Cover of John Lennon’s “Mind Games”
“Intuition takes me anywhere,” Lennon sings in “Intuition,” and indeed: the stupid political slogans, naive aphorisms and schmaltzy odes to Yoko brought Mr. Winston O’Boogie, as he called himself here, to the brink of bankruptcy. Two years later, only “Rock’n’Roll” would become even more embarrassing.
But “Mind Games” was terrible enough: apart from the title song, people usually keep quiet about the fact that these songs even exist. Mr. Boogie, who was now feeling sexy like Shaft, sloppily nailed the songs as well as the scrawls that later decorate the booklet of the remaster version.
In addition, the widow’s motto, in keeping with the banality of this record: “Only people can change the world.” Lennon himself played the black in “Bring On The Lucie (Freeda People)”, but the funk didn’t obey the emigrant who was being spied on by the FBI later reggae. The musicians drunkenly play sketches that Lennon probably designed on a beer mat.
In “You Are Here” (“From Liverpool to Tokyo/ What a way to go”), John Winston O’Boogie wanted to reassure himself of his own love for his great mother. Then he went for cigarettes and drinking with Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr for a year and a half. It’s a shame that this beautiful time can’t be remixed and remastered.