Music Capsule Review

GEORGE HARRISON

All Things Must Pass (Capitol)

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Lead Performance: George Harrison; Genre: Reissues

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By David Browne

David Browne

David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

Arguably rock's first boxed set returns to celebrate its 30th birthday, with brighter remastered sonics and the requisite inconsequential bonus tracks. Harrison and Phil Spector's Wall of Krishna Sound is still majestically congested, and the songs are so strong that the ex-Fabber would never top them. Even the jams (needlessly ''restored to their true sequence'') feel refreshing in their looseness. Alas, ''My Sweet Lord 2000,'' Harrison's note-for-note remake of the album's biggest hit, is a huge spoiler, not to mention holy -- er, wholly

Posted Jan 26, 2001

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