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― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Jim Keltner and Ringo doubling their drum parts during the Bangladesh Concert is one of the alternately most pointless/entertaining things about ti
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
When I hear him mangle the line "you made me such a big star" on the Bangladesh "Wah Wah", I'm inclined to say "can't sing worth a damn".
I've honestly never seen Bangladesh straight through, just snippets here and there (must rectify) but damn if that youtube didn't give me chills. I didn't hear that line (or any of his singing on that song) as mangled; I think he sounds ragged but right.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's not like he Amy Winehouse'd it or anything
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wrte1ijlY
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng511CKPt3w
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D9JuiJNizw
George stuff I like from the seventies:
"Blow Away" (who needs Macca when you've got this chorus?)"This Song" (not very funny, but he sounds like he's enjoying himself over this 'ere beat)"Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" (a God song about being real horny; one of the few times he understood Al Green)
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Also, he seems pretty at-ease and comfortable for a guy who hadn't been on a concert stage in five years.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
George is maybe the best thing about this tune (apart from the lyrics)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwWp98IuGE
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
His dual slide guitar solo on "Day After Day" is great, too.
― Darin, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
I've always had a soft spot for this drunken hootenanny of a b-side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lum7Pow-vTA
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
If I haven't already mentioned it upthread, Simply Shady from Dark Horse is one of those snake charmer melodies he did so beautifully, though never better than Beware of Darkness
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Martin Scorsese documentary airing on HBO in October:
http://www.georgeharrison.com/#/news/archive/201107/george-harrison-documentary-and-book-announced
― timellison, Friday, 15 July 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
Trailer for the movie.
― timellison, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
The Worst of George Harrison.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 August 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
Pete Prown? I thought that was a 'fakey' name, but it seems not
― Mark G, Monday, 6 August 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Wonderwall is one very decent soundtrack too.― t**t, Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:33 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I'd call it the very definition of "overlooked"― Mark G, Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:38 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM. So good.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 6 August 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
some of the wonderwall stuff really invent the "wes anderson" vibe, particularly mark devo's stuff on the rushmore soundtrack
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what's being particularly identified as "slick and overproduced" about the 1979 self-titled album or why a song like "Love Comes to Everyone" is singled out as an "overt stab at polished LA pop." That album sounds a lot like the production on the other albums from that period to me. Not exactly the same, but nothing radically different.
I also think it's too easy to make assumptions based on his personality that lead to claims about how "alienated by the current pop scene" he was. "Blood from a Clone" strikes me as far less serious than the writer makes it out to be (he says it's "supposedly his savage commentary on the state of popular music") and actually remarkable for how of its time it sounds, at least in Harrison's own way. It's an easy rival of "Coming Up" for eccentric older guy new wave with some cool funky bass.
"Wake Up My Love" from Gone Troppo is another one. The synthesizers on that are like something you'd hear in an Italo tune.
― timellison, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
I like "Love Comes to Everyone" and disagree with how he tosses "dated" to signify something he doesn't like. He could've criticized him in other ways.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
Just listening to the iTunes clips of the '06 Living in the Material World and it is awfully good sounding.
― timellison, Saturday, 16 March 2013 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
Living in the Material World remaster, I meant to say.
― timellison, Saturday, 16 March 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
Harrison was the third-best songwriter in the Beatles, sort of like Uruguay ranks third in a list of who has the most nuclear devices after the USA and Russia. Proof that McCartney wasn't a control freak is that mewling, turgid pomposity like "While My Guitar Noisily and Repititiously Whines" and "Something"(genius lyric - "I don't kno-o- ow, I-I-I don't know") was allowed on their albums.
― dave q, Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:00 PM (11 years ago)
even after these all years i feel compelled to say Fuck you dave q, fuck yoooooouuuu
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Saturday, 16 March 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― t**t, Saturday, 16 March 2013 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
the self-titled is a gorgeous album. such a strong run of simple, beautiful songs on there. it stands up bloody well.
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 16 March 2013 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
I just learned "Think For Yourself" on guitar. It's crazy! It's not a song from 1965, it's like something off Nevermind. There some proto-Devo in this as well.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 November 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
The good things that we can have if we close our eyes it's a beautiful world
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 November 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Wonder what it would sound like if he saved it for ATMP.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 1 November 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
He should have rerecorded all his Beatles songs instead of the "Apple Jam."
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 1 November 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
I could listen to the first four seconds of Think For Yourself over and over.
― pplains, Saturday, 1 November 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
Everything on Spotify, including Electronic Sound and Wonderwall. Albums with bonus tracks.
― timellison, Friday, 16 October 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
Nice!
Wonderwall really is a treat. Electronic Sounds is.... less entertaining.
― Darin, Saturday, 17 October 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
His catalogue is now on Apple Music as well.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 17 October 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
Lotta stuff grayed out as unavailable on his overview page, but I started clicking on it and it played anyway.
― Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Saturday, 17 October 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
Wonderwall is so great. The move is fun too. And I love this nearly lost Harrison-produced masterwork:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVRmdrM0Mmg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 17 October 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Finally grabbed a cheapie Gone Troppo, after all these years of wondering. Man is it a silly, inessential sort of record. So many songs that just feel like "I'm a musician, I suppose writing songs is what I do, right?" in the most canonical rocker-at-40 sort of way. And yet kind of lovable for precisely that reason? Still, there are these flashes of joy in the playing and singing here and there, amid the sea of forgettable and nearly-hookless songs, so I don't think this will be my last time putting it on. I think the thing I liked the most (besides the title track and "Wake Up My Love," which I already knew) was the instrumental (?) track somewhere on Side One.
― Frump 'n' Dump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 21 November 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
Well, for starters, I might actually think "Dream Away" is the best song he ever wrote. But the record in general is lovable in my opinion - some really good songwriting and a nice production/sound. I like all of Side One. "That's the Way It Goes" is probably the best of the kind of mellow, non-"Dream Away," non-instrumentsl, non-early-'60s-cover tunes he wrote for the album (and there's a really nice version of it on Concert for George). "Mystical One" is probably my second favorite of those, or the title track, if that qualifies.
― timellison, Saturday, 21 November 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
Might be my favorite of the Dark Horse albums. That one or 33 1/3.
― timellison, Saturday, 21 November 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
Start up the cement mixer.
― timellison, Saturday, 21 November 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
I find 33 1/3 to be one of his best post-All Things Must Pass records, and Gone Troppo to be thoroughly awful - the very definition of a contractual obligation record. There's some good moments on most of Harrison's solo records, but my god did he sound like he was phoning it in at times.
― Turrican, Saturday, 21 November 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
I haven't heard it, but noticed that "Circles" was written (or started) in 1968. Kind of amazing that in the early 80s he still had Beatles-era songs to pick from to fill out his records.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Yeah there's a beatles demo of circles.
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
Yup, it's on the White Album demos you'll find floating around the internet somewhere.
― Turrican, Saturday, 21 November 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Isn't McCartney II also a "silly, inessential" record? I like Gone Troppo as much as I like McCartney II.
― timellison, Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
I usually found one standout on all the later albums, like Simply Shady on Dark Horse
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, 'Simply Shady' is a good Harrisong, sadly marred by the weak vocal like the entire album.
― Turrican, Saturday, 21 November 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
That OPP Dark Horse comp from 1989 creates the impression that those albums are stronger than they are; nevertheless, I still like "That's The Way It Goes" though. "Wake Up My Love" stinks of I-need-a-hit-what's-this-synth desperation.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 November 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I'm loathe to assign motives to artists, but from the sound of the records, it doesn't seem like he had much respect for new wave at all, cf Paul
― brimstead, Saturday, 21 November 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
what's-this-synth desperation
I think you're projecting. He made a Moog album before the Beatles broke up. He's credited as playing synthesizer on "Dear One" and "Crackerbox Palace," Billy Preston as playing one on "Beautiful Girl," and both Preston and Gary Wright credited as playing them on "See Yourself," all on 33 1/3. Steve Winwood and Neil Larsen are credited as playing Moogs on the self-titled album from '79. Five people are credited as playing synthesizers on the Somewhere in England album: Harrison, Larsen, Gary Brooker, Al Kooper, and Mike Moran. Moran may have been the big synth guy on Gone Troppo, too, though Harrison and Preston are also credited with playing them.
― timellison, Sunday, 22 November 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link