Aerial Pandemonium Ballet

Infobox Album | Name = Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
Type = Album
Artist = Harry Nilsson


Released = 1971
Recorded = late 1966-1968 (new vocals and remix, 1971)
Genre = Pop
Length = ??:??
Label = RCA Victor
Producer = Harry Nilsson
Rick Jarrard
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:odd5vwnva9tk link]
Last album = "The Point!"
(1971)
This album = "Aerial Pandemonium Ballet"
(1971) | Next album = "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.Fact|date=October 2007

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."

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson except where noted

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

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