I’m a big fan of John Lennon.
You’d be hard pushed to find a bigger Lennon maniac than me.
When I was 14 I heard his 1970 “Plastic Ono Band” album and I’ve been completely hooked ever since on everything he ever did.
On the 4th of October Yoko Ono is releasing a John Lennon ‘Signature’ Box Set.
It looks like this:
It’s available for Pre-Order now and already has bad reviews because it’s a rip off.
A £127.99 rip off.
The box includes 7 remastered official John Lennon albums, some singles and assorted filler.
As much as I love Yoko Ono (And I do), this is a lazy effort.
From what I can see, it’s light by around 7 albums.
It’s also cheaper to buy the albums individually.
So, in order,
Here they all are:
“Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins” (1968):
“Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions” (1968):
“Wedding Album” (1969):
“Live Peace In Toronto 1969” (1969):
“John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band” (1970):
“Imagine” (1971):
“Some Time In New York City” (1972):
“Mind Games” (1973):
“Walls And Bridges” (1974):
“Rock ‘N’ Roll” (1975):
“Double Fantasy” (1980):
“Milk And Honey” (1984):
“Live In New York City” (1986):
“Menlove Avenue” (1986):
“Acoustic” (2004):
Lennon’s music changed a lot from album to album.
For a good balance I recommend:
“John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band”,
“Walls And Bridges” & “Double Fantasy”.
P.S.
I was gonna title this post “All We Are Saying Is Gies Peace Yoko”.
My Lennon favourites are:
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (love every song);
Imagine (love the guitar work in How Do You Sleep?);
Sometime in New York City (love how political it is).
I do love Double Fantasy, and whilst I do not have anything against Yoko (don’t love her, but John did and that’s good enough for me!), but her stuff on DF is mostly poor (IMHO).
Cheers for chipping in Peter.
I thought Yoko’s Double Fantasy tracks were miles ahead!
It’s only now that people are starting to really appreciate her stuff.
Have you heard her album “Yes, i’m A Witch”?
It’s very good.
I like how the Double Fantasy album is a dialogue between Man and Wife and how it’s all about going forward. I also love The Plastic Ono Band album because it’s so stark and honest and raw.
Walls & Bridges is in between those two for me.
PS: What does “(IMHO)” mean?
In my humble opinion
Fair enough on the Yoko DF comments, must give that album a listen with them in mind.
I’ve got all of John’s studio albums but I must say that Walls and Bridges is an album I haven’t listened to an awful lot. I do remember John’s song about Allen Klein is on that album though, Steel and Glass IIRC.
When you going to do a blog on Ringo’s post Beatles albums?
There won’t be any Ringo related blog posts any time soon I’m afriad because I don’t think his post Beatles music is any good 🙂
Maybe I’ll do something on the late great Harry Nilsson though!
Have you ever heard Sufjan Stevens covering Ringo’s song ‘What Goes On’?
It’s a knockout masterpiece!
You’ll maybe find it on youtube somewhere.
Cheers Peter.