Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life with the Lions [Bonus Tracks] John Lennon & Yoko Ono

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  • Release Date: 06/03/1997
  • Original Release: 1969
  • Sales Rank: 31,566
  • Label: RYKODISC
  • UPC: 014431041228

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Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life with the Lions [Bonus Tracks]

1LISTENCambridge 1969 26:28
2LISTENNo Bed for Beatle John 4:40
3LISTENBaby's Heartbeat 5:09
4LISTENTwo Minutes Silence 2:00
5LISTENRadio Play 12:34
6LISTENSong for John previously unreleased;Bonus Track 1:29
7LISTENMulberry previously unreleased;Bonus Track 8:57

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono's second collaborative album consists of five tracks: all of side one is taken up by "Cambridge 1969," a live recording at Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambridge of Lennon playing an electric guitar backup to Ono's singing and screaming. Side two includes an a cappella rendering by Ono of "No Bed for Beatle John," which discusses the refusal of a hospital to give Lennon a bed so he could stay during his wife's troubled pregnancy; "Baby's Heartbeat," which is what it says it is; "Two Minutes Silence" in commemoration of Ono's miscarriage, which also is what it says it is; and "Radio Play," 12 minutes of a radio dial being turned back and forth to pick up random stations. If, as they suggested, their lives were their art, then this is, too. Maybe. [The 1997 CD reissue adds two bonus tracks: a previously unreleased version of Ono's "Song for John," and the previously unreleased "Mulberry," which is nine minutes of Yoko's vocal improv backed by careening, atonal guitar runs.] William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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What lions?!?by Anonymous

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February 23, 2004: Okay, I admit that I liked Two Virgins and Electronic Sound, somewhat. But this album is just a re-recording of Two Virgins without the enjoyment. How can anybody (even those who love avant-garde) bear to listen to Yoko shriek and wail for 26 minutes?!? And what a horrible idea it was to record the baby's heartbeat until it died. You know an album is in trouble when the best cut is "Two Minutes Silence" (literally). The "Radio Play" at the end sounds kind of fun...for only 30 seconds! The artwork isn't any cheerier than this album itself, as the front cover shows the couple in the hospital before the miscarriage and the back cover is a press photo of John being busted for drugs. What a letdown.