Side One
I'd Have You Anytime
My Sweet Lord
Wah-Wah
Isn't It A Pity (version one)
Side Two
What Is Life
If Not For You
Behind That Locked Door
Let It Down
Run of the Mill
Side Three
Beware of Darkness
Apple Scruffs
Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
Awaiting On You All
All Things Must Pass
Side Four
I Dig Love
Art Of Dying
Isn't It A Pity (version two)
Hear Me Lord
Side Five
Out Of The Blue
It's Johnny's Birthday
Plug Me In
Side Six
I Remember Jeep
Thanks For The Pepperoni
DISCOVERY; In Mr Smith's Box along with The Concert for Bangladesh. The concert did nothing for me at all. Who were all these people? No one interesting... that's what I thought. All Things Must Pass was much more interesting but difficult to take in all in one go. I taped some of it. Already had What Is Life on a 45. Taped It's Johnny's Birthday. I really liked that one. Most of the album went over my head. It had an inescapable claustrophobic atmosphere which oddly enough kept me coming back to it. (George is the quiet Beatle after all) So there were times I just wanted to immerse in the layered gloom of the thing. I kept thinking I'd buy a copy some day... eventually I did, got the poster too. The poster was tre hippy sheik, it hung in all the best hippy pads including mine!
WHERE & WHEN; And that's my conclusion after all these years. It's a bloody gloomy cynical depressing production drenched work of art/genius that plods along under its own ambitions. It would have made a brilliant single LP especially if someone with a lick of sense had handled the production.
HIGHLIGHTS; I'd Have You Anytime - Wah-Wah - Isn't It A Pity - What Is Life - Let It Down - Beware of Darkness - Apple Scruffs - All Things Must Pass - I Dig Love - Art of Dying
STATUS; Temporary MP3 copy --- Must Have
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