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Artist: George HarrisonEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Love Comes To Everyone
- Not Guilty
- Here Comes The Moon
- Soft Hearted Hana
- Blow Away
- Faster
- Dark Sweet Lady
- Your Love Is Forever
- Soft Touch
- If You Believe
- Here Comes The Moon (Demo Version) (Bonus track)
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Free Music Review: George Harrison (1979)
Hit: 5 Stars
The typical thing you get with a George Harrison album is it being compared to All Things Must Pass.
An ironic thing you get is that with almost every major release since All Things Must Pass, critics and fans have said xxx album is his best work since All Things Must Pass.
And when you have a majority of your solo work being compared to what is considered your finest offering, it suggests something. Well, it suggests a few things. One thing being that maybe critics and fans are amazingly forgetful about what they said for a previous album. The other thing, the much more ironic thing, is that Harrison's solo career was filled with high watermarks over a longer time period than his former partners. It means that for almost every album he released after All Things Must Pass, the 'reaction' to it compared it to his 'finest' work. And that is an amazing track record. Considering that all of his albums in the US were never below the Top 20 (barring ''Gone Troppo'' - which had no promotion whatsoever), is another testament to this man's track record.
So if Living in the Material World, Thirty Three & 1/3rd, George Harrison, Cloud 9 and Brainwashed were all ''the best album he released since All Things Must Pass'', it must mean this composer did far better than his partners, correct? Because in ''units sold'' All Things Must Pass outsold Lennon and McCartney's first solo albums put together (Plastic Ono Band / McCartney 1). And I don't think other albums by Lennon or McCartney are compared to 'Imagine' or 'Band On The Run' with as much a success rate as far as ''reaction'' or that person working to their best abilities. What I mean to say is, reaction to London Town or Mind Games isn't the same as , the best album since All Things Must Pass, when the watermark SET by All Things Must Pass is so high. Maybe some would say its overrated. But how can the most underrated composer, in the most overrated band, have an overrated album. Shouldn't it make him come out about 'even'? Or just right?
Well, that's the ''ironic'' stuff done.
The remastered ''George Harrison'' was a long time in coming, this title being off the shelves for years. Though I am not particularly fond of the remasters, I am gratefully happy that they are anywhere in the retail market at all. You have to count the blessings as they come, and Olivia Harrison's involvement in getting these back out there will never be slighted by me. Though I was disappointed by the sound quality (particularly Thirty Three & 1/3rd), I still say not enough of the world owns a George Harrison album in their collection, so please start somewhere. Anywhere. Even here.
There are some beautiful pieces of music on this album, remastered or not. And I think there is material on here that rivals his ''best'' work with The Beatles. One being, 'Your Love Is Forever', which could have been 1979's 'Something'. It's a beautiful song, and the craftsmanship of the guitar work is sublime. Harrison's chord construction leaves his partners behind, I mean, he ''was'' their guitarist. This album also features a beautiful spanish guitar solo on ''Dark Sweet Lady'', dedicated to his wife Olivia. The playing is understated, simple, but full of how great a guitar player he was, even though he'd probably disagree. I've seen guitar solos played by a lot of people, and its very rare that someone gets a George Harrison guitar solo 'right'. It was probably his few years of training with Ravi Shankar on Sitar (he was the only Beatle who could write and read music -- Indian Music) that got some of the unusual bends and pulls he coaxed out of his solos.
I remember getting this album on vinyl when it came out, and it still sounds great in whatever format you so choose. You can't really mess up this album too much, because Harrison's albums were recorded very well, mainly by his longtime associate Phil McDonald (he engineered every Harrison solo album from ATMP until Gone Troppo, or in some capacity), and when you compare the sound quality of Harrison's 70's output to his partners (Lennon & McCartney), the differences are quite amazing. (One exception is Paul McCartney's Back To The Egg, but this was engineered by Phil McDonald! Though RAM sounds very good.) Ringo's albums have the same recording quality, near perfect.
This has always been one of my favourites of George's albums. Each song is crafted meticulously, lyrically it is as upbeat as one can be when mentioning the forces of Yin and Yang. It resurrects the criminally 'not used' Not Guilty from 1968, in a far jazzier tone, and no matter what anyone says about Harrison's vocal range, he meant what he sang, and has a far more emotive quality than someone singing goo goo g'joob. Repeatedly. ;)
The extra tracks could have been numerous, but what we're offered here is a delightful demo version of Here Comes The Moon, nearly identical to its finished form, and that's some of the best Harrison recordings right there. His simple acoustic demos should be out there for everyone to hear, particularly material like this, and the All Things Must Pass demos in some other form than bootlegged.
Please buy a George Harrison album today. Or tomorrow.
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More from George Harrison
 Brainwashed |  The Concert for Bangladesh |  Living in the Material World |
 Cloud Nine |  Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 |  The Concert for Bangladesh DVD |
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