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George Harrison - All Things Must Pass [DIGI-PAK EDITION] Audio CD

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Title: All Things Must Pass [DIGI-PAK EDITION]
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Release Date: 2001-10-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I'd Have You Anytime 2: My Sweet Lord 3: Wah-Wah 4: Isn't It A Pity 5: What Is Life 6: If Not for You 7: Behind That Locked Door 8: Let It Down 9: Run Of The Mill 10: I Live For You (Bonus Track) 11: Beware Of Darkness (Bonus Track) 12: Let It Down (Bonus Track) 13: What Is Life (Bonus Track) 14: My Sweet Lord (2000) (Bonus Track) 15: Beware of Darkness 16: Apple Scruffs 17: Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) 18: Awaiting On You All 19: All Things Must Pass 20: I Dig Love 21: Art Of Dying 22: Isn't It A Pity (Version Two) 23: Hear Me Lord 24: It's Johnny's Birthday 25: Plug Me In 26: I Remember Jeep 27: Thanks For The Pepperoni 28: Out Of The Blue

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The man was better than many people thougt. It was a long time ago since I heard this one, but due to the remastering it sounds als music from today.


Far from that fountain of perpetual mirth
Classic little-brother move there. And so, armed with a pretty great portfolio of songs rejected by John and Paul, the quiet Beatle decides to blow his wad and release the whole damn thing in one go as a triple album. He was king for a day. Foolhardy at first glance--some would argue he should have rationed this A-list material out more carefully--but it was probably a good idea. Judging from bootlegs from this era, even minor songs that never saw the official light of day were more compelling than what would come later. In short, George was in the zone--a place he'd never been, and would never be again. I think it was a smart move going for broke here.

That said, I've always had reservations about this album. George had an exasperating habit of keeping his sly humor out of his songs, leaving us with his rarely attractive sermons (and what a born scold he was, even before he found God--maybe that was why he could relate to Dylan). And, as George rather grumpily suggests in his liner notes, Phil Spector's often magnificent production does, at times, steamroll over the delicate material. Still, he has Phil to thank for crafting the only sonically rewarding album in his catalog. Overblown at times, perhaps, but this is a sublime piece of record-making.

I've been terrorizing the wife and kids for the past year with my guitar-playing around the house, and in learning the 'All Things Must Pass' songbook I have gained a new dimension of appreciation for these strange, beautiful constructions. George knows when to haul out the Dsus2 and the F#m7, but also knows when to keep it simple. It's that uncanny Beatles-coached balance of instinct and hyper-fluent attention to detail.

I have little patience for the George Harrison cult, those people who would have us believe that he was the equal of (or better than) John and Paul. He wasn't. But there is such a thing as a George Harrison Song--with its own lovely qualities, born right out of that Harrison hard-drive--and it finds its perfect moment in this very necessary, if never repeated, freedom-drunk masterpiece.


Beautiful!
What it could not do was to remove the excess strings, horns and echoes that are the hallmark of that convicted over-egoed little man with a gun: Phil Spector. The remastering improved the sound quality as far as it could go. The album is a testament of the great talent that George Harrison was, and that the McCartney-Lennon conspiracy had repressed for so long. Imagine what the Beatles would have been had George's songs occupied the place of some really bad Beatle album fillers. Unfortunately, George sought Phil Spector to (over)produce this album to a point that even George mentions in the (2001) liner notes that it makes the songs sound dated. I wish George had sought out George Martin or someone else in England or the US to produce this album. Despite these obstacles, the songs are timeless, and should survive even our great grandchildren. These are not embarrassing "hippie songs". Highly recommended.


Great songs, but wish it was remixed.
He said he was tempted to remix every track. I really wish Harrison would have put out a remixed version of this CD before he died. The songs are great, but the production is overdone, with way too much echo. .


this album is very good
this album all things must pass is very good I believe
George Harrison was a better composer than John Lennon .


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