{"id":41264,"date":"2008-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/milk-and-honey\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T00:00:00","slug":"milk-and-honey","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/milk-and-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk And Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who were really freaked out by Yoko Ono on Double Fantasy<\/i>, you can breathe easy because she wisely tones it down and cuts out the excesses on the follow-up, Milk And Honey<\/i>. Here, she is much warmer and dare I say it, cuter<\/i>? At times she even sounds like Cyndi Lauper, who was HUGELY popular at the time of this album\u2019s release. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Ono\u2019s edgy closer \u201cYou\u2019re The One\u201d has been a favorite of mine for years and should have been a single. As for those rumors that this album sounds unfinished, don\u2019t believe them — they simply aren\u2019t true.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

This song cycle, or \u201cHeart Play\u201d as it\u2019s called in the lyric sheet, starts off on a dark note — not by Yoko Ono, but by her husband, John Lennon, who had been murdered four years earlier. The first line of \u201cI\u2019m Stepping Out\u201d is printed as \u201cWoke up this morning, blues around my head,\u201d but I swear, he\u2019s saying \u201cnoose around my head.\u201d In either case, Lennon doesn\u2019t exactly sound like a man who knows he\u2019s got the rest of his life ahead of him. Foreshadowing perhaps? Or maybe it\u2019s meant to be ironic, especially when you take the song\u2019s happy tone into account. I appreciate that it is left up to the listener to draw their own conclusions. That\u2019s what makes this material so intriguing and, yes, completely heartbreaking.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

John and Yoko stretch themselves more on Milk And Honey <\/i>by delving into some light reggae music on tracks like \u201cDon\u2019t Be Scared\u201d and \u201cBorrowed Time.\u201d Needless to say, both tracks are winners. The execution is perfect and both artists make their respective songs their own. This album really finds this duo at the top of their game. One can only \u201cImagine\u201d where they would have gone from here.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Two other well-known Lennon cuts to be found within this package are \u201cNobody Told Me\u201d and \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Face It.\u201d What makes the latter such a classic is the incredible guitar work, which must have been influential for contemporaries like Lindsey Buckingham. Two songs that could possibly be considered filler are the half-spoken \u201cYour Hands\u201d and the meandering \u201cMy Little Flower Princess.\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Just a warning, you better get out that box of Kleenex because the next two songs are real tear-jerkers. Yoko somehow pulls it together to deliver a soul-stirring kiss goodbye to John on \u201cLet Me Count The Ways,\u201d while a basement tape of John\u2019s \u201cGrow Old With Me\u201d is dusted off and delivered as is. \u201cGod bless our love,\u201d he sings. What more powerful statement does one need to leave behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7187],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41264","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-john-lennon","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41264"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}