Meat City

Lennon's most disposable song, written in a period of (for him) pretty disposable songs.

Yeah, it's pretty disposable - but if he had only fleshed it out. It isn't entirely insipid, is it? It has an 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide....' quality without, unfortunately, feeling fully realized or the time taken on production. The album "Mind Games" did put John into the perceived role of producing his own output for the first time ever - but we already know he has no discipline for attention to detail. Thus, this sounds sloppy when it could have been quite mind-blowing. One of my dreams is to get a hold of the original tapes for these sessions and remix them the right way. The entire collection on this album were really good songs that sank under John's production values. The inside track says that the record company even had someone come in after John to clean up the raggedness.

Well, this song is nonsense obviously. It should have been a rock stomper. Alas.

I like Meat City. Mind Games, Tight A$, Bring on the Lucie, and Out the Blue are all good songs. And the soft songs that lead up to Meat City, I Know (I Know) , and You Are Here, set it up great.

I agree the sound is messed up. But the 2002 remix of the album make it sound a whole lot better. You can actually hear the drum kit cybals. You can't on the original mix. It's weird. It's like it is one solid sound coming out. Maybe this was Lennon's attempt at a wall of sound.

I hadn't heard the record company sent someone in to secretly work on the mix. Maybe it was them that messed it up.