John Lennon-Menlove Ave. (1986)
Artist: John Lennon
Label: Capitol
Format: LP
Cat #: SJ-12533
Year of Release: 1986
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1986
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 7/2/21
Sell Price: $24.99
Discogs Last Sold: 5/30/21 VG+/VG+ $23.69
Low: $15.00 VG+/VG corner cut out
Median: $23.69
Average: $25.49
High: $45.11 M/M sealed
Current low price: $23.80
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 22
Have/Want: 904/273
Where Sold: Hawkinsville, GA
Time it took to sell: 5 years
Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums $7.99 new upon release
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B
Sad To See It Go: No
Walls and Bridges is probably my least favorite Lennon album released in his lifetime. This outtakes record incorporates that one plus some from Mind Games and Rock and Roll. When this "stripped-down" version of outtakes from that era came out, I was excited. These were supposedly unadorned outtakes. Of course, the reverb on John's vocals often make for an echo chamber, but that was how he liked it. Stuff like this sounded better what you spent $25 on bootleg vinyl mastered from 3-generation cassette made surreptitiously by the secretary's boyfriend in the next room. Spectorizaton of Spector's "To Know Her Is To Love Her" sounds revelatory when one thinks of how the Beatles did it at the Beeb over a decade before.
The big hit here for me was "Steel and Glass,” along with "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out),” “Scared” and the song Lennon insisted Jagger nicked for "Miss You," "Bless You" which closes this set. The Spectorized album opener "Here We Go Again" seems a little similar to "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)" combined with "Mother"- clearly this was left behind for a reason. 1973-5 should have been a blip in time, yet it became a period under the magnifying glass.
Sadly fate made that blip a protracted scenario.
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