George Harrison

George Harrison's 1970s All Things Must Pass is widely considered the towering post-Beatles solo masterwork. But either Harrison was never really able to tap into that creative freedom again, or he didn't feel the need to prove himself. This follow-up album from 1973 is halfhearted but pleasant and pretty. The obvious highlight is the bleak anti-drug dirge "Try Some, Buy Some," but songs like "Be Here Now" and "Deep Blue" blow by agreeably.

If you call this living. Harrison sings as if he's doing sitar impressions, and four different people, including a little man in my head who I never noticed before, have expressed intense gratitude when I turned the damned thing off during "Be Here Now." Inspirational sentiment: "the leaders of nations/They're acting like big girls." (Grade - C)