Grappling with heartbreak and exhausted with critics, Neil Young turned inward to create the most honest album of his career: 1974's 'On the Beach'
. But that album could be joyful at times, like the groovy movie in “Speakin’ Out,” or the fried eggs and country ham in “Albuquerque.” You won’t find any breakfast delights on, but you will find three songs with the word “blues” in the title. The good times are coming, but they’re sure coming slow. , and not just because it became a cult rarity within a decade of its release.
You can thank the honey slides for that. The infamously potent concoction of fried weed and honey fueled the recording sessions at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, which is probably why the music feels like a frenzied high on the verge of becoming a very bad trip. The peak of that honey-slide haze comes when he takes on a wild-eyed, Manson-esque persona in “Revolution Blues,” barreling around L.A. on a destructive spree.
Joni Mitchell Revisits Her Move From the 'Hit Department' to the 'Art Department' on Late Seventies Box Set, he was feeling burned out by the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the Watergate scandal, and other lurid headlines. “I never knew a man who could tell so many lies,” he says of Nixon on “Ambulance Blues.” The disgraced president resigned two weeks later.
“You go down to the beach and watch the same thing, just imagine every wave is a different set of emotions coming in,” he toldin 1985. “Just keep coming. As long as you don’t ignore it, it’ll still be there. If you start shutting yourself off and not letting yourself live through the things that are coming through you, I think that’s when people start getting old really fast, that’s when they really age.
Young mourns and processes his fallout with Snodgress in the devastating “Motion Pictures ,” his most vulnerable moment on the record. “I’m deep inside myself, but I’ll get out somehow,” he promises. The song is so intense and personal that Young has only played it a single time, when he premieredat New York City’s Bottom Line in May 1974. Catching it live is the ultimate holy grail for fans. , second only to “Powderfinger.
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