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Title: whatever he was shooting at he nearly hit the mark
Review: Although John Lennon seems to have garnered the most credit for being "The experimental Beatle" he never released anything as eccentric as this album. This is somewhat of an anomaly in the solo Beatles catalogue, consisting as it does of song fragments, spliced together pastiches and a multitude of ideas that never really make up a whole package...and yet, that is the charm of it all. Schizo that it is, it is still musical. "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" sums it up perfectly... Who knows what the hell it means but it sure is cool the way those different segments come in. Other cool tunes are "3 Legs" ( a kind of psychedelic blues pastiche), "Too Many People" (a big "F...YOU" to percieved political phonies) and "Dear Boy" (straight off the White Album). One great classic tune, sacrificed to terrible production values is the finale "Back Seat Of My Car". If only George Martin could have got his hands on this one...
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