All Things Must Pass (1970 album)

As I was listening to this earlier today I realized something. George Harrison had 22 songs written and produced with the Beatles in that era (4 from The White Album, 3 from Revolver, 2 from Help!, Rubber Soul, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, and Let It Be and 1 from from With The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour and a couple B Sides on Past Masters). How many songs on All Things Must Pass a triple album album you may ask? 23 (not all written solely by George Harrison but minus the live jam only two weren't). The Beatles breakup seem to be a blessing in disguise (with glasses, sorry pun of an obscure song with a Beatles reference called "Judy In Disguise With Glasses" by John Fred & the Playboys). Anyway between the new depths Lennon was able to go unhindered by commercial expectations and George performing without album quotas the Beatles seem to reach the next height they were looking for. I wonder how George's Beatles songs sound stacked up against All Things Must Pass but it's almost apples and oranges or maybe apples and grapples. It's sort of the same great recognizable Harrison but with spirituality. The same country twang and sweet melodic high pitch British voice but with broader territory lyrically. Musically it's almost just as diverse. Some songs are soft others hard but all are superlatively mellow. "Wah Wah" and my personal favorite "What Is Life" are great examples of hard and mellow. "If Not For You" is a superb cover of a Bob Dylan song that Dylan himself only recorded earlier that year, a great move for George and a pity for Dylan because how many people have his New Morning with that song. There are the classically philosophical song about the world and personal morals that are absolutely inspiring I much say as a poet like "Isn't It A Pity" and "Awaiting On You All". Songs of closures like the title tune and "Art Of Dying" that contain stoic like endurance or spiritual serenity. Occasionally I don't know if George is going for the spirituality of Hare Krishna or trying to woo Patti Boyd but that's because the lyrics could apply to both and yet they seem explicit enough to render an emotion one way or another like "Behind That Locked Door". Altogether the switch up of moods, melodies and lyrical themes all dealt with the same masterful skill allow one to have a supreme example of great music that carries for about 2 hours and amazingly people look to blame who caused the Beatles break up, but here we see the seeds of growth as 1970 closed with an already great catalog of post Beatles work. See also John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and McCartney