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I personally love and adore Sometime In New York City, simply cuz i love the premise, the idea of being like a musical reporter, really shows the bastards talent to reel off songs, John Sinclair, Attica State, Luck of the Irish, they're all kinda like...issue songs, makes the album seem really like...urgent/important. I'm probably a bad person to ask, i got a bit of a blind spot about Johnny Scouse, i think everything he did was fantastic.

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Rock N Roll. It's obvious but yes I like that record. Double Fantasy. I've got a great hits thing. The first one I got was Shaved Fish? Nice.

I love Yoko, i think she gets a bad rap for nothing.

I went to a show of hers a few years ago. There was a message tree where you hang a message. I wrote Chinese democracy starts now. John was smacking bitches up inhis grave. Just in Vegas you know at the the casino.
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Yoko's songs on Double Fantasy are pretty good but you might as well hear the Lennon songs on Milk and Honey along with the Double Fantasy songs. I think Walls & Bridges and Mind Games get overlooked more than they should, and Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats is another good "Lost Weekend" album.

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I personally love and adore Sometime In New York City, simply cuz i love the premise, the idea of being like a musical reporter, really shows the bastards talent to reel off songs, John Sinclair, Attica State, Luck of the Irish, they're all kinda like...issue songs, makes the album seem really like...urgent/important. I'm probably a bad person to ask, i got a bit of a blind spot about Johnny Scouse, i think everything he did was fantastic.

cept his marriage with the untalented prehipster liberal japanese whore

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I personally love and adore Sometime In New York City, simply cuz i love the premise, the idea of being like a musical reporter, really shows the bastards talent to reel off songs, John Sinclair, Attica State, Luck of the Irish, they're all kinda like...issue songs, makes the album seem really like...urgent/important. I'm probably a bad person to ask, i got a bit of a blind spot about Johnny Scouse, i think everything he did was fantastic.

cept his marriage with the untalented prehipster liberal japanese whore

She was a genius and probably the one out of that whole movement of the 60s that had an actual pedigree as an artist, some of the best of Johns work occured whilst with Yoko and thats no coincidence, before Yoko he rrarely peeled away the layers of pisstaking to get to where he was really at.

Its a shame the fact that shes been creditted with breaking up the worlds most famous boys club because she was an artist before there was a Beatles and she has been one long since their demise, if anything she gave Lennon a platform in regards to the serious art crowd, something he didnt enjoy previously and wouldntve done without her, being a popstar.

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I personally love and adore Sometime In New York City, simply cuz i love the premise, the idea of being like a musical reporter, really shows the bastards talent to reel off songs, John Sinclair, Attica State, Luck of the Irish, they're all kinda like...issue songs, makes the album seem really like...urgent/important. I'm probably a bad person to ask, i got a bit of a blind spot about Johnny Scouse, i think everything he did was fantastic.

cept his marriage with the untalented prehipster liberal japanese whore
She was a genius and probably the one out of that whole movement of the 60s that had an actual pedigree as an artist, some of the best of Johns work occured whilst with Yoko and thats no coincidence, before Yoko he rrarely peeled away the layers of pisstaking to get to where he was really at.

Its a shame the fact that shes been creditted with breaking up the worlds most famous boys club because she was an artist before there was a Beatles and she has been one long since their demise, if anything she gave Lennon a platform in regards to the serious art crowd, something he didnt enjoy previously and wouldntve done without her, being a popstar.

Yoko is a notable conceptual artist but she isn't really as important Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George.

To be honest without her link to Lennon she'd be as well known as Richard Long if she was lucky.

I'm not too big on any of his albums in their entirety except Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. I don't think Rock N Roll really counts.

It's an interesting chapter in his solo career. A best of and that I you get the idea.
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Yoko is a notable conceptual artist but she isn't really as important Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George.

To be honest without her link to Lennon she'd be as well known as Richard Long if she was lucky.

Can't disagree with that but point being she was a somebody in the art world, all that Gustav Metzgher stuff, that was her in on that, she's a proper credible artist in the art world...can the same be said for any of those pop band lot really? On a serious art level a lot of the artistry that we speak of, in the context of pop music (and i don't necessarily agree with this position) is kinda lightweight and puerile and laughable. Then again we're often taking the piss with it too sooo..

Shes very influential in the context of the whole post punk movement too. VERY influential.

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Yoko is a notable conceptual artist but she isn't really as important Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert and George.

To be honest without her link to Lennon she'd be as well known as Richard Long if she was lucky.

Can't disagree with that but point being she was a somebody in the art world, all that Gustav Metzgher stuff, that was her in on that, she's a proper credible artist in the art world...can the same be said for any of those pop band lot really? On a serious art level a lot of the artistry that we speak of, in the context of pop music (and i don't necessarily agree with this position) is kinda lightweight and puerile and laughable. Then again we're often taking the piss with it too sooo..

Shes very influential in the context of the whole post punk movement too. VERY influential.

I don't think she's an important conceptual artist but yeah she was influential even to Young British Artists like Hirst, Emin, Lucas because although her conceptual base is not fundamental she took it in pop art direction later. So in the context of music she is was the populist front of conceptual art. She's expressing personal feels or ideas through the work. It's not formal language art. But I think she got retrospectives much earlier because of the Lennon media attention. Her work has got more populist to the point where it's almost in the Neo-conceptual bracket. It's less experimental and absurd than early on.

In conceptual art it's art because it's a new definition of art. I don't think she ever did that because she didn't really approach it in that formal way that Kosuth or LeWitt did.

So she's important figure in pop culture more than she's important to art history.

I saw a show of hers the other year it's very playful, visual and interactive

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The Yoko songs on Double Fantasy are mental; they are really demented punky electronica. In some ways they are more interesting than John's who was going through his housewife period. Pity he didn't use the Cheap Trick version of Losing You which has a lot more, bite.

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Woman is one of his best solo songs, better than Imagine. I'll say that about Double Fantasy. Might have been soft rock-ish, but the man had his songwriting chops back. Not crap Whatever Gets You Thru The Night. That crap sounded like Peter Allen. Proper gay and that.

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