On The Beach
Neil Young

I never bothered with Mr Young prior to this list, but he's become my favorite discovery. I was not expecting much from this album because it wasn't on any of the best of Young lists I was going through but it might be my favorite after Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Neil has taste above all else. This album is dripping with a melancholy that could get old even on the short runtime but the blues is used so effectively and the instrumentation is so great. Vampire Blues and the title track were the standouts to me. I know Young went through a string of awful albums but I'm grateful I haven't found them yet.

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