Tuesday, April 28, 2009

STARTING TO ROLL ALONG...


Amazon is the first show what's likely the artwork for Let It Roll: The Songs of George Harrison.

UPDATE: The track list :
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 Soundtrack) 
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 Soundtrack) 
15. Blow Away 
16. Cheer Down 
17. Here Comes The Sun (Live - Concert For Bangladesh Soundtrack) 
18. I Don't Want To Do It 
19. Isn't It A Pity

8 comments:

TrekkiELO said...

The track listing is also up @ Amazon:

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 Soundtrack)
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 Soundtrack)
15. Blow Away
16. Cheer Down
17. Here Comes The Sun (Live - Concert For Bangladesh Soundtrack)
18. I Don't Want To Do It
19. Isn't It A Pity

No Bangla Desh, Dark Horse, You, This Song, Crackerbox Palace or Wake Up My Love, if that's the actual list, this compilation sucks!

Rick

Jerry said...

I'm not sure I agree. Yes, a lot of omissions, but that's that's the way it is with most compilations. I still personally don't think there's an ELO comp that truly reflects the bands catalog yet. It may reflect their hit singles, just not their full body of work. But I digress...

They have 2 rarities on there so not everything is recycled. I'm thrilled Cheer Down is on here.

I'm trying to get a sense of the flow of this comp and I'm actually pretty pleased. Don't forget, if you're an iPod junkie like me, you can always playlist your omissions into this. Looks like they were going for 20 songs, but there are a few epics on here.

swarlock said...

To TrekkieELO: The omitted tunes do appear on the other compilations of George's albums.

If they made this a three disc CD like The Flashback one from ELO you still couldn't fit everything in there.

TrekkiELO said...

To Swarlock: Well, you obviously don't know your George Harrison compilations because This Song has never been included on any of them, not only that, but there is nothing at all from the albums Dark Horse, Extra Texture, Thirty Three & 1/3 and Gone Troppo, so for a "career spanning solo hits collection" like they are advertising, it comes up as another waste!

Rick

TrekkiELO said...

I am not the only who they disappointed, check out George Harrison.com's message boards as their outrage over those missing hits apparently made this happen just hours after Amazon put it up!

Amazon.com posts track list for new George Harrison release -- NOT final, says EMI (UPDATE)

http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d29-Track-list-revealed-for-new-George-Harrison-compilation?cid=examiner-email

UPDATE: A spokesman for Capitol/EMI told us this is not the final track list and said the final version will be released soon

Barry said...

Does anyone know whether the version of Cheer Down will be worthwhile remastering?

Jerry said...

I've been reading the comments (here and elsewhere) about the track list. Some of my adds would be:
This Song
Crackerbox Palace
Something (Live in Japan version)

I plan to playlist in:
All Things Must Pass (from the Beatles Anthology, I love that version but this is technically Beatles)
I would also make the case for his version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps from the Love soundtrack. Again though, technically Beatles.
That's The Way It Goes
Not Guilty
Faster

In any event, this is where iTunes/Amazon mp3 can step in and expand this set by a few tracks.

Looks like a lot of fans are still holding out hope this will be a 2CD set or at the very least, they'll create a 2CD Special Edition. I highly doubt it will be the case.

TrekkiELO said...

This was just posted with no link over @ http://crf2.com/showthread.php?p=869108#post869108 by LucidPR from London, so I don't know how accurate it is, but if so, why did they even bother wasting a week and a half to only confirm the same tracklist!

Rick

Hi there,
The full press release if you'd like it...

xx

GEORGE HARRISON’S FIRST-EVER CAREER-SPANNING SOLO HITS COLLECTION, ‘LET IT ROLL: SONGS BY GEORGE HARRISON,’
TO BE RELEASED JUNE 16 BY CAPITOL/EMI

Collection Features Harrison’s Solo Hits from 1970’s All Things Must Pass Through 2002’s Brainwashed, Remastered, Plus Live Recordings from 1971 Concert For Bangladesh

Hollywood, California – May 5, 2009 – Capitol/EMI confirms the tracklist for George Harrison’s first-ever career-spanning solo hits collection, Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison. To be released June 16 (June 15 internationally), the CD’s special packaging includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos, and newly-written liner notes by Warren Zanes. The collection’s 19 tracks have been digitally remastered by Giles Martin at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, and 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.

This collection is the first to span Harrison’s entire solo recording career, including the #1 Billboard Pop singles “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth),” and “Got My Mind Set On You." Let It Roll also features live recordings of three timeless Harrison-penned Beatles songs, “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and “Here Comes The Sun,” from his 1971 all-star Concert For Bangladesh benefit at Madison Square Garden.

“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 writes.

George Harrison is a twice-inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a solo artist and as a member of The Beatles, and an 11-time Grammy Award winner for his recordings with The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, and as a solo artist. On April 14, Harrison was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

http://www.georgeharrison.com

Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison (CD, digital)
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

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