On The Beach (studio album) by Neil Young
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On The Beach is ranked 3rd best out of 81 albums by Neil Young on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Neil Young is After The Gold Rush which is ranked number 78 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,310.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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80/100 ![]() | 4 days ago | Jakor | ![]() | 72/100 |
100/100 ![]() | 06/27/2022 01:30 | VintageVinyl | ![]() | 90/100 |
100/100 ![]() | 06/22/2022 18:11 | christosbakas | ![]() | 100/100 |
90/100 ![]() | 06/19/2022 17:56 | Erudit | ![]() | 76/100 |
90/100 ![]() | 06/17/2022 20:28 | ![]() | ![]() | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.0/100, a mean average of 82.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Album of the year.1974.
Good album, but not the greatest Neil Young, probably the most I like Revolution Blues and Ambulance Blues and titoe track is pretty impressive, but songs like For The Turnstiles and Vampire Blues are really overwhelming for me.

Neil Young is a solid songwriter, this is a great early album. It is very similar in tones to his earlier, rather dark in chord and key choices.
Picks: On The Beach, Walk on, See the sky, all the blueses
So not a bad track here
musing autobiographical clear concise statements typical Neil Young strum vocal lyrics harmonica quite good

Side A hits hard, but I'm not quite as into the slower second side.

Há muito sofrimento mascarado de deboismo! Excelente!

Neil Young's best, if you ask me. On the Beach contains Neil Young's most interesting instrumentation on a record, his best songwriting and performances, and not one good song, because they're all great. He nailed it with this one.
Highlights see the sky,on the beach and ambulance.A more melancholic album.
A dark and beautiful album. I have to be in a certain mood to be able to listen to this it, but when I am in the right mood there is nothing better. Its such a breezy listen, but one of Neil's best albums. See the Sky About to Rain might be my all time favorite Neil Young song.
Dark and lovely.
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