All Things Must Pass [BOXED EDITION]

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It was a long time ago since I heard this one, but due to the remastering it sounds als music from today. The man was better than many people thougt

Judging from bootlegs from this era, even minor songs that never saw the official light of day were more compelling than what would come later. Overblown at times, perhaps, but this is a sublime piece of record-making.I've been terrorizing the wife and kids for the past year with my guitar-playing around the house, and in learning the 'All Things Must Pass' songbook I have gained a new dimension of appreciation for these strange, beautiful constructions. Foolhardy at first glance--some would argue he should have rationed this A-list material out more carefully--but it was probably a good idea. He was king for a day. And so, armed with a pretty great portfolio of songs rejected by John and Paul, the quiet Beatle decides to blow his wad and release the whole damn thing in one go as a triple album. He wasn't. Still, he has Phil to thank for crafting the only sonically rewarding album in his catalog. And, as George rather grumpily suggests in his liner notes, Phil Spector's often magnificent production does, at times, steamroll over the delicate material.

It's that uncanny Beatles-coached balance of instinct and hyper-fluent attention to detail. I think it was a smart move going for broke here.That said, I've always had reservations about this album. Classic little-brother move there. George knows when to haul out the Dsus2 and the F#m7, but also knows when to keep it simple. In short, George was in the zone--a place he'd never been, and would never be again. George had an exasperating habit of keeping his sly humor out of his songs, leaving us with his rarely attractive sermons (and what a born scold he was, even before he found God--maybe that was why he could relate to Dylan). I have little patience for the George Harrison cult, those people who would have us believe that he was the equal of (or better than) John and Paul. But there is such a thing as a George Harrison Song--with its own lovely qualities, born right out of that Harrison hard-drive--and it finds its perfect moment in this very necessary, if never repeated, freedom-drunk masterpiece.

These are not embarrassing "hippie songs". I wish George had sought out George Martin or someone else in England or the US to produce this album.

What it could not do was to remove the excess strings, horns and echoes that are the hallmark of that convicted over-egoed little man with a gun: Phil Spector. The remastering improved the sound quality as far as it could go.

Unfortunately, George sought Phil Spector to (over)produce this album to a point that even George mentions in the (2001) liner notes that it makes the songs sound dated. The album is a testament of the great talent that George Harrison was, and that the McCartney-Lennon conspiracy had repressed for so long.

Imagine what the Beatles would have been had George's songs occupied the place of some really bad Beatle album fillers. Despite these obstacles, the songs are timeless, and should survive even our great grandchildren.

Highly recommended.

I really wish Harrison would have put out a remixed version of this CD before he died. He said he was tempted to remix every track. The songs are great, but the production is overdone, with way too much echo.