Walls and Bridges
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Yo, was just ?working? over here
.. and I?m in this terrible habit of building random post material on a Word doc 
throughout the day as I listen to Youtube, or google up random sites.. ah as the days go by.. and then sometimes if I feel its warranted, if the bits eventually form something coherent, I post them! I mean if you could see this mess of a word doc I have going here 
Anyway, just came up with the complete Walls & Bridges album, in running order, with photographs which I?ve loosely correlated with the songs ! Hope you might enjoy a listen every now and then. By all means, share a thought or two on this tremendously underrated album. Or how bout this.. whats your favorite track on W&B? There are about 5 timeless classic on there for me. well I get up in the morning and I?m looking in the mirror to see ooo ooo wee Walls and Bridges Going Down On Love -
Love this album, nice work(and LOL at the beef jerkey pic) It's really a great album. It has a dated sound and some of the songs are overproduced IMO, but I enjoy it for what it is.
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Great post Kapoo. I love this album. Always have. My favorites are "Going Down on Love", "Surprise, Surprise" and "#9 Dream".
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Still my fave John Solo album..thanks..
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Glad you guys/gals dig it too! It?s a really cool album, on the real! Released on Apple, produced by John, played on by some good players including Jesse Ed ?I?m no George? Davis, Jim ?ain?t no Ringo? Keltner, and Klaus ?got nothing on Paul? Voorman. AKA, the Plastic Ono Nuclear Band.
Keith?s ?Move Over Ms L?
The booklet and liner notes, for those of us that have the vinyl packaging, are cool stuff. Obviously the cover and John?s childhood drawings are nice to have.. but I like how its laid out, clearly who plays what on each track. and I get a kick out of the looseness of it all. All the different aliases John uses; Dr. Winston O?Ghurkin, the Honorable John St. John Johnson (Whatever Gets U Through the Night), Reverend Thumbs Ghurkin (Old Dirt Road), Kaptain Kundalini (What You Got), Rev. Fred Ghurkin (Bless You), Mel Torment (Scared), Dr. Dream (#9 Dream), Dr. Winston Reggae (Steel and Glass), Dwarf McDougal (Nobody Loves You), and Dr. Winston and Booker Table and the Maitre d?s.. and don?t forget the shout out to ?the Philharmanic Orchestrange Spector always lurking about.. you have an Elton sighting here, and Harry sighting there.. and the liner notes even show a young Jimmy ?What It Is? Iovine as the over-dub engineer! 
My favorite trax in order I suppose would have to go like this: 1. Surprise Surprise 2. Whatever Gets You Through The Night 3. Old Dirt Road 4. Nobody Loves You 5. #9 Dream 6. Going Down On Love 7. What You Got 8. Bless You 9. Scared 10. Beef Jerky 11. Steel and Glass 12. Ya Ya Walls and Bridges to me feels like the oasis I think it was for John, ducking in out of the shit storm that was Los Angeles to get some thoughts on tape. It was during the W&Bs sessions he also did the Goodnight Vienna and Only You demos, as well as the track Move Over Ms L which he ended up leaving off W&Bs so it could appear fresh on his boy Keith Moon?s solo record. Moon?s album came out with that track on it, and then Lennon released his version as the B-Side to Stand By Me about a week later. That?s cool. John?s ?Move Over Ms L? 
"Possession is nine-tenths of the problem" - Dr. Winston O'Boogie.
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Favourite Lennon album, I'd rate it as : 1 What You Got 2 Scared 3 No 9 Dream 4 Going Down On Love 5 Steel & Glass 6 Bless You 7 Suprise Surprise 8 Old Dirt Road 9 Whatever Gets You Thru The Night 10 Nobody Loves You 11 Beef Jerky 12 Ya Ya
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well it's Saturday night and I just gotta rip it up... Sunday morning I just gotta give it up... come Monday momma and I just gotta run away.. You know it's such a drag to face another day! Macca Mad, some days I?m right with you on What You Got being ranked way up there.. but yesterday apparently wasn?t one of those days for me
that song is strong though, heavy yet catchy riff. John was really pushing the vocals on that one, nearly overdoing it with the rasp. But thats sort of why its great too 
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walls and 1 bridge. 
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listening to this right now
Well I was wondering how long this could go on On and on Well I thought I could never be surprised But could it be that I bit my own tongue Oh yeah Its so hard to swallow when you?re wrong A bird of paradise The sunrise in her eye God only knows such a sweet surprise I was blind She blew my mind Think that I love love love love love her I love her Sweet sweet Sweet sweet Love that was good 
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Thanks for this. An excellent selection of photos! 'Walls and Bridges' is one of my favourite solo John Lennon albums. My favourite track is 'Whatever gets you through the night'.
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Look at me go just hooking up the Walls & Bridges thread, and dropping knowledge
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great album,old dirt road is my favorite from this one
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I love this LP. It is one of my favorites. All the tracks are great. Whatever gets You Through the Night is my favorite. What You Got is also a great track.
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blue jay hey:
great album,old dirt road is my favorite from this one
Love Old Dirt Road, that one soothes my soul, heals and cleanses. Very sweet. Lennon/Nilsson composition. Harry actually did the track on his Flash Harry album. Here's Harry's
I'm with you dcshark. let me know what you guys think of this; the one fault I have with W&B is the track order. I don't like having Bless You and Scared back to back, ending side 1 of the vinyl. I think Bless You should be swapped with Beef Jerky from Side 2. would play better on vinyl IMO Damn you John. idiot Side One 1."Going Down on Love" ? 3:54 2."Whatever Gets You thru the Night" ? 3:28 3."Old Dirt Road" (Lennon, Harry Nilsson) ? 4:11 4."What You Got" ? 3:09 5. Beef Jerky 6."Scared" ? 4:36 Side Two 7."#9 Dream" ? 4:47 8."Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)" ? 2:55 9."Steel and Glass" ? 4:37 10."Bless You" ? 4:38 11."Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" ? 5:08 12."Ya Ya" (Morgan Robinson, Lee Dorsey, Clarence Lewis, Morris Levy) ? 1:06 Should I write to Yoko and request the change?
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I should have gotten this album on cd when I saw it at Best Buy. Got Imagine instead. I had it on cassette back in the day and vinyl when I was a child. I remember hearing Number 9 Dream while in the backseat of my parents car being chauffered somewhere by mom and her telling me to stop paying attention so much to John Lennon as he was a bad character. (I was 9 or 10). I remember the yelling when she found the album. Boy, she laughs about that now.
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not bad I'd delete Ya Ya... sorry Julian. replace it with Move Over Mrs. L Good way to end an LP with a strong rocker, like the old days with the early Beatles records.
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dcshark:
not bad I'd delete Ya Ya... sorry Julian. replace it with Move Over Mrs. L Good way to end an LP with a strong rocker, like the old days with the early Beatles records.
No way dc, can't take Julian off that album
I like Keiths version just as much. John was actually sort of doing what Paul did on his Run Devil Run album, in writing a tune in the style of the rock oldies he was doing at the time on the RnR album. for me Move Over Ms L is like that. especially being released as the B-Side to Stand By Me. its definitely produced like the RnR album. Thats funny KO, parents try to shelter kids at young ages. but no one can deny as an artist, there are much worse kids can be into. I think my P's were actually happy to see me getting into the wholesome beatles I actually love that he's on it, cause for that slight bit of time its a cool moment for him, to be on the record with his old man. that badass, given their relationship and all. I could see just adding Move Over Ms L though! here the link since I noticed my old one no longer works any Beatle would do. oooo Lennon 
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kapoo:
blue jay hey:
great album,old dirt road is my favorite from this one
Love Old Dirt Road, that one soothes my soul, heals and cleanses. Very sweet. Lennon/Nilsson composition. Harry actually did the track on his Flash Harry album. Here's Harry's
oh wow, i didn't know this version existed thanx for posting but i still like johns version better
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blue jay hey:
kapoo:
blue jay hey:
great album,old dirt road is my favorite from this one
Love Old Dirt Road, that one soothes my soul, heals and cleanses. Very sweet. Lennon/Nilsson composition. Harry actually did the track on his Flash Harry album. Here's Harry's
oh wow, i didn't know this version existed thanx for posting but i still like johns version better
Yes John's is better, that is agreed in full. Harry was releasing homemade demo's at that point.
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kapoo:
dcshark:
not bad I'd delete Ya Ya... sorry Julian. replace it with Move Over Mrs. L Good way to end an LP with a strong rocker, like the old days with the early Beatles records.
No way dc, can't take Julian off that album
I like Keiths version just as much. John was actually sort of doing what Paul did on his Run Devil Run album, in writing a tune in the style of the rock oldies he was doing at the time on the RnR album. for me Move Over Ms L is like that. especially being released as the B-Side to Stand By Me. its definitely produced like the RnR album. Thats funny KO, parents try to shelter kids at young ages. but no one can deny as an artist, there are much worse kids can be into. I think my P's were actually happy to see me getting into the wholesome beatles I actually love that he's on it, cause for that slight bit of time its a cool moment for him, to be on the record with his old man. that badass, given their relationship and all. I could see just adding Move Over Ms L though! here the link since I noticed my old one no longer works any Beatle would do. oooo Lennon
you are right. That's one thing I can't forgive Lennon for doing. I could add it to the end. I didn't know Move Over Mrs. L was recorded during Walls and Bridges. I always thought it was recorded during Rock and Roll. Cool song.
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dcshark:
kapoo:
dcshark:
not bad I'd delete Ya Ya... sorry Julian. replace it with Move Over Mrs. L Good way to end an LP with a strong rocker, like the old days with the early Beatles records.
No way dc, can't take Julian off that album
I like Keiths version just as much. John was actually sort of doing what Paul did on his Run Devil Run album, in writing a tune in the style of the rock oldies he was doing at the time on the RnR album. for me Move Over Ms L is like that. especially being released as the B-Side to Stand By Me. its definitely produced like the RnR album. Thats funny KO, parents try to shelter kids at young ages. but no one can deny as an artist, there are much worse kids can be into. I think my P's were actually happy to see me getting into the wholesome beatles I actually love that he's on it, cause for that slight bit of time its a cool moment for him, to be on the record with his old man. that badass, given their relationship and all. I could see just adding Move Over Ms L though! here the link since I noticed my old one no longer works any Beatle would do. oooo Lennon
you are right. That's one thing I can't forgive Lennon for doing. I could add it to the end. I didn't know Move Over Mrs. L was recorded during Walls and Bridges. I always thought it was recorded during Rock and Roll. Cool song.
There's definitely overlap of those RnR/W&B sessions. and Nilsson's PussyCats sessions. They basically had to pick up and move the recording situation back to new York, to finish Pussy Cats, then RnR, and then W&B started. I've always imagined Move Over Ms L was written during the RnR sessions too, but recorded in NY. with Moon playing in the Pussy Cats sessions, John probably offered it to him then.
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