Double Fantasy (studio album) by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

From lleon79 12/01/2022 16:06

If Yoko didn't have a history with John Lennon and The Beatles, and this would've released only under her name, you would all be praising her music

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From Jboy56 02/10/2022 15:50

A very strange and polarized album with 5 excellent songs ( Woman, Starting Over, I'm Losing You, Beautiful Boy,& Watching The wheels ). All the rest and Yoko's songs are goofy and downright do not belong to this album. An EP would have sufficed.

Posiblemente, la mejor colección de canciones de Lennon desde, al menos, Imagine. Woman, Just Like Starting Over, Watching The Wheels... Desgraciadamente, los temas de Yoko bajan mucho el nivel.

Half of the album is fantastic with some of Lennon's best ballads, the other half is Yoko ; Like her as well her but her musical ability fails to come through and be recognised and instead serves as a reminder that this isn't a John Lennon album.

Album Rating: 70.08
(981/14)

Strange album. Some solo Lennon classics interspersed with honey-glazed, syrupy Lennon nonsense and Yoko Ono, Nico inspired flecks of inconsistency. I quite like some of the Kill Bill vibe Ono moments (‘Beautiful Boys’).

‘Woman’, ‘Dear Yoko’ and especially ‘Beautiful Boy’ are diabetes inducing and would have been cringe bothering even if they hadn’t been released to the public. John probably changed the lyrics from when he used to sing these tracks to Cynthia over a plate of scouse.

1. "(Just Like) Starting Over" John Lennon - 80
2. "Kiss Kiss Kiss" Yoko Ono - 71
3. "Cleanup Time" Lennon - 62
4. "Give Me Something" Ono - 72
5. "I'm Losing You" Lennon - 73
6. "I'm Moving On" Ono - 84
7. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" Lennon - 48

Side two

1. "Watching the Wheels" Lennon - 84
2. "Yes, I'm Your Angel[A]" Ono - 52
3. "Woman" Lennon - 56
4. "Beautiful Boys" Ono - 85
5. "Dear Yoko" Lennon - 61
6. "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" Ono - 81
7. "Hard Times Are Over" Ono - 72

This is the last record by John Lennon after a 5 years hiatus with some good musicians and a good isnpiration. Half of the songs are by Lennon and are good, half of the songs are by Yoko Ono and they are just rubbish.

I like it but not as much as I was hoping, I was hoping to be more pro yoko and though in concept I admire the raw singing approach in practice it can sometimes be not that enjoyable, I will say the sound of her voice is nice, it’s just her having no control that isn’t. That said I do admire some of the out there moments, like all of kiss kiss kiss I guess though I do gotta question why this song full of sex noises is on an album with tributes to their son, not really fair on the kid I thought, gonna be an uncomfortable listen if he explores past the tracks for him. Of course though the best moments are from Lennon, Starting Over being my favourite. An odd, divisive album that I could see surprising a lot of people.

What an incredibly strange album. It has some pieces that have merits, but the sum of its parts is undeniably inferior to the end result. It was a brave and interesting experiment, though ultimately it says more about how infatuated John was with Yoko than it speaks of any kind of vision for this album. Unless that was the vision. And it may have been...

I actually think some of Yoko's songs are pretty interesting, but if I was an average music listener buying this record in 1980 I would have been extremely put off by her songs, which is probably one of the reasons why she is villainized so much among Beatles/Lennon fans. But here's what makes this album so unique. When else has an artist of such an exalted status made such an anti-pop, hodgepodge of an album. I have an extremely hard time believing that anyone listened to this and said "Good! Done!"

Unfortunately, some of John's songs are the weakest in my opinion, which isn't to say they are poorly *written*--some of them are quite beautifully done elsewhere--but the production style has aged extremely poorly. So even most of what are considered the highlights of this album really don't even work that well for me. At the end of the day what's remarkable about this album is how far it strays from the norm for a "mainstream" release, and how much of an unashamed critical failure it was allowed to be because "all you need is love".

Bought it when it came out. I tried to like it cause it's John. But in the end it's only ok and none of the songs by Lennon are up to his finest compositions. Then there's Yoko. Yoko can't sing. Yoko is not a songwriter. However, I will give her an A+ for audacity.