Imagine

not my favourite

I already find Imagine somewhat annoying and trite, and the rest of the album only gets worse from there

Muut otti bussin, John lennon. Eipä ollut tätäkään levyä tullut kuunneltua aiemmin. The Beatlesin on tullut jo neljäkymmentä vuotta kuunneltua aina silloin tällöin. Lennonin soolotuotanto on jäänyt vieraaksi, Tuttuja tältä levyltä oli tietysti hittibiisit ”Imagine” ja ”Jealous Guy”. Ne olikin levyn parhaat biisit, muu olikin sitten aika kuraa…

Imagine if this album was interesting

It's amazing how much greater the four Beatles combined are than the sum of their parts. The solo projects are all somehow underwhelming, mediocre even. Imagine is Imagine, of course, but would the rest of the album still be listened to if it was made by anyone else? It probably isn't anyway tbh.

I never finished Catcher in the Rye but I am a John Lennon hater. I love that jealous guy gave us the donny Hathaway cover that gave us chance the rappers juice, but i hate that imagine gave us the worst part of the covid pandemic and everything else about this album.

It is strongly recoded that I am a Beatles guy. That being said, I rarely enjoy their individual projects. They need each other. This is another one of those albums where I feel like the artist is high on their own supply. I don’t love the titular track very much. Possibly it’s just too played out but it sounds silly to me. Crippled Inside - I get it bro. Same. Jealous Guy - I also get it. Though I don’t usually beat the person I’m jealous over but you know, we’re different guys. I actually like this song but I too am a whiny brat. We get some rockish jams and some slow jams. The variation is nice. I think this album tells me John was not the lyric guy in The Beatles. His lyrics lack creativity and depth and are really disappointing. His voice is so whiny on its own. How Do You Sleep feels like he’s trying to capture The Beatles feel while attacking Paul? The weird grammar in the lyrics makes me wildly uncomfortable. Oh Yoko makes me want to vom. What an appropriate ending.

The titular track is great. But I’m sure John came away from this album saying, “this is the best work I’ve ever done. Better than The Beatles!” He would be wrong. I know that’s unfair but I just didn’t enjoy this album much. There are some solid moments but overall I just found it rather boring.

I don’t think he really protected yoko with this work and can see why the world came for her, although I am a yoko ono apologist. Imagine is one of the corniest songs ever but has done a lot of good, I think

Slow paced a bit to sad for my taste

Por qué a la gente le gusta tanto John? Esta vaina es bien meh. Literal creo que solo imagine se salva

Uninspired swill.

go, white boy, go!! this album was WAY more corny and insufferable than I expected. the title track (which is the opener) does NOT prepare you for it. I would make a joke about John Lennon hating the whole "celebrity Imagine video during covid" thing if he'd been alive to see it, but I actually have NO idea how he'd feel about it.

A bit dull

Found it to be quite self absorbed and missing much of the more interesting musicianship and chord progressions of his work with the rest of the Beatles. Might have my judgement clouded by how he came across in ‘get back’ though. Never liked imagine as a song and found a lot of the rest of the album to be trite.

Kind of boring

Shallow indulgent tripe that sounds like it was recorded in the middle of a warehouse.

Imagine writing a diss track against Paul McCartney when this is the best you've got to offer. A tedious, boring record for the most part

I - meh - gine More like

Ehhhhhh

Ännu ett album som man förstår varför man bara har hört en av låtarna. Resten är ärligt talat generisk rock. Inget sticker ut speciellt mycket

⭐️ How?

Vind dit wel een klassiek voorbeeld van een album dat geweldig klinkt, maar als je verder dan dat probeert te kijken blijkt het niet heel veel om het lijf te hebben. Dat is dan ook wel direct symptomatisch voor veel producties van Phil Spector. Het eerste deel pakt me wel, met zijn folksy en bluesy composities. Het tweede deel daarentegen is cliché filosoof John Lennon, en hij lijkt daar vreemd genoeg soms een beetje op een parodie van zichzelf, hoewel het wel écht en oprecht is. Ik vind het niet zo heel sterk. Het slappe en kinderlijke 'Oh Yoko!' is tekenend. 6/10 Highlights: Imagine Jealous Guy It's So Hard

This album is all about the first song but other than that song it’s pretty below average over all.

Listened in the truck via YouTube music. Not the biggest fan of Lennon solo work. Imagine is what it is.

Meh.

Imagine as a first song is pretty good but honestly the rest of the album is okay.

White boy why.....

Appreciate the talent but wasn’t grabbed by most of the songs.

Perhaps the most overrated and overplayed song of all time, paired with mostly uninteresting album cuts. He wrote a lot of great songs for The Beatles, but I was never the biggest fan of Lennon’s solo material.

I’ll be honest, I skipped the bad third form poetry that is Imagine and Jealous Guy because Bryan Ferry does it better. Everything about this album is so thin, from the production to the vocals and the lyrics. This is John Lennon being a pissy wee bitch as usual. It’s really not that great.

If this wasn’t by a Beatle, it’d be a one-hit wonder no one paid any mind to.

Even though most inescapable Beatles songs still somehow find ways to sound fresh to me when listening to albums. However, other than imagine, this album is a bit simple and boring for me. I always figured Lennon was the one that worked less for me, which this mostly confirms. I get why people would love it, but I don’t need to ever hear this again

Nothing will hate me make this man less, especially his music. Fine album, some of the songs were even decent.

This was pretty terrible. I feel like at this point he was so far out of touch with a normal human experience that none of his songs make sense. They're also not good musically.

completamente distante do que eu gosto camarada conseguiu fazer uma diss track musicalmente chata devia ter ficado quieto aceitando o fim dos beatles

john lennon sem os beatles = tudo de ruim chato demais.

he was crying about his love life i hate it.

I like the song Imagine. it's kind of inconceivable that it came from John Lennon alone when you look at the rest of the songs here. everything else is meh

It’s fine. He needed the other Beatles

It's alright. Not really finding it especially interesting.

4/10

Should have stopped after imagine

I tried, I even got high and tried again. A couple of really good songs and a lot of fair songs. I'm not going to dwell too long here because I've tried several other times and have determined that this album doesn't excite me and that is okay. Peace out!

Remember when Lorde put out the pandemic record about how if you go outside things will be better? This is that but the 70s.

Meh

Ugghh

Yoko OH NO!!!

A bit dated overall, but nice songs.

1 banger, 9x ???

Couple of good songs and I admire Lennon for what he did for rock music especially with the Beatles but I wouldn’t listen to this again.

Aside from Imagine I found this album a bit boring personally.

Two timeless gems, and a final track that feels like I landed up in the middle of their morning cuddle, awkwardly holding toast.

He was better with the other guys. Love me some beatles, but not so much JUST John Lennon. Damn Yoko.

A couple bangers but the rest didn't do a ton for me.

mostly cheese

Wet slime. 1.5 for some nice melodies which cannot surpass the gross tinge on everything.

Langweilig, bin aber auch biased weil Lennon 1 Frauen schlagender Hund war

Oof, what a disappointment this would have been at the time. Great first track obviously and then... nothing to write home about.

M/v

imagine draggin’

More bearable than I'd envisioned but for the most part pretty boring. I like the pop songs though. The title track alone drags this down to a 2 for me though. Fav track: Oh Yoko!

Probably my least favorite solo Beatle. The title track is inescapable from that horrible COVID video by Gal Gadot and other braindead celebrities. A lot of the tracks read either as Beatles songs that didn't make the cut, or just flat. I liked one song, that being How Do You Sleep? I write this at 3:56 am, so, not well!

Snoozer. Really makes it evident how much he needed the other Beatles.

Never been a huge fan of Imagine (the song) so wasn't looking forward to this. Weirdly it really doesn't represent the rest of the album at all which draws much more from blues and roots rock. Still an incredibly boring album though

A huge downside to Lennon’s solo stuff is he just cranked shit out for a quick turnaround. And this album is an indication of how sloppy and a waste of his talent.

Only thing saving it from one star is the title track. The whole album reeks of insecurity to the point of feigned arrogance.

Literally one good song and that was Crippled Inside so one star for that and one star for introducing some new types of sounds. Didnt enjoy it but hey some of that shit was fresh back then

If you just heard Imagine with no context of who wrote it you might kind of agree with the sentiment, I would for sure. But it's such a lie coming from John Lennon. He would have hated the world he was wishing for in that song because he would be equal with everyone else and that's not what he wanted at all. I mean he professed all these ideas of no possessions and equality while standing there waiting for his maid to change his sheets for the third time that day. No, he was a pretty terrible person for sure and all the ideas he spouts in that song are definitely a 'this is for you but not me because I'm better than you' mentality. And this whole album is another example of why the Beatles were so great. None of their solo stuff was ever close to what they made together. George Harrison was probably the closest to making something comparable. This album is just kind of boring, run of the mill music with a couple of high spots here and there. And full of insincere and false sentiment. Best song is I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier. But still, if John Lennon hadn't been a Beatle, nobody would have listened to this album at all. 2.5/5 but rounding down for reasons.

God free us from the John Lennon d*ck riding.

Pretty tepid, even the big songs.

imagine

I can’t get behind the singer/songwriter aspect of pop sometimes…even if it’s John Lennon.

Not a huge fan of this one.

Meh. I'm not really a fan. Songs were ok, it played in the background but nothing really caught my attention.

I don’t even really like the title track

dull.

Not my thing.

The classics imagine and jealous guy are here but I the main a fairly lacklustre album

Ich hatte am Tag davor ein Paul McCartney Album. Paul McCartney ohne Beatles ist definitiv besser als John Lennon ohne Beatles.

Imagine - sönder spelad Crippled inside - Monty Python music hall Jealous guy - håller fortfarande It's so hard: gubbrock-blues. Borde stannat i byrålådan. I don't wanna be a soldier: intresxsantast hittills men lyfter inte riktigt. Lennons röst är alldeles för vek och snäll för en sån här låt. Gimme some truth: gäsp Oh my love: pinsamt How do you sleep: släpar sig fram. Irriterande smöriga stråkar. Går på tomgång How?: lyrik från pennan av en genomsnittlig tonåring. Musikaliskt urtråkigt. Oh Yoko!: en bagatell. Att Lennon vill förklara sin kärlek offentligt är väl fint så. Inget dom borde gå till historien. Ulf Lundell på munspel? Samlad bedömning: en, kanske två ok/bra låtar. Trist produktion. Svag sång. Knappast topp 1001.

I don't really like John Lennon's solo work, this one especially has some duds. The overall vibe of the album is way too mopey and cliché 70's pop rock. More dull than the Carpenters or Captain & Tennille. Imagine and Jealous Guy are songs I've grown tried of over the years and there's a lot of awful pop slop in here as well. There's still some nice songs, John Lennon hadn't completely forgot how to make a good song, but overall not a very enjoyable album.

Does not really feel like an "album experience" - how are these songs connected? Lyrics and themes are everywhere. Music is a bit monotonous for my taste but it does not hurt my ears.

this album's name has been dragged through the mud all because of that goddamn title track. i don't think the stink from the celebrity cover from early 2020 will ever wash out. rest of it is proof that McCartney was the superior songwriter. i can kind of fuck with the atmosphere and premise but it rarely is engaging. deserves to be one of the 1001? no but (barely holding back grin of extreme contrarian pleasure) Plastic Ono Band / Yoko Ono should!

Seems a bit indulgent to me. I suppose if there's anyone who deserved being allowed some indulgence in their career, It's John Lennon. Didn't really enjoy this.

imagine there's no album / it's easy if you try

Nothing that would bring me back for more as an album. Obviously Imagine is great, but beyond that I wasn’t a fan

I love the Beatles, John Lennon not so much

first song 5/5, the rest are do doo

It was alright…like I don’t know Imagine is a great song but the rest was….ok???? Maybe my expectations were too high for a former Beatles member

Surprising not good. After the opening track it’s a imbalanced ride

[generic blues rock jam comes to a close] "Ok, John that sounds like there might be something there, we can keep working on it and maybe when the lyrics are fully done, you know without all the hypocrisy, we might be able to shape this into something..." "There will be no introspection! Only the shifting of the blame and the pointing of fingers, and these ARE the songs! Roll the tape, this next one is about how Paul McCartney is a piece of shit." [toxic vibes proceed to seep into analogue tapes]

Meh, knew nothing but the first track, and now know the reason, nothing was quite as catchy. Rating the album as a whole, 2.

imagine = défi essayer d'être plus niais tracks 2-3-4 nul track 5 ça valait le coup de l'écouter en sah track 6-7 je commence à me faire chier track 8 sympa track 9 je viens de l'écouter que je l'ai déjà oubliée

It seems the rest of the Beatles kept a lot of John's worse instincts at bay. Most of the times I can try and not let the quality of the person muddy my assessment of the album, but it makes it tougher this time where said person is actively being hypocritical in the album. John could write a song, sure, but these are a but meh. Also being overly preachy, asking for the world to do better when you're ultra rich? I'm a terrible person feel sorry for me I don't deserve love...it was tough to separate the artist from the art on this one.

Dull & forgettable. Really dislike the title track!

I counted 125 uses of 'I' on this ten track record. After the Beatles broke up, this man's ego and self obsession went unchecked and he thought everyone was intrigued by his relationship with Yoko and Paul, when they probably just wanted better tunes. A bit of a prick, some of the songs ( Jealous Guy) are alright but generally this is all guff.

Worse than the Beatles together

Imagine nos feratu...its scary if you try...

Personal disdain for the artist aside, no one loves John Lennon as much as John Lennon loved John Lennon and I think that sums up his work without the Beatles

I approached this album ready to lambast John Lennon. Of course, I already know the title track, while it's a very altruistic sentiment that I agree with, it sounds very hypocritical coming from John Lennon. Truth be told, from this point forward the production choices at every turn were so disarming that I enjoyed the songs more than i thought I would. The strings in "It's So Hard" absolutely save the song from being a boring electric blues rock song. They almost sound digital "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama" is like something Scott Walker would begin to do in the late 70's and mid 80's. It's so far ahead of it's time! I was so enamored that I didn't mind the slight lull of "Gimme Some Truth". From this point forward the songs hit closer to what I feared it would be: just post-Beatles Beatles songs. Stylistically, the trite balladeering "Oh My Love" and "How?" falls flat, and "How Do You Sleep" no matter how well-intentioned it is, sounds like a White Album reject. "Oh, Yoko!" is sweet, because who hasn't thought about writing their cush/partner a personalized song, but it is a bit corny. But that Harmonica at the end absolutely shredded. All in all, better than I was expecting. I've attempted to listen to John Lennon's discography before, but somehow never made it to Imagine before, and I have to say, I'm delightfully surprised that I like anything Beatles adjacent. Here's to personal growth! That said, only the A-side had any real standouts. If any John Lennon album should be here, it should probably be this one, but does this one deserve to be here?

If he was alive today, do you think he’d drink Stella? Anyway, not particularly fond of Lennon. “Imagine” is overplayed and I get the sense of a darker meaning behind “Jealous Guy”. 1/4 of the Beatles deserves more than what I’d give I’m sure, but I can’t stretch to a 3 so I leave it at 2. Nothing amazing here.

First, you think "the lyrics of Imagine are actually so true", then you think "wait a second, it's actually really hypocritical of John Lennon to write those lyrics". But in the end, who really cares? Arguing about "Imagine" has got to be one of the least productive things you could be doing more than 50 years later. The real problem with this album is that just one year without Paul's granny music left John completely unable to write a decent hook!

Udover imagine er det ikke et godt album, 2 stjerner pil ned.

To old for me

Couldn't get past the production on this, sounded like he recorded it standing in another room

Cheesy af

What a miserable album. 'Jealous Guy' is one of Lennon's greatest ever songs, but on the whole this a nicely produced trudge and a depressing look at a rotting talent.

Chill but not much of my vibe.

Horrible. Self-serving. Self-stroking.

it's ok

Imagine - Appreciated classic Crippled Inside - The Americanisation of John Lennon Jealous Guy - Good It's So Hard - More Americanisation I Don't Want to be a Soldier Mama - Very bad Gimme Some Truth - Oooh I liked this one Oh My Love - Bad again How Do You Sleep? - Alright I guess How? - Also fine Oh Yoko! - These feel like songs for montages in family friendly films

I've never listened to this album in full before, but I'd heard a few songs--including "Imagine", obviously, which I find harder to tolerate as years go by. I feel embarrassed when people have an emotional response to that song. I've seen grown men cry to it! But it's hypocritical and pretentious and perhaps the least self-aware song Lennon ever wrote! And boring and simplistic! It's incurious and preachy! Have you seen the video in his home for that song? It's ridiculous. I wish he was being ironic when they shot it, but it's sincere. Maybe he thought he was being vulnerable. I'm harping about the title track because I think it's emblematic of everything that doesn't work for me about this album. It contains all of my least favorite impulses in Lennon's songwriting. The Beatles may have needed him, but he also definitely needed the Beatles. Also, I am truly mystified by the popularity of "Jealous Guy". I guess it points towards some kind of self-reflection, but the melody sucks, the strings are ridiculous, and the production is plodding. Not to mention the content. 'I treated you like shit because I'm insecure, baby! I'M in PAIN! I didn't MEAN to hurt you!' And then he fucking whistles. Lennon is responsible for some of my favorite songs ever, which makes me feel all the more venomous towards this album as an exercise. I'm going to go listen to 'Revolver' again.

Jealous Guy is the highlight, otherwise rather underwhelming.

Bland

What a twat. Calls himself a philosopher whilst making the most egocentric songs in existence. Don’t forget the abuse of his wife.

I really didn't like this. Imagine is a "great" song that is beloved by millions but I do not get it. There's also a tonal whiplash from last week's album "Pet Sounds" having a song against LSD and John Lennon took enough to marry Yoko.

Ok album, some good tunes

This album seems like it starts strong, but really just opens with its only good song. It's downhill pretty fast after Imagine.

Couple decent songs

Supposed to like it. But I just don’t. Obviously quality songwriting because it’s John Lennon , and there’s good stuff here and there. Just ok and you expect more from a superstar caliber musician. I like the more vulnerable stuff. Imagine is now a cliche, but has a lovely intent. So now why can’t he and Paul live in peace? Hmm? HMMMMM????

it's nice, very mellow, very banal, very bland and 'ringarde', if you will I fear all of these songs sound the same I can't even say that this isn't my thing because I feel like ordinarily it would be...

People need to stop dickriding him so hard

Songs fluctuate between okay and kind of annoying. It would probably be decent overall if the album didn't have the curse of being by John Lennon and thus having to compete with the Beatles' work. Compared to that, my impression of the album is best summarized by the word “pretentious”. 2.5/5

Boy was I glad to finish this album. Look, I get why people raved about this when it was released, the peace and love themes are very very apparent and given when this album came out I can totally understand the massive following behind this music. But honestly, I didn't love it. I think the only song I really really enjoyed was Crippled Inside. I was very close to adding Oh No to the list because I thought it was the end of the album and I was really happy about it but turns out it wasn't the end and I had to listen to more John Lennon. Maybe Mark David Chapman was trying to spare us all

Didn’t know so many people hated John Lennon. Kind of refreshing to see. Album is a 2 at best. Can’t believe his iconic solo song is on such an average / below average album.

чет скучная хня для хиппарей, хотя, может быть, при определенном настроении, при определенном положении планет, мне это и понравится, мне все равно не нравки((( 2/5

A couple of obvious bangers, but a lot of absolute dross. Imagine is in the converstaion for best song of all time, but there is no editing and quality conttol. Waffly, wanky lyrics and thin, scratchy blues.

Look, I love Lennon. But I don't usually love solo Beatles. They just made each other better in ways that are lacking on their solo stuff. Paul needed John's edge, John needed Paul's joi de vivre and they needed each other as a creative counterweight Imagine is obviously an all-timer, but the rest of the album is just mediocre 12-bar blues and soft dad rock outside of the OG diss track How Do You Sleep? and Oh Yoko! The album is fine. Give me Paul's Ram over this any day.

Most of this album is pretty terrible. The title track is of course wonderful (I've heard it far too often, but I still remember how it sounded when it was fresh). "Jealous Guy" was better recorded by Bryan Ferry. "Oh My Love" is gorgeous. The rest of the album... No thanks.

I tend to prefer John Lennon written songs when it comes to the Beatles, and post drug albums. But listening to this album made me realize there's such a thing as too much Lennon and too much drugs. Maybe the other three guys tempered John's excesses. In any case, there are a few good songs here, Imagine obviously and I really liked How do you sleep? but I'd never go back and listen to this album as a complete package. How? Is also OK. Kind of just shows you the start of the decline more than anything. Keep in mind when I write this, I'm only a passive Beatles listener, not a massive fan. I enjoy some of the best later stuff, but not crazy about them.

I’ve never been a Lennon girlie, I’m pretty much ride-or-die for Paul, so I don’t particularly enjoy John’s solo work. Some songs do slap, like unfortunately the infamous Paul diss-track How Do You Sleep is the coolest song on this album, while most of the rest kind of rubs me the wrong way. Still, even if I don’t really like it, you certainly can’t deny the enduring reach of Imagine. (2.5 stars)

Music is nice, but the voice isn't

One great song. One pretty good song. I found the rest pretty boring

Past imagine (the first song) it really didn't grip me.

The titular song is fine but I couldn't vibe with anything else on the album.

someone needed to put a leash on this man my fucking god. not only that but another phil spector dumpster fire to suffer through

Oh Yoko? Oh dear.

Well, Jealous Guy is good. Though I think Donny Hathaway did it better.

Tenía el presentimiento de quee iba a aburrir con este álbum, tenía razón.

2 songs

4 for the songs. -2 John Lennon -2 Phil Spector +2 Jealous Guy

Some good songs but mostly not for me. I understand I'm of the few here. Just wasn't for me.

Raga che lagna mi sento male non me l’aspettavo affatto

Meh

I’ve taken to checking out the authors of the reviews and it’s fairly clear that if you hate Lennon or Dire Straits, you just love Screaming-Cats-Electrified-By-A-Cattleprod-type music. Lennon seems pretty polarising anyway. If you grew up with the Beatles you usually love him. If you cut your milk teeth on hip hop or punk, you think he was just a bullshit artist. I didn't bother listening to the album as I already knew the key songs enough to remember most of their lyrics. Not my cup of tea now or then. Was the album influential? Probably. Do I need to listen to it all before I die? No. Two stars.

Not my favorite sound. Some songs are fairly boring.

I know an album is probably going to suck when I don’t even care for the big track on the album. Given how much the Beatles have been a part of my life, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the day I get a Beatles album. Go and figure that the first crumb I get is one of John Lennon’s solo albums, where all of John’s ego and artistic bullshit can go unchecked. As mentioned before, I don’t really give a fuck about Imagine. It’s a surface level peace song that’s overplayed as much as it’s pretentious. It doesn’t even mean much on the album. Hard to preach about peace when you put a Paul McCartney diss track on it too. But the big problem I have with Imagine is that almost none of the songs are worth anything. I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier is a 6-minute repetitive nuisance, Oh Yoko made me feel uncomfortable and Gimme Some Truth is just surface level political commentary. The only song I kinda liked was Jealous Guy. Honestly, most of the songs just felt like they used the same lyrics over and over again. I wasn’t a fan of this one, which sucks as a Beatles fan. Hopefully, it’s one of those albums I see John Lennon again. Favorite track: Jealous Guy Other hits: Oh My Love, How?

There are a few songs here that are musically stellar, but it's hard not to listen to Lennon's lyrics and hear a small, deeply insecure man whose big picture idealism is perpetually at odds with his dented ego.

как можно было чпокать йоко оно? диссить пола маккартни? старина ты по моему перепутал

Not a Beatles fan but at least when they started they were doing something new and exciting. By the time we get to 1971, the Beatles are over and this album proves that there's no I in team. The title track is insipid, just some rich bloke being out of touch. Peace and love unless you step out line, eh John? Although I do like the main piano line. As for the rest of it, he really should have just left the white man blues to the Rolling Stones. At least they were good at it. The whole album feels insincere and self-absorbed. The production's good and ultimately, it's not unlistenable.

Starts out about as strong as you can then tapers immediately.

Czasami odnoszę wrażenie, że niektóre albumy trafiły na tę listę za jedną wiodącą piosenkę, bo reszta utworów nie powinna się znaleźć nawet na obrzeżach tej listy. "Imagine" to absolutny klasyk i hymn pokolenia, a także pewnej idei. Idei, która niestety zdewaluowała się i wygląda obecnie co nieco naiwnie, być może w dużej mierze przez jej współczesną wypaczoną formę. Albo przez świat, który jest co nieco bardziej skomplikowany, niż 50 lat temu. John Lennon nie powinien był brać się za bluesa. Ani za granie na harmonijce. Jego utwory światopoglądowe trącą white privilege (śpiewanie o złych pieniądzach, kiedy jesteś międzynarodową gwiazdą rocka, come on...), jego blues jest słaby, a oda do Yoko to straszny cringe. Nie cierpiałem tak, jak przy The Libertines, bo mimo wszystko to jest wciąż świadomy muzycznie album. Ale to tyle.

Solo Lennon do mnie nie przemawia, strasznie się wynudziłem. Mocne 2

Two views. Yes, sure, spend a moment to explain to people who dont know the Beetles and John Lennon their message to the world, and the zeitgeist, and Imagine as something that people connected with. as an album, not for me. It bores me, and Yoko is a difficult topic

It's ok, but I'm pretty convinced if this album had any other person's name on it, it would be considered very mediocre.

Fuck John Lennon, hypocriete lul dat ie is. Met dat uit de weg, Imagine is wel gewoon een mooi nummer. Altijd benieuwd of de rest dan dat niveau haalt of in de buurt komt of dat het een Layla en andere nummers situatie is. Ik probeer me niet te irriteren aan de hypocrisie van de heer Lennon, ik ben tenslotte een groot Kanye fan alleen dan wel voordat ie echt gestoord was. En ik moet zeggen, het valt me mee. Je moet de teksten vooral negeren, want dit album is voor een groot deel "Heb toch medelijden met me! Ik heb het echt heel moeilijk!!!" het album, en dat klinkt toch wat minder geloofwaardig van iemand die als protest zichzelf opsluit in bed in het Hilton. Er zijn slechtere plekken laat ik maar zeggen. Had ik dit album moeten luisteren voor ik doodga? Mwah, het is prima. Er zitten een paar echte stinkers in(I dont wanna be a soldier mama, Oh Yoko!) Maar de titelsong, op de hypocrisie na, is gewoon een goed nummer. Zelfde geld voor mij voor Jealous Guy en How? Maar de rest is te matig voor een 'Goed'. FAVO: Imagine, Jealous Guy, How?

I was hoping Imagine would be the outlier and the rest of the album would convince me of the genius of Lennon everyone spoke about, but it actually gets worse as it goes along. 'An Englishman pretending to make traditional American music' describes it way too well, both in terms of its lack of authenticity and how badly it fails.

Meh, should’ve stayed with the Beatles. Fuck yoko ono

Post-Beatles John Lennon sure did talk a good game, but it was all smoke and mirrors. Other than Imagine and Jealous Guy none of the other songs were worth shit. I blame Yoko

I think I prefer him with the plastic ono band. Imagine is a classic but is also a meme at this point. Jealous Guy is decent. Otherwise some pretty meh bar blues/dad rock on a lot of tracks. How Do You Sleep?, How? and Oh Yoko! are a solid way to close out though.

Pretty boring

As someone who isn’t a Beatles fan, I wasn’t particularly enthused when this came up. It’s all just a bit bland? Maybe musically and/or lyrically it’s brilliant, just like everyone claims the Beatles are, but I just don’t get it! Sorry John, this isn’t my favourite.

I wanted to like this more than I did. Didn't really care for the songwriting across this and I can't stand the title track.

There’s too much John Lennon on this list.

Imagine not getting shot by a snub nosed revolver

Ignoring the infinite flaws and atrocities of Lennon, for an album called Imagine, it is quite an unimaginative album

Fav song: Imagine Personally I feel like without Paul and George, John gets waaaaaay too lost in the sauce. I'm probably never ever going to listen to 'Oh Yoko' again for as long as I live. That being said, I really love Imagine as a song (even if John can't follow his own principles, I still love the message and the sombre feelings) and Gimme Some Truth was pretty cool too.

Kind of dreary affair all around

It's okay.

Meh, this was ok. A couple good songs but the rest just had me wishing I was listening to The Beatles.

Even using my imagination won't help me like this album.

I expected to like this more and yet I was waiting for it to end.

None of the rest of the songs on the album lived up to the title track. This was boring and honestly pretty disappointing.

After the title track, which is an undeniable classic, I found this album a weird mashup of non-Beatles songs. Maybe that was the point, but Lennon doesn’t so barrelhouse or blues or anything else so well. Interest g to watch icons find (lose?) their way after jumping off their pinnacles.

Some good

Don't really rate it. Seems like ideas left off of Abbey Road mostly

This was whiney and self-serving. John did really need the other Beatles.

i didnt enjoy it that much wasnt very catchy

Started pretty good but was ready for it to end by about halfway

what a whiny twat 4/10

Take away the fact that this is John Lennon, the album is kinda meh outside the two songs I knew. It's Lennon dabbling in other genres and being kinda mid at it; Paul and George did better solo stuff. 2* Highlights: imagine, jealous guy

I dislike very much John Lennon’s solo work.

Imagine that besides "Imagine" (and 2 other tunes, maybe), the rest of the Imagine album was pure shite. Buuuuuut it was a ring for a week before ICLR.

Two stars for jealous guy.

Disjointed, so much so that at first I thought it was some kind of compilation album. That would require this album to have more than a couple of good songs, which I didn't really feel it did. Several tonal, and genre changes throughout the album. A song about how he's different, followed not long after a diss track, then a love song to his current wife. He may love Yoko Ono, but I don't love this album.

I feel like this album are songs that just didn't make the cut for any Beatles record. It's a nice listen, nothing that was "I really want to skip this", but also just kinda boring. Nothing really stood out for me. 2/5

Imagine is a fantastic song. The rest is meh or worse. I'd give this a 1, but Imagine bumps it to a 2.

rolled my eyes when i saw this pop up. uh,, yeah. its john lennon. i dont fucking know.

He was better with the beatles...

fine but not very exciting (did not finish)

Boring.

This album is proof that the Beatles were more than the sum of their parts.

Underwhelming. Some bland 80s pop-sounding stuff.

It felt scattered and not cohesive at all. Almost like recycled concepts from the beetle's

#324. Imagine if this guy remembered how to make good music after he left the Beatles. 2/5: unfortunate

middddd what the helll

Altså.. Imagine er en objektiv banger. men.... Den sætter også tonen for resten af pladen; Opblæst og ideologisk. Jeg værdsætter mere hvad The Beatles lavede i fællesskab, for de har tydeligvis brug for hinanden. How Can You Sleep er simpelthen det mest whack diss-track jeg nogensinde har hørt...

I’ve never understood the Beatles hype. They undeniably have a few good songs, but to be treated with such reverence and considered one of the best bands ever? I don’t get it. This album is kind of like that. Imagine is undeniably a good song. The rest are fine, I guess. Nothing really sets them apart from any of the other 60s pop songs. My album yesterday was The Monkees, and if I didn’t know the names attached to each album, there’s just not a lot between them. I'll give it 2.5 stars. Imagine is a good song, How Do You Sleep is pretty good as well.

I liked Imagine but not really anything else.

preferred the songs that aren't seen as the hits on this one, felt most of the songs went on too long, was enjoying don't wanna be a soldier but it should be half as long as it is

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A perfect summation of John Lennon’s persona; equal parts iconic and pretentious. How can you lead the album with the messaging on Imagine but then also have a diss track about your former bandmate on the same album? This record fluctuates from fantastic to grating on the ears far too often

meh. nix davon mitgnommen

One star off because I am just reminded of that horrible video of those celebrities singing “imagine” during covid

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Everyone knows of the tour de force that is the song “Imagine”…but I…imagine (ha ha) that a lot of people aren’t aware of the album it’s a part of. Well, I was one of these people…and following a listen, I have to say I hadn’t missed out on too much. In my limited listens of solo projects of the former Fab Four, I’ve found most had at least one or two unreal songs (ie Imagine or Jealous Guy) and then mostly filler type songs, or tracks that don’t really hit the same and don’t become so memorable soon after the listen. Obviously the Beatles enthusiast should hear this album, there are some decent tracks here for sure. But it’s also hard not to listen through and wonder what this could have been had it been done as part of the Beatles. As it stands, this is worth a spin for the first few songs, but don’t be surprised if you find your interest waning by the end.

Very mid Also bad person

Too busy at work to appreciate and also turned off by Yoko Ono song at end for some reason.

I wasn't too big on Imagine the song and I gotta say I'm definitely no bigger on the rest of the album 2/5

Not a big Lennon fan, though I appreciate his contributions to music. This album he sounds tired or depressed through a lot of it? I find it lacks catchy or interesting melodies... Gimme Some Truth is Punk Rock though...

Phew. Freed from the Beatles, I have very little time for any of the individual members. John particularly. This is an album with one evergreen that's been played to death... And then there is a whole bunch of incredibly mediocre songs that are variations of blues routines and Beatles-esque ballads and Beatles references. And I get that John wasn't a particularly peaceful person in his younger years, and he was openly compensating for that with all his peace and love stuff in the 70s. But my God, is this getting dreary really and cringey quickly. Having said all that. It's well-produced and I'd much rather listen to this again than to Sign O the Times by Prince. That album got 1/5, so this has to be a 2/5.

It’s not great. Phil Specter’s contributions do make it at least palatable, but mostly melodramatic and boring. Time and place, I suppose.

It's John Lennon without the Beatles.

This one just washed over me like a bucket of wet sick. Very similar to the Plastic Ono one that precedes is but somehow less fresh and interesting. His grandiose digs at McCartney on 'How do you sleep' are not a good look, and 'Imagine' is so hackneyed and overplayed now you just can't take it seriously (if you ever could). 'Jealous Guy' is the only one that stands out as a great pop song worthy of John's legacy.

Fine, but the mixing is off and makes the listening experience worse.

Sum of the Beatles seems better than its parts. 2 stars. Was ready for it to end.

There's some fun jammy blues stuff with George Harrison on guitar and pretty groovy bass, but that's not what you're listening to John Lennon for. Jealous Guy is a great song sullied by what's known about his behavior. Imagine is so embarrassing it hurts, imagine being moved by that. His voice and the cadence of his vocal phrasing are the best bits. But this is mostly pretty dull stuff.

mimo remastera to jakosc slaba, nic wybitnego poza Imagine i Oh Yoko!, reszta to typowy angielski rock z amerykanskim country inspiracja

The title track is in a league of its own on this album. The only other tracks that are okay are Jealous Guy and Gimme Some Truth. The Soldier thing is horrendous. The solo albums of former Beatles members remind me of the solo ventures of Kiss members; none of them are remotely as good as the full bands’ albums. That being said, Jealous Guy sounds like it wouldn’t have been out of place on Peter Criss’ 78 solo album. Now try not to hear Peter’s voice on the track!

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Very John Lennon. Only song that stood out as memorable was Oh Yoko! But I wouldn't call it a favorite. Too poppy and not enough of an interesting sound. Will probably not listen to again.

Imagine is one of the most overrated songs ever, by one of the most overrated artists ever.

If he's not writing songs with The Beatles, John Lennon doesn't have ideas. Aside from Imagine, the other songs feel like fillers. It made me fall asleep, and it made me understand how amazing was the chemistry between those 4 individuals.

this album actually goes hard asf but i hate john lennon so its a 2/5 because of that. but if its j the music like 4 idk

girly this shit is ass. this is just straight ass

I'm not the world's biggest Beatles fan, and I can't say that I know a ton about the four members personally. But I sure did learn how petty and immature Lennon was after the break up. Diss tracks, scream therapy, an adolescent's view of the world... This was kind of sad even if it was interesting.

So typical of the Beatles crew to throw together an album which rides solely on the strength of a couple songs, while the rest are just weird experiments. I'm probably just coming too late to the party with this album, but I swear my parents bought this on CD in the late 90s and I literally recall none of it. If ever an album needed a few more months in the development stages, it's this one. You can't just walk into the studio with one good idea and hope the rest falls into place. This could have been a beautiful statement, but instead is just a bunch of demos.

Imagine Oh My Love I don’t want to be a soldier mama Great tunes. The rest? Less so. I get the cultural significance but it doesn’t save some of the cheesier moments.

Didn't like the cover of Imagine by Angelina Mango.

Honesty does not absolve, and this album is proof. Half balladry laid on thick, and half white boi pastiche of American blues and 50s rock 'n' roll without any personal input. I'll give him this, there are moments where I'm almost won over. The melody of "Jealous Guy"; the guitar work on "How Do You Sleep?" (although that's George's contribution, obviously), the strings on "How?" I'm not a big Lennon/Beatles apologist generally, but I'm also not deaf, and I know there's moments, and they're just enough to make me not hate this album, although they're also not enough to fully win me over, either. At the same time, though, there's enough pretension ("Imagine"), straight rip-off ("Crippled Inside"), and downright cringe ("Oh Yoko!") to make me physically grimace, and I can't ignore that, either.

Even the Beatles are not immune to the solo record melange. Solo albums suck, sometimes inexplicably. This is an OK collection of charming British songs. Imagine is the musical equivalent to a tranny blowjob

2 songs added. Meh, overall

Know he is important for music evolution.

who even cares

it’s nice that he’s trying so much stuff but his smug lyrics and politics are top-level cringe

Lennon's gotta be one of the prime examples of the fake deep artist. "Imagine no possessions" says the dude swimming in money. The album itself, once you look past Lennon's shitty philosophising, is very forgettable. Sole highlights are the title track which is decen enough and Jealous Guy which was sampled in a far superior Pusha T track.

Didn't really enjoy this. The title track is good, but the rest is kinda meh.

It was okay. I’m not a big fan of the John Lennon solo albums, only song I got something from was imagine.

A better start (crippled inside) than a finish (oh Yoko)

Pretty mediocre overall. Imagine is a good song but I have heard it tons of times. The other songs are not great, just forgettable space filler. I won't listen to this again.

I sure expected this to be better. Oof.

Lenin’s solo work suggests that either Paul was the true creative force behind the Beatles or Yoko (Oh No!) is a creativity vampire who drained Lennon completely

Najbolje pjesme: 1. Imagine 2. Jealous Guy 3. How? 2.5/3

Ehhhhhhhh not my thingggg

Quality songs and arrangements. Just that unfortunate voice.

Imagine is a perfect song, if you forget that the person saying "imagine no possessions" had a separate apartment in NYC for just clothes. The rest of the album is mid at best, and the singer is a git, so, overall, 2.

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Lennon is not my thing.

One of those albums with songs I've always heard but never really listened to. Worse than The Beatles.

Eh, not for me. Plus the dude is notoriously all the things he preaches against.

Imagine is clearly the best song on here. The other songs are ok but unfamiliar to me.

Bit miserable

Blegh.

Not my cup of tea. Imagine is this only reason i would click on this album again.

The title track is a timeless classic (if not a little overplayed!). John Lennon was one of the wealthiest music celebrities, living in his mansion whilst writing about how great the world would be without possessions and greed. Hypocrite warning! John Lennon was a complex dude and was pretty appalling to women. In his own words "I used to be cruel to my woman ... any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself, and I hit. I fought men and I hit women.” Both these stars are for the title track only.

John Lennon is overrated (as are the Beatles) His lyrics to 'Imagine' are more ironic than Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic' (which ironically isn't at all ironic - it's just bad luck) 'Imagine' may be one of the most irritating songs ever.

Meh. Imagine if a song could actually inspire change rather than assuage guilt. I don’t love the title track and I didn’t really like anything else either. Actually, Gimme Some Truth was the only one that jumped out.

I don’t really like the Beatles so I’m not sure why I would like John Lennon alone.

This was alright not something I would seek out again. But not bad for his era of music. 2.5/5

Aside from the hits (imagine/jealous guy) this is not a great effort and a huge drop off from Plastic Ono Band

Nothing exceptional, kind of boring

Have only heard imagine before was hoping for something else that good or better. Not sure I got that. I don't want to be a soldier mamma, rambles on for far to long, it actually annoyed me. Its just the same drivel for 6 minutes. I had to have a pause from the album at this point. This is probably why somebody shot him, maybe he should have become a soldier after all, then at least it would have been a fair fight. When I came back I'm not sure if it was better or I had just calmed down a bit. Nothing really stood out from the album. And if we are being honest I'll probably only ever hear imagine again on the radio. After this album John might have even gone below Ringo in order of my favorite beatles

Enjoyed imagine, although like Chris, out of touch celebs but a downer on it. Jealous guy is cool as is Oh Yoko but beyond that I wasn’t a fan. Obligatory mention that Lennon beat his first wife

Wonder what he would think of Fortnite 4/10

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could i write poetry to this? n

When Paul and George went solo they made some of the greatest music of all time. When John went solo he showed the world what a whiny, self-important prick he was. That said, I am shocked how much I disliked this album.

What a bitter little album. I'll be kind and say that John Lennon is 'complicated'. A song writing genius but, by most counts, a bit of a prick. This seems to be a collection of song where he simultaneously apologises for and confirms it.

This is SO BORING. It makes sense that “Imagine” (song) is simple because it’s a straightforward idea. Why are the rest of the songs so uninteresting? I liked the mixing on some of them and the variety of instruments (whistling, harmonica, was that a harpsichord in “Oh My Love?”) but all the songs were just so boring, structurally. After “Hold On”, a song started that I was immediately like “okay this is more like it” but it was just Spotify playing the Beatles “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” after. (Oh apparently “Hold On” wasn’t part of the album either. I wrote “good mixing” for that one.) No one would think twice about this album if anybody besides a Beatle made it.

First time hearing most of these songs, and honestly they were better than expected. The title track is now a bit cringe inducing, but overall not at all a bad album.

This list should be called 1001 albums with one hit on them. Honestly songs like I don’t wanna be a soldier are appalling. Personally I have hated imagine since I was a child, and the more I learned about Lennon, the more I felt vindicated about my opinion. This albums sums up what a pathetic, hypocritical and generally unpleasant person he was. “I’m just a jealous guy”… Jesus I’d hate to be on the receiving end of JL’s violent jealousy like the people close to him were. Having said all that I do really like ‘how can you sleep’ musically, I’d definitely listen to that again. It’s just ridiculous how he lashes out at McCartney for no reason, “how can you sleep at night you cunt?” John asks, in an unused take of that song. I Imagine Paul always slept a lot better than John, who probably rolled around, haunted by all the evil things he’d done in his life.

Never was a big fan. I appreciate what the Beatles did for music but his was the least impressive solo career of the bunch.

Folksy vibe. Imagine was the song I knew and the most “mainstream “ on the album. It was okay.

not bad but wouldnt listen again. 2

2.5

This one popped up straight after Paul McC's debut so it was interesting to compare. Lennon definitely a more interesting writer imo, but still not really my thing. Knocked a star off for the terrible Yoko song.

Better than Paul McCartney’s effort, but proof, were it needed, that The Beatles were way more than the sum of their parts.

Imagine obviously the massive song. But kind hit or miss for the rest. I do like Jealous Guy though.

Asides from Imagine, this album really did not do it for me, especially because it came immediately after the White Album. It strikes me that John Lennon without the Beatles to throw ideas around with just isn't the same, and a lot of the charm is lost that let you get past some rather weird ideas.

Bluesy, but not enough of screaming John

Lovely, and too dull for my tastes overall.

Not a huge fan of John Lennon as a solo artist. I'll just leave it at that.

Imagine and How we're alright but the rest of it was pretty dull. This feels like one of those very famous albums you are meant to like but I just don't

I don't like this album. "I dont wanna be a soldier mama" is a particular one that I dont like because the lyrics are just the same all the way through, and I prefer songs to have better lyrics than that tbh. Imagine is fine, but that's about it. 2/3***

Of all the solo Beatles attempts over the years, this one might take the cake for my least favorite. It’s not that John wasn’t a great writer for his time, but I just think he needed Paul more than Paul needed him to write quality music outside of the title track, there’s nothing of value here. And Gimme Some Truth is not a good song. It’s a track I would’ve written in 8th grade.

I can't imagine I'll ever be listening to this drivel again.

Blew his load on the first song

You can tell that the album is made by a very talented musician. Unfortunately I’m not a John Lennon fan, and hearing an entire album of him being a poor me sad boy was not my favorite.

I used to want to like John. Then I gave into not liking him because his solo work just didn’t do it for me, and that’s ok. Now, knowing more about his shithead past, and how he wrote songs about it there were somewhere between a brag, an excuse, and a lament… I just don’t think he was all that great on his own. That and he helped make one of the worst Nilsson records. Needless to say, I wasn’t looking forward to this record. If I never hear the song Imagine again, it’ll be too soon. Jealous Guy is beautiful if you don’t read into it too much. And Oh Yoko is kinda fun, but the rest is just a yawnburger.

Not into it at all. I agree with the idea that Lennon and McCartney really worked best together as song writers. I found this whole album to be very boring and uninspired.

Yawn Lennon I can't remember anything except the single. The rest was sorta country-folk-y? Boring. 2/5

Unimaginative Rock.

I’m sorry I just don’t think this is it. The Beatles arent my cup of tea but john Lennon on his own is worse

John's singing sounds weak and lacks any kind of edge unless he filters his voice through a distorter. His supposed poetry is primitive and shallow. The songs themselves are repetitive and basic. So why the second star? I respect the production and contributions from the backing musicians on here, who rescue John's mediocrity. Oh no, I.. don't wanna be a baker mama, I don't wanna rye. Oh no, I.. don't wanna be a cleaner mama, I don't wanna lye. Oh no, I.. don't wanna be a farmer mama, I don't wanna sty.

It's John Lennons Imagine. Come on. How is this not an instant classic? That's what I thought going in. Can you imagine, the only decent song is the title track, and even that has gone sour in recent years. How? How is this album so.. boring?

John lemon doet me niet zoveel

Slightly better than Plastic Ono Band but not by much. 'Jealous Guy' might be the song that holds up most. The others make me think of that one guy from college, who never left your small college town, who still has Marley posters on his wall, and won't stop telling you about how you just have to read Marx. Like, his intentions are good but he's not actually doing anything.

Meh

I've listened to a lot of the Beatles' music over the years, but the only song of John Lennon's I'd heard before today was the title track off of this album. Based off of "Imagine," I figured this album would be full of sappy songs about dreaming of peace and building a better tomorrow. Thankfully I was mostly wrong, but regardless, I wasn't very into this album. Musically, it was fine. There was some nice guitar and piano playing, and the songs sounded fine, but overall, this album felt like getting a C- on a term paper: sure, you passed, but it doesn't feel great. This album feels like most of the songs are just riding the coattails of the title track, and frankly, those coattails aren't strong enough for anything to hang on to. My biggest gripe against this album is that, knowing what we know about John Lennon now (wife beater, deadbeat dad, general asshole, etc.), everything on this album just feels disingenuous, like it's all a cheap facade used to create this image that John Lennon is a peace-loving intellectual hippie. I try to judge these albums based on the music itself, but it's really hard to filter out John Lennon the person from this album. Even if I didn't have strong feelings about John Lennon as a person, I can't see this album being more than three stars.