Harry Nilsson: The Point! (BMG Heritage Edition) CD Track Listing

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Harry Nilsson The Point! (BMG Heritage Edition) (1971)
Originally Released 1971\nRCA CD Edition Released 1988??\nDCC CDEdition Released March 10, 1998\nBMG Heritage CD Edition ReleasedNovember 19, 2002\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The Point! is the soundtrack to a cartoon feature, originally aired on ABC TV in 1971. Especially at this stage of his career, Harry Nilsson was uniquelysuited for writing and recording children's music, given his sweet melodicism and love of whimsy. As it happens, The Point! workedout better than anyone could have expected, not just because "Eveyrthing's Got 'Em," "Me and My Arrow," "Think About Your Troubles" and "Are You Sleeping?" are songs strong enough to have been on a proper Nilsson record. There's also an intangible quality, awarmth and generosity to this record that really wasn't on any ofhis other albums, quite possibly because his humor is never sardonic or reliant on in-jokes. It's gentle and loving, as is the music. The tale is fantastical enough to be of interest to children(and the moral is strong enough to reassure them and parents), but the songs and music are so strong, the album continues to be asource of wonder, even as those children become adults. [To thedelight of all, The Point! was reissued on BMG Heritage records in 2002 featuring three bonus tracks.] -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nMust everything have a point? That's the question posed by Harry Nilsson's 1971 pop parable of a well-rounded young boy named Oblio, from the Land of Point, who's cast apart from the community by those who resent his pointlessness. Conceived when the gifted singer-songwriter was on an acid trip, The Point! is a product of its time, what with its central theme (the hollowness of conformity) and ornate Beatles-era pop. Butthe message -- presented in song and narration -- and music aredelivered with a grace and gentleness that elevates The Point farabove most socially conscious '60s art. Produced as a made-for-TV movie in 1971, this audio version of the modest masterpiece will appeal to adult fans of the late singer. More to the point, however, it'll capture the fancy of thoughtful youngsters who'll empathize with the little boy who finds points where he's told thereare none, and concludes, "If everything has a point, well then Imust have one, too." --Steven Stolder \n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nUnder the direction of Fred Wolf--the man who helmed mostof the early Little Rascals shorts--you might expect The Point tobe a benignly silly children's romp. It is not. The real guidingforce here is full-grown rascal Harry Nilsson, who not only wrote the story and songs that comprise this made-for-TV cartoon, butrecorded, produced, and even narrated them as well. The Point follows the travails of a rather hapless round-headed boy named Oblio, who can't seem to get over in a land of pointed people and things. Rich with semantic trickery, The Point is probably the mostexistential children's yarn ever told. But there's an elegance to these songs, and a satirical wink to their content, that--likeany great story--transcends the cartoon's "intended" audience. Ifyou enjoyed The Point as a child, give it another spin; not fornostalgia's sake, but for the wholly different spell it casts onadult ears. --Matt Hanks \n\nAmazon.com Album Description (DCC)\nDCC reissue & the CD debut of his top 30 1971 album for RCA featuring 'Me And My Arrow', 'Think About Your Troubles', 'Everything's Got 'Em' & 'Poli High', plus two cuts on CD for the first timeas bonus tracks: the A-side 'Down To The Valley' & the U.K. onlyB-side 'Buy My Album'. 16 tracks total, all remastered . Also features the original cover art. 1998 BMG Special Products/ DCC Compact Classics release. \n\nCMJ New Music Review\nYeah, you remember Harry Nilsson and "Me and My Arrow," but what you might not remember so readily is that the wonderful song that had us dancing around the speakers of our parents' big stereo in the living roomwhen we were little kids, was the centerpiece of a fantastic album that served as a loose soundtrack to the animated film versionof Nilsson's musical story
This rock cd contains 17 tracks and runs 42min 29sec.
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