Favourite Song from George Harrison's 'Gone Troppo' album

Although often regarded as his worst album, there are still a few gems on George Harrison's 1982 Gone Troppo album. What is your favourite song from the album?

 

Dream Away

 

"That's The Way It Goes".

Not a favorite George album of mine.

 

The album gets a bad rap! I like it better than Extra Texture and Dark Horse.

 

That would be Somewhere in England

 

I have a soft spot for "Wake Up My Love." To my ears, it sounds like a sincere stab at a hit, and if George hadn't burned so many commercial bridges by this point in his career, it might have been.

 

Dream Away, but I still prefer the Time Bandits version.

 

Title track for me. I know this album is held in low regard by many, but I really like it. I can listen to it on a summer day like today and I get that vibe that I'm sitting on the beach with a nice drink. The album really creates a feel for me. never understood the hate on it by critics. It's not a masterpiece by any means, but a fun, enjoyable album IMO.

 

No way. I don't think SIE is good, but I like more songs from it than I do from GT.

 

Greece

 

Nice to see that others here also disagree with the critics and don't think that Gone Troppo is George's worst album. In my opinion, that "dishonour" clearly belongs to Electronic Sound. After that, I would say Wonderwall Music, and of his standard studio albums, I think Somewhere in England is probably his weakest, followed by Dark Horse. I would put Gone Troppo about even with, if not slightly ahead of Extra Texture.

 

Well, singling out the non-studio LPs like "Electronic Sound" or "Wonderwall" is too obvious.

I feel funny defending SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND because it's not very good, but it still has the big hit "All Those Years Ago" on it, as well as "Teardops", "Life Itself" and "Baltimore Oriole".

 

Hmmm - question is not that simple, as this is NOT his worst album (would have to agree, that the re-jiggered / released SIE or even Dark Horse may be contenders for that distinction), but also because it's really hard to choose between Mystical One, Unknown Delight and That's The Way It Goes (which i think George had a real fondness for). So my vote, if i can only choose one, would be Unknown Delight, but under protest!

 

Agreed - and above Somewhere in England.
It lags behind the rest though.

 

"Wake Up My Love" but it's really a bland album.

 

Maybe this is a cheat, but the CD contains the demo version of Mystical One. It is so lovely as a spare, unadorned acoustic number.

The upbeat, arranged album version ruins a delicate tune.

 

Unknown Delight. One of my favourite George songs, period.

 

I chose "Dream Away." I like this album and although it gets panned, I think it's one of his better albums as more time passes.

 

Dream away, mainly due to its association in having a real good feeling after watching Time Bandits. That, said I do like quite a bit of the rest of the album better than the stuff that came either side.

 

Well, that makes TWO of us!

 

I like Gone Troppo a lot. I voted for Unknown Delight, but I could just as easily voted for Greece, Gone Troppo, Wake Up My Love, That's the Way it Goes, or Circles. Yes, Circles.

 

My memory is that the song "Dream Away" is played over the closing credits of the film. I distinctly recall staying in the movie theater and making sure to watch the credits to the very end.

Was that song featured anywhere else in the film, or only at the end?

 

Only at the end. To me (and a few others) it's a far superior mix version to what was included on this album. I was really disappointed when I bought the album and found that he had done revisions to the recording that was used in the film. For whatever reasons he found, every time George futzed with an earlier recording and released an updated/remixed version, it always ended up inferior to the original.

 

Same for me. That's The Way It Goes is runner-up.

Otherwise, besides Electronic Sound this is by far my least favorite of his albums. Perhaps without the 80's synths and production it could be turned into something I would enjoy much more.

 

Thanks. That's how I remember it, when I last saw the film all those years ago.