Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
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| Aerial Pandemonium Ballet | ||
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| Studio album by Harry Nilsson | ||
| Released | 1971 | |
| Recorded | late 1966-1968 (new vocals and remix, 1971) | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | ??:?? | |
| Label | RCA Victor | |
| Producer(s) | Harry Nilsson Rick Jarrard |
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| Harry Nilsson chronology | ||
| The Point! (1971) |
Aerial Pandemonium Ballet (1971) |
Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) |
Aerial Pandemonium Ballet is a 1971 album by Harry Nilsson, and one of the first-ever remix albums, years before they became commonplace.
With the successes of "Everybody's Talkin'" and The Point! creating demand for Nilsson recordings, a reissue of his first two RCA Victor albums (Pandemonium Shadow Show and Aerial Ballet), then out of print, was considered. Nilsson thought that his early albums already sounded a bit dated by 1971. So he went back into the studio with the master tapes, remixed, tweaked, and re-recorded vocals, and came up with a new consolidation which he titled Aerial Pandemonium Ballet.
It is a matter of intense debate among Nilsson fans whether this was a good idea. Reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine, on allmusic.com, describes the result as "just old tunes presented in slightly new, slightly off-putting ways."
[edit] Track listing
All music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson except where noted
- Introduction - :09
- "1941" – 2:37 (slowed down track & remixed)
- "Daddy's Song" – 2:07 (new vocals, guitar/piano/out of sync)
- "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song" – 2:07 (new bg vocals & remixed)
- "Good Old Desk" – 2:30 (slowed down track & remixed)
- "Everybody's Talkin'" – 2:42 (dumped second voice & remixed)
- "Bath" – 1:50 (re-EQ'd original tracks)
- "River Deep - Mountain High" (Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich – 3:57 (new vocals & remixed)
- "Sleep Late, My Lady Friend" – 2:37 (remixed)
- "Don't Leave Me" – 2:12 (remixed)
- "Without Her" – 2:08 (new vocals & remixed)
- "Together" – 1:37 (new vocals, edited out bridge & remixed)
- "One" – 2:18 (remixed)
- Closing - :20
