Got My Mind Set On Someplace Else
Feb 26
1980s george harrison, the beatles 1 Comment
Today’s song comes to us from one of the overlooked Beatles, George Harrison. I almost put down “the most overlooked,” but does anyone actually care what Ringo Starr has done since 1970? This is actually a really good song never released as a single (aka not many of you will know of it, let alone have heard it) that I feel is the best track on his 1987 record Cloud Nine. You should know something about that album already because it featured the smash hit “Got My Mind Set On You” that Harrison had been wanting to cover since the 60s (John & Paul shot him down numerous times). If you don’t know that song, click here and catch up, loser.
Anyway, the year is 1987 and George Harrison hasn’t released anything since 1982 when his last album bombed. He spent the time working on his film production company, Handmade Films. That went over swimmingly as their biggest picture, Shanghai Surprise starring Madonna and Sean Penn, was nominated in virtually every Razzie Award possible and won for Worst Actress. However, that movie is very vital to this record as Harrison recorded around five original songs for the soundtrack, two of which made it onto the Cloud Nine record. Two were later added on the album as it was re-mastered and re-released. The album itself is also important historically to music as it was the recording sessions which led to Harrison and Jeff Lyne (Harrison’s co-producer at the time & long time friend) starting the Traveling Wilburys in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison. We will definitely cover them in the future here on this blog.
Back on subject though, the song below, Someplace Else, was originally from said movie, although stripped down a bit. The album version, far superior, is a bluesy number with a memorable riff and a very good guitar solo (could be Eric Clapton as he played on all of Harrison’s albums under aliases and vice-versa due to contract disputes). As I said before, this is my pick for the best of the album which is saying something with songs like When We Was Fab, Cloud 9, This Is Love, and Got My Mind Set On You. I doubt I can get you all to check out the whole album, but here is that song which I’m sure you’ll like.
Title: Someplace Else
Artist: George Harrison
Album: Cloud Nine
Year: 1987
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