Nilsson - C or D?

I'm partial to Nilsson SIngs Newman. Great mix of voice and viewpoint.

Nilsson's the best, your girlfriend is great.

That she is. :-)

been listening to the 1st two proper albums today, boy they are fucking great.

I love that the Popeye demos are what Ned had on hand, too! I think every album he did up through Son of Schmilsson is SOLID, a perfect gem, and every album after that has 2-3 movingly perfect deep cuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ8NHz6T4Q

man he really shot his voice in the mid 1970s. jeez.

also: go hog wild, ned:

http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2011/05/purple-chick-son-of-harrities-series-22.html

"go hog wild, ned" is a great line.

Started downloading it this morning!

When the TOTP repeats started happening, I was happy to see Nilsson's face in the top thirty run-down. "Look! Nilsson and a proper hit, everyone!"

Spaceman is sooo good / some of the alternate versions are downright spooky.

Why is this stuff only on boots? And is his wife ever gonna release the album he was working on when he died?

"Spaceman" got lodged in my brain in fall '10 and hasn't left.

any favorites from the Harrities list? are these for hardcore fans only?

Then there's this collection as well:

http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2011/12/bonus-tracks-volumes-1-3-2012.html

i really like those monkees demos: http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2011/05/son-of-harryties-02-mr-lennons-favorite.html
will admit that i have a five-disc nillsson rarities collection, and it is probably enough for me...

a LOT of the stuff on that 22-CD collection, especially the later years, is dodgy-to-worthless.

Pulled out Son of Schmilsson tonight, don't usually go for that one 'cause in my head it's long on the "slightly dark wackiness" angle - but I always forget, first of all, about "Spaceman" which is easily one of my top favorite Nilsson songs and probably one of my favorite songs of the Seventies period....and also about "The Lottery Song" which is just a gorgeous, sweet little treat. Wow. Totally totally slid past my ears the first x times I listened to this record.

!!!! I just bought Knnillssonn the other day and was going to post about it. It's good. Not quite up there with the best of them, but certainly better than the snoozier albums of his I've heard, eg A Touch of Schmilsson. Just enough weirdness to stay alive. Love all the plucky-plucky strings (real? fake?) and the crazy song about being in an Agatha Christie story.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listening to this again for maybe the third or fourth time since that post, record is sounding pretty fucking great on a couple classes of rye, turned up loud. Just great sound, his voice against all this plucky echoey space.

yeah, i think "all i think about is you" is one of his best.

I'm just getting over a chesty cold infection..

I reckon I could sing a blinding version of "All I think about is you" right now, if I could avoid coughing.

"Blanket for a Sail" is one of my favorites on this.

They're releasing a 17cd box! http://fortheloveofharrynilsson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-rca-albums-collection-2013.html

It has the tearjerking 'I Want You To Sit On My Face' on it, which is worth the price of admission.

nice!

whoa!

the only disappointment is they don't include the abridged/remixed/resequenced/etc version of his first two LPs which is actually damn good in its own right.

OTOH i already have that on CD so I can just keep that disc or rip it or whatever.

oh wait they do have that album on there, nevermind. it just seems placed in a weird order.

The albums are in the order in which they were actually released. "Aerial Pandemonium Ballet" came out way way after the two albums from which it's derived.

ah, i see.

it took me a minute to notice the three discs of unreleased stuff. whoa.

btw this is going for WAY cheaper on amazon.co.uk compared to USA amazon

which means that one of you is getting me a birthday present

that amazon uk/us price diff is bonkers. is that common? or is that likely a mistake? i never shop on amazon uk.

More common than you'd think. But Amazon US's price will eventually go down, and UK's will go up, though the latter will always be cheaper. Americans don't pay VAT on Amazon UK stuff, so subtract 15% from the price!

good to know!

so subtract 15% from the price!

and probably add $15 or more for shipping, alas

Actually, no. £3.08, or about $5 to the USA. Not bad for a 17 CD set.

oh wow. well, that's ordered.

yup. ordered.

Notice he does a version of "She's Just Laughing At Me", one of the standout tracks on Tiny Tim's 2nd album!

Seems rude not to.

Ordered.

My only hesitation for ordering this is that I already have everything but Skidoo from RCA. So I'd pretty much be paying for about half of the Sessions material (a bunch of it is bonus tracks on the other releases), mono mixes (yawn) and the packaging.

Still, $70 is pretty goddamned cheap.

I have the Pand/Aerial/Combi 2CD set from a while back, and some of the vinyl albums.

This doesn't have the 'grapple' "Son of Dracula" does it? Will have to 'do' my vinyl copy and add it, I guess...

very tempted to get this

My only hesitation for ordering this is that I already have everything but Skidoo from RCA. So I'd pretty much be paying for about half of the Sessions material (a bunch of it is bonus tracks on the other releases), mono mixes (yawn) and the packaging.

Still, $70 is pretty goddamned cheap.

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just sell those other discs and you'll probably make enough to pay for 1/3 to 1/2 of the box set!

Think I'll be giving my old CDs to friends who deserve to have Harry Nilsson in their lives

very tempted to get this

yeahhhh, i think i want this. i've actually got a bunch of these on beat up vinyl, so it would be nice to have remastered versions.

is there word on whether these are remastered from earlier releases? i would assume they are.... but who is doing the remastering?

i'm not expert on this but I do worry about the whole loudness stuff

the glory of the beat-up vinyl is that some of these albums have got really fun sleeves (inners *and* outers)

coconut = the moment he became classic