by Jones "cornhoolio" The Republic of Freedonia Reviewed on December 20th, 2004
Is what you will hear if you put the 33-1/3 original vinyl on your turntable, disconnect the belt, then use your finger to spin it backwards. Really! I'm not making this up! It's on the Yoko Ono song "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss," in the opening in which she recites something, presumably in Japanese. It is, however, backwards masking for the very distinct phrase "I Shot John Lennon."
Creepy! And, I bought my copy of "Double Fantasy" about a week before Lennon was shot.
Actually, this album ought to have been called "A Fantasy and a Nightmare." First we hear an excellent song by John, full of fresh vigor and great melodies. Then, we are exposed to the deadly radiation of some pathetic noise from Yoko the Space Alien.
I really felt sorry for John Lennon: He could have done a lot better than Yoko Ono. As an artist and musician, she made Linda McCartney look like Diane Arbus and Bonnie Raitt (in fairness, though, Linda was a pretty good photographer). I often wonder: What kind of hold did Yoko have over him to make him interlace his imaginative fare with her weird, non-sequiter screechings?
To grasp the full impact of how this album is pieced together, take two science-fiction classic movies, Robert Wise's "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Superficially, they seem very similar, but just splice them together in alternating 5-minute intervals and you'll find yourself reaching for the remote control to get back to "Day the Earth Stood Still" because it keeps getting interrupted by that incompetent movie.
Unless, of course, you like a movie so bad that it's immortal. Listening to Yoko Ono for pleasure is in the same league.
Best songs: "I'm Losing You," "Woman," and "Watching the Wheels," and -- of course -- "Starting Over."
Too bad, though, that Lennon wasn't starting over with Cynthia, who bore his more talented son, Julian.
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