And to me thats what Double Fantasy was-irrelevant. For an artist of his stature the album was just plain ordinary.
Oh, I dont know kevin. I think the production is second to none. No Lennon album has sounded this crisp (and I like this compared to his other muddy albums). It had some great songs also in my opinion. '(Just Like) Starting Over', 'Clean Up Time' (one of my favorites), 'I'm Losing You', 'Beautiful Boy' (another favorite of my wife and I), etc,,,. I felt the material was strong.
I wish wish wish he'd got a decent band behind him, or put out an accoustic album.
My God. He had Tony Levin on bass, Hugh McCraken on guitar, and Andy Newmark on drums (along with others, but this was the base band). I challenge you to find better studio musicians than these.
John sounded like what he was, some old guy out of touch with what was going on around him.
Did you want him to pretend he was something else? Like you said, he put himself out there as he was.
Like I said, for me it was a huge dissapointment, and that has coloured my views on that album ever since.
This is cool also. Thats whats cool about music. We all perceive it differently. Makes for good conversation. If we all agreed and liked the same things,,,,it would be pretty boring around here.
Mind Games is OK, but i expect more than OK from an ex-Beatle.
Then you must have been pretty disappointed with a bunch of the Beatles solo stuff. I consider 'Mind Games' to be easily better than half their entire catalogue.