The Ultimate should be regarded as a piece of art in itself. I look forward to seeing Mazzy's unboxing video this summer .. 😏👍🏼 Personally, the 2CD version alongside the 280 page Mind Games book (coming Sept '24) will suit my needs.

Jethro Tull has the best box sets inmo.They’re all the same design and size and what a bang for the buck

If I had an extra $1400.00, I would buy it in a heartbeat. It's a beautiful set.

I had to buy it because it is this type of product that I splurge on. Good thing it is my money, and I get to do what I want with it. Never understand why people get upset. Most of the people that complain go to Starbucks and spend way over that in a year on crappy coffee, but it is their money, do it! Be happy!

Agree let people enjoy these releases that really enjoy them

Mazzy, for once you should be the first to receive this work of art for free to promote it! With all the art pieces by John Lennon, Yoko, Harrison,...that you've bought over the years, you deserve it!

Hi Mazzy , great “ ramble “ , and I enjoy your enthusiasm and artwork appreciated comments ! * if you’re definitely coming to the Tate M for around august time , be good to show you around the museum , as I’ve been “ host volunteer there for over 6years , and a member for over two decades , and be fun to hear your comments after you’ve seen the special Yoko Ono exhibit too . * over a coffee / or meal on the 6th floor diner , which has a nice view over the Thames 🎉happy trails ….Lester T .

I'm a working-class man with a minimum wage, I will be hanging on until Amazon will be desperate to ship them out at half price like my Let It Be box (yes, I paid less than half price) I think it's all fine for people who buy it for buying sake And probably never even open it

You made a great point. I don't have the money to order one, but I also don't really need all of the extras that are included. The Deluxe edition or whatever they're calling the higher priced, but still in range sounds like a great option. Bless those that are able to order the cube, let them have a lot of stuff they will look at once, and then have it sit on a shelf. To use your phrase "It's the music..."

If you want it buy it. If not, don’t. Life is short.

Yoko rules! I'd like to see the exhibition in London.

After passing on all the uber deluxe in the past that you talked about and with the recent RSD EP and after watching the official crate creation I went ahead and purchased the super deluxe. Mind Games is also one of my favorite albums despite the original muddy mix.

We should thank the Lennon estate for skipping Sometime in NYC, an atrocity. Mind Games is not a stand-out record, but there are 2 or 3 standout songs on it. I might pick this up as a CD if I see it out. I like the Imagine CD with some bonus tracks from several years back. Wall and Bridges I would probably buy too. But that would be it from Lennon's solo career.

the "deluxe" (deluxe enough for me) versions of the first two albums that you show here would be my most cherished possessions. a "mind games" just like them without any postcards, nutopian flags, etc. would be more than i could wish for from a genie. the "super deluxe" should exist in whatever limited form it's coming out as but i don't need it. great video primarily for showing me the deluxe editions of the first two records!

I think i have 1350.00 conceptual dollars in my conceptual bank account but for life of me i can not conceptualize how to find it . Kaaabooom.

I agree with you Mazzy. That’s why there are different price points for every budget. myself I’m not sure just yet I’m looking at the deluxe box or the two LP sets and two CD set. I do like the deluxe box so I might go for that. I really do love this album.

I took your advice an got hold of a 2002 cd; which does indeed make it sound so much better 👍. That’ll do me xx

Well put Sir !

I’m glad you posted this. The only downside is you won’t reach the unwashed ignorant masses who are standing by to complain with the same old tired clichés. No need to replicate them here. I love the looks of the wowee kazowee version, but I’m going for the less expensive deluxe edition. I hope when you get it you’ll invite me over to gaze lovingly at it. Mind Games is an interesting era for Lennon that came and went in a flash and is deserving of a re-listen and reassessment. I loved it when it was released all those years ago and can’t wait to dive back in. Cheers, Kazzy

Looking forward to the unboxing video.

Mind Games is a BEAUTIFUL song! But all else, I can do without. Imagine has a bunch of killer songs, including Oh Yoko...I could (and have) listen to that ALL day!

The super deluxe edition is a beauty...an actual work of art in the way it's housed.

You’re silly, Mazzy; have you forgotten about your heirarchy of needs?..

As a viewer, I am glad you got the Harrison uber box and am disappointed you may not get the Mind Games uber box. Regret is a bummer.

coolest art piece from Ono is quite some time. Can't afford it really, but WOW... if I could, I would!

Mazzy , Great video , I agree with you , the ultimate box set , $1350, is a item of masterpiece and art, I am a artist and I appreciate all art, John and Yokos art is to me is fantastic, I love it, and appreciate what they have done and given us, can’t afford that piece, but that is okay it is there for those who can, I am purchasing the 6Cd / Blu-ray box set it has special place in my collection and the masterpiece of John and Yoko, Mazzy Thank you, Takecare, Besafe Friend, Steve

I've a similar passion for collecting International cinema from 1950 to the present. Belonging to a few sites of subtitling communities I rarely watch anything from the Anglosphere. A great deal of Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Brazilian, sub Saharan, and European films. Probably a 100 T's of film and documentary. Always something to watch.

Hi mazzy you make a very good point. You say fine art comes at a premium… I fully agree with that statement.. Your Beatles book is on eBay for £4.

The McCartney boxes are all the same size (barring 1971-1973 and the super duper Flaming Pie set) just different widths. They definitely check the OCD boxes for me especially since the spine text matches. The Beatles sets? You’re right - all different. Argh!! My opinion is the way they did Revolver is the best. It mirrors the excellent Fleetwood Mac sets.

Hope you got to see the May Pang documentary 'The Lost Weekend : A Love Story'.......I've just watched it on Prime. It is absolutely fantastic !!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You know whose head is exploding? The ghost of that working class hero, John Lennon.

1:17 - I still hear the title track as VERY harsh in the higher frequencies, not muddy.

"We always give them our money ..."

All you need is love, love is all you need. Should I spring (heel jack) for the 6 cd? Can't do the box. I have one box, the Signature Box, missed the Ono Box. Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

"...kind of wankish..." true, very true, more power to your elbow, Mazz!y

N.M - "Just because it's not for you, let the people who enjoy it get it" Also N.M - "What's the shite with UHQR boxes?"

You got to get Mazzy, We want to see your Unboxing it

All discs samey

The only Bruce Lee book I have is the one I was recently given to me by my wife-“Bruce Lee: A Life.”🎧

I guess the record companies think we have money trees planted in our yards. Pass on this one.

Norman, si 'Mind Games' sale el 12 de julio, quiere decir que en julio ya no saldrá nada por el aniversario del album 'A hard days night' ni de la película ????😔😥

The deluxe set looks great. I'll order one and play the vinyl on my $13,000 turntable with $9,000 cartridge and my $15,000 speakers. Should be great.

Heads are exploding, keep playing those mind games, playing the mind guerilla.The deluxe set is impressively well packaged. One of the best album reissue packages I have seen really.

I broke down and ordered one, literally an hour before it showed as being sold out.

Is the LP any good? My brother had this years after the event, so at nine I had to listen to it a hell of a lot - in my memory it was quite grim as a listen. I haven't heard it since but I'm generally quite impressed by thé taste i had as a kid, much better than I have now anyhow.

It’s not whether you want the super box. It’s the fact you can’t have it because of the price. What has artwork from 66 got todo with an album released in 73?

Here is what the “cash grab” crowd should be focused on if they want to make an argument. Not the ”Wowy Zowy” edition but the fact that in 2021 on Amazon the six disc iteration of “John Lennon/POB” retailed for $114(US) upon release. It will be interesting to see if there is any markup for the similar iteration of “Mind Games” as it will essentially be the same set but a different album.

Uber box sold out according to Lennon website.

When are you in old london town mr maslov?

Mind Games is I feel an overlooked album from John Lennon, I think its a fine album, the problem with the album is some of the production, such as the female backup singing, I really enjoyed the Lennon Anthology outtakes of the stripped down versions of the songs from Mind Games,- it Way better.

Exactly the way I look at it. It's art. I also love Lennon. With the permission of my wife (lol), I got it. Enjoy the Tate.

Just imagine if Lennon had stayed in the UK all the great music that never was. Thanks, America ya killed the music, then ya killed the man. Does the Super Doopa box set glow in the dark?

I really hope the bass isn’t bloated on remix like they have been on some of the others. Giles Martin can’t resist that either on some tracks. It’s a shame because the Beatles were about subtlety

This guy made a good living …. WORKING AT A RECORD STORE!! The baby boom generation had it f’ing made. Especially the younger ones who didn’t face being drafted or fighting in Vietnam

Ive got the CD. Didnt cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. I like the music but not worth more than 5$ or so.

MG album cover was out of touch with the '70s. Looks lifted off any 1967-68 British broadsheet Sunday Supplement. In our Art class, schoolteachers used to compile them to get us kids to cut them up in collages - - to keep the trolls quiet for an hour in 1968. It was either that or glue trawlers together out of cigarette packs & papier mache. I can;t remember what we used for masts, but it could easily have been cigarettes. There wasn't a lot of subtlety in Manchester education. The mind games notion is also very '60s - -specifically, 1966: Eric Berne. But where Lennon was in vogue was downsizing mind games from social interaction to couple culture, building up from demolishing the band to Janov's groundzero to circling the wagons with Mother. And so goes JL in his last decade, becoming less & less relevant (because "Screwyou, I'm here for Yoko"): downsizing universal love from 1967 to couple culture in the Me Decade. That's just how it was: he made a choice. (Historians looking for accuracy can't be positive all the time even about heroes. We get a choice too: between fanboy or historian, but we can't credibly be both.)

You will get this set. You always do. Because you are wealthy and have the wherewithal to do so. Other people would want this set, but unfortunately it is beyond their means. So they will settle for what they can afford. It doesn’t seem fair to me. Recording artists and/or their estates should make everything they release accessible to everyone.

will not order what?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sdit is off

The Lennon Estate has more money than god. Money isn’t motivating them.

$1,350 × 1,100 = $1,485.000

At the time (1973) I found 'Mind Games' a weak album overall - although nowhere near as lame as the album that preceded it (Some Time in New York City) or pretty much everything that followed it. But the Lennon deluxe sets to date have been really exceptional, and so I hope that this one will do for 'Mind Games' what (for example) the 'Trouble No More' box did for some of Dylan's born again phase.

I really hope they get the mix right. I have an expensive MoFi Original Master Tapes LP, and it sounds like shit.

My memory is that Mind Games is a mediocre album. Will listen again.

It’s not his best work There is a couple good songs on it but next to Somettime In NewYork I feel its his weakest Just my thoughts though!! Walls and Bridges would make a better choice!!

Good sounding or bad sounding, it's a very bad album

Firstly it's not that great of an album to begin with. Nowhere near Plastic Ono Band or Imagine. It only has one outstanding track and that is Mind Games. Think I'll just buy the 7 inch single.

Lennon was my favorite Beatle until I learned that he was a fraud and an azz. Hard pass at any price.