Aerial Pandemonium Ballet

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Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
Studio album by Harry Nilsson
Released	1971
Recorded	late 1966-1968 (new vocals and remix, 1971)
Genre	Pop
Length	??:??
Label	RCA Victor
Producer(s)	Harry Nilsson Rick Jarrard
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Harry Nilsson chronology
The Point! (1971)	Aerial Pandemonium Ballet (1971)	Nilsson Schmilsson (1971)

Aerial Pandemonium Ballet is a 1971 album by Harry Nilsson, and one of the first-ever remix albums, years before they became commonplace.

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 which 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."

[edit] Track listing

All music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson except where noted

1. Introduction - :09
2. "1941" – 2:37 (slowed down track & remixed)
3. "Daddy's Song" – 2:07 (new vocals, guitar/piano/out of sync)
4. "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song" – 2:07 (new bg vocals & remixed)
5. "Good Old Desk" – 2:30 (slowed down track & remixed)
6. "Everybody's Talkin'" – 2:42 (dumped second voice & remixed)
7. "Bath" – 1:50 (re-EQ'd original tracks)
8. "River Deep - Mountain High" (Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich – 3:57 (new vocals & remixed)
9. "Sleep Late, My Lady Friend" – 2:37 (remixed)
10. "Don't Leave Me" – 2:12 (remixed)
11. "Without Her" – 2:08 (new vocals & remixed)
12. "Together" – 1:37 (new vocals, edited out bridge & remixed)
13. "One" – 2:18 (remixed)
14. Closing - :20