George Harrison-Electronic Sound (1969)

 


Artist: George Harrison


Label: Zapple

Format: LP

Catalog Number: ST-3358

Year of Release: 1969

Country and Year of Edition: US 1969 Jacksonville Pressing

Sell Price: $10.38

Sell Date: 9/17/24

Condition: G+/G+ 1" x 3" tear, noticeably scratched

Discogs Last Sold  8/15/24 VG+/VG+ $11.38

Low: $5.81 G/G

Median: $15.00

Average: $17.97

High: $39.47 NM/NM

Current low price: $12.50 VG/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25

Have/Want: 345/215

Where Sold:  Ann Arbor, MI

Time It Took To Sell:  2 1/2  years

Where and When Bought: Facebook Marketplace $5 lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C

Sad To See It Go: No

I finally got around to listening to George Harrison's highly experimental late 60's album Electronic Sound.  Last week someone bought Lennon/Ono's Two Virgins and I haven't gotten around to writing about that, but these two make a good pair of background noise.  In both cases you can make an argument that these records are brilliant or garbage, so I guess the grade splits the difference.

I don't know if these electronics came from famed inventor Magic Alex, but much of this record sounds like George is "trying out" these machines.  I could've sworn I heard the melody of "Three Blind Mice" at some point on side two, but maybe I was just having an aural hallucination.  This music is actually very ahead of it's time considering it took roughly another decade for abstract electronics to take a bigger hold in music.

As a Beatles completist, I never ran across a copy to buy it growing up.  I surely would have.  When I got this copy I was a little disappointed that the record was beat up, but that is why it went for $5 and sold for a little over $10.  $15-40 is the more appropriate spectrum for this album pricewise, but this specific copy played better than it looked.  Not immaculate by any means but surface noise wasn't blowing quiet parts under the water.

Play once, file away.

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