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- Mind Games is John Lennon's fourth album, and was recorded and released in November 1973. Like his previous album, the politically topical and somewhat abrasive Some Time in New York City, Mind Games was poorly received by music critics. It reached number 13 in the UK and number 9 in the US, where it went gold. The album was recorded at Record Plant Studios, and was produced solely by Lennon. The album was recorded at the beginning of Lennon's 18-month separation from Yoko Ono. By the start of 1973, John Lennon started to distance himself from the political battles he had gotten into from the previous 18 months.[2] It was also around this time that him and his wife, Yoko Ono, were going through marital problems. As Ono was completing her fourth album, Feeling the Space, Lennon played guitar on a few tracks. Lennon decided he also wanted to record a new album, after he liked the musicians assembled for Ono's album by their assistant and production coordinator, May Pang, and he asked Pang to book them for his sessions. Wanting to produce something that would surpass his previous album, Some Time in New York City, while still living in his Greenwich Village apartment at this point, Lennon started writing and demoing a few songs for Mind Games, after a period of almost a year or not writing any material. Which were written to fulfil his record label contract obligations, several of these were about the feelings Lennon had about his and Ono's marriage.
After constant court appearances battling to stay in the US, Lennon was feeling weighed down, not helped by being surveillanced by the FBI, due to his political activism. Lennon said "I just couldn't function, you know? I was so paranoid from them tappin' the phone and followin' me."All this combined made Lennon began to feel that he was drifting away. Lennon put his suffering to one side to write the songs for Mind Games, writing all the songs for it in a week. Under the incarnation of 'The Plastic U.F.Ono Band', Lennon engaged the services of session drummer Jim Keltner, guitarist David Spinozza, Gordon Edwards on bass, Arthur Jenkins on percussion, Michael Brecker on saxophone, Ken Ascher on piano and organ, and the vocal backing of a group called Something Different. Difficulties between Lennon and Ono were becoming more and more noticeable around this time. Just as the sessions were to get under way in June at New York's Record Plant Studios, the Lennons separated. After Ono edged Pang on, Pang would become Lennon's companion and lover in what would become an 18-month relationship known as Lennon's 'lost weekend'.
The album was recorded between July and August 1973 in Lennon's quick fashion. Lennon produced the album by himself, after a two-year partnership with Phil Spector.It was mixed over a two-week period, when the album was remixed in 2002, many audio anormallies that were hidden in the original mixing were uncovered. Some rough mixes appear on bootlegs and on 1997's John Lennon Anthology. The album continues Lennon's previous attempts to chronicle his life through his songs.The tone of this album is a range of mixed feelings from somber and melodic songs directed to Ono ("Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)", "One Day (At a Time)","Out the Blue", and "You Are Here"), to more light-hearted and optimistic tracks ("Intuition", "Only People") and a few that indulge Lennon's affinity for pure rock 'n' roll.
The title track (with its "love is the answer" refrain and call to "make love not war") was begun during the Beatles' Get Back sessions under the name "Make Love, Not War", and became a Top 20 US hit. "Bring on the Lucie (Freeda Peeple)", "Only People" and the three-second silent "Nutopian International Anthem" were the only political tracks on the album. The latter referred to "Nutopia: The Country of Peace", a conceptual country which the Lennons had announced at a press conference in New York City on April Fool's Day 1973. "I Know (I Know)" features lyrics that Lennon apologizes for his thoughtlessness, and him knowing about the cause for his insecurity. On some of the rough mixes that have appeared on bootlegs, they chronicle the time-consuming overdubbing for the arrangement that Lennon wanted for the song. The Mind Games closer, "Meat City", contains a Lennon curse, "Fuck a pig!", sped up and backwards, while the mix used on the "Mind Games" single B-side gives the same treatment to the phrase "Check the album!" - เพลง
John Lennon was the very best. Hard to believe he's been gone for 42 years now -still feeling the loss very much so.
The GREATEST peace Ambassador and one of the GREATEST lyricists in the WORLD!!!
RIP
Beautifil song with magical lyrics ,he made so many of them .Would he still be alive today ,I believe that he would be very saddned to see what s become of the planet and its nature .The violence towards each other and the animals .
Rest in peace John 🕊🐾❤🕯☮
What a lyrics!!! Just love him and his songs!! ❤❤
RIP
I'm 46 and can't believe I've never heard this song... its unbelievable x
I discovered it at 44. I sing it everyday now on my morning walk. I will sing peace and love into this world through sheer force of will and there is nothing anyone can do to stop me!
@@nickpeterson8659 I play it on repeat taking my dog for a walk in the mornings. My wife thinks I'm nutts ha ha
Eternity knows no time. Glad it took a moment to bring it to your mind. Now it's forever.
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What was the question?
@@DG-lz4jx Yes. I agree. Wives,..that's the only thing they'll understand.
My favorite Lennon song - he was brilliant and I wish he were still here to help us.
Spiritually, Logi G music is trying to emulate . 😀
He was no were
My favorite Lennon song too!.
Before his time...musical masterpiece
My Sentiments exactly😊
PROPHETIC LYRICS ✌️💓. Not before His Time though because He made the TIMES a TRUE MOVER N SHAKER . P s I Credit YOKO for helping him his DIRECTION
We’ve all been playing those minds games together….Love is the answer.
What's the answer to mind games? Easy listening music..
Chills. Rest in power and peace - The great John Lennon.💖🎤😑
Absolutamente
Love is a Flower..you gotta let it Grow. 🥀
It is January 1974 and I am dancing with my first love every single time that I have heard this song since that night
Miss you so much John. 💖
Glad you used John's original mix from 1973.
This one was very very important in my life!
I can't believe this came out when I was 10. 58 now.
The bass playing is so subtle and tasteful. 👏
Mind games is so John & Yoko. I have always loved this song
This looks like it is talking about materilizing what we think about, law of atracción, pritecting images in space and time... this guy was ahead of his time... Millones of mind guerrillas, that is a colective conssius
My favorite Lennon song.
Mind Games .. easy listening
That's right john , they are the only mind games I play. And thank you for everything.
Love is the answer ❤❤ yess John
Listen to every word
My main man, FOREVER........ 👍🎶💞
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And it worked so well.
My favorite Lennon song. Jealous Guy a close second.
||This is bread for my spirit.
Mind Games is easy listening...
Peace and love in the skys all over these world .Rest in Peace my brother John 🌏🌎☀🎇🎇🎇🎎🎎🎎🎎🎎
🎼...Looove is the answer !!
Listen to Paul Hedderman. His talks are so liberating. This song reminds me of him.
YES, LET BE.
Good job visually and sound quality. A little better lyric sync and you're there. Thank you for the video.
This describes an Era ...
Thanks for playing this for us Mr D
Not just an era. Infinity. There are secrets hidden in these lyrics if you are spiritually engaged that is. God was projecting through him, absolutely no doubt, if the masses actually care to listen to what is being told to them!!!. They can actually change their slavery situation.
For you Ronda Renfro 💥RIP💥
I SENT IT TO HIM, hope where ever you maybe smiling. 🕊️❤️ Alway's
Friendly correction: Putting their Sow Plow to the Karmic wheel.
And thank you for showing me the Mind Guerrillas. In all these years I had that one wrong. (Smile)
Well.. it is many days later and I have listened many times since writing that, and while I had good reason to believe what I said above was true. It is not.
He does in fact say. Putting their Souls Power to the Karmic Wheel.
A mistake is only as bad as one's refusal to correct it.
Peace and love to all.
I always thought it was soul plow. Just indicating using effort to try to change reality for the better.
I never really looked at the words. I think he was trying to sing about his own and Yoko's approach to peace activism.
The seeds of peace and war are in the human mind.
Playing a mind game through his songs?... Planting an idea of peace in the human mind?
We're playing those mind games together
pushing the barriers planting seeds
playing the mind guerilla
chanting the mantra
Peace on earth
A guerilla is a resistance fighter....playing the mind guerilla!
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Mind Games Is All We Got - To Do.
they play games right william right dramatic right 😊
Love is not mind games. These lyrics are insane
If you had suffered seeing the death of your mother, a pianful divorce, addiction to heroin, and type-cast as a Beatle for the remainder of your life, you'd be quailfied to call his musical genius insanity. The music gave him the words, so did a lot of Paul's and even a few of George's melodys. To sing of love being the answer after what he must have suffered being John, was not insanity. It must have been a sincere attempt to help the world the best he knew how through his releases.
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Don't let Satan play a mind game of lies in you. You need Jesus, who is God and Savior to save you from your sinful self. Just Gimme some truth to yourself. Jesus said, "Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all the things you need will be given to you." Matthew 6:33.
I think you missed the point of the song entirely. Meditation and the understanding that Love IS the answer IS seeking the Kingdom of God
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We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers, planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the mantra, peace on earth
We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil
Doing the mind guerrilla
Some call it magic, the search for the grail
Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower, you got to let it, you got to let it grow
So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future, outta the now
You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Yeah we're playing those mind games forever
Projecting our images in space and in time
Yes is the answer and you know that for sure
Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go
So keep on playing those mind games together
Doing the ritual dance in the sun
Millions of mind guerrillas
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel
Keep on playing those mind games forever
Raising the spirit of peace and love
Love...
(I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before)
Probablement que je suis trop audacieuse. Et qu'alors que j'etais l'ange en laisse et quand un vieux et son gemo ont affiché leur détestation contre moi et l'iniquité de nos talents, il a eu du succès. Un peu comme on parlerai des salaires inégaux dans un monde plus simple. Et sûrement que j'ai été trahi intimement. Quelqu'un a préféré suivre un miuvement de contestation globale. Mais depuis, assurément j'ai vecu au milieu de populations instables, fragiles, et je me suis adaptée. J'ai vécu au milieu de populations qui m'accordaient aucune distinction ni aucune forme de capacités. J'en a pas fait une histoire de principe, de suprématie. Et je n'ai aucune bonne raison de vouloir retravailler pour reprendre une place qui m'intéresse pas. J'ai pas de meuble à sauver. J'ai fait que naviguer. Je pourrais toujours le faire. Sans bateau, s'il le fallait.
PEACE ON EARTH;That's what John Lennon was all about>A Christ Figure in the 20th Century..
"Peace on earth". How many decades have we heard that one. Those words mean jack shit. What we need to say is "Get off banker's money". (Not money per se as money is merely a measurement. But get off banker's money which is born of debt) Money born of debt is the vehicle for our enslavement.
l liked English in high school. Analyse this poem etc. I didn't realise what this song is about. Looking at the first few verses
We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers planting seeds
playing the mind guerilla
Chanting the mantra Peace in earth
In my humble high school analysis
The lyrics aside from peace on earth and love is the answer are horrendous...the song is far from mystical
Mind games?
I think the video would benefit from a little more lens flare.
"Так" - це капітуляція, ви повинні відпустити це. Тому давно пора зібрати мільйони фізичних партизанів, щоб російська молодь крутила своє застрягло кармічне колесо.
Your lyrics are not in sync with the singing
No la armas para editar en caso de practicar las lyrics 👎👎👎👎👎
OK- been to a strip club only twice in my 60+ years. Only twice because, after like 20 minutes, it gets kinda same-y and boring- AND expensive. Anyways, in all of those two times, doesn't one crummy dancer put a dime into the jukebox and play this tune? Lousy decision then, tainted it for me ever since. Peace, love and pole dancing. (Sorry John- memory's a b*tch!)
Pretty good artist . . but sorry . . a lost-in-thought eastern mystic searching the ether for answers . . hopelessly finding none . . crying out in the wilderness . . offering nothing but drifting unawareness for masses of young minds to feed on. I grew up in the era of the Beatles and they left the west as a cute, happy . . I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND boy band . . but came back from the east as a mind-drifting, drug induced mess. Brilliant but deadly influence, simultaneously. R.I.P. John . . but rest where? . . in Lennon's drifting lost state of un-consciousness. Hope NOT!
Not surprising at all that a LOSER would blame their short comings on others. Do you Understand that you are BOTH interlectually and spiritually bankrupt
ELVIS 316 GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS SON AND OR HIMS*ELF. THEY NEVER KILLED JESUS NOR JOHN THEY WE ALL LIVE FOREVER. TODAY i LIVE AS EYE ALWAYS HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL BEFORE THE BIG INNING BUT ITS NOT A GAME.SOMEHOW JOHN AND JESUS THOUGHT THEY HAD TO OR BELEIVED THEY COULD BE KILLED I DONT THINK THAT WAY.
When I’m done, I AM DONE 👎🏼
Elvis hated Lennon