Best "tracks 7" on a George Harrison album (please read the rules before voting)

I presume that is not a typo but a factual description, yes?

Having said that, I love George's vocals on that track. Too bad he ever got over whatever he had when he recorded that.

 

Glad to see Dark Horse leading the poll so far. I love that song, especially the new bonus track version from 2014.

 

Stuck inside a Cloud
Dark Horse
The Art of Dying

 

Does someone know if it's true ? Dhani would have said it in an interview about Brainwashed, but I've never read it myself. I'm not sure this list backs the theory up in a completely convincing way, but I can definitely see how one could make a case about each of these songs.

Your comment made me listen again with open ears (and with the Eric Idle video) and you are right. It does sound like a treatise on Harrisonesque arrangements and slide guitar stylings.

 

Good old George certainly didn't regard track 7 as being the key to sequencing a good album did he!

Behind That Locked Door
Devil's Radio

 

"Can't Stop Thinking About You" and "Dark Horse"

 

That legend is based on something Dhani says in the Brainwashed EPK (at 5:21) regarding "Stuck Inside a Cloud": "My dad's favorite number was 7, and a lot of things that he did were according to the number 7, whether he meant it or not. And that was the highest honor I could have given a track on the album was to put it track 7. It's my favorite, that track. I love it."

 

Art of Dying
Unknown Delight
Stuck Inside a Cloud

 

When listening to these lists of songs, I'm really surprised about how George voice changed over the years, and not in a linear way. Could be because of circumstances or his addictions at one point or another, but it also seems to be a question of self-confidence (his voice incredibly more assured on Cloud 9 than on Gone Troppo, for instance).

 

Actually, Steve Vai felt this way about his track 7's. He always sequenced his albums that track 7 was his most emotional performance on the record. He released a compilation called The Seventh Song that showcased these previously-released songs together. He pre-Fortuleo'd Fortuleo!

 

This is fantastic, ahah, I didn't know that! It makes me think of this friend of mine who put together the "best 111th page award", a price given to, you guessed it, the best 111th page of a novel, each and every year!

 

This track 7 poll is annoying. These are all songs that I could have voted for on any given day.

 

Behind That Locked Door
Devils Radio
Stuck Inside A Cloud

I must have missed round six! Oh well. Life goes on.

 

Art of Dying and Dark Horse I like the most.

Went with The Lord Loves The One as my wild card; I like the bit about whatever you do's going to come back on you.

 

That songs got some of George's best slide guitar on it.

 

"Stuck Inside a Cloud" is a beautiful autobio song that I really thought would be a hit at the time of George's passing. I know many like "Rising Sun" or "Any Road" better, but it was the first song I heard right around the time "Brainwashed" was released, and I thought it was primetime George. I was impressed with the rest of the album as well and I think it's his 2nd best album. If this was released in the 70's, there would have been a much bigger audience for it.

 

Looks like Dark Horse is gonna win this. But for the second spot we have 4 songs (FOUR) in three points !!

 

Please let it not be an ATMP song for once...

 

Still a few hours to make a decision…

At least only once did the two ATMP songs win, so far…

 

You can now go vote on the 8th tracks poll here:

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...m-please-read-the-rules-before-voting.498635/

 

Missed the poll, but would have voted Dark Horse & Devil's Radio.

 

Mmm, so it would have been a draw between Devil's Radio and Behind That Locked Door… That's my nightmare, draws. What would I do ?

Anyway, Longaway, don't forget to vote on the next poll (http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...m-please-read-the-rules-before-voting.498635/)

 

I missed this round. I would have voted for "That Which..." though it wouldn't have made much of a difference.