@davidjackson5449
My main criticism is that Sean should have sold a box set with all the Mind games music on vinyl discs for fans who cant afford the Cube but collect vinyl .The Harrison estate gave this option with ATMP box set
@angelllacuna8889
it seems that the packaging becomes more important than the actual music contents
@ChaunceyGardener
Walls and Bridges will come in an actual Lego bucket. You will be also be able to build an functioning turntable with the pieces and listen the LP box-set.
@GoldenGodDennisReynolds
Thanks for taking the time to make this video, I really enjoyed it. As for the box itself, I think it’s fair to say that it’s a mix of high quality curios and cheap tat!
@vivi1649
The older I get, the harder I find it to justify physical media, but this is just on another level. This is the most beautiful collector's edition I've ever seen for any music release. There's so much attention to detail, and so many beautiful things to appreciate and enjoy... and the album is pretty great too!
@davidreckamp8161
Overwhelmingly underwhelming. Inspired by Andrew's recent focus on this record, I pulled out my copy of Mind Games and played it for the first time in years. Decades! And for all those people out there who love this record, I applaud you, because you are hearing something that I could not hear 50 years ago, and I still cannot hear today. Mind you, this is not by any means a record of bad songs, but Lennon has written at least 100 other songs that are much better. So obviously this ultra-lavish treatment is way beyond me. Art for art's sake, as far as I am concerned. Great video, though!
@briteness
I have mixed feelings about this thing. You are surely right that is has to be viewed as art; if it were just seen as a box set it would be madness. The album, for me, is honestly one of the least interesting records a Beatle ever released. There is no way it deserved any kind of special re-issue, as far as I am concerned. But this production is so over the top that it is qualitatively something different. The music is scarcely even relevant. It is a kind of triumph of packaging over substance. It exposes the emptiness of our culture while celebrating it at the same time. And selling it. Perhaps the only way it could have been conceptually even more perfect would have been if there had been no music at all included. That would have been a move worthy of the subversive genius of John and Yoko.
@olivergiggins7931
A map of the birth city of the woman the artist was separating from at the time? A reproduction of a napkin he held once? An officially licensed blank flag? A reproduction of an art piece made by the artist's estranged wife almost a decade before the album, before they even knew each other? Hard to imagine the album ever felt complete without this stuff...
@CATLITmusic
J&Y were great at making art exhibits focused around interactivity -- this time around, the act of unboxing, unwrapping, revealing every piece one by one, is the performance of the art.
@AddSomeMusic00
I wonder what the parallel universe where Julian is in charge of the Lennon estate is like.
@gigityler1732
Perhaps the epitome of performance art? Thank you Andrew, you have captured the mindfulness of this set perfectly!
@Neal_Schier
Great review Andrew. First rate work as always. I have to admit though, that I like your background music far more than anything on the actual album!
@LConde16
Two observations about the box: 1) Sean surely doesn't know the song "God" in which his father says "I don't believe in I-Ching"; 2) I would replace half of these trinkets for 2 or 3 more discs full of unreleased recordings.
@robbiepeterh
You have to admire how the Lennon estate has managed to turn such average music into a desirable product.
@michaelhiatt7377
I'm afraid it's more album than I need. Thank you Andrew good job!
@lucalone
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it". - Frank Zappa.
@jimjam51075
I love this channel, but this is definitely a "Portlandia B-52s box set" moment. The segment on that show where they open one and it comes with stencils, paper dolls, hissy demo cassettes, and the actual band members.
@Deemun666
I'm grateful to you Andrew because this is the only way that I will ever get to see this unique work of art. I would imagine the 1100 lucky buyers that will be able to afford these boxes will have something on their hands that will appreciate in value. I have to admit that having bought this album when it was first released, I probably haven't listened to it in its entirety for at least 20 years but may be tempted by one of the CD versions (I'm still to watch your CD box set review) but thank you for this great video. Keep up the good work!
@mikeharman797
Looks like things i would look at once and never again
@DaBeatleDude