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Thrillho:
Note: This post has nothing to do with albums produced by The Beatles as a group.

Now, a lot of John Lennon solo material is critically lauded, like Plastic Ono Band and Imagine.

I own 'Lennon Legend,' described as being his 20 best tracks without a duff one in there.
Several things struck me:
 - Half of the songs, I think, I soporific dreck.
 - Lennon's insistence on a constant delay on his voice in almost every song is irritating in the extreme. He has maybe one clean vocal on the entire collection. This annoys me.
 - 'Cold Turkey' goes on for way too long. Now, I'm an advocate of lengthy music, I just think that the closing minute or so don't really go anywhere. I also think the production on this track is shit. The guitars are rocking like motherfuckers, but the drums are being played like it's 'Imagine.'
 - I hate 'Imagine.'
 - However, I also think there are quite a few great songs on here. 'Mother' has taken a while to sink into me, probably because it's so heart-wrenching. But now that I think about it, it's beautiful. The closing 'Mama don't go/Daddy come home bit' gets to me a lot. 'Instant Karma!' is a brilliant anthem, 'STand By Me' is a great cover and vocal, 'Give Peace A Chance' is great, 'Mind Games' is good...but it seems like the bad outweighs the good a lot.

So what's everyone else's opinion on Lennon's solo stuff?

Misereatur:

--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 07 Nov 2006, 20:42 ---I hate 'Imagine.'

--- End quote ---

Me too.

I only heard Lennon's Plastic Ono Band record and liked it.

Hat:
Actually DynamiteKid, your opinion mimics mine quite a bit, although I haven't heard anything apart from Lennon Legend either, so I could probably stand to get a bit more information. I don't hate his solo stuff, I just think its a bit mediocre, although to be fair, I am comparing him to Paul McCartneys solo work when I say that and I have heard nearly every album Paul ever made, and there are a few shit ones, so I guess it might not seem as band when viewed as a whole discography. I mean, critics fawn and wank over the weirdest songs sometimes.

Thrillho:
The thing is, Lennon is way more lauded - as far as I can tell - because he's dead. He died in 1980, just as they were starting a follow up to 'Double Fantasy' and they were going to tour it. And now he's critically lauded. However, in a recent Q magazine, they had a page with his whole discography, and he only had about four albums worth listening to, one of which was Lennon Legend. Why is he so lauded when he has made so few great albums outside of the Beatles? As far as I can tell, because he's dead.

E. Spaceman:
I think Lennon had a good album (Plastic Ono Band) and a handful of great singles but overall, his solo career is quite bad.
Actually, i think the best exbeatle solo career was probably Ringo.

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