Tyler Cowen: belief

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…I don’t have strong feelings about them. You would say Mind Games — why? There’s a lot of songs on it, like “Meat City” or “I Know” that seem forgotten, but they’re very good. I think the production is systematically weak, but the songs are excellent. If he had brought Paul in, it would’ve been an incredible album, maybe better than Imagine. I don’t feel all of Imagine has worn that well. I think one of the problems is that — I don’t know if you agree with me on this — I think John lost his voice much sooner than Paul lost the top level of his voice, not unsurprisingly because he’d been screaming in songs and in therapy so much. He had been shredding his vocal chords. He’d obviously been smoking a lot, he’d been taking drugs, and so on. I think quite quickly, from the early ’70s onwards, his voice is thinner and, to me, not nearly as powerful. On the Rock ’n’ Roll album that he makes in 1973 — whatever it is — I think part of the reason it’s not very good is that his voice is just not there anymore. It’s no longer this incredible instrument that it was through the ’60s into the very early ’70s.…

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