NOBODY TOLD ME THERE'D
BE DAYS LIKE THESE
STRANGE DAYS INDEED
Milk and Honey
is the sixth
and final
collaborative album
by
and
released in
January 1984,
three years after
Lennon's murder.
It is Lennon's
eleventh and
final album overall,
and the first
posthumous release
of new Lennon music,
having been recorded
in the last months
of his life
during and following
the sessions
for his
1980 album
Double Fantasy.
It was assembled by
Yoko Ono
in association
with the
Geffen label.
Background
Milk and Honey
was the duo's
projected
follow-up to
Double Fantasy, t
hough Lennon's murder
caused a
temporary shelving
of the project.
It took Ono
three years to be able
to resume work
to complete it.
Ono's material
largely comprises
new recordings
which she undertook
during the album's
preparation in 1983,
which give her songs
a more commercial
and contemporary edge.
Conversely,
Lennon's material,
being rough takes
and
rehearsal recordings,
has a more
casual feeling.
The album's title
came from Ono,
who explained that it
referred to their journey
to the US,
"the land of milk and honey".
"But also,
in the Scripture,
the land of milk and honey
is where you go
after you die,
as a promised land",
Ono went on to say.
"So it's very strange
that I thought of that title.
Almost scary
like someone up there
told me to call the next album
Milk and Honey".
The cover is an
alternate take
from the same
photo session
that produced
the front cover of
Double Fantasy,
though this photo
appears in colour.
Music and Lyrics
"Nobody Told Me",
a song Lennon
intended for
Ringo Starr's
1981 album
Stop and Smell the Roses,
was released as a single
and became a
worldwide Top 10 hit.
Other singles
from the album were
"I'm Stepping Out"
and
"Borrowed Time".
The songs
"Let Me Count the Ways"
and
"Grow Old with Me"
were written by
Lennon and Ono
to each other
using inspiration
from poems by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and
Robert Browning.
They are presented
in their demo form.
Ultimate Classic Rock
critic
Nick DeRiso called
"I Don't Want to Face It"
the most underrated
song on
Milk and Honey,
describing it as being
"complicated,
just like Lennon,
brutally frank
and sort of
tossed off, too".
TRACKLIST
Sleepless Night
(Yoko Ono)
I Don't Want To Face It
Don't Be Scared
(Yoko Ono)
Nobody Told Me
O' Sanity
(Yoko Ono)
Borrowed Time
Your Hands
(Yoko Ono)
(Forgive Me)
My Little Flower Princess
Let Me Count The Ways
(Yoko Ono)
Grow Old With Me
You're The One
(Yoko Ono)
Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him
I'm Stepping Out
(Alt Take)
Nobody Told Me
(take #1)
Borrowed Time
(Studio Rehearsal)
John and Yoko
RKO Interview
December 8, 1980
(Snippet)
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