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.
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.