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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #40 on: June 27, 2007, 02:38:29 PM »

My favourite album is All Things Must Pass but Brainwashed is a great work too.I do not why somebody has voted for it.
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #41 on: June 27, 2007, 02:45:11 PM »

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My favourite album is All Things Must Pass but Brainwashed is a great work too.I do not why somebody has voted for it.

someone didn't like it
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #42 on: June 27, 2007, 02:46:09 PM »

My fav George album's are 33 & 3rd, George Harrison, Cloud 9 & Brainwashed.
I love the songs on All Things Must Pass but not the overall echo sound on it &
the Apple Jam really lets it down for me.
I loved Brainwashed from the 1st listen & it was a very important album in a period
in my life when it came out.
Electronic Music is quite a awful album, has anyone mentioned this?  :-/
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #43 on: June 27, 2007, 02:51:03 PM »

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someone didn't like it
Yes heheheh but someone thinks that it is George's worst album and that it is the strangest thing.

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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #44 on: July 02, 2007, 10:55:47 AM »

heheheh why? everyone's entitled to their own taste, right? just because a majority of people think it is great, is it strange someone else is thinking a different way? a wise man once said: don't follow leaders. and: think for yourself.
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #45 on: October 08, 2007, 06:22:20 PM »

33 1/3 and george harrison each getting a vote. hard to fathom that. I think theyre the best two outside of all things must pass

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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #46 on: October 24, 2007, 09:41:40 AM »

Wow, am I the only one here who likes 33 & 1/3?
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« Reply #47 on: October 25, 2007, 12:41:17 AM »

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Wow, am I the only one here who likes 33 & 1/3?

No, 33 & 3rd is my fav George album!!!
such an underated album, some of his best guitar
playing is on this album! ;)

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« Reply #48 on: October 25, 2007, 02:16:59 AM »

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No, 33 & 3rd is my fav George album!!!
such an underated album, some of his best guitar
playing is on this album! ;)


I like it too.

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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #49 on: October 27, 2007, 10:07:09 PM »

Extra Texture
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #50 on: March 18, 2008, 03:14:27 AM »

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Wow, am I the only one here who likes 33 & 1/3?

It's my favorite George album after ATMP.
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #51 on: April 04, 2008, 02:17:46 PM »

mine too

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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #52 on: April 19, 2008, 07:38:07 PM »

I have only 3 albums of George - C9, ATMP & Brainwashed. 3 masterpieces.
According to All Music Guide his worst album is "Gone Troppo". It received 1 of 5 stars! (afraid4). Is really that bad?
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #53 on: April 19, 2008, 11:37:20 PM »

I need to start listening to his solo stuff.
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #54 on: April 20, 2008, 03:37:53 AM »

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According to All Music Guide his worst album is "Gone Troppo". It received 1 of 5 stars! (afraid4). Is really that bad?

It's not a great record, but I suspect much of the critical disdain for it comes from the fact that George used a lot of synthesizers on some of the tracks. Synths were popular in the early eighties, but "rock" critics often loathed them. I think "That's The Way It Goes" is a good song, and "Gone Troppo" is an okay novelty song that after all came from the guy who used to sing "Three Cool Cats" with The Beatles. The album also has "Circles," a song George first demo'd for The Beatles in 1968. I used to play this with Pete Townsend's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, which came out at about the same time. :)
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #55 on: April 20, 2008, 03:40:53 AM »

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All Music Guide his worst album is "Gone Troppo". It received 1 of 5 stars! (afraid4). Is really that bad?

Yes

Its on the shelf right beside my copy of 'McCartney 2'.

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« Reply #56 on: April 21, 2008, 05:55:05 AM »

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I have only 3 albums of George - C9, ATMP & Brainwashed. 3 masterpieces.
According to All Music Guide his worst album is "Gone Troppo". It received 1 of 5 stars! (afraid4). Is really that bad?
listen to the mystical one, it's very beautiful,   dream away was from the movie, time bandits, it's actually preety good too.
with each listen, it grows on you, actually it's one of my favorites, but I love them all.
It is the least favorite of George fans, but it's far from being bad.


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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #57 on: April 21, 2008, 03:26:52 PM »

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I suspect much of the critical disdain for it comes from the fact that George used a lot of synthesizers on some of the tracks.
Thanks for explaining that, Geoff. I was mystified why this album got such lousy reviews when it is so much fun!

"That's The Way It Goes" gets you in the mood for a holiday, and "I Really Love You" gets you in the mood for silly. Now we can relax on our little traveling ship as we pass "Greece" and find we've "Gone Troppo", which is so much fun that George has to give a shout of glee at the end of it, which never fails to crack me up.

Frankly, I think the album holds together very well and I enjoy playing it more than, say, Dark Horse or Extra Texture. I also enjoy "Circles" and "Mystical One". His playful "Dream Away" should have been released to support the highly successful Time Bandits. If George had done so, I'm sure the single would have charted high. Somebody was asleep on the marketing switch over that one.

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According to All Music Guide his worst album is "Gone Troppo". It received 1 of 5 stars! (afraid4). Is really that bad?
Notice also that they gave Electronic Sound 4 stars. Critics have their own way of viewing the world.
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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #58 on: April 21, 2008, 03:39:20 PM »

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Notice also that they gave Electronic Sound 4 stars. Critics have their own way of viewing the world.

Being a critic is like being a weather forecaster: nobody even notices when you're absurdly wrong; it's expected. ;)

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Re: George's Worst Album
« Reply #59 on: May 13, 2008, 07:40:57 AM »

Of the albums I've heard, "Living In The Material World" is the worst.  It bores me to tears.  

Not that "33 & 1/3" or "Extra Texture" are masterpieces; except for George's voice they sound pretty much like everything else that came out in the mid/late 70's.  But while they're not unique, they don't put me to sleep the way "Material World" does.

And I've never liked "Got My Mind Set On You"; ugh.  I get queasy just thinking about it.
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