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Subject: Re: Your Honest First Reaction to Double Fantasy
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 17:53:27 -0600
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On 2024-12-09 13:00:50 +0000, Norbert said:

> I found it depressing and felt that Lennon sounded like a spent force.
> 
> Everyone knew Yoko would be a trainwreck.
> 
> Suppose MDC had not happened.  Would Lennon have had a future as a
> songwriter?  I think he would have if he had gotten away from Yoko and
> stopped penning dreary odes to her.

I think all of John's songs are pretty good, they should have put them 
all on one side and Yoko's songs on the other. Of course John would be 
the first to object to that. Thankfully programmable CD players came 
along not too long after 1980 (I also have a burned CD with only John's 
songs on it).

Ironically I don't mind Yoko's songs on Milk & Honey at all, I actually 
listen to those and the album straight through (her post-death material 
is really poignant).