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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 24-AUG-1988
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Roundly pilloried at the time of its 1986 release as a posthumous barrel-scraping, Menlove Avenue is actually a much more complicated proposition. While it’s true that the album’s 10 tracks are merely outtakes from Lennon’s troubled 1974-1975 studio sessions, the music here is fairly enlightening and occasionally even excellent. The five songs originally recorded for Rock ‘N’ Roll are admittedly pretty awful; it’s no wonder that these soggy versions of « Angel Baby » and « To Know Her Is to Love Her » didn’t make it onto the album, or that John fobbed « Rock and Roll People » off on Johnny Winter instead of releasing it himself. But the second half rescues five great Walls and Bridges cuts from the over-produced murk of their « official » versions, and the results are nothing less than sublime. Recommended to hardcore Lennonists with a soft spot for Walls and Bridges; everyone else should probably avoid it. –Dan Epstein
