Re: Your Honest First Reaction to Double Fantasy

On 2024-12-09 13:00:50 +0000, Norbert said:

I found it depressing and felt that Lennon sounded like a spent force.
 Everyone knew Yoko would be a trainwreck.
 Suppose MDC had not happened.  Would Lennon have had a future as a
songwriter?  I think he would have if he had gotten away from Yoko and
stopped penning dreary odes to her.

I think all of John's songs are pretty good, they should have put them all on one side and Yoko's songs on the other. Of course John would be the first to object to that. Thankfully programmable CD players came along not too long after 1980 (I also have a burned CD with only John's songs on it).
Ironically I don't mind Yoko's songs on Milk & Honey at all, I actually listen to those and the album straight through (her post-death material is really poignant).