What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

JOHN & YOKO/PLASTIC ONO BAND with ELEPHANTS MEMORY  "some time in NYC"  vinyl  1972.

double vinyl set...
first album is studio recordings, the second with Zappa/Mothers Of Invention live...
first album, ten tracks, Yoko vocalizes on four, then they duet on another three, that really leaves three Lennon songs...
i dont care for Zappa or Yoko so we're off to a bad start at the get-go...
his most political album...
the songs are just too lame, sounds like a sixteen year old ranting and raving about the world in which he has barely lived or seen.
Lennon is totally out of his depth with political commentary here as he tries to appease the pre-Antifa but radical Left fringe of American society, 
its one thing singing "give peace a chance' which is really a generic themed song to writing and singing more specific ones, especially on subjects you know little about...
some folkie type tunes, the melodies arent bad but in comes the wailing squawking Japanese woman and it all goes to crap...
a big letdown after the first two albums and the buying public thought so also with the album failing to make the top 10 just about everywhere back in the day, it still remains his lowest selling album scraping the barrel at a paltry one million sales in total to date...
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

best song is a loose term here,
nice lyrics but an average tune by Lennon's standards.






Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is, think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it, do something about it

We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be aslave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

Woman is the nigger of the world, yes she is
If you don't believe me take a look to the one you're with
Woman is the slave to the slaves
Ah yeah, better scream about it

We make her bear and raise our children
And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
We tell her home is the only place she should be
Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend

Woman is the nigger of the world, yes she is
If you don't believe me take a look to the one you're with
Oh woman is the slave to the slaves
Yeah, alright

We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she's young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

Woman is the nigger of the world, yes she is
If you don't believe me take a look to the one you're with
Woman is the slave to the slaves
Yes she is, if you believe me, you better scream about it

We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance
We make her paint her face and dance