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  On the Beach (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the Beach is a rock album by Neil Young, released in 1974.
While the original Rolling Stone review described it as “one of the most despairing albums of the decade”, later critics such as AMG’s William Ruhulmann used the benefit of hindsight to conclude that “[Young] was saying goodbye to despair, not being overwhelmed by it”.
Analysis of the album On The Beach lyrics
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 Adrian's Album Reviews : The Beach Boys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Beach boys shows them selfs from their best side on this album.
According to Beach Boys scholar Andrew G. Doe a disagreement with Carl on the sequencing of the album led Dennis to withdrawn his compositions (who was planning to release a solo album anyway).
The Beach Boys had ceased to be seen as 'cool' by the population at large, hence the dramatic fall in record sales since their Sixties commercial peak.
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 On the Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Neil Young album, see On the Beach (album).
For the Chris Rea album, see On the Beach (Chris Rea album).
On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel written by British author Nevil Shute after he had emigrated to Australia.
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 The Beach Boys - Surfs Up Dude!
The album is still widely regarded as a classic and Paul McCartney has named it one of his favorite albums of all time, often saying that it was a major influence on the Beatles' album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
But the other Beach Boys--especially Mike Love--found the new music too difficult and too far removed from their established style; another serious concern was that the new music was simply not feasible for live performance by the current Beach Boys lineup.
The album's lead single "Sail on Sailor," a brief return to the collaboration between Parks and Brian, was one of the most emblematic of Beach Boys songs, and it hit the charts in both 1973 and 1975.
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 Brian Wilson :: Official Web Site
Pet Sounds is an album that has not only musically stood the test of time better than perhaps any other sixties release but has become one of the few, true milestones of what is considered to be rock's most creative era.
Rising to the occasion, the very next (and one of the best) Beach Boys albums, The Beach Boys Today (their first LP release of '65) also reflected the fact that the 45 RPM format had already begun to lose its appeal to Brian.
Clearly, this was not an album constructed for the typical Beach Boys fan of 1966, an area of some tension both within the group and especially between Brian and Capitol Records.
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 The Beach Boys - Holland
Although the Beach Boys may be an acquired taste, once the listener has granted them their stylistic predilections, their best records become irresistible.
Album is actually 1 1/2 sides, with insert of 7-inch LP disk featuring Brian Wilson's biggest contribution, a childishly whimsical fairy tale titled "Mt. Vernon And Fairway" about a prince with a magic transistor radio.
All in all, this album is only the latest in what has become a string of Beach Boy LP pearls.
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 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - Reviews & Sound Clips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And while the album has always clearly been The Brian Wilson Show featuring the Beach Boys, David Leaf's concise new notes attempt to be more inclusive of a wider band perspective.
Previous Beach Boy albums were also based on strong conceptual images, the dream world of Surf, wired-up rods with metal flake paint, and curvaceous cuties lounging around the (implicitly suburban and affluent) high school.
It is by far the best album Brian has yet delivered, and it paradoxically began the decline in mass popularity that still plagues this band.
www.xs4all.nl /~fsgroen/Albums-B/Beach_Boys_Pet_Sounds.htm   (2526 words)

  
 Pugs on the Beach | For the Love of Pugs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pugs On The Beach has been upgraded and you may experience a bit of weirdness here and there.
Let us know what album they are supposed to be in by leaving a comment on them and we will move them into the correct place.
Rosie in her Pugs on the Beach tee-shirt (size small); note she's really a small so if you are ordering for your pug - make sure you buy the larger sizes with room for growing pugs..
pugsonthebeach.com   (770 words)

  
 Beach Boys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the late 60s, harder rock and psychedelic music was the style and the Beach Boys image suffered as they were perceived as an oldies group in the midst of the progressive rock movement.
Mike Love became the front man for The Beach Boys during the '80s, as the band continued to rely on old hits to support their constant touring on the oldies circuit.
By mid-June, 2006, the surviving members of The Beach Boys had apparently put aside all the lawsuits and nastiness to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their landmark "Pet Sounds" album and the double-platinum certification of "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys".
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 The Beach Boys Shrine - Compilations
Albums were re-released under a different name with some of the songs from the original album removed.
This is the album where I first heard the song, "Little Honda" and immediately fell in love with it.
An excellent album which introduced a new generation to the sounds that made The Beach Boys famous.
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 The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Love You
The second Beach Boys album since Brian Wilson's return to musical creativity is something of a return to square one, in the most positive sense of the phrase.
Without any overt surfing or auto racing songs, this LP brings back the direct, almost childlike naturalness of the quintet in its classic early period before it tried to get as significant and meaningful as all of the other major groups passing through the tail-end of psychedelic rock.
The album provides no less than 14 short, cheerful songs of bouncy love or other good experiences, such as watching the host of the "Tonight Show" do his thing or playing with a baby.
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 The Beach Boys - M.I.A. No More
The new album is almost exclusively comprised of ballads and down-tempo material and was assembled by Carl (who sifted through hundreds of hours of tape to boil it down to an even eighty minutes) and remastered by now de facto Beach Boys Johnston and Becher.
Love's obvious enthusiasm notwithstanding, the Beach Boys have their work cut out for them addressing a public that has witnessed the birth of the punk rock and new wave movements since the release of the last new Beach Boys album.
Carl and Michael are both working on new solo albums during their spare time, and the optimistic Love has even begun to sing the praises of the new Beach Boys record.
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 SoundtrackNet : The Beach (Score) Soundtrack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After discovering a the mythical "perfect beach" with a French couple, they discover that not all is well in Paradise.
Half of the island is inhabited by gun-toting marijuana farmers, and the other half is inhabited by an isolated group of tourists who have decided to create their own society on this perfect island.
This theme (referred to as "The Beach Theme") shows up through most of the album, and is the predominant melody in the film.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys at Epinions.com
This album was primarily written by Brian Wilson while the rest of the band was on tour with Glen Campbell filling in on bass for Brian.
This album goes down smooth as silk, and is one of the finest rock albums in history.
As a compromise, the Beach Boys recorded the "Party!" album, which was recorded live in a studio with a large audience of folks running around loose and making noise.
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 Neil Young On The Beach reviews
Now re-released on CD, "On The Beach" is the last album in Neil's so called "Ditch Trilogy" (along with Times Fade Away and Tonight's The Night).
The cover and artwork for "On The Beach" is considered by many fans to be one of the best and most favorite of all Neil Young album covers.
Perhaps On the Beach's mood of grief and menace and uncertain acceptance has hidden chords for the present American climate.
www.thrasherswheat.org /tnfy/otb.htm   (940 words)

  
 The Beach Boys! Reviewed by Jason Penick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And just like their British counterparts, the Beach Boys sound progressed until they were no longer just making number one pop smashes but completely coherent records nearly unrivaled in their scope and magnitude, not to mention sonic mastery.
Where the former was loaded with odd musical interjections ("sleep a lot, eat a lot, brush 'em like crazy..."), wierd instrumentation and vocal chorals, this edition starts simply with a repeated note on the bass guitar and the sounds of water pouring and vegetables being chomped as the only special effects.
As for the remainder of the album, the rest of the Beach Boys are forced to pick up Brian's slack with mixed results.
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 SoundtrackNet : On The Beach Soundtrack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I was pleasantly surprised by his enjoyable thematic style, and when I got On The Beach, I took note of Gordon's name, and hoped that the CD would provide as much enjoyment as Moby Dick.
On The Beach is a Showtime original movie based on the book of the same name by Nevil Shute.
This is a rather dramatic score by Christopher Gordon, and with his adept use of the orchestra and choir, he provides just the right amount of emotion to push this cable-movie up another notch and make me wonder why he doesn't get more film work.
www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2502   (525 words)

  
 Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys Songfacts
Once the album was finished, he focused on this song.
Most of The Beach Boys songs featured the vocals of either Mike Love or Brian Wilson, but Carl Wilson was the lead singer on this.
True to the album's name, Todd went to great lengths to reproduce every vocal and instrumental aspect of the song (along with several other '60s hits).
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 The Beach Boys’ Smile
While the Beach Boys started out as a Fun In The Sun group, celebrating the joys of cars, girls and surfing, they – like the Beatles – were also in the process of growing up, outgrowing their adolescence and finding new maturity in their music.
Dumb Angel, an album which would unleash the powers of humor and laughter, reflecting his beliefs of the time in vegetarianism and health food (he had a small store in Los Angeles which sold health food and supplies), as well as the Zen principles he was exploring, partly with the aid of psychedelic drugs.
It was a simple album, pared down to production basics, a retro-rock album that led the way for the Beatles, Bob Dylan and others to do their own return-to-basics recordings.
www.holeintheweb.com /drp/bhd/BBSmile.htm   (873 words)

  
 Neil Young MP3 Downloads - Neil Young Music Downloads - Neil Young Music Videos
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.
Following on the heels of an album where he repudiated his past with his greatest backing band, Blood on the Tracks finds Bob Dylan, in a way, retreating to the past, recording a largely...
www.mp3.com /albums/18033/summary.html   (373 words)

  
 Beach front rental accommodations in Costa Rica | Playa Zancudo
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 BBC - Classic Rock/Pop Review - Neil Young, On The Beach
On the beach is one of Neil's greatest mood albums.
The second side beginning with the song "On the Beach" is a personal look into depression he could not find a way out of at the time.
Time filters out the dreck, and the fact that there is still demand for this album thirty years after it was released speaks for itself.
www.bbc.co.uk /music/classicpop/reviews/neilyoung_beach.shtml   (3176 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: On the Beach [Enhanced] [Original recording remastered]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is the first time that Neil Young's 1974's album, 'On The Beach', has been made available since the deletion of the original vinyl issue.
It was the first studio album to be issued by Young after the commercial success of 1972's 'Harvest' (1972's 'Journey Through The Past' and 1973's 'Time Fades Away' were a soundtrack and a live album).
This album, on a whole, is a journey through life, death, relationships, politics and any other subject which the writer ponders as he puts together these very loosely constructed pieces of music.
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 Rolling Stone : 12) The Beach Boys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sure, they may have sold the California Dream to a lot of people, but for me, it was Brian Wilson showing how far you might have to go in order to make your own musical dream come true.
In the beginning, I was someone who grew up in California and was a lover of the early music that he and the Beach Boys made.
When the Beach Boys started, Brian was taking European sensibilities and infusing them into a Chuck Berry format.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5939217/12_the_beach_boys   (527 words)

  
 Amazon.com: On the Beach: Music: Neil Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was a career move akin to "pissin' in the wind," as the artist himself describes life on one of the album's most famous lines.
On The Beach ranges from moodily atmospheric (the title track) to quite upbeat (Walk On) but throughout Neil's mood is bitter and confessional.
Neil Young's 1974 release On The Beach is considered one of his classic albums, but for some reason the album was never released on compact disk.
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 The Beach Boys Album Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pet Sounds (Capitol ‘66) Rating: A+ The legendary album where Brian Wilson’s studio obsessions and artistic vision reached a remarkable peak, this breathtakingly beautiful album deals with Brian’s desperate quest for love and acceptance.
Its mature handling of subjects such as loneliness, alienation, and (the difficulty of) growing up made it a far cry from the perfect sounds of the endless summers that their fans had come to expect.
Instead of relishing in boyish fantasies, Pet Sounds was a deeply personal adult album that Brian totally dominates (he sings lead on most of the songs, and quite beautifully at that), though his bandmates’ exquisite vocal harmonies help shape the album’s great overall sound.
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 The Beach Soundtrack
Outside of being familiar territory, The Beach’s principal difference with Trainspotting resides in the exoticism brought by some world music tracks, whereas before those tracks would have been alternative songs.
To finish the album couldn’t end better with "Beached" fruit of the collaboration between Orbital and Angelo Badalamenti and the high point of this soundtrack.
The only regret is the absence of Vast, whose song was used efficiently in the trailer (as in waiting for The Beach 2...hmm.).
www.plume-noire.com /music/soundtracks/thebeach.html   (433 words)

  
 Amazon.com: On the Beach: Music: Chris Rea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The perfect album for a day at the beach, Rea's eighth album takes the listener from the water's edge of the title song to the sunny fields of the French countryside in 'Giverny'.
All of his albums contain a few gems (sans Tennis; what was he thinking?) But this CD is loaded with great songs.
But this is the album which gets you rooted and does take you beyond the beach with or without her...
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007381?v=glance   (1046 words)

  
 Tower Records - Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
The 1999 remaster version of this 1966 album gives us an option of mono or stereo, the first 14 tracks are on mono mix (original recording) and tracks 15-27 repeat the songs done in stereo mix.
The harmonies sung by the Beach Boys are amazing on this album, adding more layers and texture to the already complex and orchestrated backgrounds.
Although this album may not sound groundbreaking today, it made a big impact when it came out in 1966 because it redefined what American pop could sound like.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2699781   (721 words)

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