10 Rock Albums That Are Way Too Bloated

If you were in George Harrison's shoes, it would make sense to go big on your first step out as a solo artist. After having to play second fiddle to the Lennon/McCartney songwriting machine for most of your career, All Things Must Pass was the moment where the Quiet Beatle became a big enough writer to rival his old bandmates, offering up songs with a much more spiritual side to them than sappy love songs. It makes sense to fill this album out, but it gets a bit much slogging through 6 sides of vinyl.

Since he was trying to get everything out at once, All Things Must Pass's triple album runtime starts to run out of steam the further you get down the project. For the entire first disc, there's hardly a dud to be found, like My Sweet Lord and Isn't It a Pity setting the stage for more thoughtful songs like the title track or Beware of Darkness. The second disc still has its share of bright spots as well, but there's no real reason to have the jam available on the third disc.

While George was always keen to jam around with his buddies, hearing them spend an entire record just making instrumental bluesy guitar duels isn't as interesting, especially when the first two records had some of the most thoughtful lyrics he would ever write. There's a good case to be made for this being the greatest album by an ex-Beatle, but having to take into account the jams at the end doesn't make you want to listen to the record from front to back any time soon.