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Walls and Bridges |  | Artist: John Lennon
Label: EMI Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 7368
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 40971
UPC: 094634097123
EAN: 0094634097123
ASIN: B000AYQLX6
Release Date: November 7, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Going Down On Love | | • | Whatever Gets You Thru The Night | | • | Old Dirt Road | | • | What You Got | | • | Bless You | | • | Scared | | • | #9 Dream | | • | Surprise Surprise | | • | Steel And Glass | | • | Beef Jerky | | • | Ya Ya | | • | Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (Live With Elton John) (Bonus Track) | | • | Nobody Loves You (When Youre Down And Out) (Alternate Version) (Bonus Track) | | • | John Interview With Bob Mercer (Bonus Track) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The careful burnishing of John Lennon's daunting legend usually obscures one telling fact: the former Beatle endured a long and troubling artistic slump in the mid-'70s. Indeed, his five-year retirement/househusband phase may have been one of the shrewdest career moves he ever made. Cut in Los Angeles during his prolonged "lost weekend" estrangement from Yoko Ono, IWalls and Bridges/I too often sacrifices the sublime for the ridiculous--that is, when it's not being altogether superfluous. Still, "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," Lennon's boisterous collaboration with Elton John, scored him his first No. 1 record as a solo artist, and compelling tracks like "Steel and Glass," "Going Down on Love," and "#9 Dream" belie the artistic genius Lennon was literally drowning in copious rounds of Brandy Alexanders during the period. I--Jerry McCulley/I
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 A Masterpiece November 6, 2005
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
One of the three untouchable peaks of Lennon#x27;s solo career (with POB Imagine), WB is a nearly perfect blue eyed soul album. The songs are strong and the production beautifully understated. His last great album......
lost weekend? not musically......... March 16, 2009
yerblues (london)
After initially disliking this album and feeling it was inferior to Mind Games (i was 13 at the time), I filed it away for over 30 years. Now, after hearing the remastered cd this week I have completely revised my opinion.... For me it now ranks as a major piece of work and is up there with the best of Lennons solo output. Supported by first class musicians - jim keltner (drums) klaus voormann (bass), Nicky Hopkins (piano) Bobby Keys (sax)- there are several songs that easily rank with anything off Imagine and Plastic Ono Band i.e. Going down on love, Scared, Bless you, #9 Dream, Nobody loves you when you are down and out...The remaining songs are all strong, even the instrumental Beef Jerky is enjoyable. Lennon is in fine voice - his vocals, especially in Scared and Nobody Loves you .. send shivers as his best work does..
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 Working Weekend January 4, 2006
Dudley Serious
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Upon Yoko booting John out of the house in 1973, Lennon spent his so-called "lost weekend" in Los Angeles with various boozy mates until reuniting with Mrs Lennon late in #x27;74. The phrase "lost weekend" is misleading though, because if John was at a low ebb personally, he was productive artistically, making an album of rock#x27;n#x27;roll covers and this seriously underrated set, "Walls and Bridges".pSpending his time in L.A. where the sun always shone and the wine always flowed, this album is John#x27;s most "American", with a stack of sax, brass and strings fleshing out the sound, more than a hint of a soul swagger and a warm, mellow west coast production. The musical arrangements and production style contrast markedly with the lyrical content, which dwells on feelings of loneliness and loss. The opening track "Going Down on Love" for example, with its laid back funk and cool sax, includes lyrics such as "You know I#x27;m drowning in a sea of hatred".pOther titles like "Scared" and "Nobody Loves You (When You#x27;re Down and Out") add to the expressions of cynicism and desire to recapture something missing in his life. Yoko for a start, perhaps. And a longing for a renewed sense of direction generally. He sounds happiest when he escapes into the other-worldly realms filled with memories of better times evoked on "Old Dirt Road" and most famously on "#9 Dream". That sense of searching and yearning carries over to the album#x27;s artwork, depicting a number of John#x27;s paintings from primary school days. pThe most famous song here is "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night". The story goes that Lennon agreed to play live with Elton John if this single reached no.1, little thinking it would. But it did, and Elton John introduced a surprise guest to his audience later that year. This reissue of "Walls and Bridges" includes their live performance of "Whatever Gets You Through The Night". That#x27;s great but our friends at EMI are not being as generous as they#x27;d like you to think. At that show John also performed "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There", which have surfaced on bootlegs in the past so why not here now?p"Walls and Bridges" is, then, not only a document, a diary almost of a turbulent time in John Lennon#x27;s life. It is also a collection of high quality, emotionally charged and mostly sad songs given a deceptively lush setting. That#x27;s California for you I suppose. Ignore the "lost weekend" dismissals, this is Lennon in great musical if not personal shape.
Lennon in contemplative mood November 17, 2005
David (London, United Kingdom)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
It is inappropriate to rate a Lennon album other than at the level of enjoyment perhaps. Certainly not comparitively, i.e better,as good as or not as good as Imagine, the album which tends to be the yardstick for his other albums to match up to. Walls and Bridges is a certain mood album, early morning music, as the NME described it. The mood is certainly not uplifting, how could it be with songs such as Going Down on Love, Scared and Nobody Loves You? These are strong but doleful songs. However, No 9 Dream is pure Lennon and harks back to his Walrus and Lucy creativity. The opening bars lead into an ethereal, vocal and melodically enchanting experience. The album is worth purchasing for this song alone, I never tire of not just listening to it but being carried away by it. Steel Glass is Lennon at his best vocally. Few, if any rock singers, could hold a note for as long and as emotionally felt as Lennon does. Even the fade out humming is laden with emotional content. A major criticism of mine is the smothering of a brilliant voice with layers of instruments. Nobody Loves You should be a classic Lennon accoustic guitar number, but his unfortunate lack of confidence in the quality of his voice is drowned out instead by heavy handed brass and fiddle sections. Elton John adds spice to the two jaunty tracks that he appears on, and Harry Nilson is a wise partner on the bluesy, laid back Old Dirt Road. All in all, it is a mood album albeit excellent one, and stands apart from his other albums because of this.
Better with hindsight February 20, 2006
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I remember buying this album when it first came out and thinking that it was "OK" - noot great, just OK. returning to it many years later, I#x27;m surprisd how much better it sounds than I remembered it. There are some really good tracks here, and the production is excellent too. So I#x27;m glad I rescued it from the conderella slot in my mind. You should so so too.
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