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John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Audio CD

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Title: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
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Release Date: 2000-10-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Mother 2: Hold On 3: I Found Out 4: Working Class Hero 5: Isolation 6: Remember 7: Love 8: Well Well Well 9: Look at Me 10: God 11: My Mummy's Dead 12: Power to the People [*] 13: Do the Oz [*]

Such a powerful album !!
It is so raw and emotional that you do feel a little guilty listening to it. For my money, John Lennon's best solo album is Plastic Ono Band. This was a man dealing with the break up of the band he founded. In addition, Lennon was finally coming to terms with the death of his mother Julia and his father's abandonment of him when he was, I believe, three years old. I absolutely love the proto-punk sounds of Well Well Well and I Found Out. The lyrics are cathartic and amazingly open. Lennon strips belief down to himself (and Yoko). He wants to feel his pain and not mask it with substances or belief systems. What an album ! It's hard to imagine a current artist baring his or her soul like this. Of note is that, through all of the pain, he still celebrates Love. I love Imagine as well, but this is my favorite Lennon solo album because of the vulnerability and openness here. The production is also less pronounced and lets the listener feel the music. .


Lennon's best
i love this album,john scratched a lot of hurt,and heartaches,on the plastic of that album. john's dark,in your face,brilliant album is better now than it was when it was released in "71" because it takes on a haunting quality,the fact that lennon died violently in the darkness of nighttime new york seems to coordinate with this album. the lyrics are words from a master composer,the songs are unforgetable.


Self-consciously primal
. Often attributed as the post-Beatles most vibrant work, Lennon's simply composed, consciously unhinged rock-psych excursion does sound relatively weak alongside the energy he put in, and would largely fall flat if not for some charisma and some production intuition.


raw, startling, and heart-wrenching
Needless to say, I have always been a big fan of The Beatles. One of my first memories is of being in my father's apartment, at age 6, in 1988, listening to his Beatles records, with the song "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" playing.
In 2000, when I was 18 and just graduated high school, I decided to branch out and explore some of John Lennon's individual music, as I didn't have any of his solo albums. He was always my favorite Beatle, and I always loved "Imagine," and admired him.
Plastic Ono Band was the first album of his I bought, and when I brought it home and listened, I was completely struck and devastated with emotion at what I heard. The pain and sadness and emotion that come through in these songs. . . it was almost unbearable to me to hear. Listening to "God," and the line about him not believing in Beatles, was devastating to hear, even 30 years after they'd broken up. The song "Mother" and "My Mummy's Dead" are also especially hard to listen to. Not to say it's not great music, because it certainly is a FANTASTIC album-- but it's so REAL, that it's hard to NOT be affected by it. That's just another reason why I love John so much, though, because he WAS that real.
A major favorite of mine on this album is "Love. " The song is just so incredibly BEAUTIFUL. . . his voice and the pure emotion of it haunts me and brings me to tears.
This is not an album to be taken lightly. I can listen to these songs over and over again, and feel like I'm there with John, hearing the raw truth of what he was going through at that time in his life. It's a really powerfully emotive experience. This is one of my favorite albums of all time.

(Note: I do not have the version with the added bonus tracks. I agree with the other reviewers who say that it's a bit sacrilegious to alter the original. I will keep my copy of POB WITHOUT the added tracks, thank you. ).


Well...

. I don't believe in magic,
I don't believe in I-ching,
I don't believe in bible,
I don't believe in tarot,
I don't believe in Hitler,
I don't believe in Jesus,
I don't believe in Kennedy,
I don't believe in Buddha,
I don't believe in mantra,
I don't believe in Gita,
I don't believe in yoga,
I don't believe in kings,
I don't believe in Elvis,
I don't believe in Zimmerman,
I don't believe in Beatles,
I just believe in me,
Yoko and me,
And that's reality.


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