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Experimental Albums
« on: July 24, 2007, 04:06:40 AM »

Just out of curiosity, how come no one on this forum ever mentions these experimental John/Yoko albums?

-Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins
-Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions
-Wedding Album

Sure, they're not what most would consider actual music, but they're pretty interesting albums. The oddly hypnotic "John & Yoko" from Wedding Album and the ear-shattering "Cambridge 1969" from Life With The Lions are some of the most interesting, in my book.
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2007, 07:13:23 AM »

I think I listened to it only once. I was shocked and ashamed.
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2007, 08:28:34 AM »

I have to confess, I've never heard any of them. Nor Georges Electronic Sounds.
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2007, 08:31:21 AM »

I was dismayed and vexed.
Though I have never listened to them.
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2007, 08:49:41 AM »

I can't stand Yoko at the best of times - and no, I don't blame her - even her stuff on Lennon's solo albums makes me gag, so I think this stuff is hardly going to fill my world with joy.

Give us your own personal review then. Make me want to hear them.
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2007, 10:33:43 AM »

I have all three of the ablums, all bought in different countries! I don't hardly listen to them though, apart from life w/lions and a bit of wedding album occaisonally. Wedding ablum is the most interesting IMO, cuz it has like interviews!
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2007, 10:32:07 PM »

I was shocked & stunned! ;D :P
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2007, 10:36:34 PM »

Yeah, shocked. And stunned.
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2007, 10:45:22 PM »

Very Stunned! ;D
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2007, 08:41:31 AM »

And shocked!
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2007, 10:29:44 PM »

I didn't know wheather John was taking the p*ss when he released these with
Yoko. :P I'm sure it was amusing when they did them.. but to release them?
Two Virgins is quite funny when i listen to it. ;D
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2007, 08:21:02 AM »

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I didn't know wheather John was taking the p*ss when he released these with
Yoko. :P I'm sure it was amusing when they did them.. but to release them?
Two Virgins is quite funny when i listen to it. ;D

I think "I'm a genius" John truly believed he was producing cutting edge art at the time. Maybe he was. Avante gard isn't my cup of tea so it all looks/sounds like rubbish to me, but I know that's because I don't understand it. Not that I want to.
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2007, 11:25:30 PM »

Ying/Yang, Oriental/Occidental, Flotsam/Jetsam, Good/Evil--you get the point--one extreme or the other.  John had been so cooped up in the proverbial 'Beatle bubble', that he took his leverage to do whatever he wanted, so why not thrash and lash out any way he pleased?  Didn't make for much entertainment, I mean, if you are having a nice dinner or (God forbid) housework, none of the 3 albums makes for good soundtrack or even white noise (though that's literally what it is).  I'm like most of you--listen to it once out of curiosity and put it in the collectible pile of yer memorabilia.  I read somewhere that John considered these to be disposable, like newspapers, that you read once and then thrown away.  The irony of this is that  they charged a fairly hefty price for the time, and my Japanes imports (with virgin vinyl) were pretty expensive.  Oh well, worth it for a Beatlegeek like me.          
      

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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2007, 02:43:47 AM »

and how about those movies they made??????
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« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2007, 03:01:52 AM »

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and how about those movies they made??????

I guess some of the movies like "Fly" are getting alot of aclaim in Japan and parts of Europe.  So the Ocean Child is getting her due, but I don't buy it.  Art for art's sake, free-form jazz that is just a bunch of crap but gets lauded as art is for the feeble or those that must be more cerebral than I am (it's usually just for the people that don't 'get it').  Wotever you enjoy, I guess.

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« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2007, 02:41:46 PM »

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and how about those movies they made??????

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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2007, 10:02:45 PM »

What it means the notes by George Martin in the 'Wedding Album'. You know... 'No comment.'  ::) ?
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2008, 12:10:04 AM »

I've heard Unfinished Music One a few times, I downloaded it to see if I liked it. I thought there was some interesting moments but it didn't merrit a purchase of one of the cd reissues. I didn't think it was as good a sound collage as Revolution 9.

I've never heard Unfinished 2 or Wedding Album.
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« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2008, 01:30:17 AM »

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I've never heard Unfinished 2 or Wedding Album.

let's save it that way!  ;D
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Re: Experimental Albums
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2008, 07:03:00 AM »

If I remember correctly, "Life With The Lions" was released on a short-lived Apple subsidiary label called Zapple, the premise of which was that it was meant to be a sort of a "paperback records" concept which would consist of reduced price releases intended to be listened to once and then (appropriately) thrown away. I wonder how many people besides lunatics like me actually listened to its nearly sixty minutes even that once, and it goes without saying that of course copies of the originals now fetch large prices from collectors. Rykodisc reissued all three of Lennon's avant garde albums around 1997 (along with Ono's entire catalog, in what cynics might suspect was an Anthology cash in), but if you really want to hear these, free downloads are easily obtainable.
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