A completely solo John album in 1980, mostly following the theme of being a house-husband / home life.
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Soon after releasing Duit on Mon Dei, Harry Nilsson began recording Sandman using mostly the same session musicians. Considering this, I thought I'd try and make a Duit / Sandman combination album.
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What projects do you think he would have been involved in? How do you think "Papa's Got a Brown New Robe" might have differed from what we eventually got on "Losst and Founnd"? (the early version of the album on YouTube is well worth checking out). Do you think it would have been a proper comeback or do you think he would once again go into semi-retirement?
Curious to hear your thoughts on this. Personally I wonder if he would have been involved in Yoko's "Yes I'm A Witch" tribute albums, bearing in mind he was on "Every Man Has a Woman". And I like to think maybe he'd soundtrack some children's films or something.
This is a question I've been meaning to ask. I was listening to this mix of Pussy Cats last night which I believe uses slightly different takes to the original album, and on some of these tracks you can hear Harry's old voice, like on the version of "Don't Forget Me" which is clearly a different vocal take to the album.
This got me thinking about when exactly did Harry blow his voice in the Pussy Cats sessions? I believe in the Who Is Harry Nilsson doc, it is stated by someone that Harry tried to hide the damage initially before going to hospital. Is it known when this occurred? How much of the album did Harry complete before it happened? I'm not expecting an exact answer to the day or anything, but if anyone has an idea I'd appreciate it.
The Ram album sessions were a remarkably productive time for Paul McCartney. Aside from the tracks that ended up on the album, there were around a dozen other tracks which were recorded and later released on other albums / reissues.
I have used these songs to try to assemble a double-album version of Ram. Enjoy!
All tracks appear on Ram (Archive Collection) unless noted otherwise.
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A rock 'n' roll covers album by Harry Nilsson!
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Harry was a prolific songwriter and of course the irony is that his two big hits which most people know him for were covers - "Without You" and "Everybody's Talkin'".
This line from "Turn On Your Radio" has been in my head ever since I listened to Son Of Schmilsson on loop a few months ago:
>I don't know where life's going
But soon it will be gone
I hope the wind that's blowing
Helps me carry on
So I'm curious to hear what your personal favourites are! Is there a lyric that has stuck with you since you heard it? Maybe a line from a song you have come to appreciate recently?
I rediscovered these when I put that Harry and Ringo post together but had trouble finding out what exactly they were doing here lol. I think they were taken in 1980 but I may be wrong. Maybe it was just a bit of fun, I just can't think of a reason they'd be dressed as Santa in the studio so I'm curious to know if anyone has some additional backstory for these pictures!
Obviously Ringo and Harry were very close friends. Apparently there are three people in Ringo's life who he finds it hard to talk about since they passed; those are John, George, and Harry. They collaborated so many times throughout the years and there are many pictures of them together from the early 1970s until the early 1990s. I've tried to include some that I hadn't seen before, so hopefully some of these will be new to you all.
Alongside this slideshow of images, I've included a list of (to my knowledge) all of their contributions to each other's records.
Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson (1972)
Ringo drums on
Ringo Starr - Ringo (1973)
Harry sings backing vocals on "You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine)".
Harry Nilsson - Son of Dracula (1974)
Ringo drums on "Daybreak".
Harry Nilsson - Pussy Cats (1974)
Ringo drums on
Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna (1974)
Harry sings backing vocals on "No No Song" and "Only You (And You Alone)". He also wrote "Easy for Me".
Harry Nilsson - Duit on Mon Dei (1975)
Ringo drums on "Kojak Columbo" and sings on "Good for God".
Ringo Starr - Ringo's Rotogravure (1976)
Harry sings backing vocals on "Lady Gaye".
Harry Nilsson - Flash Harry (1980)
Harry and Ringo co-wrote "How Long Can Disco On". Ringo drums on the album (not sure which songs specifically).
Ringo Starr - Stop and Smell the Roses (1981)
Harry wrote the song "Drumming is My Madness" and co-wrote the title track with Ringo. He sings backing vocals on "Back Off Boogaloo". He produced all three songs.
Ringo Starr - Time Takes Time (1992)
Harry sings backing vocals on "Runaways".
Piggybacking off my recent post, I was thinking about how most pictures of Harry I've seen were taken in the 1960s or 1970s. As he mostly stepped out of the limelight in the 1980s it seems there might be less pictures of him, or at least not that I've seen. I decided to go and search for some and found these. I believe similar images were used in the Who Is Harry Nilsson doc. There is also a video of him performing at Beatlefest in the 80s (and one in the 90s) but I can't attach both sadly.
Someone on my last post left a comment saying they own the Beatlefest-exclusive single "With a Bullet", so this one's for them! Did anyone have an opportunity to meet Harry at one of these events?
I'm listening to Harry's "Mucho Mungo" again right now and I think it's such a beautiful recording. My understanding is that on this one, John wrote the "Mucho Mungo" section which Harry combined with his own "Mt. Elga" piece. They go together very well. I believe John's "Mucho Mungo" demo is floating around online.
Then there's "Old Dirt Road" which John started and Harry finished, coming up with lines like "trying to shovel smoke with a pitchfork in the wind". The bridge of that song is also pure Nilsson. Harry later recorded his own version for his 1980 album Flash Harry - his last studio album to be released before he died in 1994, which is also unavailable on streaming as far as I'm aware.
I'm really torn between which one I prefer. I think they're both beautiful songs and it makes me wish that John and Harry wrote together more often. It's a shame their creative partnership has such a chaotic reputation what with the screaming contest story and all.
I know we don't have to pick but what are your opinions on these songs? Do you prefer one over the other?
In promotion for his latest album Thirty Three & 1/3, his first on his new label Dark Horse, George Harrison appears on MTV Unplugged. He plays stripped down versions of songs from the new album and revisits classics from across his career, with two Dylan covers thrown in for good measure.
Some admittedly low-effort cover art this time.
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What if MTV Unplugged existed as a concept in the 1960s? Maybe the Beatles would have stopped by the studio for an intimate performance where they could play a few deep cuts in front of a less rowdy audience.
This is set during the band's 1965 US tour.
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Lately I've been listening back to the bootlegs of the "Harry Sings Yoko" album and this song has been stuck in my head. Turns out that there is this footage of Harry recording it, while talking about the End Handgun Violence campaign and his planned comeback, which sadly never really came to fruition before his death in 1994.
In the footage Harry says that "Smile" is a song Yoko wrote "just recently". This is interesting because I remember hearing somewhere that it was uncertain as to whether "Smile" was actually written by Yoko, or whether Harry was writing in Yoko's style - Yoko has never recorded the song herself.
Given that it's kind of a rarity, I thought Yoko fans might appreciate it. If anyone is interested in hearing the full song, send me a message and I'll try to get the files over to you!
I thought this might interest a few people. This is all according to setlist.fm data. It's important to clarify that - to my knowledge - the data on this site is submitted by its users. This means its possible that I could be wrong about some of these, but for an artist of Paul's profile I think that it's mostly accurate.
It's safe to say Paul has been the most prolific touring artist since the Beatles broke up - John never toured, George did one tour in 1974 and made a few live appearances outside of that, leaving Ringo, who has toured frequently since the late 1980s, in second place. Yet over the 50 years or so that Paul has been touring as an ex-Beatle, there are a number of his most famous songs which have never graced his setlists.
For example, the #1 singles "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey", "With a Little Luck", and "Pipes of Peace" have never been performed live. Aside from those, here is a list of hit singles (UK/US top 40) by Paul/Wings - not counting duets - which have also evaded his setlists...
And these are the top ten most-streamed songs by Paul which haven't made the cut, excluding the aforementioned songs, features, remixes, etc...
Which of these songs would you most like to hear live? Which one surprised you to see listed?
"It sounds a lot like Lou Reed if he had a bigger cock"
I've had this one sitting around for a while. A comment on my John on MTV Unplugged post inspired this. I've seen a lot of people suggest that John might have experienced some kind of career/image revival if he was a live when grunge happened, similar to what Neil Young experienced. Like my Unplugged post, this is intended to be a live album using some songs I think would work well if John was around in the early 90s and he started playing in that grunge/alt-rock style
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The quantity of the Arctic Monkeys' non-album output never quite reached the height it did in 2005 to 2007. There were a fair few tracks released as Humbug B-sides, but after that they were few and far between to the point that no B-sides were released for The Car. The most recent track released by the band outside of one of their studio albums was for the charity album HELP(2).
All of these songs are on Arctic Monkeys releases unless noted otherwise.
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Taking a Beatles title/concept and applying it to Arctic Monkeys. Similar to the Beatles and other groups like Oasis, the Monkeys have an impressive catalogue of non-album material tucked away on B-sides and EPs scattered across their discography.
This is an effort to compile them chronologically.
The first disc compiles material released across singles and EPs from 2005-2007. At this point there was already so much material released around just their first two albums. There are two covers here ("Baby I'm Yours" and "Put Your Dukes Up John") but I believe the rest of them are original compositions by the band. Shows that they could have released another two albums.
These tracks are all available on releases by the Arctic Monkeys
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