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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal blockage) |
| Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:51:08 -0500 |
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:00:59 -0400
From: "Aaron Milenski" <amilenski@hotmail.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal
blockage)
Message-ID: <BAY110-F319DF0AA56E2093E67227BC480@phx.gbl>
>*ATMP* has its share of filler, and the jam session that makes up the
>last quarter or third of the album is a self-indulgent waste, but as a
>collection of songs it easily outstrips *SPLHCB*.
That's an awfully strong statement to make, especially
about an album where pretty much all of side 4 is worthless.
<<
Not really. I'm not arguing that *All Things Must Pass* is one of the
greatest albums of all time. As I said above, it's an album that has one
very serious and extensive flaw, and a few songs besides that big flaw
that are filler in and of themselves. I can think of a whole bunch of
double/triple albums that are as good or better, in large part because
they don't squander so much space on tedious jam sessions that nobody's
ever listened to twice.
All I'm saying is that *ATMP* has more good songs on it than does *Sgt.
Pepper*, which in the final analysis is how I always measure the
strength or weakness of an album. But by those lights I would argue that
there are *a lot* of albums that're better than *Sgt. Pepper*.
Also, the worthless sides of *ATMP* are sides five and six, not side
four. Sides five and six of the original vinyl version were the
so-called "Apple Jam" sides.
Greg Sager
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