On the Beach came out the year I was born. I heard it for the first time tonight. So I’ve spent nearly 36 years failing to avail myself of this record, which is tragic. Then again I might not really have been equipped to appreciate until now. It seems like sometime in the last couple of years some latent Neil Young gene got its bit flipped, and now hearing almost any Neil Young makes me want to cry and hug the nearest human being until they beg for mercy. What changed in my diet or exercise routine to cause this?
