screen, hooked the headphone jack to my aux input in my car, and Bam! I now have RP in my car. It sounds great, too. Just like it does at home. I can't believe it works so well. And if you get either the phone charger or a usb power adapter, it won't drain down either. Just if someone calls, you have to restart the app. I think. So far. Still working out the details... |
| RedGuitar (Iowa, USA) | Posted: Jul 22, 2009 - 07:20 oldman wrote: One of Neil's least commercial albums and one of his best IMHO Zuma came out that year and stole the thunder from On The Beach. What do you call a Neil fanatic??   A Youngster? |
| paraclete (Citrus Heights, CA) | Posted: May 19, 2009 - 18:02 Ok . . . Tom Petty, then Nick Young . . Next should be Bob Dylan for the Nasal Singer Trifecta! Great talents all, with skilled turns of the phrase, great licks on the ax, but just a bit whiney. Even tho I like'em |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver, Canada) | Posted: Apr 18, 2009 - 11:53 From "Shakey" by Jimmy McDonough . . . ". . . In addition to all the other Topanga crazies Young was meeting, at some point in 1968 he encountered Charles Manson a few times.. . . This meeting of the minds has provided much fodder for interviews, with Young telling journalist Nick Kent that Manson was "great, he was unreal . . . I mean, if he had a band like Dylan had on 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' . . . ." Young wrote a wild number inspired by Manson in 1974, "Revolution Blues." Manson returned the favor, telling a 1995 interviewer from his Vacaville, California, prison cell that his music-celebrity friends from the old days "didn't give me shit (ie didn't give me anything)" - except for Neil Young - who bequeathed him a motorcycle. : "Glad he didn't get around to ME when he was punishing people for the fact he didn't make it in the music biz. That's what that was all about. Didn't get to be a rock and roll star, so he started fuckin' wipin' people out. Dig that." . . . " |
| pauleywalnuts (Springfield) | Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 08:17 great song, great album, great artist! |
| lelines (Fairfax VA) | Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 08:17 young-dung oldman wrote: One of Neil's least commercial albums and one of his best IMHO Zuma came out that year and stole the thunder from On The Beach. What do you call a Neil fanatic?? |
| cosmiclint (Vancouver BC) | Posted: Jan 13, 2009 - 08:15 jnhashmi wrote: When you buy an iPhone. I just got one, added the portion of the web site that has a link to the 3G network to my home screen, hooked the headphone jack to my aux input in my car, and Bam! I now have RP in my car. It sounds great, too. Just like it does at home. I can't believe it works so well. Doesn't that get expensive? |
| LawrenceSheppard | Posted: Nov 11, 2008 - 04:48 OK, I confess I've never been a Neil Young fan, but this one REALLY leaves me cold. I don't get it. And before you say anything, I was a teenager in the 60s. Maybe it's the violent anger in it. But then again, maybe it's just it's the same old lame guitar and whine. |
| jnhashmi (South Pasadena/Los Angeles) | Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 13:52 jagdriver wrote: (When will I be able to get an RP Internet signal in my car?) When you buy an iPhone. I just got one, added the portion of the web site that has a link to the 3G network to my home screen, hooked the headphone jack to my aux input in my car, and Bam! I now have RP in my car. It sounds great, too. Just like it does at home. I can't believe it works so well. |
| jagdriver (Auburn, CA) | Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 13:45 MrJames wrote: Odd album, but I absolutely love it. Yep...just listening to the title track from an old cassette mix tape on the drive in to work this morning. (I was testing the tape deck since my Sony MP3-to-cassette adapter has been acting weird.) (When will I be able to get an RP Internet signal in my car?) |
| heathenchild (Manitoba, Canada) | Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 13:41 whoops....my amp clipped out. |
| Pyro | Posted: Aug 08, 2008 - 08:25 This song speaks to me as strongly today as it did when it came out. Timeless sentiments. Neal, rebelling from the "get go".... |
| MrJames (NY) | Posted: Aug 08, 2008 - 08:23 Odd album, but I absolutely love it. |
| steeler (Staring, blankly, into the abyss) | Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 18:23 Neil vocalizing (enunciating) like Dylan here. Just realized, upon backscrolling, that I made the same comment 2 years ago. |
| dboseman | Posted: Jun 06, 2008 - 05:54 I love this man. |
| Rickvee (New Orleans) | Posted: Apr 04, 2008 - 08:17 You better believe this is a 10. Pure greatness. |
| davidstanford | Posted: Apr 04, 2008 - 07:39 EssexTex wrote: Neil's out there....
Go Bill! This rocks! |
| EssexTex (Uranus) | Posted: Apr 04, 2008 - 07:36 Neil's out there....      |
| rickhoran (Eastern PA) | Posted: Apr 04, 2008 - 07:34 oldman wrote: One of Neil's least commercial albums and one of his best IMHO
Zuma came out that year and stole the thunder from On The Beach. What do you call a Neil fanatic?? A young-ster? the second release of "the ditch trilogy", the "dark era" and for me one of the better eras of neil young besides the early to mid 90s. Time Fades Away, On the Beach, Tonight's the Night (click here) |