George Harrison - "All Things Must Pass"

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Seems to me I've seen the take that Cloud Nine was a significant comeback album (i.e., not just in the sense that he hadn't made an album in five years) a lot over the years. AMG's got:

33 1/3 - 3 stars
s/t '79 album - 4 stars
Somewhere in England - 3 1/2 stars
Gone Troppo - 1 star : (
Cloud Nine - 4 1/2 stars

Well, at least there's some credit for the late '70s/early '80s stuff there.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

("Geir" is not an answer.)

This should be in the FAQ. I've never disagreed so much with someone who hadn't just pissed his clothes.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"The pope owns 51 percent of General Motors. The stock exchange is the only thing he's qualified to quote us. "

!! I have always wondered what this fucking verse is! Easily my favorite song on the album.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I the only one who prefers the "Jams" over the rest of the album?

xpost well maybe cause I owned a copy of only album three of this, back whenever, and got a cheapie HMV sale copy of the new remastered CD set more recently.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I like some of the jamz I'll admit it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The jams are nice enough in the background. I wonder how the album's flow/feel would change with them strewn among the songs instead of sequestered at the end.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

well, it was a "significant comeback album" in that it sold a lot and spawned a No. 1 single. I guess it got decent reviews at the time, but I don't know if that makes it a critical hit, per se.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

KNEE-SLAPPING

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"Good times drinking on me bottle"

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike Moran:

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

Wonderwall Music >>> All Things Must Pass

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

Life With the Lions >>>>

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

Electronic Sound >>> Life With the Lions

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't it El Topo ?

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

otm

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Also "Time Bandits"

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

>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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (thirteen years ago) link

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 (thirteen years ago) link

aw man old Bimble posts :) :(

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

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 (thirteen years ago) link

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 (thirteen years ago) link

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 (thirteen years ago) link

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 (thirteen years ago) link

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"Beware of Darkness" rules

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 December 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link

beware of ABKCO !!

― budo jeru, Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:00 (four years ago) link

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, 22 December 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link

beware of darkness! clapton's playing is really good on that

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:52 (four years ago) link

xp!

the power of george compelled us to post at the same time

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:52 (four years ago) link

ATMP is one of those albums where there's 10-12 contenders for the very best song and there's no real way to be wrong. feels good out here

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:54 (four years ago) link

there are

― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:54 (four years ago) link

the power of george compels you

― budo jeru, Sunday, 22 December 2019 06:15 (four years ago) link

so many amazing tracks, not sure what i would pick

― budo jeru, Sunday, 22 December 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

like both of those

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

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 (four years ago) link

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

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

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