George Harrison - All Things Must Pass [BOXED EDITION]
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Free Music Review: Definitive George Harrison.
Hit: 5 Stars
All Things Must Pass is among my ten favorite albums of all time, and this 2001 remastered edition is the definitive version of George Harrison's 1970 triple album. It includes many of my favorite Harrison songs ("My Sweet Lord," "What Is Life," "I'd Have You Anytime," "Beware Of Darkness," "All Things Must Pass"). Recorded after the Beatles' breakup, from May to September 1970, and co-produced by Phil Spector, All Things Must Pass features a little help from Harrison's friends Ringo Starr, members of Badfinger, Eric Clapton, drummer Alan White, and Billy Preston. Bob Dylan co-wrote a song for the album, "I'd Have You Anytime," and Harrison included a haunting cover of Dylan's "If Not For You" on the album. The third album of All Things Must Pass included several informal jams led by Harrison with his musician friends (which I must confess I have never really appreciated as much as the other two albums). Harrison was always my favorite Beatle, and the realse of this album finally gave him the recognition he always deserved as a Beatle. A complete setlist includes:
Disc 1
1. I'd Have You Anytime (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:00)
2. My Sweet Lord (2001 Digital Remaster) (4:43)
3. Wah-Wah (2001 Digital Remaster) (5:39)
4. Isn't It A Pity (2001 Digital Remaster) (7:12)
5. What Is Life (2001 Digital Remaster) (4:27)
6. If Not For You (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:33)
7. Behind That Locked Door (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:10)
8. Let It Down (2001 Digital Remaster) (5:01)
9. Run Of The Mill (2001 Digital Remaster) (2:52)
10. I Live For You (3:37)
11. Beware Of Darkness (3:21)
12. Let It Down (3:55)
13. What Is Life (Backing Track) (4:27)
14. My Sweet Lord (2000) (4:57)
Disc 2
1. Beware Of Darkness (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:52)
2. Apple Scruffs (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:09)
3. Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)(Digital Remaster) (3:52)
4. Awaiting On You All (2001 Digital Remaster) (2:50)
5. All Things Must Pass (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:47)
6. I Dig Love (2001 Digital Remaster) (4:59)
7. Art Of Dying (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:43)
8. Isn't It A Pity (Version Two) (2001 Digital Remaster) (4:51)
9. Hear Me Lord (2001 Digital Remaster) (6:00)
10. It's Johnny's Birthday (2001 Digital Remaster) (0:49)
11. Plug Me In (2001 Digital Remaster) (3:19)
12. I Remember Jeep (2001 Digital Remaster) (8:09)
13. Thanks For The Pepperoni (2001 Digital Remaster) (5:32)
14. Out Of The Blue (2001 Digital Remaster) 11:16
G. Merritt
Free Music Review: A truly enjoyable album
Hit: 5 Stars
Being a longtime McCartney fan, I have for years failed to get George's All Things Must Pass on CD. After recently purchasing it, I can only say that I regret waiting so long.
It's clear that right from the start, the brilliance of George as an understated singer and songwriter are exposed, in the wonderful "I'd Have You Anytime," which segues right into one of the biggest solo songs of any of the ex-Beatles, "My Sweet Lord," which after all these years, still sounds great. The album really never lets up from this point, with particular highlights coming in the majestic "Isn't It A Pity" (I prefer version 2), the title track itself, the rocking "What Is Life," which features one of George's great guitar licks, "Wah-Wah," written during the last days of The Beatles regarding his headaches with the antics of Paul/John & Yoko at that time, the stunning "Beware of Darkness," the countrified "Behind That Locked Door" (inspired by Bob Dylan), the moody "Let It Down," the haunting "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)" and a collaboration with Bob Dylan, "If Not For You."
The bottom line: free from the overpowering duo of Lennon & McCartney, Harrison is finally allowed to open up his vault of songs that were being kept down (sometimes ever so diplomatically and sometimes not) by John and Paul during the waning days of The Beatles. "All Things Must Pass," for instance, was rehearsed during the Let It Be album sessions, along with "Isn't It A Pity," "Let It Down" and "Hear Me Lord." (On a sidenote, Paul performed "All Things Must Pass" lovingly with Ringo on drums at the memorial Concert For George in 2002.)
This 2001 remastered edition box comes with an informative booklet, featuring a lengthy introduction by George himself. The lyrics have been reprinted and the artwork on the cardboard CD sleeves inside the box feature an 'update' of the original cover art for All Things Must Pass. This revised design is a cynical nod to the present day and remains true to George's sometimes biting sense of humor.
Otherwise, George's personality is all over this album, from his mysticism and faith, his solid and spiritual songwriting, his awesome guitar work, and his gift for a haunting melody. If you are afraid (as I've heard some can be if not familiar with this album) that the songs found on All Things Must Pass are experimental Indian music that George favored at times, or feature songs that are preachy and overbearing (which could describe some of Harrison's mid-'70s material), don't be---this album is one you will listen to again and again. Thanks, George.
Free Music Review: Never was a digital remastering more welcome
Hit: 5 Stars
A few years ago I brought out my aging vinyl copy of George Harrison's masterpiece, "All Things Must Pass" from its longtime resting place with my many other hoary sixties' and seventies' era lp's. The reason was that the ten-year-old daughter of a good friend of mine had emerged as a devoted fan of George, this after having abandoned the Spice Girls for the Beatles during the previous six months (yesssss!!) In an impulsive act of magnanimity, I decided to buy the cd version of the album and then to donate the old vinyl copy to this nascent Harrison fan.Big mistake! This was not so because I regretted bringing a smile to a little girl's face, but because the quality of the cd remastering of "All Things Must Pass" was so very, very awful. And "awful" doesn't come close to capturing the flat, murky, indifferent nature of the mixing that was done the first time the album was put on cd. Listening to this abomination, I almost cried, and I vowed to write to EMI to ask, nay, BEG them to remaster "All Things Must Pass."
I'm sure I wasn't the only one to make this request, so I am hardly going to claim credit for the miracle that followed. But yes, the album has been remastered, and this time they did a fine job, indeed, restoring this complex sonic masterpiece to its original glory, including a fine rendition of the famous Phil Spector "wall of sound." Thank you!
Here once again we have all of those musical gems from 1970: "My Sweet Lord" (or is it "He's So Fine" remixed, hehe?), "Isn't it a Pity" (twice), the delightful "Apple Scruffs," the hypnotic "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp," and the rave-up masterpiece, "Awaiting On You All," complete with its classic jibe at the Pope ("owns 51% of General Motors"). Perfection!
To top off this wondrous musical development, some additional tracks and rerecordings have been added, including a new mix of "My Sweet Lord" that features some gorgeous guitar licks that I can only assume are George's. The cd set is also packaged gorgeously, and include some thoughtful and reflective liner notes from Harrison himself. These (and lots more fun features) are included at that a fascinating and sophisticatedweb site devoted to the album, aptly named www.allthingsmustpass.com. Check it out!
It can be debated endlessly whether this is THE BEST post-Beatles work by one of the original fab four, but it sure is one of the top few. Thirty-plus years later, it remains a musical and lyrical masterpiece.
Free Music Review: I'm glad I got the new one.
Hit: 5 Stars
I didn't buy much music when I was younger, but I wanted to have anything that was good by Bob Dylan, so I bought the Concert for Bangladesh, which had five Dylan songs and four of the songs from this album, with Leon Russell singing part of "Beware of Darkness" like he was trying to give everybody the creeps. I didn't think that I had to have everything, particularly where the Beatles were concerned, because I knew enough people that had record collections (one of my cousins had the original "All Things Must Pass" 3-LP set in Boulder, Colorado) and I loved to surprise them with how much I liked to hear my own personal favorite songs, which might not be particularly popular. On this album, it was "I Dig Love," which shows up as Selection 6 on CD2 in this collection. I remember it being the first song on a side of one of the records, and once the needle was in contact with the record, I could feel that song coming like a strange form of magnetism. As the years passed, I acquired more of these songs on a concert set from Japan, and I noticed that "Isn't it a Pity" is such a great song that more than one version would be even better than just having one. This new CD set has the perfect combination: CD1 Selection 4 "Isn't It a Pity" is a glorious 7:08 long, and CD2 Selection 8 "Isn't It a Pity (Version Two) is 4:45, long enough to get it right all over again. There is even a song by Bob Dylan, "If Not for You," which is one kind of greatness, but the greatest thing about this album is the guys playing guitar. When I bought the Concert for Bangladesh, I knew Eric Clapton would be playing the guitar solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" because I had seen it in the movie. A lot of people were playing guitar in that movie, and until this year, I failed to appreciate how much this album was made the same way. With four or more kinds of guitar, in addition to the bass guitar, on the songs on "All Things Must Pass," and Phil Collins playing congas on `The Art of Dying,' according to George's note in this set, a lot of us still needed to know that on this album it was that old friend, Eric Clapton, who "hasn't had a credit for thirty years." There is so much stuff here, asking people to listen to the whole thing seems like a lot to ask, but there is so much that is good on both CDs that you have to hear it all to appreciate what you are getting. Some people have a skip button on the remote for albums like this, but that's not the way I listen to it.Free Music Review: THE WAR AND PEACE OF ROCK N ROLL!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have hesitated to write an online review of my favorite album simply because so many people have already written so many wonderful things regarding George Harrison's solo masterpiece "All Things Must Pass". The recent passing of George Harrison has caused many of us forty and over crowd to remember what a sincere and kind human being George was. "All Things Must Pass", was rock n rolls first boxed set released shortly after the break-up of the Beatles and quickly established George Harrison as a creative force on par with Lennon and McCartney. Since George was prevented from recording more than his usual one or two songs per Beatle album, he had a backlog of unrecorded songs that eventually became the majority of "All Things Must Pass". The album stayed at number one for nearly two months and is viewed by many critics as the greatest solo Beatle album of alltime. Powered by the mega hit "My Sweet Lord", the albums spiritual feel dominates throughout. Songs like"What Is Life", "Awaiting On You All", Beware Of Darkness","Isn't It A Pity" and "Wah Wah" all received heavy airplay on virtually every AOR radio station in the country. Top forty stations were playing "MY Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life" to near saturation levels. An allstar cast was assembled in the recording studio including, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Gary Brooker, Ringo Starr, Dave Mason, Alan White, Carl Radle, and even Phil Collins contributed. The final ingrediant was the production of legendary producer Phil Spector and his wall of sound. George's contribution to rock n roll cannot be under-stated; he was the first musician to introduce the sitar into mainstream pop music and his "Concert For Bangladesh" was the prototype concert that gave birth to all these charitable concert's that have since followed like, "Live Aid", Farm Aid" and even the most recent "Concert For New York". George Harrison was a humble and quiet legend who was more than just a Beatle, but a talent in his own right. I highly recommend this remastered 30th anniverary edition of "All Things Must Pass" which George remastered himself and contributed some fantastic new liner notes and designed a colorful new booklet with great new photo's. The bonus track "I Live For You" and the instrumental version of "What Is Life" are real gems not to be missed. This is George Harrison's final gift to music fans everywhere. Thank-you George.