Comments for Young, Neil, Weld (1)

This is a great album. One I could not find for a long time until I picked up a used copy. When are these coming out on CD? I heard once on a boot from I think 1972 that Neil wrote the song motion picture after consuming a few honey slides and was sitting in a motel room with a couple of friends in the middle of a long tour. I must admit that it was a great song. After hearing him describe the environment in which he wrote the song, shows that the guy goes into a different space that I don't think most of us can get to. Ambulance blues goes pretty deep into the brain, heart and soul. A must NEIL.

hearing side 2, specially Ambulance blues on a rainy sunday, with hangovers from yesterday is the best you can do to cure them

I cherish this album like a really good friend. Did anyone ever see 'Turks Fruit', that dutch 70ies movie? It has a great soundtrack but 'On The Beach' could have been a perfect alternative. The whole album is like a premonition of all the bad things that were to follow in that era.. Granted, the music is pretty down and pessimistic, but there is a strange comfort to be found in songs like 'On The Beach' itself or 'See The Sky About To Rain'. There's hope inthere too with 'Ambulance Blues' or 'Walk On'... Neil Young arising from anguish, despair and too much tequila (see 'Time Fades Away' and 'Tonight's The Night'). Let's not forget 'Revolution Blues', which, after all these years, still manages to get my hair to stand up straight with its ominous lyrics and haunting guitar.. One of Neil Young's finest.

Is there any way to persuade Reprise to relese this on CD? In my opinion, this is the best of Neil's complex musical nature all on one album.

For me, this album is a mood. Not a depressing mood, but a mood that fits so many things. Deep thinking, definitly driving around. In the background at a campfire in the Colorado mountains. As so many of the comments have stated, If only this could come out on CD! I have two copies of "On The Beach". One I grind away on my good ol' turntable while the other is saved for making cassettes and someday I'll record it to CD. Well enough, but Neil, if you ever read these comments please do what you can to get this put on CD. All your die hard fans would love you for it! Thanks, Greg Russell

Back in 1974, I bought the album on cassette tape and I enjoyed the music so much that I wore out the tape many years later. After a long time went by I started missing the music, but could not find the album anywhere because it was such an old release. Now that it''s the 90''s I was expecting to find this fantastic music on CD. I have been searching for this on the internet for quite a while now. It seems as though Reprise records have not released this on CD. What a disapointment, because I would love to buy this on CD. If you would like to share a copy of this with me, please send me a E-mail and maybe we can work something out to get a recording off of this album. Note: to Reprise records- your company is going to lose out because there are quite a few people out in the country that would like to get a hold of this music and I am one of them.

this is the best record of neil young. shame it's still not available on cd !!!!

As of 12/31/91, this album still has not been released on CD in the U.S. and we are definitly the `..losers, this time around`. The album is ingenious and includes some of the best material Neil ever wrote, performed & released. `Revolution Blues` ranks w/Cortez & Hurricane as perfection in rock. First time I heard `... though my problems are meaningless, that don`t make them go away` (On The Beach), I was a fan. He even reminds us at the end `..it`s easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last` (Ambulance Blues). If you could only own 2 Neil albums, they should be On The Beach & Time Fades Away.

I finally got a copy of this over the weekend - not saying how, but thanks for making it difficult, Neil - and three listens is enough to convince me that it's the best of Young's albums that I have ever heard. Listening to his albums out of time but finding them a perfect soundtrack to my early-mid 20s (twenty four, and there's so much more), it had been a few years since I devoured his music like this album made me want to. It's more consistent than Harvest, it's more distilled than Tonight's The Night, and it's even got Rick Danko and Levon Helm on it, for Christsakes. I can only speculate on the reasons that Young won't release it on cd - obviously not exactly an upbeat time in his life, songs dedicated to past relationships that hurt too much to expose again, who knows - but to anyone out there that cares: get hold of a copy now and don't give it back. Hell, I'm going to make sure I've got hold of Time Fades Away by the end of the week.

lucas hare of lucashare@hotmail.com is RIGHT!!

I remember sitting around at a friends house with a group of people one evening and one guy played us Dan Fogelberg's "Home Free" which was pretty new at the time... everybody thought it was wonderful and the guy who played it said he thought it was the best album he'd ever heard I said do you want to hear the best album I'VE ever heard? and I put on "On the Beach"... believe me... there were some people in the room who thought I was nuts... but when "Ambulance Blues" came on, they were unable to look away! On the Beach was really a soundtrack for an era and I cannot imagine what wierd combination of thinking is keeping it unavailable. The record is a gem.