ShavedFish consists of 10 short stories, each of which is a case taken on by Syd Fish.
That being said, Syd Fish is a likable protagonist, sufficiently humble to admit that he needs a lot of help to solve his cases.
ShavedFish is the first book in the Syd Fish series and while I thought it held a lot of potential with enjoyable characters and the bones of interesting plots, it just seemed to fall short when it came to following through to deliver an enjoyable ending.
Shavedfish only has one cringe worthy song - Women is the N..., the rest range from good to excellent.
Shavedfish is good but I'm still thinking that you can't compare one song with a whole band.
As for Shaved Fish...I think Mother is plain brilliant (that alone is enough said), Imagine is one of those songs that I can hear over and over and react the same way each time- sort of timeless and classic and beautiful all at once.
SHAVEDFISH spanned a spectrum of the ex-Beatle's singles and B-sides through 1974's WALLS AND BRIDGES.
Although SHAVEDFISH eschews some of Lennon's edgier, more controversial tracks like "Working Class Hero," "God" or "Gimme Some Truth," the collection still acknowledges some of the riskier chances Lennon took in his tumultuous solo forays.
SHAVEDFISH also mirrors Lennon's complicated creative relationship with Ono, from the primal shriek of "Mother" to the mesmerizing murmur of "#9 Dream," recorded during Lennon's "lost years" of the mid-'70s during the couple's temporary separation.
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Five of the eleven songs on "ShavedFish" were never on an LP before this collection: "Give Peace A Chance," "Cold Turkey," "Instant Karma," "Power To The People" and "Happy Xmas".
Don't look at "ShavedFish" through digital eyes but rather through the vinyl cracks and hisses and scratches of art and the 70's.
ShavedFish is by far one of the best greatest hits packages I have ever heard and it is by far more superior than any of the packages that have been relased of late.
At the time of its release, ShavedFish didn't attract as much attention as any compilation of John Lennon's work would have either a few years before or a few years after.
Lennon had just issued the somewhat disappointing genre album, Rock 'n' Roll, and was only a year from Walls and Bridges, not one of his strongest albums, and had also grown...
Lennon had just issued the somewhat disappointing genre album, Rock 'n' Roll, and was only a year from Walls and Bridges, not one of his strongest albums, and had also grown somewhat stale as a public figure.
He is able to create a great number of tracks that have a certain correctness about them with the melody being just right and lyrics being of extremely high quality.
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In the late 1980s Geason wrote a series of crime prevention manuals for the Australian Institute of Criminology and spent two years on the Premier's Advisory Council on Crime Prevention.
Syd Fish, the Darlinghurst Private Eye-Dogfish and Shark Bait.
Geason also dramatised ShavedFish for ABC Radio as Fish Tales, which was sold as an ABC Audio tape.
The cover was designed by Roy Kohara and has some excellent drawings by Michael Bryan to illustrate each song.
On the rear of the cover the title ShavedFish adds the epithet "(Collectable Lennon)".
The inner sleeve once again has all the lyrics to each track, although once again E.M.I. gets a few words wrong, including the opening whispers in "Happy Xmas".
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Man, I wish I was aware of his music back in the 70's but I was a small pre-K lad growing up in Texas more concerned about playing with toys than music.