Electronic Sound

Artist: George Harrison
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724385523922
EAN: 0724385523922
ASIN: B0000070RC

Release Date: 1996-12-10

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Customer Reviews:

Learning to play with a synthesizer 101.......2006-11-08

This is a compilation of a lot of synthesized sounds. I can't call George's work on this recording music. Simply experimentation, maybe happened around the other experimentation he was doing at the time of the release of this recording.
It completes a collection, but playing it is murder.

on the High side. It does give your entertainment system a good workout. Watch those tweeters and woofers for breakdown.

What Was He Thinking?.......2006-07-18

I give this only two stars, although I admit I drop it into the CD player about twice a year, if I'm home alone and doing something idle around the house. It does make some good, even relaxing background noise, and if you don't have to sing along to CDs that you are listening to, before you know it, it's over.

But, really, what was going on back in the late 60s with this stuff? We have the three John and Yoko albums, Revolution 9, and now this. I don't know why I continue to listen to it, but I do. I'll address John and Yoko elsewhere, and before moving on to my brief review of this one, I should also say that, as a Chicago fan, the same thing happens with Free Form Guitar on CTA, and Free Country on Chicago III. Clearly, these immensely gifted artists thought they were on to something, and maybe they were . . .

Listen to Wonderwall Music, and then this, and even back to some of the Beatles albums of this era, and you pick up bits and pieces of sounds and effects that show up later in real songs. The "Apple Jam" in "All Things Must Pass" has alot of these effects scattered about, except now they are DOING SOMETHING WITH IT.

I take it as a sort of prelude to George's solo work. It's like the free form intro to Chicago's Hit By Varese, except now it is an intro to his entire career and takes some forty minutes to get through.

In a way, Ringo's Sentimental Journey and Beaucoups of Blues were the same thing, only using American Standards and country music to get the same sort of thing out of his system and set the stage for his solo career.

Even Paul McCartney finally joined the fray, recording The Fireman CD (and its companion whose name escapes me), and releasing Liverpool Sound Collage (which I take as a tribute to John and George's experimental stuff).

It's not music - but not much had been done with a Moog yet (only the Monkees had done anything with it). Speaking of which, Mike Nesmith's "Wichita Train Whistle Sings" is another example of this solo in-your-face self-indulgence that seemed to be the fashion then. It may sound like crap, but compared to the vanilla suit-approved stuff we're getting today, makes it all sound like something from the Boston Pops. Let's see Jesse McCartney stick his neck out this far!

too weird.......2006-07-02

Label should read "file under: acidhead freak noise" What a weird record this is. kind of like lou reed's Metal Machine Music, another weirdo record. play this while on acid or to annoy you neighbors

Matter That Falls From Beneath A Bull's Tail.......2005-11-13

Maybe as someone mentioned this was Harrison's answer to Lennon's Life With Lions drivel. Whatever the case Harrison's mix of noise noodling constitutes a pointless and unmelodic attempt at something he himself will only have known if even that.

Simon Leng author of the Harrison biography 'The Music of George Harrison: While My Guitar Gently Weeps' (2003) described Electronic Sounds as "Forty minutes evidence that a Bealtle had no idea how to play a new electronic keyboard (and) is at least 39 minutes too much'. '...releasing this unlistenable mess on an experimental label dedicated to the avant-garde (whatever that is) perhaps softens the blow, but there is no excuse for the album. Certainly one of the worst records of all time had the European Court of Human Rights existed in 1969, Electronic Sound would surely have been referred for unnatural cruelty."

Being a huge Beatles fan who bought the original when it came out in the 60's I now can reflect that it was a highly self indulgent and even callously offered product since many fans like me bought it simply because it shined with the Beatles aura. And perhaps that was George's point after all but if it was it certainly was lost on me all those years ago as a teen with very small monetary resources.

Though I have since bought 2 original lp copies to supplement my Beatles collection they are simply that...collectibles. I never have listened to them and in fact when I bought my copy in the 60's I only listened to it a couple of times skipping about to find some listenable parts which were sadly lacking.
Unless you are a collector don't buy this product it is a waste of time and money.

George's Turn to make some noise.......2005-06-04

This was George's attempt at weirdness because of John & Yoko's TWO VIRGINS & LIFE WITH THE LIONS. As he stated "There are a lot of people around, making a lot of noise, here's some more." That was directed at John & Yoko. At the time, the only people who would get away with these kind of albums were The Beatles (and to die-hard Beatles fans, they bought them). These albums are unlistenable (even when you were stoned back then). But because i'm a solo Beatles collector I bought them both on album back then and on CD now. If your just getting into the solo Beatles, start getting their albums with songs (John's PLASTIC ONO BAND & George's ALL THINGS MUST PASS (but George's WONDERWALL MUSIC isn't bad at all). I give this 1 star for being unlistenable but 5 stars for being part of Rock'n'Roll history that I lived through back in the 60's (and it does bring back memories of those days). By the way, the editorial review is wrong about the label this was on. This was one of only two releases that was on ZAPPEL RECORDS (U.S. catalog #ST3358 and U.K. catalog #02[LIFE WITH THE LIONS being catalog #01 in the U.K.]}.

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