The one thing that caught me is the labels being used. You have the original Apple LPs and then you have Double Fantasy on Geffen, which is owned by Universal now also, but at the time was with Warners, which now owns Parlophone, which was at the time a part of EMI which distributed Apple. Then to top it off, Double Fantasy also says under license to Capitol, while the Apple ones are Calderstone. I wonder if they used a Polydor label for Milk and Honey?

Bottom line is that any more labels are almost meaningless. This kinda stuff is why I'm a socialist!

Amy

A total waste of time and vinyl in my opinion since the original pressings aren't exactly scarce.

I know what you mean, but I kinda think the more records that are made the better!

True, but make them worthy! Press new editions of albums that aren't that easy to find. I find it utterly absurd that there are people who will pay over £20 for a new pressing of something like Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" when there are zillions of copies to be found in chazzas!

A total waste of time and vinyl in my opinion since the original pressings aren't exactly scarce. Lennon solo is rather depressing since it's way too uneven and lumpy. "Plastic Ono Band" is the only keeper for me. The rest can be condensed to one album of highlights. The world does NOT need new vinyl pressings of "Some Time in New York City", "Rock and Roll" and "Milk and Honey" - has it ever occurred to anybody that maybe combining "Double Fantasy" and "Milk and Honey" featuring just the John tracks and no Yoko might be a sensible idea?

The ping pong game with labels is downright absurd. How the Hell is it that Universal owns MCA and Chess Records but reissue Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry on GEFFEN? I find that senseless and offensive.

Come on Universal... when are you gonna celebrate Ringo Starr's induction into the "rock and roll hall of fame" with a vinyl box set containing all EIGHTEEN solo albums he's made?

There's got to be room for all record companies, large and small, to exist together in the marketplace WITHOUT the threat of being swallowed up in one gulp by the larger companies.

True, but make them worthy! Press new editions of albums that aren't that easy to find. I find it utterly absurd that there are people who will pay over £20 for a new pressing of something like Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" when there are zillions of copies to be found in chazzas!

Google's DMCA system is a disgrace and is deliberately as long winded and awkward as possible

But many people like to buy new things, not things that have already been owned by someone else. If the vinyl revival is real, then people should be able to go into a music shop and buy brand new vinyl copies of their favourite albums.

Yet, youtube (owned by google), smacked a friend of mine. He uploaded a 90 minute aircheck of Atlantic 252. Within 2 weeks it was taken down under protest from Sony and Universal! This is garbage. As if a crackly lo-fi longwave radio station aircheck would in any way affect their sales.

And the reissues are over-priced vanity items. Its almost as if they are designed to be NOT played.

If they got back to the beauty of a vinyl record, and bins well stocked in stores, it would not suffer the way it is now

Let's face it... 90% of John Lennon's solo work is awful.

(My opinion... but I thik a lot of people would agree if they could overcome their Beatles loyalties)

And you can pick up pretty much mint, and virtually un-played copies of all this very cheap in charity stores (Which is saying something in itself).

That's what baffles me about this new set. It's utterly pointless when like you say, you can get the originals in mint condition for much lower prices than this new set will cost. You can be certain it won't be cheap! A total waste of good vinyl and cardboard.

Ah -- but the mystique of that heavyweight 180g audiophile vinyl! Yeah right. Gramophone - cat - leap - screeeeech! Your heavyweight 180g audiophile vinyl digitally mastered lp suddenly sounds as good as a nackered original

Amy

I wouldn't say most of Lennon's solo stuff was crap. The avant-garde albums are a matter of taste, but the first two proper albums have some great tracks on. The rest is average for me, but there are some good songs nevertheless - Instant Karma, Mind Games, Beautiful Boy, Power To The People etc. They all float my boat.