Archive for the ‘1974’ Category
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Ya Ya
25 Apr 2025At first glance the version of “Ya Ya” that ends Walls and Bridges appears to be a throwaway, possibly intended…
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Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down and Out)
06 Apr 2025Nobody did self-pity like John Lennon. From “Help” to “I’m So Tired” and “Yer Blues” to “Crippled Inside,” he was…
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Beef Jerky
12 Mar 2025Finally, it’s “Beef Jerky” time: For those of you keeping score at home, “Beef Jerky” is the 10th of the…
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Steel and Glass
28 Feb 2025“Steel and Glass” is another Lennon diss track (see also: “How Do You Sleep?”), but it’s not clear who the…
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Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
22 Feb 2025We are now almost six months past the 50th anniversary of the release of Walls and Bridges, but I promised…
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#9 Dream
12 Feb 2025As I listen along through Walls and Bridges, some songs I quite like, some are just OK, and “Bless You”…
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Scared
20 Jan 2025Emotional honesty was the Lennon brand, and whereas “Bless You” seemed a bit half-assed and forced, “Scared” has it in…
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Bless You
15 Jan 2025I bent over backwards to be nice about “What You Got.” I’m not going to do the same for “Bless…
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What You Got
12 Jan 2025“You never know what you have until it’s gone, and I wanted to know what I had, so I got…
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Old Dirt Road
02 Jan 2025Just as “Going Down on Love” was not (entirely) about cunnilingus, “Old Dirt Road” is not about anal sex. Well,…