Let It Roll: The Songs of George Harrison
Artist(s):
George Harrison
Binding: Audio CD
Format(s): Best of, Original recording remastered
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Track Listing
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]
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]
15.
Blow Away
16.
Cheer Down
17.
Here Comes The Sun [Live]
18.
I Don't Want To Do It
19.
Isn't It A Pity
Customer Reviews
Digital by George!
This is a digitally remastered collection. The mixes will sound good ripped to Itunes, in your car, or played through a home entertainment system. They are bouncy and full sounding, but are often remixed and of course have that digital sheen, which may be less pleasing to the original vinyl album and 45's fans.
The live tracks are not essential listening though they do provide a way to reference some of George's better know Beatle classics. There are quite a few more recent tracks. The early solo period is basically not that well represented except for the most obvious hits. The middle period is often all but missing. The last Dark Horse Best Of cd provided a much more esoteric collection. You've heard this all before. All Things Must Pass, and perhaps Living In The Material World would seemingly remain essential purchases. While you are at it grab a copy of Cloud 9 too. Perhaps a part two disc might better address these shortcomings for the casual fan.
I'm glad to have this disc to supplement my original vinyl and needle-drop collections but I wish they'd re-release the original 45 single mixes of some of these songs. The original My Sweet Lord single mix is a must have that is all but lost on the official Harrison cd discs.
Otherwise this is a decent enough Harrison quick fix. Bring on more!
Hautement George
This compilation is a work of love: you couldn't hope for a tighter album, one that mirrors what Harrison felt, thought, knew about music. Plenty of smiles here. No one else combined pop, that is to say gooey, chewy pop music with musical purity the way George Harrison did. The remastering shows off the songs and musicianship, but especially it lifts George's voice out of the mix. He sang with real feeling, and now we get it all.
Let it Roll somemore
Overall a very enjoyable CD with a fairly varied selcetion of songs from different periods of Georges career from the Beatles thru All Things Must Pass to his last CD. There are a few songs missing from this collection such as Sue you Sue me Blues.
It's about time!
This is the George Harrison compilation that I've been waiting for. It combines the best of George's post-Beatles releases, as well as his Wilbury-era best. If you don't intend to buy everything "the quiet Beatle" ever recorded, this is by far the best single-disc available. Having 19 tracks certainly helps, and the extensive booklet adds to a very appealing package.
D.S. Martin
Who chose these songs?
Any greatest hits collection, for an artist that has more than two or three anyway, is going to contain some questionable selections and omissions. This compilation is no exception. Having said that, here is my main objection to this package. Including Beatles' songs might have made sense in 1976; it does not, in 2009, unless the package was larger (2 or 3 discs). One cannot imagine Lennon or McCartney receiving similar treatment and, if Harrison's chroniclers want him to be perceived as their near-equal, they have done him a disservice here. Secondly, the inclusion of these songs means that there is no room for some of Harrison's later work or the brilliant "Handle Me With Care" from the Traveling Wilburys. So I guess we will have to wait for the next version of The Best of George and hope that the record company gets it right.
