John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Milk And Honey [Japan Ed.] (1984)

Year: 27 January 1984 (CD Dec 5, 2007)
Label: EMI Records (Japan), TOCP-70400
Style: Pop Rock, Rock
Country: Liverpool, England (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
Time: 76:22
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 397 Mb

Charts: UK #3, AUS #4, CAN #15, FRA #10, GER #20, ITA #16, JPN #3, NLD #4, NOR #7, US #11. Gold: US, UK and Canada.
Milk and Honey was conceived as a companion piece to Double Fantasy. Each is subtitled “A Heart Play,” and while the earlier album was meant to be something of a healing ritual (coming after John and Yoko’s eighteen-month separation and Lennon’s subsequent five-year “retirement” from recording), its successor seems designed as a portrait of domestic bliss. According to Ono’s liner notes, she and Lennon consciously adopted the image of themselves as the reincarnation of Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning for Milk and Honey; the album jacket even reproduces verses by the Brownings next to lyrics by John and Yoko.
Unfortunately, the songs on the album don’t bear comparison to the work of such illustrious writers. Four of the six new Lennon compositions recycle basic rock & roll licks to accompany simple, repetitive, even cliched lyrics (“Living on borrowed time,” “I’m stepping out,” et cetera). “Nobody Told Me,” the first single from Milk and Honey, begins promisingly with an energetic riff reminiscent of the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week,” but it immediately lapses into a routine melody with unevenly rhymed lyrics that barely make sense (“There’s Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs/Always something happening and nothing going on”). Meanwhile, Ono’s songs range from “Sleepless Night,” a pleasantly spacey monologue, to “Your Hands,” a lumbering production number with lyrics sung in Japanese and breathily translated into English (e.g., “Your hands/Your hands/So beautiful”).
(full version: rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/milk-honey-99637/)

01. I'm Stepping Out / John Lennon (04:06)
02. Sleepless Night / Yoko Ono (02:33)
03. I Don't Wanna Face It / John Lennon (03:21)
04. Don't Be Scared / Yoko Ono (02:44)
05. Nobody Told Me / John Lennon (03:34)
06. O' Sanity / Yoko Ono (01:06)
07. Borrowed Time / John Lennon (04:28)
08. Your Hands / Yoko Ono (03:04)
09. (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess / John Lennon (02:28)
10. Let Me Count The Ways / Yoko Ono (02:16)
11. Glow Old With Me / John Lennon (03:09)
12. You're The One / Yoko Ono (03:55)
13. Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him (bonus track) (03:19)
14. Stepping Out (Home Version) (bonus track) (02:57)
15. I'm Moving On (Home Demo)  (bonus track) (01:20)
16. Interview with J & Y, December 8th, 1980 (bonus track) (21:55)

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