Home Cooking - 2000 Remaster

After five year hiatus published John Lennon this plate shortly before his death as a comeback. He currently some, as evidenced by the title of the posthumous album "Milk and Honey", and many demonstrations on "John Lennon Anthology". (This fact also refutes his oft-quoted statement that he had "literally for 5 years not taken off the wall" his guitar.)

It is significant that John Lennon rather satisfied sounds in tone and tells of domestic bliss or everyday problems (and not as before from a cold turkey, world peace or revolution calls) fails, and therefore it is not surprising that the panel accordingly significantly more pop and less rocky than their predecessors. Although it sounds not so angry as to eg What You Got ('74), but not so whiny and self-pitying as to eg how? ('71).

After his disastrous "Some Time in New York City" (1972) this was the second "regular" John & Yoko record. My problem with this record is that you can be forced to pay Yoko Ono songs - and let's face it, just because of John we buy but this album. For that alone, there's been penalized. And I must admit that Yoko things sooo are not bad and the times of John not sooo good ... (Connoisseurs appreciate the published 1990 4-CD box set "Lennon" and others, that one on CD no. 4 all of John's songs from "Double Fantasy" and "Milk and Honey" undisturbed succession can listen away, as if they were an album.)

Production wise John Lennon has landed with this plate happy in the eighties, it sounds punchy and warm, and the musicians play very well and song serve.

From Yoko's songs I like only Yes I'm your Angel really good; the rest is rather inconsequential, and so avant-garde and new wave excessively I find her things not quite. If it is true that a real orgasm Yoko moans into the microphone at the end of Kiss Kiss Kiss, then drop me spontaneously 2, 3 singers one, which I would prefer to listen to this.

Let's talk about John Lennon's songs: are Cleanup Time and Dear Yoko also quite inconsequential album filler. Stay his 5 "hits" (Just Like) Starting over is a little stuffy, but has a nice fifties touch. I like it. His lullaby for son Sean, Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), is indeed moving from the idea, in the implementation but similarly overproduced sweet as already Goodnight for his son Julian (who was also 5 years old) from the "White Album" the Beatles. I'm losing you is a much better, dirty and bluesy; the ungeschliffenere "Anthology" version even rougher and suspense comes across. Woman, another radio hit, so to speak Lennon eighties counterpart to Girl of the Beatles; a bit slippery, a little nice goes, good ear, but it lacks a bit of bite. In addition, I have more and more difficulties when Lennon sings songs about the psychological dependence on his wife and the whole world as this "beautiful love songs" transfigured.

My favorite song on "Double Fantasy" is Watching the Wheels, a strong pop song with great harmonies that reminds me in construction and instrumentation at Imagine; only better.

In the corresponding nostalgic mood can I hear this record well; However, if the 5 called "hits" takes only the essence of the album, with the samplers "John Lennon Collection" or better yet "Working Class Hero" fully served.

Unlike appearing since 1999 editions of the Lennon albums were "Double Fantasy" and "Milk and Honey" "only" remastered, remixed not, but this was not necessary and preserves the integrity of the beautiful shots; only that the songs now full and sound earlier. In the booklet any lyrics is provided a beautiful photo to the side.

As bonus tracks there are the 15sekündigen snippets Central Park Stroll (Dialogue), which is probably taken from a movie track, and the beautiful piano demo Help me to help myself, in the Lennon lyrics with the line "they say the Lord helps Those Who Help Themselves" reference takes on an idea that even George Harrison had expressed on "Living in the Material World" in the song The Lord Loves The One (That Loves The Lord). The line "Well I try so hard to stay alive / but the angel of destruction keeps on hounding me all around" gets smacks a faint foreshadowing in retrospect.

Walking On Thin Ice by Yoko's first solo album after John's death, "Season of Glass" is, "waviger" than the rest and thus fall out of the ordinary; But since it was the last song where John is said to have worked on the day of his death, yet, it is a useful addition.