George Harrison - "All Things Must Pass"

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Yeah, I don't know how big a critical hit it was either - I'm just saying I've often seen it characterized as an artistic comeback.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Fair enough; you've read more about it than I have, probably.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

The meme then and now is "Best album since All Things Must Pass." I know it got a good RS review, but what else is new. This and the Wilburys album released in late '88 did a lot to revive Harrison's reptuation; suddenly he had a sense of humor! he can write other kinds of songs besides windy, badly sung Krishna rants!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

The meme then and now is "Best album since All Things Must Pass."

isn't that more or less the official line on every solo album every beatle has ever released?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

suddenly he had a sense of humor!

Hi dere: http://web.mit.edu/scholvin/www/harrison/gifs/c310_00.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

This is the guy whose John Lennon tribute song had silly synthesizer parts and doo wop background vocals.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

KNEE-SLAPPING

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm.. I must have written something wrong here. "Pipes Of Peace" is obviously not among the best of anything at all. I meant "Flowers In The Dirt".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

who liked Cloud Nine besides Rolling Stone, I wonder?

Lots of people, obviously, judging from the fact that it was his most popular solo album since the first two.

And, yes, ELO fans were among then, and ELO fans usually know good music when they hear it. That is why they are ELO fans.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Good times drinking on me bottle"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Sun hot - you don't got a backache"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

no one ever mentions my favorite George solo tune (well, its a tie between this and "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long"), the finest entry on the well-loved Lethal Weapon 2 soundtrack: http://www.jpgr.co.uk/w2696.html

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I love "Cheer Down." It sounds like a real good Tom Petty song, i.e. too snarky for him to sing himself (even though he gets a cowrite credit)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

George Harrison's best ever song after the breakup of The Beatles is of course the fantastic "When We Was Fab".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

How much humor in music is actually something that makes people really laugh out loud, anyway? Gone Troppo is an incredibly silly record with wacky lyrics and arrangements, cover design by someone from the Bonzo Dog Band, and a nutty version of a ridiculous 1961 doo wop song.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Wake Up My Love" makes me laugh out loud, alright. The synth player sounds like he's hitting the keyboard with a dead bat.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Moran:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Moran

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose that song has kind of a dopey groove, Alfred, but it is all part of the homespun fun. I like the guitar on it.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Alfred, did u realize that song involves a double entendre??? Lol.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

Wonderwall Music >>> All Things Must Pass

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Life With the Lions >>>>

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Electronic Sound >>> Life With the Lions

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

George Harrison (and John Lennon) helping to fund The Holy Mountain >>> all Beatles solo LPs.

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't it El Topo ?

― Brad Laner (Brad Laner), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I just wish there was a film called "well-loved Lethal Weapon 2"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

The funding of "The Life Of Brian" may be George Harrison's most important post-Beatles achievement.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'll go along with that one.

Also, rescuing "the long good friday" similarly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Also "Time Bandits"

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

>wasn't it El Topo ?

I think Lennon saw El Topo, flipped out, then they got Klein to green light Holy Mountain

& Life With The Lions >>>> Electronic Sound

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

but Apple did release the El Topo s/t.
Life with the Lions >>>>>> almost anything !

― Brad Laner (Brad Laner), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

those are two facts

shasta linked to this -- http://www.subcin.com/eltoposounds.html on the Alejandro Jodorowsky : RFI thread

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't it El Topo ?

Lennon and Yoko helped to arrange the release and distribution of El Topo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wonderwall Music >>>>>>>>>>>> Electronic Sound

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

The Holy Mountain soundtrack >>>>>>> every Beatles solo album--even Wonderwall.

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 2 November 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

DogPoundFoundSound >>>> Zodiac Cosmic Sounds >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Electronic Sound

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 2 November 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

This record gives me energy when I need energy.

― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:18 (fifteen years ago)

Beware of Darkness is so beautiful, with that siren call guitar and george singing "watch out now, take kurr bewurr.."

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 12 August 2010 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

aw man old Bimble posts :) :(

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 August 2010 18:01 (fifteen years ago)

Doing final assembly of the biggest project of the year -- pretty mindless, the brain-cell-burning work has already been done and I'm beyond exhausted. ATMP on neverending repeat is the perfect soundtrack for the ad placement and article-flowing, croaking along in my horrible voice.

― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Thursday, 12 August 2010 18:14 (fifteen years ago)

Wonderwall Music is really damn good, but it doesn't have "Behind That Locked Door". Or "Awaiting On You All".

― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)

If I ever make another mixtape I'm putting "Behind That Locked Door" on it.

― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)

Which one of the long jams has the "Electronic Sound" samples wailing away obliviously in the background? "I Remember Jeep"? "Thanks For The Pepperoni"? Either way, a pretty daft artistic choice - not unlike that Spooky Tooth album from the same year.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 12 August 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

...and hey, I just remembered that Gary Wright's on both of those records

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 12 August 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

Since no one has mentioned it yet, let me put in a vote for the comparatively-low-key-but-still-somehow-epic "Let It Down." A perfect example of the buried gem that doesn't hit you right away while you're enjoying the more obviously great songs.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 13 August 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

Which one of the long jams has the "Electronic Sound" samples wailing away obliviously in the background?

Having just read the AMG write up moments ago, it's "I Remember Jeep."

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 13 August 2010 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

Listened to this four times last night and today while I ground up theoretical pigs into digital sausage. (Then I switched to Sunn O)))).)

― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Friday, 13 August 2010 03:58 (fifteen years ago)

Actually I prefer the earlier demo of "Let It Down" included as a bonus on the reissue - the Spector bombast on the final version makes my ears hurt.

xpost

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 13 August 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

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.

― citizenpuppet, Friday, 13 August 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

huge poster of George looking super creepy

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

― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 13 August 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

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george's version of "if not for you" on this album may be my favorite george performance of all

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, December 22, 2019

Heavy competition from "Apple Scruffs" though.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 December 2019 12:14 (six years ago)

like both of those

― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 December 2019 12:35 (six years ago)

You had “What Is Life” on your best-of rundown, but maybe you are making a distinction between song and performance.

― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 December 2019 12:59 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/1qPmqCt.jpg

― del griffith, Sunday, 22 December 2019 23:07 (six years ago)

four years pass...

I love how the outro of Isn't It A Pity (version 1) simultaneously threatens to turn into that of Hey Jude, Carry That Weight and I Am The Walrus

― Alba, Tuesday, 24 September 2024 13:46 (one year ago)

Haha yeah -- George's fuck you to his mates. "See? I can do this long fadeout shit too!"

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 September 2024 13:57 (one year ago)

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