Lennon : Legend

Just an accompaniment to my McCartney DVD. There's been a lot of twiddling with the music videos, as some of them aren't the original. "Borrowed Time" has been tweaked to include a Lennon flashing scene (Yucks!) and "Love" has some XXX sequences (pretty nice actually). As for the songs, it's still the Plastic Ono Band and Imagine songs that are truly resonant. The other albums I didn't like the singles that much preferring the other tracks, such as "Going Down On Love" from "Wall & Bridges", "I'm Stepping Out" and "I Don't Wanna Face It" from "Milk & Honey". Also, all the singles from "Double Fantasy" are pretty much easy-listening pap. There's a performance of "Slippin' & Slidin'" in the Extras, but no "Bony Moronie". Also quite like that "Working Class Hero" bit from Anthology with the "Two Virgins" cover, one that pugeye (a friend on the music message board I frequent) and I enjoy masturbating to.

John Coltrane : Live '60, '61 & '65

All vintage black and white performances. Mainly got this cos the set list is about the same as "Live in Stockholm 1961", which is my favourite live jazz album. The '60 performance is pretty standard, with mostly modal jazz in the vein of Miles' Kind of Blue. It's when Trane introduces some element of dissonance that things get interesting - in the two versions of "My Favourite Things" especially. Also, has some great shots of a drummer on fire (steam actually) in the '65 portion, showing the amount of stamina needed for these kind of things. The piano solos are unimpressive, only with chordal vamps really being that much interesting, despite Oscar Petersen playing in the '60 portion. Now where can I get "A Love Supreme" live?