All Things Must Pass

En fjärdedel av Beatles kan ju inte vara dåligt.

I've been getting a lot of records lately that I couldn't possibly be biased on. This is one of my dad's favorites, so much so that I have quite a few memories of listening to this in the car when the remaster came out. It's a solid record, very spiritual, with a huge cast of fantastic backing musicians. "Epic" is probably a strong word but it's what I'd use to describe the scope. Maybe somewhere on the same level as "Pet Sounds", just not as well remembered. Could it have done with some trimming? Sure. But man, it's a solid record even without that. Favorite tracks: "All Things Must Pass", "Wah-Wah", "My Sweet Lord", "I Dig Love"

Timeless

excelente, direito a bluezao jam no fim

ххххмммммммммм май лорд оо маайй лорд эээ два часа оке .....

It always astounds me when an album this damn long can be this damn good. I think this now sits firmly as my favorite post-Fab Four Beatle album.

A beast of an album. I actually think it is a bit much all together, but the sounds throughout firmly earn it a 5.

I could be given a 3 second glimpse at the album cover from 5 meters away and be able to name the album, but I don't remember ever listening to the whole album or even an entire side. My loss. This is a very good album with contributions from Rock and Roll's royalty and production by Mr. Wall of Sound before he became Mr. Fuckhead. Well, perhaps he was already Mr. Fuckhead, but he was not yet the gun slinging murdering Mr. Fuckhead. I can't talk about all the songs but will mention a few: My Sweet Lord is a classic and the nod to the hare krishnas wasn't a minute to late for the most ridiculed religion of the day. Yeah people still shook their heads and sighed when they would see them but at least they had the validation from this wonderful song. Wah-wah is also quite good although I admit I have a thing for songs written to torture Paul. Happy Birthday Johnny. I didn't know that song. It's only a month until my birthday. Timing is everything. Three albums worth huh. Most of his compositions were dismissed by John and Paul for so many years, I guess once the seal was broken, there were a lot to pour out.

The first batch of songs start with eclectic guitar intros, acoustic electric and slide. It's certainly an album for guitar lovers with both Harrison and Clapton sharing duties. My Sweet Lord is a colossal hit with it's recognizable silky slide guitar and spiritual theme. It brings back fond memories of the days when such a song could get high rotation on the radio. I know he lost the plagiarism lawsuit to Bobby Mack but that was because him being a Beatle made it a circus.

Harrison's music is just less joyful and fun compared to Lennon and McCartney. His songs come of as being whiney to me. Isn't it a pity is probably the best song on this overlong album but some songs, particularly Wah Wah are just plain annoying.

This is the correct answer to the desert island disc question

Chocolate Harrison is my favorite Beatle. I'm glad he love jeep as much as I love him. If we could do half stars I'd knock half a star off because this album is way too long. But I'm not going to shortchange Georgie Porgie

Beatles but more folk like. Should be cut in half 2 hours is too damn long

Surprisingly engagnig

1 good song

All things must pass, but some take a bloody long time to.

like kidney stones

tää levy sai mut huomaamaan, että Georgehan laulaa Beatlesissa tosi paljon ja taitaa olla mun lempi-beatle. isot biisit, isot raamit, mutta esittää pientä. onneksi ei yhtään sievää. herättää vähän mielenkiintoa, mutta ei soittolistalle asti. ehkä?

Paljon kauniita ääniä ja melodioita, jotka kuitenkin sekoittuvat yhdeksi, keskitempoiseksi, vivahdeettomaksi Spector-mössöksi. Joka ei muuten lopu koskaan.

This is very easy to listen to. It makes me think and I can feel it in my heart. It isn't something I would typically listen to, but I like it and I'm glad I listened. I haven't listened to much of the Beatles' work, but this makes me interested in listening to more. The last few tracks are very long.

If this wasn't an Ex Beatle I feel this would have no where the recognition it has. Mostly super boring "My Sweet Lord" was OK, the rest I just found dull to get through. 1.6

This was recommended to me by an acquaintance a while back, and I only got to it relatively recently for the first time. On second listen, much of the middle recedes, even under the modern mixing regime. But when Isn't It A Pity arrives a second time, dark and wobbly below Harrison's voice, the record has me again. The last disc even works as a kind of explosion of the material just heard. Wonderful pop just on the right side of "out there".

Unusually long album. Generally great songs with some misses in the mix

Seems a bit ironic, that Harrison's first album after The Beatles seems to harken back to some of the earliest and least interesting work of The Beatles. This is not a bad album. It's just very far from being an interesting album.

HL: “Frankie Crisp”, the title track, “My Sweet Lord”, “If Not For You”, “What is Life”, “Awaiting on You All” Shame that All Things Must Pass is classified as a triple album, and not a double + bonus record. Would help with expectations. Well, I love this album to bits. Definitely not first listen but some songs (Apple Scruffs, Art of Dying in particular) stuck out today, where in the past they’d be overlooked for the classics.

4.5 stars. A great solo debut by my favorite Beatle

my sweet lord is completely overrated, there are songs that are far better on this album. best song “isn’t it a pity”, worst is “my sweet lord”.

Amazing album. Shows Harrison was a powerhouse that helped propel the Beatles become legends.

top 5 best albums ever made

Fantastic of course.

3.5 maybe, I like it better than a lot of the beatles

My sweet lord, lidt langt album, men sangskrivningen og guitaren fejler intet

I could listen to this album every day. And every day would be better for it.

Pretty middle of the road for me, buoyed by the genre diversity on display.

Should have been a double album. I dropped a star for all the songs that could have been left at Demo stage (I'm looking at you, "It's Johnny's Birthday").

Loistava. Suosikkeja: My Sweet Lord, Let It Down, Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll), Awaiting On You All, I Dig Love, Art Of Dying, Hear Me Lord

Favorite Songs: I'd Have you Anytime, My Sweet Lord Did not know that George Harrison was the lead guitarist for the Beatles. I can hear some inspiration from it.

Outside of having an all-timer of a single this is very fillerish. The charm of Harrison’s fab five days isn’t there. The new direction of this doesn’t hit quite as well as it should. Overall a very meh entry in the post-Beatles catalogue of one of its members.

Can't believe some of the scores here... The 'Apple Jam' tracks are a novelty bonus, and I'm not considering them in my score. The main album is 18 tracks and 76 minutes of quality tunage. No question that it's five stars from me.

I want to give it 5 stars. It's mostly a hugely enjoyable album, filled with genuinely great tracks. I can't quite give it 5 stars just due to how long it is, plus the awful track reordering in the remastered versions.

Wah Wah is an amazing song!

Nice album, very slow, little bit cheesy

The little ode to Johnny B Goode on "Thanks for the Pepperoni" was a nice surprise.

CLASSIC GEORGE BEST BEATLE BANGER AFTER BANGER Even Pitchfork gave this a 9/10 Awaiting On You All

um dos meus álbuns preferidos

Context is everything when it comes to this album; George had been pushed aside creatively during his time with the Beatles and wrote a massive amount of music from 1966 to their ultimate disbanding in 1970. All that writing led to this triple LP punch showcasing what George is truly capable of as a songwriter. But as with the Beatles (and by extension its individual members), what else can be said that hasn't already? I guess it’s simply this; it’s amazing to hear George in full on his own. Any Beatles track he had credit on was always a treat (While My Guitar Gently Weeps or I Me Mine for example) so it’s incredible to hear him, no strings attached. The instrumental tracks on the Apple Jam disc showcase his guitar skills unlike anything else prior to me; plus he brings in an incredible list of studio musicians to jam with. Since it’s a long album, here are two of my top song picks. “Behind That Locked Door” just stuck with me even after playing the rest of the album; the slide guitar gracefully glides between the organ and George’s dubbed harmonies. It all makes for a sweet and easy listening experience. For my other pick I have to go for one of the jams; “Plug Me In” is such a fun honky-tonk/rockabilly jam session with Eric Clapton jumping in for a solo…or two. Honorable mention to “Let It Down;” it opens on a hard hitting wall of sound that transitions to a calming verse, it’s a really interesting dichotomy when listening.

Great album! Love George Harrison. Stand out tracks are 'My Sweet Lord', 'What Is Life', 'If Not For You'. Liked the (Apple) Jam sessions as well. 5/5

listened to again possibly Harrison's greatest work

Some really fantastic songs on this album

Aw I just recently listened to this and I really really love it. Love u George-y <3 hate u Yoko

good album

-S Tier- ***n/a*** -A Tier- My Sweet Lord What Is Life Let It Down -B Tier- Behind That Locked Door Run of the Mill I Dig Love -C Tier- I’d Have You Anytime Wah-Wah Isn’t It a Pity If Not For You I Live for You -D Tier- Beware of Darkness Apple Scruffs Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp -F Tier- Awaiting on You All AVG SCORE: DNF - - - Come on, George. Two fucking hours? Not on your life, Buddy. A few solid songs on this as far as I could tell. I bailed about 2/3rds through it. George was always the Boring Beatle, and this album is appropriately sedate. Still, not a miserable listen. I could easily queue this up on a car ride and let it accompany me for a 2hr trip. I wouldn’t notice it very often, to be fair.

Some killer, a lot of filler, especially sides 5 and 6 which are largely superfluous to needs and not overly memorable. So, we end up with a decent triple album, that could’ve been an excellent double album instead.

Best lekker om even te luisteren. Ik heb het album wel niet helemaal gered...

Prachtig, maar er komt geen einde aan, beetje jammer voor met een voorkeur voor 30 minuten albums zoals ik.

Prachtige nummers staan er op dit album! Harrison trekt zijn enorme groei als songwriter in de laatste Beatles-jaren lekker door op deze plaat. Staan wel teveel vullers op, en had hij er voorgekozen om er 1 album van te maken dan was het denk ik nog veel sterker.

‘What is life’ is een van mijn favoriete nummers ooit. Mooie plaat, wel een beetje lang :)

A triple album? How am I supposed to keep up with this pace with 2hrs of music to get through?! Just kidding, though I am subtracting a star for the inclusion of the long jam-my tracks at the end. And I’m adding a star for being directly responsible for the formation of Derek and the Dominoes. That’s a rule of cool. Summary? 4 stars. Some really dense musical bits in this and you can see how Harrison simply wanted to show that he wasn’t “the 3rd Beatle”. Also, I love the dig at the Beatles with the album cover photograph.

If you think about what this record is, it's all the songs Harrison wrote between roughly 68 and 70 that John and Paul didn't think were good enough to put on a Beatles record. "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun" were good enough. So was "I Me Mine" (yeesh). So basically what you're listening to is a dump of B-sides that weren't quite as strong as "I Me Mine". And it sounds like it. Harrison's solo material is missing a couple of the really critical things that makes the Beatles CDs work. One is that they have two exceptionally talented lead singers, neither of whom is George. Another is their incredible production - Harrison uses some instrumental diversity here, but generally the sound is kind of monotonous, and nowhere near as creative as peak Beatles. And last is their relentless, infectious optimism - the Beatles records are so joyous and fun that little children instinctively sing along with them, even if they've never heard rock and roll before. But this record is generally a downer, and aside from being less fun to listen to as a result, that also puts it into an extremely competitive bracket (early 70s downer rock music being some of the best ever made). I don't even think it holds up on its own merits, but certainly not relative to contemporaries. There are some nice songs here, generally the more upbeat ones. "Wah-Wah", "What is Life" and "The Art of Dying" are all fun, if a little unremarkable. But some of the other hits like "My Sweet Lord" and "Isn't It a Pity" are just whiny and slow - for whatever reason Harrison must've liked "Isn't It A Pity", it appears on the record twice, despite being one of the weaker tracks. And the whole thing is really chock full of filler and waaay too long - this album took me two days to get through. That plodding feeling is exacerbated by the fact that a lot of the songs themselves are long and slow. "Beware of Darkness" kicks off the 2nd CD at a rollicking 65 bpm clip - many of the others are in that neighborhood. The wheels just totally come off towards the end ("Johnny's Birthday"? Alternate versions of "Isn't It a Pity" and borderline of "My Sweet Lord"?? Four consecutive 12-bar blues instrumentals???). Harrison employs some nice harmonic tricks on a lot of these songs, but he doesn't do much creatively with the production, and the pacing, moodiness and his own weak voice kind of drag it down.

If someone put this on, I wouldn't turn it off.

George Harrison of the Beatles. Nice "My sweet lord".

Je connaissais l'album mais je n'avais jamais prit le temps de l'écouter au complet. 2h5 c'est un peu long pour une seule écoute donc je ne m'y était jamais attardé. Les albums post beatles de John (Plastic Ono band, Imagine) et Paul (McCartney, Ram) sont tous les deux des chef d'oeuvre et celui-ci n'a pas à en rougir car il est dans la même classe. 5

Some mildly good stuff on here. The instrumental was way too long, though.

Good

I can appreciate it for what it is, none of the songs are bad or irritating, but nothing is really standing out to me as especially interesting either (Wah-Wah came close). It sounds like the music that you'd hear playing playing quietly in the background on an old radio in the garage/shop of a 60+ year old man who's going bald but still has a pony tail, and he's wearing a vest, but not ironically. It might also be playing in the background at a quirky antique shop.

There are some songs I really enjoy on this album, but also some that can be a bit dreary, and some is a bit dated for my age. Overall a classic album with plenty of foot tapping tunes, style changes making it a bit of a journey.

This was my first one, so I guess it was a strong start. I get it. I really have a historical appreciation for all of the Hare Krishna stuff that this is packed with now that I've heard it in its entirety.

Did not know he was in the Beatles, felt culty

Sí es un gran disco aunque soy el más fan. I'd Have You Anytime, Wah-Wah, What Is Life son las que más me gustaron. Me tardé como dos o tres vueltas en darme cuenta cuál era mi problema y es su voz. Por extraño que se lea, me provoca sensación de estar atrapado, no sé explicarlo de otra forma. Entiendo que no es el fuerte y no debería importarme pero siento que nunca explota realmente, o al menos la mayor parte del tiempo, lo cual evita que lo disfrute a plenitud.

Un disco genial cuyo único pecado es ser muy largo para los estándares actuales, pero que es por la obvia cantidad de cosas que Harrison traía en el tintero de años atrás y que no había podido sacar. De mis rolas favoritas de George, este disco trae casi todas, sin ser un disco de éxitos. Let It Roll, All Things Must Pass, Isn't It A Pitty y I'd Have You Anytime son muestra de lo gran músico y letrista que era.

Wonderful listen, not a single song skipped. Great features from Clapton, Billy Preston and more. Really enjoyed listening to the whole thing front to back.

man. how can you follow up a timeless song like My Sweet Lord with the song Wah-Wah? & this is album is 2 hours long? The late 60s/early 70s were a crazy time. Overall this album is very easy to listen to even with the long run time with some great songs mixed in with solid others. I really enjoyed the whole thing.

Such a lovely album. What is life is such an incredible song.

Released a year after the Beatles’ break up, this album shows just how much songwriting George Harrison was doing. His music oscillates between the more guitar driven and even jam based stuff and the more contemplative Dylan and country influences music. Harrison focuses much of his lyrics on his faith and one can’t help but feel his sincere devotion to it. Production wise, this might be Phil Spector’s finest work. The songs feel big and inhabited by a lush and full instrumentation. This is a triple album and is exceptionally long. The final few tracks are more jam based and being to tax the listener a bit. However, this album is just too good, especially in the wake of a career as a Beatle, not to give it five stars.

09/16/2022 So…..I loved this abmlbun amas as a teenager and Im also drjnk…..awarding on your all is iconic

Some really good songs but way too fucking long

Great album that I have 2 relatively small issues with that are tied together. First is that the jam session at the end of this triple album is alright but nothing overall spectacular. And the second is the fact that it's a triple album and it's absolutely too long. There are some truly amazing songs here but I don't think I'm going to come back to this record frequently purely because of its length.

57/100: There are two pretty good reasons why most artist don’t throw 11 minute long instrumentals on their albums: few artists wants to slot away a fifth of their album to one song with no lyrics and if you’re instrumental is going to be 11 minutes long, it’s got to be really fucking good, which is hard to do. Well George Harrison found a nifty loophole to avoid that first reason—just make your album 2 hours long so the monstrosity of an instrumental only takes up a tenth of your album. Unfortunately, he found no such loop hole for the second reason. “Out of the Blue” would be a good 4 minute long song, maybe even 5 minutes. But to force listeners to listen to that track for 11 minutes is the most blatant masturbatory stroke of an artist’s own ego I’ve ever seen. Actually, no I take that back. Having a second, 7 minute long instrumental on top of an 11 minute instrumental objectively beats that. Well, actually, throwing two versions of the same song on your album might trump that. Come to think of it, nevermind. Pumping out a 2 hour long triple album takes the cake. We get it, George. You had something to prove because Paul and John were mean to you. One album would have sufficed. Keep “What is Life,” “If Not For You” (a Bob Dylan cover anyway, albeit a nice one), “All Things Must Pass,” “Art of Dying,” just one version of “Isn’t it a Pity,” “Hear Me Lord,” and cut “Out of the Blue” in half then get rid of literally everything else. You’d have yourself a pretty damn good album then. I can’t in good conscience call this album as is a good album though, and I really wanted the plot line of George Harrison, the mistreated musical genius of the Beatles, to be true. Based on this album, it seems like George was treated by the Beatles about as well as he should have been. There are some seriously shocking production decisions on this album, namely in that it appears George Harrison takes so much pride in all of his works that he feels they all are good enough to make an album’s final cut. Just imagine how he’d react when Paul or John told him to ditch a song idea. I mean how dare they insult his musical talent, don’t they know every song he writes is golden? In fact, he has so many golden songs, he should make a 2 hour long triple album, that’s a great idea.

This was a surprise, what a great album!

A tale of two albums. The first - two disks of roughly 90 minutes of demo material (i.e. songs that weren't good enough for John and Paul, but in actuality would have been improvements over some of the dribble and filler they routinely pushed out) on which George mostly tries to recreate the sound and success of either "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" or "Something". 3 Stars because at times he makes you feel like he just might pull it off. The second (titled Apple Jam) - roughly 30 minutes of bluesy acoustic studio jamming and a truly annoying birthday song. If the first album is full of b-sides, than these are equivalent to f sides. 1 star deducted. Overall, very listenable but hard to make a case for essential.

I'll admit my foot was tapping to the beat for most of the album, but I was also eye-rolling and waiting for most songs to end well before they were over. Sorry Beatles fans, I've let you down once again. This album is just so tame, domestic, slow, and self-indulgent. Ol' George's vocals are often lost in the mix of the track as well. It has almost none of the things that I like in music.

Pleasant to listen, will definitely revisit. While the songs work very well and at no point was I bored I am not sure it works well as an album composition though.

There's some great stuff in here. Could do with some editing for a fantastic album. I give it a 3 with an easy 4 or 5 with some editing.

Liked it, Saylor said it is sleepy music..

Enjoyed this album. I do prefer my Beatles together but still enjoyable, except one song, It's Johnny's Birthday, I think that song is going to haunt my dreams.

This album is an absolute masterclass. I didn’t know I was a big George Harrison fan until today. Any album that has this much material is bound to have filler and it did but there’s so much to like here. No album should be 2 hours long though. That’s absurd.

I’ve heard George Harrison was the best songwriter from the Beatles. Although saying that, the only song I know he wrote for them was Here Comes The Sun. Songs I already know: My Sweet Lord Favourite after listening: Apple Scruffs Overall: 9/10. Was nearly a 10/10 but the last few songs were annoying stoner jamming Some songs make me wants to join a hippy drum circle. Other songs make me want to take my clothes off and dance.

Pleasantly there

Sunrise doesn't last all morning...

I love the Beatles but I had never listened to this mainly because I thought it would all sound like My Sweet Lord. Thankfully it does not. George wrote some strong and thoughtful tracks and the musicians he surrounded himself with are excellent. Even the Bob Dylan song is a good one!

George was writing most of these songs through the years as a Beatle, but they weren't up to the "quality" of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting duo to be Beatle songs. And for the most part, John and Paul were right. There are some all-time great songs in the 2 hours of tracks here, but the album as a whole is not the best. It's as if George couldn't make up his mind on what to include. That being said, Beware of Darkness is one of my most favorite songs and that alone makes this album a 4/5 for me. Be patient with this one, it will reward you by Side Three.

For some reason, there's a new video for My Sweet Lord. Don't really know why, but it does seem cool, 20 years after he passed away. The album is nice and mellow. The aforementioned song is beautiful.

Certainly better than average pop songs, but they are good not great. My Sweet Lord is the best, and i was surprised by If Not For You, which i only knew as an ONJ song. Surprised to find it came from here. Good.

Interesting mix of happy-go-lucky and faster rock. Definitely a go to style of mine

Some great songs. Some shit ones. 2.5 stars.

Superb.

Not bad

There’s probably a 4 or 5 star album buried in here but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna spend another 2 hours trying to find it. A more selective approach might’ve resulted in a shorter, better album. All things must pass quality control

Outstanding!

George!

Certaines chansons sont très cool, l'ambiance générale est bien mais c'est BEAUCOUP trop long !!!

3.9

3/5

this album is such a fucking VIBE