Mind Games John Lennon Lyrics
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Lost John Lennon Tapes Allegedly Found Nightwatcher's House Of Rock — Aussie music website Undercover.com is reporting that a recording claimed to be a rare and unreleased John Lennon recording session has gone on sale in the USA. The recording available at www.lennontapes.com claims to have been recorded on August 19, 1980 at the Hit Factory in New York. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were recording the ‘Double Fantasy’ album as well as ‘Milk and Honey’ at the Hit Factory. These recordings if for real sound like vocal warm-ups for John and feature covers of ‘Mystery Train’, ‘Stay’ and ‘Dream Lover’. Info at ...
Previously Unreleased Lennon Tapes Alleged To Have Surfaced Gibson Lifestyle - News — ... on August 19, 1980, during the Double Fantasy sessions. The recordings appear to contain warm-up vocals for three covers tracks: the Bobby Darrin hit Dream Lover, the Elvis Presley classic Mystery Train, and a medley centered on the much-covered doo-wop standard, Stay. If the recordings are authentic, which they appear to be, the rights presumably would belong to Yoko Ono. The Lennontapes website contains a lengthy backstory that purports to explain how the recordings surfaced. To listen to snippets, and to read the supposed backstory, click here.
Previously Unreleased Lennon Tapes Alleged To Have Surfaced [News] All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com — ... warm-up vocals for three covers tracks: the Bobby Darrin hit " Dream Lover ," the Elvis Presley classic " Mystery Train ," and a medley centered on the much-covered doo-wop standard, " Stay ." If the recordings are authentic, which they appear to be, the rights presumably would belong to Yoko Ono . The Lennontapes website contains a lengthy backstory that purports to explain how the recordings surfaced. To listen to snippets, and to read the supposed backstory, click here . Thanks for the report to ...
Following Sgt. Pepper in 1967, The Beatles directed and starred in a TV movie called Magical Mystery Tour. This, youve probably already guessed, is (partially) the soundtrack to that film.John Lennon - Rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney - Bass guitar
George Harrison - Lead guitar
Ringo Starr - drums
They all sang. Now, here we go.
Magical Mystery Tour - Kind of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Bands little brother - it introduces the album as kind of a narrative (which none of the other songs follow up on). Like that other title song, its pretty light on substance, but its not bad. 7/10
The Fool On The Hill - I dont know if its great, really, but its definitely better than Magical Mystery Tour. 8/10
Flying - One of the few instrumentals ever put out by The Beatles, and I think the only one put out during their recording career. I think this might be one of the most insubstantial song that the group ever put out (at least, that lasts longer than 30 seconds). But its nice and relaxing, so there. 7/10
Blue Jay Way - This song seems to have been designed specifically to put you to sleep. Which is not altogether inappropriate, since the song is about how tired George is and how badly he wants sleep. Its not exactly a bad song, but you do need to be in the mood for it. So7/10
Your Mother Should Know - Paul attempts to follow up When Im Sixty-Four, and its an okay tune, but not particularly memorable, and Paul seems to run out of words halfway through. 7/10
I Am The Walrus - Probably the highlight of the soundtrack half of the album. John makes a conscious attempt at making absolutely no sense and succeeds - I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. The siren-like piano and crazy orchestra make it sound like a bad drug trip. Seriously, its so completely insane you almost like it based on that alone. Well, I do, anyway. 9/10
Hello, Goodbye - John Lennon criticized Hello, Goodbye, saying that the lyrics didnt say anything. You gotta admit, he kind of has a point. Still, the music more than makes up for anything the lyrics lack, so there. 8/10
Strawberry Fields Forever - Undeniably one of the most influential songs in the history of popular music, there really is no other word for this one except genius. Allegedly, Brian Wilson pulled the plug on the Beach Boys project he was working on at the time after he heard this because he realized that The Beatles had accomplished what he was attempting (to be fair, there were other issues involved there). 10/10
Penny Lane - Issued on a double A-side with Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane isnt quite as obviously psychadelic as its disc-mate. Nevertheless, its certainly a worthy companion, and itself a great song. 10/10
Baby, Youre A Rich Man - The verse of this song sounds amazingly like Put A Little Love In Your Heart. Nothing much to say here except that, yeah. Good song. 8/10
All You Need Is Love - The music alone would make it a classic, but the real reason this song will be remembered is the lyrics - of all of John Lennons statement songs (other songs in this category include Revolution, Give Peace A Chance, Imagine and Mind Games), this is probably the best. And to anyone wishing to bash it on the basis of you need food, shelter, oxygen, etc, I would like to point out that if you try to interpret any other song John wrote in 1967 literally, your brain will explode - I see no reason why that should change now. Anyway, great song. 10/10
Magical Mystery Tour is unique. I may have mentioned this in a previous review, but the Beatles albums were completely re-sequenced in the American market. Since songs from singles were often kept off of albums in Britain, when transplanted to America, the songs from the singles would be placed on the albums, with other songs dropped to bring it down to what was then a normal album running time. They were also placed in a different order, given different covers, and re-titled. When putting out another Beatles album, they would include songs ay yet unreleased, while also gathering singles together and putting them onto a disc with whatever other songs The Beatles had just delivered. It wasnt uncommon, in fact, for new albums to be created entirely from leftovers. Anyway, Magical Mystery Tour is one example of this practice - in Britain, it was released as a double-EP, with a total of six songs. The American version, however, combined those six songs with the various non-album singles released by The Beatles in 1967 and released it as a full album.
Nothing surprising there.
The surprising part comes about 20 years later. In 1987, all of The Beatles songs were being released on CD, so they decided to take this opportunity to standardize the catalogue. The British versions of the albums were all made the official versions, with one exception - that is, of course, this one.
It wasnt quite the cultural phenomenon Sgt. Pepper was, but its arguably just as good of an album.
8/10