...
The title track “Mind Games” is a real blockbuster of a track that has the familiar vocal echo sound all through it. This does get airplay unlike all of the others on the album.
There are three or four tracks on here that if you analyze them don’t really have much instrumentation in them, ... Read review
Recorded amid the emotional chaos of his early-1970s booze bender and his temporary ... more
separation from Yoko Ono,Mind Gamesis a patchy but pleasing record that can't live with the best of Lennon, but does stand as one of his more worthwhile solo albums. Sprawling and undisciplined, it features much filler but a few genuinely great songs--most notably the massive, Oasis-humbling title track. Despite its archaic pothead imagery of "a million mind guerillas putting their shoulder to the karmic wheel", it's an instantly recognisable classic, powered by the same naked emotion as all the man's best music. The rest ofMind Gamesis inevitably overshadowed, but it is a superior Lennon solo album, and generally underrated. --Taylor Parkes
Postage & Packaging:£1.21 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Advantages: Songs in a unique style. Disadvantages: May not have universal appeal.
This is John Lennon’s very best album in my opinion and has a very reflective introspective feel to it.
I find it interesting that there are some astonishing songs on this album that rarely if ever get any radio airplay nowadays.
The title track “Mind Games” is a real blockbuster of a track that has the familiar vocal echo sound all through it. This does get airplay unlike all of the others on the album.
There ... ...analyze them don’t really have much instrumentation in them, or at least if Lennon had sang them without musical accompaniment they would sound nearly as good. These include “Out The Blue” and “Only People”. I guess this just indicates what a great natural song writer Lennon was, that he could be melodic even without any music.
My personal favourite is “One Day” (At A Time) which again is a very simple lyric and song, yet brilliant. more
This is John Lennon’s very best album in my opinion and has a very reflective introspective feel to it.
I find it interesting that there are some astonishing songs on this album that rarely if ever get any radio airplay nowadays.
The title track “Mind Games” is a real blockbuster of a track that has the familiar vocal echo sound all through it. This does get airplay unlike all of the others on the album.
There are three or four tracks on here that if you analyze them don’t really have much instrumentation in them, or at least if Lennon had sang them without musical accompaniment they would sound nearly as good. These include “Out The Blue” and “Only People”. I guess this just indicates what a great natural song writer Lennon was, that he could be melodic even without any music.
My personal favourite is “One Day” (At A Time) which again is a very simple lyric and song, yet brilliant.
Songs from this album should get far more exposure as many are very catchy indeed and have some good messages behind them too.
As a real bonus this album comes with a 32 page inlay book that has many of Lennon’s pencil drawings (some a but racy) and full lyrics of all of the songs and some other interesting bita and pieces.
Full track listings:
1. Mind Games 2. Tight A$ 3. Aisamusen (I’m Sorry) 4. One Day (At A Time) 5. Bring On The Lucie 6. Nutopian International Anthem 7. Intuition 8. Out The Blue 9. Only People 10. I Know (I Know) 11. You Are Here 12. Meat City
This review is also posted on www.dooyoo.co.uk under my user name eyedo6789
Advantages: Classic John Lennon tracks for the 70's Disadvantages: Too dated for some
and ultimately what sounds like a full orchestra. This classic track has Lennon asking the listener to consider a world which is totally peaceful, without many of the warmongering things such as greed, war, religion and hunger. As a call to a peaceful future it is all the more poignant considering that 37 years later, there are wars, in more countries, than ever.
Whatever gets you through the night.
'Whatever gets you through the night, it's alright, it's alright'
Lennon 1974
This is basically a rock track which, as the title says, accepts that whatever can get us through our lives is okay. It has Elton John on piano and backing vocals and was recorded at a time when Lennon and Ono were living apart.
MindGames
'We're playing those mindgames together, pushing the barriers planting seeds'
Lennon 1973
A track which seems to take Lennon ...
![River Is Wide, The [Remastered] - Forum (The)](http://imagesb.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/small/251/prod_small-6006251.jpg)
![Milk And Honey [Remastered] - John Lennon/Yoko Ono](http://imagesa.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/small/410/Milk_And_Honey_Remastered_John_Lennon_Yoko_Ono__6018410.jpg)
