Audio CD review:
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Wedding Album

John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Wedding Album

Band: John Lennon & Yoko Ono Title: Wedding Album Rating: Release Date: 03 June, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: John & Yoko 2: Amsterdam 3: Who Has Seen the Wind? [*] - John Lennon & Yoko Ono, John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band, Yoko Ono 4: Listen, the Snow Is Falling [*] 5: Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) [*]

Customer Reviews Unfinished Music No.3 With his new avant-garde wife at his side -- and enough money in the bank to last a lifetime -- Lennon set about ruining his bank value so he could return to being a 'private citizen. The third in a series of anti-popstar releases designed to, and largely successful in, knocking John Lennon off the pedestal his fans had erected for him. ' All three albums -- Two Virgins, Life With The Lions & Wedding Album -- are potent reminders of a simpler time when artists could experiment wildly (or just be very silly) and still get released and distributed (erm, somewhat). Rykodisc nicely duplicates the original packaging and the remastered sound quality is, for 1967, pretty darn good. Of course you can't actually LISTEN to this stuff. Really Shouldn't Even Be Rated If you give high regards to abstract art that has almost no bearing of any intelligent purpose behind it, such as a bicycle wheel hanging on museum wall as dadaist art (which it is, actually), why not give the same consderation for this album? Although it should be noted that this isn't perhaps the most inviting of John or even Yoko's body of works, it's definitely worth listeing to at least once just to know whatit even sounds like. This album is not supposed to be judged as music but to be experienced as some type of audio collage, a story, a documentation of that part of John and Yoko's life. It's almost as if rating this album is pointless because you can't. Save your money!!! I bought my first John & Yoko album in 1969 ("Life with the Lions. I wish amazon allowed giving "zero" stars to an album. ") I got "ripped off," although I should have know better. . I was smart enough not to buy "Two Virgins" because of the bad reviews. I bought "Life with the Lions" without reading any reviews, but I was young, naive, and a big Lennon fan. Oh well! The John & Yoko albums released before the breakup of the Beatles were all pretty much the same. The chief instigator of these albums seems to be Yoko. Her background in the "avant garde" and "conceptual art" is apparent in these albums. The basic premise is: take a "concept" and run with it. Keep running with it for as long as possible. Let's hear John & Yoko call each other by their first names for a half-hour. Let's produce feedback and screaming longer than one can normally tolerate. After all, the big joke is that John Lennon's name is on this album. . . so even if the "concepts" are questionable and/or idiotic- lots of people will BUY this piece of vinyl because a Beatle has his name on the cover!!! "The Wedding Album" was the BIGGEST rip-off I ever experienced as a Beatles fan and purchaser of all things Beatle. When this album came out in 1969 it was priced HIGHER than a regular album because it was a big box! The graphics for this product HAD to cost more than the recording costs. The recording part of this project was interminable and amateurish. Feel like hearing John & Yoko calling each other by their first names for a half hour? Feel like hearing "home audio" of every inane bit of their "bed-in for peace?" I sometimes think the most "conceptual" thing John & Yoko could've done with this project would have been giving the customer an EMPTY box! It probably would've sounded better. Buying the CD version of "The Wedding Album" seems bizarre. The product was designed for vinyl and you lose so much graphic presentation in the CD format. The only blessing in the CD version is the inclusion of three actual SONGS. However, the three actual songs are Yoko's. So maybe it's not that big a blessing after all. All three tunes were B-sides to Plastic Ono Band singles. I don't recommend buying ANY of John & Yoko's "conceptual" albums. Do yourself a favor and make one of your own!!!. . You can see a complete list of all John Lennon & Yoko Ono discography, or go back to the John Lennon & Yoko Ono tabs