- Band Name: Harry Nilsson
- Record Label: RCA
- Release Date: Jul 30, 2013
- Summary: The box set contains 14 remastered studio albums and three discs of unreleased tracks from the 1970s singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Psychedelic/Garage, Soft Rock, AM Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop, Baroque Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Sep 5, 201390beyond his original albums lies three newly cobbled CDs of magic realist pop and frisky showboating folk that are endlessly fascinating. [No. 101, p.54]
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Aug 21, 201390Seventeen discs may be an enormous undertaking, and admittedly some of the road is rocky, but the journey Harry Nilsson takes on The RCA Albums Collection is distinctive and thrilling, whether it's heard for the first or 40th time.
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Aug 21, 201390He left an enormous amount of music in those 10 years, the bulk of it gathered in this much-needed career overview of the forgotten solipsistic genius of rock’s golden age, in which the strike-outs turn out to be as fascinating as the home runs.
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Aug 21, 201380It is not overkill. It is the necessary account of a brilliant, wayward pop life still best known for tawdry and misleading reasons.
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Aug 23, 201380All this is a must-have for fans, and a relatively inexpensive way of accessing an erratic but always intriguing body of work.
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Aug 21, 201380The RCA Albums Collection remains the final word on the most consummate singer-songwriter of his generation. [Sep 2013, p.111]
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Aug 21, 201360With the hindsight afforded by this monumental 17-disc career retrospective, he seems somewhat less than The One, an idiosyncratic talent undermined by MOR inclinations.