The cover for the new George Harrison compilation
"Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison."
(Copyright Capitol Records/EMI)
An official press release put out Tuesday with the track list for "Let It Roll: Songs By George Harrison" shows no change from the track list posted on Amazon.com that we wrote about in an earlier column.
Here's the track list from the new press release:
1. Got My Mind Set On You
2. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
3. The Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
4. My Sweet Lord
5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Live] - Concert For Bangladesh
6. All Things Must Pass
7. Any Road
8. This Is Love
9. All Those Years Ago
10. Marwa Blues
11. What Is Life
12. Rising Sun
13. When We Was Fab
14. Something [Live] - Concert For Bangladesh
15. Blow Away
16. Cheer Down
17. Here Comes The Sun [Live] - Concert For Bangladesh
18. I Don't Want To Do It
19. Isn't It A Pity
The cover art, shown at right, is also the same. The single disc, to be released June 16 (June 15 internationally), includes a 28-page booklet with previously unseen and rare photos plus new liner notes authored by Warren Zanes. The 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI's Abbey Road Studios. The release will be available in CD and digital formats.
"Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison is a gathering of material that takes us far into the territory that was ultimately a place unique to George Harrison," writes Warren Zanes in his liner notes essay for the new collection.
"The keyhole into the world of George Harrison is the music itself. Yet his songs and the accomplishments for which he's remembered are inextricably bound - and those accomplishments are, without question, eclectic in scope," Zanes says in his liner notes.
George Harrison is a twice-inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of the Beatles and as a solo artist. He is an 11-time Grammy Award winner for recordings with The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys and his solo career. On April 14, Harrison was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Comments
Wow, what a shame...
Should be interesting.
I'll still add this to my collection. I predict more Harrison releases will be coming and there should be something to tie in with the Scorsese documentary when that comes out.
Another missed opportunity will have to give this one a miss.
I'll get it for "I Don't Want To Do It". (Expensive song.) I'm just realizing I don't have the live songs either. I bought the Bangladesh DVD and not the CD. I guess I'll have to get that now. So the studio version of the song "Bangladesh" is still unavailable?
No Crackerbox Palace?
I truly hope this release sells about 10 copies and serves as a wake up call to the Harrison estate. George's fans deserve better than this botched collection, but more importantly, Harrison's musical legacy deserves better than this. All this CD does is increase the ever growing Beatles shadow that George felt suffocated by in his lifetime. It seems the powers that be are working to one day have it fully eclipse the magic of solo George Harrison.
Sorry, not impressed and will not buy. I'll wait for a 2-disc comprehensive collection.
Does anybody connected with the Harrison camp really care what fans of HIS music think?
Wow. That EMI source that said the list wasn't final is a real keeper, eh?
Seriously, not having anything from three 1970s albums in a row is ridiculous.
I'll reluctantly add it to my collection however, because I am a completist. Yes, I have most of these already, but I'll treat it like putting my IPod on shuffle.
Where's This Song, Bangla Desh, Dark Horse, Crackerbox Palace and You? Disappointing, but I'm not surprised.
Hey Steve, do you think the Harrisons could release that long-rumored archival box set on a label such as Rhino (where the Wilburys now are)??? That label GETS it as far as treating catalogs with care.
I have to concur with the commenter who mentioned the shadow of The Fabs looming quite large on this release. Not only are valuable tracks missing and Beatle-penned tracks inserted (my own exclamation is: SOMETHING over LEARNING HOW TO LOVE YOU??!), but the CD cover looks very 'White Album' to me.
The studio version of "Bangladesh" is available on "The Best of George Harrison" which unfortunately is still essential just for that one song! I was hoping the new CD would include it just to render the earlier CD redundant but nooooooo! They should have at least included "This Song" just because it wasn't on "The Best of Dark Horse" (why is that out of print!) and it made the top 30. Maybe someday they'll put out a box set which will include some rarities such as "Sat Singing", "Flying Hour," "Lay His Head" and "Mo."
Caca, That is to say lousy.Money grabbing
ripoff offering the same old songs. Except
several of the essential hits are missing.
Nothing new nothing rare, nothing here.
The gaul to say how proud they are and how
this is a career spanning overview. This
is a cash grab to pay for that seventh
vacation home!
Apparently the purpose of this single album is to give the casual fan the "best songs of George" from TODAY'S viewpoint, and not meant for someone who already has all the albums. Therefore, including all top 40 hits, a few rarities, or re-mastered tracks don't matter for this strategy.
The tracks that are missing (according to all the complainers) aren't all that good by today's standards - the studio version of "Bangla Desh" is weak compared to the live version, the studio version of "Dark Horse" sounds horrible, "You" scares off a lot of people, and "Wake Up My Love" isn't strong enough against this lineup. My guess is Dhani was involved and is embarrased for some of these songs (witness leaving off the very tacky videos for Blow Away and True Love off the Dark Horse Years DVD).
Dark Horse is probably my favorite Harrison song. I have it. I don't need another copy but leaving it off anyone's best of introduction to George collection is a very sad.
It rocks harder than anything else George ever done. I love his voice. He sounds growling mad but then a little hurt too.
I never did like You that much but it was a top ten song. This Song and Crackerbox Palace should have definitely been there.
I would have like to have seen I Don't Want to Do It. A great song I don't have.
Dream Away would have been a good song to represent Troppo. People may remember it from Time Bandits
Waking while you're still deep sleeping, Finding you're not here, Watching a dream appear.
Tumbling through a thousand centuries, You don't know where you'll land, It's so dark in mythology, Treasures of history to be found
Near the legends of time, All the handiworks remain there, Only a dream away.
In out, hot cold, up down, young old
What a lot to do
Sharing a dream with you. ....George Harrison
The single version of "Bangla Desh" is on "The Best of George Harrison," but in very poor sound quality. I'm disappointed that it's not on the new collection. Oddly enough, its B-side, "Deep Blue," is a bonus track on the 2006 reissue of "Living in the Material World."
I'm glad I kept my copy of "The Best of Dark Horse," because "Poor Little Girl" and "Cockamamie Business" are not on the new collection either.
Perhaps someday there will be a more comprehensive collection which will include "Bangla-Desh," "Lay His Head," "Sat Singing," "Flying Hour," and other rarities.
Paul also needs to do a new best-of, covering his later years, from "Spies Like Us"/"Press to Play" to "Memory Almost Full" and the present day. His hits collections basically stop after "Broad Street." "The McCartney Years" DVD has a wider career range than any of his CD hits collections.
Whoa..I blinked out for a moment. I Don't Want to Do It is on this. I buy CDs for 1 song now. Things must be going good.
I did a best of Paul set from Flamming Pie on and surprise. All the really rockin' songs were from Driving Rain.
Someone wrote that this set is for TODAY'S market? Not happening here as all of the music was created for yesterday's market and that's that. There is nothing current about the sound of "The Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp" yet it's the title track. EMI expects way too much from the Beatle world and always will. They are worth millions yet they couldn't release a thorough 2 or 3 CD set for one of the members of that band?! Sheesh! Even Ringo's best of from two years ago came with a DVD! And yes, the COMPLAINERS have every right to complain as yet again, one of the greatest singer/songwriters/musicians is being poorly represented. By the way "Bangla Desh", "This Song", "Crackerbox Palace", "You", "Dark Horse", "Ding Dong Ding Dong" were ALL TOP FORTY singles and all belong on this compilation. Does "Rising Sun" deserve a placing here? Um, no. That void should've been filled with the rare edited, sped-up version of "Flying Hour" that George Harrison intended for "Somewhere In England". So once again, George Harrison gets the shaft.
To Gary Owen, I think you might be misunderstanding what they mean when they say "today's market."
That doesn't mean rap, hip-hop, dance or whatever. It means a new generation of music fans MIGHT enjoy the Beatles remasters later this year and if so, perhaps will seek out the individual band members, too. If so, this CD will be waiting for them. Just a marketing ploy, right down to the Beatles-era cover.
Of course fans have all these songs. Expect a previously unreleased Harrison track or mix to be added to the iTunes version of this album; only downloadable if you buy the ENTIRE album. It seems to be the new way to rip off fans by the Harrison camp.
Like many other fans, I am also disappointed. I really wanted a 2CD + 1DVD set. Steve seems to be right in identifying EMI's target audience to be the casual fan and not someone who already has all the albums. But still then, I have some hopes and wishes, which I want to share with my fellow friends -
(a) I would wish the "DARK HORSE' album to be RE-ISSUED in its REMASTERED version with at least the track "I DON'T CARE ANYMORE" as a bonus one;
(b) I would wish the "EXTRA TEXTURE" album to be re-issued in its remastered version with at least the track "THE PIRATE SONG" as a bonus track;
(c) I would further wish ANTHOLOGY of George Harrison to be published along with the release of the MARTIN SCORSESE's DOCUMENTARY. This anthology can be a 4 disc set with the following outline-
DISC 1 - GEORGE - THE BEATLE;
DISC 2 - GEORGE - THE SOLO YEARS;
DISC 3 - GEORGE - THE COLLABORATOR (including collaborations with McCartney & Lennon in Quarrymen, with Clapton in Cream, with Jackie Lomax, with Radha Krishna Temple, with Dylan, with Derek & the Dominoes, with Ringo, with Lynne, with Wilburys in Traveling Wilbury, with Petty, with Lennon-Mccartney-Starkey as part of the Threetles, and finally with Dhani, and other rarities);
DISC 4 - GEORGE HARRISON LIVE (including those from Carl Perkins and Friends in Blue Suede Shoes - Rockabilly session, from The Prince’s Trust Concert, from Shanghai Surprise, from Lethal Weapon 2, from Live with Paul Simon, from Live in Japan, from Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert, from The Bunbury Tails, and others).
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