The Grumpy One's Shining Hour

"I am just a garden gnome on the lawn of life."

 

George Harrison's first album is not only the finest work by a solo Beetle, a bar not as high as some would argue, it's an astonishing album by any standard. Ignoring the perhaps over-generous third disc of jamming, there's not a bad track on it. Nor an even ordinary one.

It was unaffordable for many on release, me included, but I picked it up second-hand soon after. The thing is, and hear me out, I don't remember anyone whining about Phil Spector's production back then. It was a massive album, and sounded that way. The kind of massive that wouldn't be heard again until Born To Run. You weren't meant to hear individual instruments in clinical separation, you were meant to be overwhelmed. And everyone was.

The Grumpy One said "I didn't have many tunes on Beatles records, so doing an album like All Things Must Pass was like going to the bathroom and letting it out" And it was good shit. 

So why and wherefore is this appearing on th' IoF©? Because this is the original vinyl mix, which is strangely hard to find these days. Not only that, it's pbthal's needledrop (if you know, you know). Not only that, I am rendering a pubic cervix by making it available in flac - no, really, its should be out there - and the Baby Jesus Bitrate of @192, for th' jes' plain folks out there sudge as like I. Om shanti, bitches!

 

This post made plausible thru a nice cup of homegrown cannabis tea this morning, as I watch the cranes - they're birds, ya doofus - feeding in the pool behind my house, with the ecstatic What Is My Life blasting from my cheap-ass speakers. Life is swell, and I hope yours is too.