Advantages: An underrated album that has revealed new strengths over the years Disadvantages: Some weak tracks don't get any better with age
It’s always interesting to re-evaluate albums released more than 20 or 30 years ago, albums that were either neglected or written off at the time for one reason or another. Van Morrison’s ‘Astral Weeks’ is a classic example. ‘Extra Texture’, though definitely no ground-breaker, is another.
George Harrison’s last recording for the Beatles’ ill-fated Apple label, released in the autumn of 1975 (and the ... ...John Lennon and Ringo Starr), was grudgingly hailed at the time as not bad – but only by default as its predecessor, ‘Dark Horse’, had been such a disappointment. I didn’t care for it much at the time, but having bought it recently on CD and listened to it properly for the first time for years, it sounds better. (Maybe I’ve matured; maybe it’s partly because I’m looking at his work more sympathetically after ...
JOHNV 19.09.2002
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