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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Box 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
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ASIN: B0001ADB8C Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Woman Don't You Cry for Me
- Dear One
- Beautiful Girl
- This Song
- See Youself
- It's What You Value
- True Love
- Pure Smokey
- Crackerbox Palace
- Learning How to Love You
- Tears of the World
Tracks:
- 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)
Tracks:
- Blood from a Clone
- Unconsciousness Rules
- Life Itself
- All Those Years Ago
- Baltimore Oriole
- Teardrops
- That Which I Have Lost
- Writing's on the Wall
- Hong Kong Blues
- Save the World
- Save the World (Demo Version)
Tracks:
- Wake Up My Love
- That's the Way It Goes
- I Really Love You
- Greece (Instrumental)
- Gone Troppo
- Mystical One
- Unknown Delight
- Baby Don't Run Away
- Dream Away
- Circles
- Mystical One (Demo Version)
Tracks:
- 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)
Tracks:
- 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)
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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 McCulleyAmazon.com
Box 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
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George Harrison: The Pilgrim.......2006-08-10
The Dark Horse Years is a great way to find out who George was within his music. Honestly, much of this music is plagued with an 80's sound...but that doesn't, for me at least, negate the songs lyrically or musically. In spite the 80's sound, George Harrison's rarely acknowleged talent comes bursting through on every song. "Gone Troppo" is my favorite of the albums within this set. George sounds like he feels good on this album. You can hear it. All other albums in this set are very enjoyable. The videos are good,too, and you get to hear George discuss how some of his songs came about.
The "Live in Japan" cd is excellent and fresh. Eric Clapton and George Harrison are a truly powerful duo. You also get to witness some of this on the video.
If you are a die-hard Beatle fan, The Dark Horse Years is for you. Ringo is on many songs, too.
One of the best things about this set of music is that it is the actual albums for these years. Songs are presented on each album in the order they were originally meant to be heard or in the order we are used to hearing them. Why aren't more artist compilations like this?
2 other albums that are essential to round out the George Harrison collection: "All Things Must Pass" and "Living In a Material World."
A Long Time Coming...........2006-08-05
It seems as if nothing else in the world can bind 7 continents of peeps, except music, and so Mr. Harrison actually lives, lives on through his music, most of which I actually heard for the first time.
In 1974, I walked away from Harrison's music. I didn't get it. Now I do, and the only thing wrong with Harrison (tongue in cheek) is that he was way to old when he was so young. Perhaps we have all caught up with him now, and so now we have Amazon to provide us with Harrison's treasure chest of gems, spanning the years of his musical journey. This collection is a jewel in the crown of a musician who unfortunately left us too soon. With the Dark Horse Years collection, every time we play the music, George is very much here with us....
RIP, Our Sweet George.
From the Blonde Rocker.
Light of the Dark-Horse Years.......2006-05-18
The last George Harrison album to be produced by EMI was Extra Texture. The first George harrison album to be produced on Dark Horse was Thirty Three and a Third, which has, like the Beatle's Revolver, multi-meanings: George's age was 33, an LP plays at 33 and 1/3 RPMs. The difference, musically, spiritually, is most significant. Extra Texture had songs that were like a funeral. Dark, life at its ebb. Suicidal. Thirty Three and a Third bursts with life from the first track. And so on until Cloud Nine. George would announce he had "retired" between each Dark Horse record. His reasoning for doing "George Harrison", for example, was that racing car drivers had asked him if he was still recording. SO he wrote "Faster" for them, and a fine, beautiful LP along with it. Love songs, old Beatle songs. It is a wonderful record.
Even Gone Troppo has a sense of lazy, sun on your face, I'm lying here on the beach of Hawaii and now let's go into the studio and do a song, eh chaps? He was doing things at HIS pace. When He wanted. Not when MR. RECORD COMPANY EXECUTIVE WANTED. Actually George had a very good relation with the president of Warner Brothers Records, who originally released all of George's Dark Horse works. He even convinced him to use recycled paper for LP covers, etc.
And it is interesting to note that, for all his complaining about The Beatles era, of all the solo Beatle record releases, George's sound most like the traditional "Beatle sound". It has to do with his guitar playing. That was the heart and soul of the "Beatle sound." Try as they may, none of the other Beatles were ever able to get a lead guitarist who could come close to measuring up to George. SO, this is what you get from The Dark Horse Years: George, doing his music, as he wanted to, without any pressure, and when he was pressured, he wrote songs like "Blood From A Clone". It is a unique set of pop music, and singularly personal.
dark horse sheds a shadow on the sun .......2005-11-12
this boxset being a wonderful edition for fans and die hard completists yeah you may have them..but i would just buy it just for the box itself..well i didn't i got it last christmas and i have no of the albums so it was a real treasure to discover some of george's high's that i'd never known about..
featuring his smash comeback album "cloud 9" which features guitar blues god eric clapton
my other favorite album is "gone troppo" i was shocked to hear this has been voted george's worst album by the critics it's a fantastic entertaining album that's one of his best and the demo version of mystical one" were you hear the rain fall is beautiful while he tries to gather paper to write the song
my other favorite album is "thirty three and a third" featuring the classic single "crackerbox palace"
"somewhere in england" and "george harrison" aren't my favorite albums but that's not to say there bad..just not my favorite but someone might love them it's just my opipion
all in all a fantastic box..from a legendary genius who's solo efforts are out-shined by the big MACCA shame really because george's done far better things than macca could ever think of,
oh yeah the dvd is excellent too with all his video's great little humourus interview comments and some great live performances
god bless you george harrison we miss you..
"all things must pass away"
the love you give is the love you make
It's a lot of bang for the buck , it's a keeper!.......2005-10-12
There are some real gems on each one of these CD's with the possible exception of "Somewhere in England" in my humble opinion. Since I never bought these when they first came out (I had only heard a few of the more well known tracks) I was most pleased with what I was listening to. It makes my wonder how some of these might well have been Beatle classics if they had been penned back at that time. But of course there's a time and a place for everything and George wrote and recorded them when he was at the appropriate stage in life and career.
The DVD is great fun. To see Mr. Harrison as a younger man having a blast in some of the videos is highly entertaining. The more mature Harrison tastefully narrates the DVD with the use of a low-key and not seen interviewer. His wit, wisdom and humor sparkle through reminding us why he has always been such a humble and endearing superstar in his own right. His post Beatle work is easily the highest quality and most rewarding of any of the Fab Four. Who knows where John Lennon would have gone? He would've been Harrison's close rival in this respect. No slighting to either Ringo or Paul in the least. Well worth the cash....
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