Any love for Two Virgins?

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Any love for Two Virgins?

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Personally I enjoy this but was wondering what other people think.
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Patrick Healy wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 12:21 pm Personally I enjoy this but was wondering what other people think.
I always found it interesting. Nice album art too :D
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I love it when naivete can actually stand and balance itself as it seeks to fulfill its promise of insightful meaning and heady vanguard brilliance. This might have been a Revolution 9 reflex, satire, extension, reciprocal, square root, decoder ring, or a million other things that might get traction. But, this isn't for consumers. It's for the participants. Nobody can appreciate how this recording was foreplay only and never meant to commemorate the unbounded joy that was won in the long battles. Lennon had made emotional investments and now he's here to collect on the romantic dividends. It's not very Beatle. But, apparently it was equated to Sunrise and that's always a beautiful reward. Even an imaginary Sunrise! But, this was just too little...too late. Or, was it "too fast...or not at all?" If only Viagra had stepped in...No, I've owned may copies of Two Virgins. Beatles fans might think this harsh but, the album is the musical equivalent of a discarded condom. So what if it glows in the dark, or if one size fits all! The album should have been marketed via wall-mounted dispenser...3-pack/$1.00!
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I like it as a tape of John mucking around. But pressed up and released on record? That was pretty crazy stuff. Maybe if they'd just given it straight to John Peel and said, "Hey, here's an exclusive of us doing some music concrete. Play it on your show if you like." Since he ended up playing the album anyway, that might have made more sense.
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I listened to it once, to remove the vinyl scratches from its CD issue on some grey-market release. I swear it felt like taking one for the team.

I don't think that having a nice, clean copy that didn't originate from a needledrop from a poor-condition LP would have made it any more appealing to me.

I've had a copy of the LP since the 1970s, but it's unplayed. Don't get your hopes up, it's probably a pirate.
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I guess compared to The Wedding Album, Two Virgins was actually a landmark album!
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Are you sure you didn't mean landfill album?
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mojofilter wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 10:34 pm Are you sure you didn't mean landfill album?
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I personally can't stand this album. I've given it multiple chances. I don't consider it crap. It certainly has a place in the grand pantheon. It's just not my bag. I prefer the bonus track, "Remember Love."

On a tangential note, I do appreciate and get into John's mix-tape mind movies. Some of them aired on Lost Lennon Tapes. That stuff is a trip.

But Two Virgins (and Life With The Lions, for that matter) does nothing for me except inspire me to turn it off.
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The only redeeming thing on it…for me at least…is the use of the mellotron…but it ends there
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