"Nobody Told Me" is a great single, awkward lyrics and everything. Right behind it is "I Don't Wanna Face It," as fierce, cutting, and ambivalent about domesticity as Double Fantasy was not. Throw in Yoko's best love song ("You're The One") and cod-reggae track with a lovely lilting melody and great scatting from Lennon ("[Living On] Borrowed Time") and you have a comeback album worthy of the legend.
I always thought it'd be great if both albums were packaged together: the first CD would feature the cozy Hollywood-ready paens to domestic bliss (Double Fantasy), the second would have the uncertain, pained questions (Milk & Honey).
What say you?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 13 August 2005 13:06 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 13 August 2005 15:39 (7 years ago) Permalink
Milk & Honey is the sound of a barrell being scraped.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 August 2005 22:30 (7 years ago) Permalink
Actually, it's far from a scraping-barrel album, as most of those songs were recorded (and intended) as Lennon-Ono's next album.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 13 August 2005 22:37 (7 years ago) Permalink
Regarding "Milk & Honey" I have two main problems about it. One is the unfinishedness of the entire Lennon thing (I mean, "Grow Old With Me" could have been fantastic had he ever been able to finish it), but there is also the Yoko tracks. Sure there are Yoko tracks on "Double Fantasy" too, but the presence of Lennon means they are sort of refined and works out in a way whereas the Yoko tracks on "Milk & Honey" are just terrible and nothing else.
So it's "Double Fantasy" all the way to me. Lennon's most underrated solo album in retrospect, even though I know it sold bucketloads following his death.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:32 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:51 (6 years ago) Permalink
Double Fantasy - Yoko winsMilk & Honey - John wins
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Friday, 22 October 2010 13:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
I quite like "Grow Old With Me", rough around the edges as it is. Wasn't it scheduled to be the third "comeback" single after "Real Love"?
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmm not sure. the Glen Campbell version of that from last year is pretty nice, works well.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Friday, 22 October 2010 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Lennon tracks on "Double Fantasy" were the best he'd done since "Magical Mystery Tour".
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^ Well, that was a post to end this with for two months.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
Geir is a bitter old man, isn't he?
― best autmn alnamac with ten-letter single-word username (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP),
Truth.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
double fantasy is a much better album than Milk & Honey for both of them. ON DF, Yoko's songs are incredible, still sound vital; John's songs are polished and smoothe, sure, but assured and very very good (yes, MOR, but you know, really good MOR). Milk and Honey has some good John songs and some throwaways, and I don't remember a thing about the majority of Yoko's songs (which weren't from the same sessions anyway).
So DF wins. One of my favorite albums.
― akm, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
M&H boats "You're The One," a spectacular Yoko ballad with a weird sampled cricket effect and discordant synth. It should've been on Season of Glass.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
weird I don't think I have Milk and Honey. But I do have Season of Glass, which is a deeply strange record
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw I got Approximately Infinite Universe last week: woefully uneven but my favorite of her albums.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^the high points of that album are unbelievable. "What a Bastard the World Is"!!
― "Information by surprise" is even legal in Sweden (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
The title track, "Yangyang," "I Feel Like Smashing My Face....," "Bastard," "Death of Samantha," "Peter the Dealer" (Yoko does Steely Dan). At least ten killer tracks.
Anyway.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
AIU is really really good. It makes the stuff on M&H seem pretty limp.
Season of Glass was kind of cool
― akm, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
On a Yoko binge last week, I gave SOG another listen. It's true: the clinical production and archness of some of her songwriting strophes makes for a weirdly compelling listen.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 22:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Speaking of Yoko, I LOVE this jam between her, Lennon, Voorman and Ringo circa POB.
― Darin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
pretty prescient that double fantasy begins with an email notification chime
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
Giving Double Fantasy some overdue dues: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-double-fantasy.html
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 14:09 (3 months ago) Permalink
nice
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 14:25 (3 months ago) Permalink
I always liked the production and combination of high piano and vocal on the rather poignant "Grow Old With Me" off M&H, although DF is the better album overall.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 14:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
i really do love this album (df)
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 14:48 (3 months ago) Permalink
Apparently the Yoko solo catalogue will be reissued this year (according to an article about her birthday concert).
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:43 (3 months ago) Permalink
listening to this album for the first time in years, it's kinda striking how dark and dissonant yoko's songs are. you always hear about how critics dismissed this album as this nicey-nicey portrait of a happy perfect marriage but if you listen to all the yoko songs in a row she sounds like she's ready to kill him half the time. and marcello's right about how creepy it is to hear her calling john a 'phony.' whereas john's songs all seem to be floating in this gauze-y fantasy world where yoko hasn't said any of that stuff -- except for 'i'm losing you.' and maybe 'starting over,' which sort of hints that they've been through some rough shit and it's time to move on.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 06:17 (3 months ago) Permalink