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Track Listings
| 1. Two Virgins Side One |
| 2. Two Virgins Side Two |
| 3. Remember Love |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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Subtitled UNFINISHED MUSIC NO. 1, this was the first of a series of recordings that were released near the beginning ofthe couple's relationship. Yoko Ono, a member of the Fluxusart movement, was a respected artist and had been producingpieces in non-traditional media (sound, video, conceptual) throughout the '60s--in fact she met Lennon when he came to one of her gallery exhibitions. With The Beatles in often-fractious circumstances at that time, John Lennon poured his energies into collaborations with Yoko Ono.
The two long pieces which comprise the bulk of this CD were originally a side each of a vinyl record (the bonus track, a lovely song called "Remember Love", was the B-side to their "Give Peace AChance" single). They're both sound collages which incorporate found sounds, bits of other recordings, some keyboards and other instruments, as well as Lennon and Ono variously talking and vocalising. This was the public's first glimpse ofYoko's particular style of singing which included whoops, warbles and shrieks. The verbal exchanges between the couple is often quite charming and occasionally even funny.
The two long pieces which comprise the bulk of this CD were originally a side each of a vinyl record (the bonus track, a lovely song called "Remember Love", was the B-side to their "Give Peace AChance" single). They're both sound collages which incorporate found sounds, bits of other recordings, some keyboards and other instruments, as well as Lennon and Ono variously talking and vocalising. This was the public's first glimpse ofYoko's particular style of singing which included whoops, warbles and shrieks. The verbal exchanges between the couple is often quite charming and occasionally even funny.
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