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Music > Albums > John Lennon - Mind Games: Remastered (2002) Retail CD
added on January 5, 2008, at 17:34 by Sarge!

Following the sheer heart-rending brutality of "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" and the sincerely sensitive "Imagine," both qualities of which made them landmark LPs, John Lennon's third proper solo album, "Mind Games," was at the time, and still is, overlooked as a mediocre project that just serves as another addition to Lennon's legendary back catalogue. However, "Mind Games" is, in fact, an extraordinary piece of work. The production, by Lennon himself, is plain but effective, with mainly simple guitars and the odd jangling piano employed as musical aid. However, the title track features a lush string quartet much in the style of "Imagine" and "Out The Blue" boasts a heavenly choir. "Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple)" is a vicious, witty and hard-hitting attack on then-President Richard Nixon, one of Lennon's arch-nemeses. "Aisumasen" (which is 'I'm Sorry' in Japanese) is a tender apology to his wife Yoko, much in the style of "Jealous Guy" two years earlier. There's not much to be said for the album as a whole as it is not a definitive statement unlike either of its two predecessors and there's not much in the way of specially offensive or astounding lyrical content, it's just a great collection of songs.

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