![]() ![]() Reo offers the most original take on the track, but Radiohead and Golden Smog pretty much nail it. Anyways, here are my three favorite covers of the title track. The song is famously popular with Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. As a result it developed a cult following. Cover versions Norah Jones has been known to cover 'Tell Me Why' as well as Radiohead, 3 most notably at the White River Amphitheatre and the Hollywood Bowl in 2008. As an interesting aside: the album went out of print in vinyl format in 1980 and Young declined to release it on CD until 2003 when it was released as an HDCD. We find Young here grappling with frustration, despair and, on the title track, with the pitfalls of fame. ![]() For a modern equivalent, you could compare it’s emotional bleakness to Kanye West’s 808 & Heartbreaks, except that where 808s was overproduced with autotune, On The Beach was underproduced (also: On The Beach is just a better record). It was raw and loose, and from the lyrics and sparse production, it’s clear that Young was in an emotionally dark place at the time. It was covered by Minnie Driver, Hemingway Corner, Hayden, Hitchin' Post and other artists. Neil Young’s On The Beach was originally released in 1974 as the follow up to the commercially and critically successful Harvest. The song Tell Me Why was written by Neil Young and was first released by Neil Young in 1970. ![]()
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