Neil Young - Time Fades Away / On The Beach tracks poll!

Pick your 5 favourite tracks from these 2 great albums + one b-side

 

Again, this was very hard to do. Two stellar albums again. Finally I decided on two tracks from Time Fades Away and three from On The Beach:
- L.A.
- Don't Be Denied
- Revolution Blues
- For The Turnstiles
- Ambulance Blues

 

I think the ' On The Beach ' tracks will annihilate the ' Time Fades Away ' ones in this poll.
" Back in the old folkie days... "

 

You're all going to think I'm crazy, but all of my choices came from Time Fades Away. I still can't get in to On the Beach musically at all. Even if there are fine lyrics, the melodies don't grab me. The only song I remember clearly is "Walk On" and I don't care for it.

 

nah man...I love Time Fades Away

 

I love both albums, but the second side of On the Beach is one of those perfect sides. Went with LA and Don't Be Denied for Time Fades Away.

 

Journey Thru
Don't Be Denied
On The Beach
Motion Pictures
Ambulance Blues

Hotdamn looks like we're in Hitsville!

 

His best side? Probably.

 

I’m a Crazy Horse kind of guy, but there is something about the bleak, downer atmosphere of On the Beach that I absolutely love. One of his finest, in mine and many people’s opinion.

 

Oh I don’t think so. I went with 3 Time...selections, including Don’t Be Denied, which I think will be the most popular song.

 

I went with mostly OTB selections.

I respect Don’t Be Denied as an important tune in Neil’s history but I think it drags a bit. Not dissimilar from feelings about Thrasher, a song I love lyrically but is a bit of a bore musically. Thank God for the Taylor 12 String.

I think For The Turnstiles is a super intense, crazy good song. Maybe not played at one’s wedding, but to me it’s one of those where did they come from tunes like Ride My Llama, Pocahontas and Powderfinger.

 

A little bit tough as I like both of the first two "ditch" albums, but here's the 5 choices:

L.A.
The Bridge
Revolution Blues
For the Turnstiles
Motion Pictures

I really like "Don't Be Denied", but "The Bridge" won out as an underrated cut. "L.A." has always been a top favorite and I really like the title track, but I find those two picks the stronger songs featured. With the songs from "On the Beach", again a very difficult choice of songs as I really like the album as a whole, and think it's better than "TFA" but only by a notch. "Walk On", "See the Sky About to Rain", the title track and "Vampire Blues" are runners up. I like "Ambulance Blues" but sometimes find it a bit long-winded, still it's an underrated song regardless.

 

Love in Mind
Revolution Blues
For the Turnstiles
On the Beach
Ambulance Blued

I can smell those honey slides now....

 

“Uptight city in the smog, city in the smog
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Don't you wish that you could be here too?”

The end-all, be-all for me.

 

Cant I just vote for all of em?

 

Time Fades Away and Don't Be Denied
Revolution Blues, On The Beach and Ambulance Blues

 

over the years, On the Beach replaced Tonight's the Night as my favorite Neil album.