Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins

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Description: Decades later, Two Virgins is still best known for bearing the most notorious album cover in rock history: John and Yoko naked and unashamed in their filthy boudoir, staring out the camera with glassy heroin eyes. It is remembered also as a historical artefact: it was recorded overnight, high on love and drugs in Lennon's mansion, bef Decades later, Two Virgins is still best known for bearing the most notorious album cover in rock history: John and Yoko naked and unashamed in their filthy boudoir, staring out the camera with glassy heroin eyes. It is remembered also as a historical artefact: it was recorded overnight, high on love and drugs in Lennon's mansion, before the couple first consummated their relationship. But few have heard the record, and fewer still have played it twice. It's as unlike The Beatles as is humanly possible--this was, of course, partly the point--taking the random sound collage of the White Album's "Revolution 9" and stretching the principle to a whole album of white noise, tape effects, discord and screaming. The follow-up, Life With The Lions was more interesting musically, but Two Virgins, now tastefully reissued along with the pair's other early albums, is the sound that first made the world say: "whaaaat???" --Taylor Parkes ... (more) (less)

Manufacturer : Rykodisc
Release date : 2 June 1997
EAN: 0014431041129 UPC: 014431041129

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