by Tnahpellee "Brendan" Australia Reviewed on November 17th, 2004
... who don't like this album. I don't know how anyone could give this a low rating. It's only 4.5/5.0 in the average custopmer rating? How-come? Any way, I'd liek to tell you this album features some excellent rock n roll numbers that have a high level of originality. They are long songs but they're infectious grooves hold you for the full 5 to 6 minutes. Then on the other side fo the coin are some heartmoving ballads, Oh my lover, which has a gorgeous melody, Jealous guy and the famous title track. I can't help but feel that the arrangements for those three songs might have been inspired by 'Your Song' but I don't have proof. Then to throw in diversity, John throws in a hillbilly number, 'Crippled inside' and an underproduced, introspective song, 'how?'. That last one is too depressing for my tastes but you might like it. The rockers feature a mini-wall of sound which is used to wonderful effect. For exmaple, the social statment 'How do you sleep?' features the wall of sound complete with a dramatic string arrangement, a blistering slide guitar and a roaring rhythm guitar. But it's not as overproduced as say 'The long and winding road' and trust me, it sounds great. The ballads are very underproduced and sound very sincere. Oh Yoko is a lighter song that is a folky piano rock n roll song that has great harmonica at the end. My favourite sogns are: I don't wanna be a solider [cause it rock's and it's got such a great groove], Imagine, Oh my love, Oh Yoko and Gimme some truth.
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