John Lennon - 1974 Off The Walls (Summer Of 1974)Alternate mixes and sessions.Very good soundboard.Interesting to note that John Lennon’s 1974 album, Wall And Bridges, didn’t get a glowing review in The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1979):Both Mind Games (1973) and Walls And Bridges (1974) were drastic retreats from the anti-pop stance of Some Time In New York City (1972), and both produced hits: Mind Games, the trendy Whatever Gets You Thru The Night and #9 Dream. The sound was lush and conventional, the singing assured, but there was no real point of view at work - no point at all, in fact, save for continuing a career for its own sake; only Going Down On Love recalled the gutty realisim of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band which seemed very far away.Like so many veterans of the ’60s trapped by the ’70s, Lennon (by then the subject of a brutal but accurate parody on the National Lampoon’s Radio Dinner LP) had no idea of how to relate to his audience: with what appeared to be panic, he substituted production techniques for soul, building a bridge to his listeners with his sound but erecting a wall around himself with empty music.Today, for Lennon and Beatles fans, it’s quite impossible to think of a world without the Walls And Bridges album.00:00 Bless You (Monitor Mix) [5:13]05:13 Move Over Ms. L (Monitor Mix) [2:47]07:58 Scared (Monitor Mix) [4:48]12:46 Surprise Surprise (Monitor Mix) [3:05]15:51 Whatever Gets You Through The Night (Monitor Mix) [3:06]18:57 Going Down On Love (Monitor Mix) [3:51]22:48 Nobody Loves You (When You Down And Out) (Monitor Mix) [5:04]27:51 What You Got (Monitor Mix) [3:58]31:49 Old Dirt Road (Monitor Mix) [2:34]34:23 Beef Jerkey (Rehearsal Session) [3:22]37:38 Surprise Surprise (Rehearsal Session) [3:39]41:16 Going Down On Love (Rehearsal Session) [4:03]45:17 Whatever Gets You Through The Night (Rehearsal Session) [1:47]47:03 Whatever Gets You Through The Night (Rough Mix) [3:33]50:33 Steal And Glass (Monitor Mix) [4:17]54:47 Old Dirt Road (Monitor Mix) [4:54]59:40 #9 Dream (Rough Mix) [4:42]