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George Harrison - Dark Horse Years 1976 - 1992 (Bonus Dvd)
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Music CD CoverArtist: George Harrison Edition: Music CD Format: Box set, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2004-02-24 Music Label: Capitol Soundtracks: Music CD 1- Woman Don't You Cry for Me - George Harrison
- Dear One - George Harrison
- Beautiful Girl - George Harrison
- This Song - George Harrison
- See Youself - George Harrison
- It's What You Value - George Harrison
- True Love - George Harrison
- Pure Smokey - George Harrison
- Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison
- Learning How to Love You - George Harrison
- Tears of the World - George Harrison
Music CD 2- Love Comes to Everyone - George Harrison
- Not Guilty - George Harrison
- Here Comes the Moon - George Harrison
- Soft-Hearted Hana - George Harrison
- Blow Away - George Harrison
- Faster - George Harrison
- Dark Sweet Lady - George Harrison
- Your Love Is Forever - George Harrison
- Soft Touch - George Harrison
- If You Believe - George Harrison
- Here Comes the Moon [Demo Version] - George Harrison
Music CD 3- Blood From A Clone - George Harrison
- Unconsciousness Rules - George Harrison
- Life Itself - George Harrison
- All Those Years Ago - George Harrison
- Baltimore Oriole - George Harrison
- Teardrops - George Harrison
- That Which I Have Lost - George Harrison
- Writing's On The Wall - George Harrison
- Hong Kong Blues - George Harrison
- Save The World - George Harrison
- Save The World (Demo Version) - George Harrison
Music CD 4- Love Comes To Everyone - George Harrison
- Not Guilty - George Harrison
- Here Comes The Moon - George Harrison
- Soft-Hearted Hana - George Harrison
- Blow Away - George Harrison
- Faster - George Harrison
- Dark Sweet Lady - George Harrison
- Your Love Is Forever - George Harrison
- Soft Touch - George Harrison
- If You Believe - George Harrison
- Here Comes The Moon (Demo Version) - George Harrison
Music CD 5- Cloud Nine
- That's What It Takes
- Fish On The Sand
- Just For Today
- This Is Love
- When We Was Fab
- Devil's Radio
- Someplace Else
- Wreck Of The Hesperus
- Breath Away From Heaven
- Breath Away From Heaven
- Shanghai Surprise (Bonus track)
- Zig Zag (Bonus track)
Music CD 6- I Want To Tell You (live)
- Old Brown Shoe (live)
- Taxman (live)
- Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (live)
- If I Needed Someone (live)
- Something (live)
- What Is Life (live)
- Dark Horse (live)
- Piggies (live)
- Got My Mind Set On You (live)
- Cloud Nine (live)
- Here Comes The Sun (live)
- Here Comes The Sun (live)
- Here Comes The Sun (live)
- Here Comes The Sun (live)
- Devil's Radio (live)
- Isn't It A Pity (live)
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (live)
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (live)
Free Music Notes for Dark Horse Years 1976 - 1992 (Bonus Dvd)Free Music Review: Well worth discovering -- or re-discovering!!! Hit: 5 Stars
Right from 1970 onward, George Harrison has always made his albums with great songcraft and care. This box, while not perfect, delivers on many different levels and should be in the music library of all George Harrison fans as well as more-casual Beatles fans. The DVD and book it is housed in are simply magnificent. How great is it to see footage of George live in Japan in 1991 with Eric Clapton! Seeing him play a stinging slide on tracks such as "Cheer Down" and "Cloud Nine" remind of his unbelievable talent. (If only he had toured more than he did. But that's another story.) The book is crafted, again with care, with beautiful and rare photographs and an interesting collage of news clippings from the era of 1974, when he launched Dark Horse Records. The notes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke help complete the package. Of course, it is mostly about the music. The six albums are all wonderfully remastered, with CD booklets containing awesome rarely seen photos. Much more complete than the original CD reissues of the early 1990s. Music-wise, the clean sound helps really bring home the sheer brilliance and multi-layered ear candy that are "This Song," "Beautiful Girl," "It's What You Value" from 1976's 33 1/3; "Love Comes to Everyone," "Blow Away" and "If You Believe," from 1979's self-titled album; "Mystical One" and "Unknown Delight" from the highly underrated Gone Troppo. There isn't enough time to go into the gems on 1987's Cloud Nine, or to run down the career-spanning gems delivered live with Eric Clapton on the Live in Japan SACD (Don't worry, it also plays on a standard CD player). A slight negative is the lack and variety of bonus tracks: Almost all George Harrison fans know about the travesty of Somewhere in England, and the four rejected songs. One of those, strangely enough, is a bonus track on the excellent 33 1/3. But the other three are nowhere to be found. CAPITOL, PLEASE REMEMBER SONGS SUCH AS "Flying Hour," "Lay His Head" and "Sat Singing" ON ANY FUTURE ANTHOLOGY (WHICH HAS BEEN LONG-RUMORED)... Too bad "Cheer Down" didn't make it either. But at least there IS the Live in Japan version! The olive green box with the distinctive top-opening lid is so beautiful, too. The 1974 photo of George, amid the leaves of God's nature which he adored, and the stunning Dark Horse logo really are awe-inspiring for Harrison fans and should open the eyes, and ears, of many other music fans who have always been reluctant to give the "Quiet Beatle" his due as a solo act. The timing of this release also is great, following the acclaimed "Brainwashed" and "Concert for George" DVD (both highly recommended) and his Grammy for the pop instrumental "Marwa Blues." His induction in March into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a soloist can only help shine the light of awareness on even more people! To that, I can only say, "It's about time!" God Bless You George, Olivia and Dhani for this wonderful treasure that I will always cherish!!!
Dark Horse Years 1976 - 1992 (Bonus Dvd) PosterBox set includes six CDs: Thirty Three & 1/3, George Harrison, Somewhere In England, Gone Troppo, Cloud Nine, and Live In Japan (SACD). Also includes The Dark Horse Years exclusive DVD, available only as part of this set. Includes 24 page booklet. DVD running time: 89 minutes, includes Dark Horse Feature, promo videos, previously unreleased live footage, and selections from the movie "Shanghai Surprise." Sound: Stereo except four concert pieces which are in 5.1 surround sound, in both Dolby Digital and DTS formats. DVD TRACKLISTINGS: 1. Dark Horse Feature 2. This Song 3. Crackerbox Palace 4. Faster 5. Got My Mind Set On You - Version I 6. Got My Mind Set On You - Version II 7. When We Was Fab 8. This Is Love 9. Taxman (from Live In Japan) 10. Cloud 9 (from Live In Japan) 11. Devil's Radio (from Live In Japan) 12. Cheer Down (from Live In Japan) 13. Shanghai Surprise 14. Someplace Else 15. Hottest Gong In Town George Harrison Photos More from George Harrison  The Best of George Harrison |  The Concert for Bangladesh |  Living in the Material World |  Cloud Nine |  Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 |  The Concert for Bangladesh DVD | George Harrison forged the most idiosyncratic, artistically stubborn career of any ex-Beatle. After the spectacular success of All Things Must Pass (whose glorious, Spectorized production Harrison all but disowned in later years), The Concert for Bangla Desh and some tepid follow-ups on the Fabs' Apple label, Harrison released the half-dozen albums contained in this remastered box set on his Dark Horse imprint. Frequently out-of-print and ever under-appreciated, they remain in many ways his truest musical legacy. Powered by a deceptively breezy compositional sense and impeccably tasteful soloing (his fluid slide work remains some of rock's most lyrically distinctive), Harrison variously mixes biting humor ("This Song" answers his "My Sweet Lord" plagiarism suit with sarcastic jabs), a love of pop history (his Motown tribute "Pure Smokey," covers of Cole Porter's "True Love" and Rudy Clark's obscure "Got My Mind Set On You," which became an unlikely late '80s hit), and ever-present spiritual meditations into an often jazzy musical tack that veered sharply away from his Beatles past. And while that laconic sense occasionally goes unfocused (as on "Gone Troppo"), it came to warm fruition on the triumphant Jeff Lynne collaboration "Cloud Nine." Harrison's past glories are revisited on that album's "When We Was Fab" and elsewhere on unused Beatle-era songs ("Not Guilty," "See Yourself"), as well as his tribute to the fallen John Lennon, "All Those Years Ago," but crucially they are always part of a larger, more forceful perspective. His double-live album from a 1991 tour of Japan with Eric Clapton encapsulates that sense, and is featured here in the SACD format with 5.1 surround sound. Also included is a DVD exclusive to this set, featuring highlight footage from those concerts, interviews, and a slate of Harrison videos. --Jerry McCulley
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