Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
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| Remix album by Harry Nilsson | ||||
| Released | June 1971 | |||
| Recorded | late 1966-1968 (new vocals and remix, 1971) | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 29:58 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer |
Harry Nilsson Rick Jarrard |
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Aerial Pandemonium Ballet is a 1971 album by Harry Nilsson, and one of the first-ever remix albums, years before they became commonplace in the late 1970s and 1980s onwards.
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 that 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."
All music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson except where noted
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