George Harrison - "All Things Must Pass"

My younger brother just bought me the original vinyl pressing in damn near mint condition, equipped with the original huge poster of George looking super creepy. Looked around online and it goes for a couple hundred (not that I'd ever dream of selling it).

"Wah-Wah" at full volume is one hell of a good time.

huge poster of George looking super creepy

nothin to see here, just a hippy hanging out with some gnomes

Amazingly enough, as a Beatles fan who was listening to the radio when "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life" were hits, I do not own this. I do love "Behind That Locked Door," though, and all three hits.

The title track is soothing to my troubled soul.

01 - I Dig Love
02 - The Art of Dying
03 - My Sweet Lord
04 - Apple Scruffs
05 - Beware of Darkness
06 - What Is Life
07 - Hear Me Lord
08 - It's Johnny's Birthday
09 - I'd Have You Anytime
10 - Wah Wah
11 - Let It Down
12 - Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
13 - Awaiting On You All
14 - All Things Must Pass

err....shit, pasted over something there. That's a one-CD mix of this that I made back in 1998 or 1999, probably one of the first CDs I ever burned. It must have been my preferred listening experience for a while, because looking over it, I can't bring to mind any of the songs I left out (aside from "Isn't It A Pity"). Submitted for your consideration!

testing it out right now, and looking forward to it! I always enjoy good chunks of All Things Must Pass, but something keeps me from heavily replaying it. Hoping this will help.

Left out "Behind that Locked Door"

Got the reissued box set for my birthday in October, and I can only say my love for this album has continued to grow.
Am I the only one to think that Let It Down is the template for later Spiritualized?

Nah there's a pretty obvious connection

well with this whole album really, not just that one tune imho

OTM OTM Definitely with that tune tho!

Was just digging around Christgau's site and stumbled on his review of ATMP. Has he ever been more wrong than this about anything?

All Things Must Pass [Apple, 1970]
As a slave of the very "MAYA" (pidgin Hindi for the concrete world) Harrison warns against, I am obliged to point out that playing headsie with the Universal Mind is not introspection and that the International Pop Music Community is not a group. Presumably, the featurelessness of these three discs--right down to the anonymity of the multitracked vocals--reflects Harrison's notion of Truth, and he's welcome to it. But he's never been good for more than two songs per album, and after "My Sweet Lord" I start to get stuck. C

It's not a C, but it deserves no higher than a B+ or B. And most of George's other records are irredeemable.

The "only 2 good songs per album" jibe holds for some of his others, its true, but never for ATMP.
I'm especially fond of Simply Shady from Dark Horse, but its surrounded by tedious jams.

Irredeemable is a bit harsh. George lends himself to a S/D thread because there are great songs - if you're into melancholia with a spiritual edge - across his solo albums, amongst a bit of filler, e.g

Living in The Material World:

- That is All
- The Light that has Lighted the World

Extra Texture:

- The Answer's at the End
- World of Stone
- Can't Stop Thinking about You

Aside from "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long," "Blow Away," and Cloud Nine (the only one I love end to end), I think the guy really needed collaborators.

I have the three-disc (three, right?) mini-box, and I've never listened to more than the first disc. What am I missing?

if you're into melancholia with a spiritual edge - xpost

sums me up!

Aside from "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long," "Blow Away," and /Cloud Nine/ (the only one I love end to end), I think the guy really needed collaborators.
--Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

That was my argument (I guess it wasn't clear).

if you're into melancholia with a spiritual edge

Or if you're into George as a pop song writer, there's lots of good stuff on his Dark Horse-era LPs (especially 33 1/3, the self-titled album, and Gone Troppo). Unless someone happens to be a big Jeff Lynne fan, I'm not sure how Cloud Nine is substantially different from those.

hi, Tim!

Heard "Cheer Down" for the first time this morning. Like a lost WIlburys track! From the "Lethal Weapon 2" soundtrack, no less.

I have the three-disc (three, right?) mini-box, and I've never listened to more than the first disc. What am I missing?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:02 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Beware of Darkness, Apple Scruffs, Awaiting on You All, and the wonderful death-disco of The Art of Dying! among others...

Heard "Cheer Down" for the first time this morning. Like a lost WIlburys track! From the "Lethal Weapon 2" soundtrack, no less.

Dude's shit pops up on some random-ass soundtracks. I don't know which is weirder: the fact that he has a song on the Porky's Revenge soundtrack, or that Dave Edmunds was chosen to produce/assemble it.

lol

(three, right?)

No, two.

Unless someone happens to be a big Jeff Lynne fan

Not expressing myself right here. I AM a big Jeff Lynne fan. But Alfred, I don't hear Cloud Nine as being much more of an example of Harrison working with collaborators than the albums that preceded it.

There's a real style that comes to the fore on 33 1/3 and it very much has to do with the people playing on those records. And, of course, of couple of them had co-producers, too: Russ Titelman, Ray Cooper. Co-writing with Gary Wright on the self-titled album (the excellent "If You Believe").

As for George's own production, I think the crispness of 33 1/3 is really cool coming after Dark Horse and Extra Texture.

I'd love to hear an unSpectorized mix of this album. It might not be any better, but I'd still like to hear it.

All things must piss

Spector's mark on the album is not just in the mix, though; it's also in the arrangements.

Well, OK, but I'd still like to hear an unSpectorized mix.

I got the remaster for Christmas
i love this so much

I really want to hear the OG version after reading about the extreme remixing that went on with the remaster.

Was it remixed? I thought it had just been remastered.

I just heard about it from this marcello carlin post here http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2010/05/george-harrison-all-things-must-pass.html

There are sonic clean-ups, redone guitar and rhythm parts, re-recordings, alternate takes

I mean, who knows how much of it is audible. It'd be fun to A-B them, though.

that christgau blurb is so smug and irritating.

I can understand being a Christgau and embracing the counterculture's ethos of sexual and racial liberation only to watch Nixon get elected and to endure a budding but potentially excellent singer-songwriter-guitarist singing hare krishna the same year that CSNY go global and reaching for a bucket to barf in.

well put

christgau in dickhead shocker
― gear

Recently got a very good copy of this box set incl. a very cool and very dark poster that I'm considering framing.

http://i.imgur.com/UZGwUMk.jpg

Great record and all, but I can't help being slightly "annoyed" with the box set format - it seems like it will get a lot of wear from being opened, from me trying to flip the records out etc. I like the new Dylan Bootleg boxes for having open constructions, makes for easy access to the discs. Uhm anyway, so what are your thoughts - are those boxes annoying or what?

according to the Then Play Long link above, there is *re-done* guitar on the CD box reissue? is the original vinyl that different? was there a CD version released bitd that's considered better than the reissue? the updated packaging of the CD is fucking terrible compared to the original vinyl box i know that much.

Lovely album.
the title track is so good.
it's also interesting to hear the rehearsing sessions with the Beatles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0IgO0So2BU

there are longer sessions recording where you hear McCartney working on the harmonies.
By the way, it always seemed strange to me the idea that McCartney was jealous or trying to put Harrison's tracks down since he seemed to be the one spending time and helping the most (bass on "Something", work on "I me mine", etc) while Lennon actually did seem to not care at all and not even attending some recording sessions.
Yet, it's McCartney that is attacked on some of the album's tracks while Harrison and Lennon remained close for a while after the Beatles' break up (and Harrison contributed to some tracks on "Imagine", and all).
Of course there were other issues but still, seems unfair to Macca !

Also, funny thing : for a while, I only know the instrumental version of "What is life" since I had downloaded a version without the final version... it was so nice to finally discover the vocals !

only knew

I know it's a demo but Harrison sounds awful on that version of ATMP.

This demo is much, much better:

http://youtu.be/kmEqq3OSNpE

according to stevehoffman.tv folks, there is no good CD issue of All Things Must Pass