Imagine

Yeah. It's pretty good. I wasn't too excited about this one because I just don't like the song Imagine. It's just a bit too preachy, plodding hokiness to me, but there's some decent tunes on here.

The first 3 songs are fantastic, and then I feel the album kind of stutters along until the end where it ends pretty strongly. I am not sure how I feel about it, I am not a big fan of Lennon as a person, I think he was troubled and had some contentious beliefs. He was clearly besotted with Yoko Ono. Outside of Jealous Guy, the standout track is probably Crippled Inside or How. 3.5 stars

Non ho avuto tempo di riascoltarlo oggi, ma mi è piaciuto molto. Visto il genere, pensavo che non mi sarebbe piaciuto, invece è stato esattamente il contrario

8.5/9, gran álbum de John Lennon con Imagine como la nro 1. Después me gustaron otras canciones y no es tan largo, asi que muy bueno

Better than I expected

Liked this a lot more than I thought I would. Might actually listen again someday! "Oh Yoko" isn't abysmal!

Probably John’s best individual song. The album is good, not great. Makes you realize how much better the Beatles were together.

Look at all the peopleee Some may saaay im a dreamerr Admittedly i didnt really listen to the whole album i feel asleep but the piano on imagine is just the thing i crave, so special

Hippy

It's alright. Imagine is obviously a classic but nothing else on this album stood out to me. Whiny at times, which I hate. (3)

It was ok, I didn’t think it was that good though very middle of the road well a bit weaker it’s a low 3

Really shouldn’t have put Imagine on first, nothing is ever living up to that (the yoko song, not to just pile on her for the sake of it, is garbage). The rest is perfectly fine.

I'm totally indifferent on John Lennon the solo artist and the man. I don't even rate Imagine as a song, which is good because it must have been terrible to watch Gal Gadot and pals do that to a song I liked

Solo conocía la canción Imagine pero me gustó un par de este album.

Ok, listen so the Beatles and the whole story of Yoko Ono aside lets talk about the reason why this could be on this list: John Lennon's skill set. The fact is, his best work (and Paul's best work) were with one another. It's simply a fact, except for "Imagine". This is a mediocre album that has a supernova as an opening song. It really is one the greatest songs ever written. Take that song off this album and...well.... John Lennon is clowned for leaving Paul. There are other decent John Lennon songs without Paul or the other Beatles, they just aren't on this album. If he was alive today, and this album was considered- they would never ever put the album out. It would be a digital single, with maybe a digital EP of some of the better moments on here (which no one would listen to). It gets 3 starts strictly because Imagine is one of the greatest songs ever written. Without it, it's two stars at best. Even then if John Lennon's name wasn't on this album, and Imagine wasn't on it, it's not on this list and would get a 1 star for even being suggested. Now, you put all of John's best solo work together... that is probably a 5 star album. But that could be said about George and Paul. TL:DR this album is on here for the first song, totally MEH after.

Just about every song is a Classic for John Lennon and personal at same time

Gal Gadot was in the IDF and continues to be one of Israel’s biggest voices. She has also committed atrocities with her acting. But still probably the worst thing she ever did was that Imagine video during Covid

Me gustó bastante, sé que es una persona terrible pero tiene muy buenas canciones y un genio musical único. Me queda escuchar su trabajo en los beatles pero dentro de su obra me gustó.

Couple good songs. Imagine is not one of them

I prefer the Covid celebrity version of Imagine, but whatever.

Fuck John Lennon

imagine um hipócrita e chatorongo

Oh Yoko! is such an amazing song

Imagine if he didn't leave the Beatles and actually made a good album

Imagine is one of the worst songs ever made and the rest of this album is pretty mediocre imo. One of the most overrated albums. I cannot take this dude's lyrics seriously at all, and the songs suffer from mind numbing repetition and annoying hooks. Oh Yoko is kind of sweet, but knowing how he treated her just makes it feel hollow in it's sentiment. yeah idk I don't care for it at all really.

Familiar with about half of the songs, but I hadn't heard it all through before. It's good, but not Beatles caliber, solid songs, but not surprising or remarkably compelling. Some great songs, "Jealous Guy" especially, and none that are especially weak. "How Do You Sleep?" is a good tune with pretty lame lyrics; where "Positively 4th Street" is sharp and rooted, it's just mean and "WTF? yeah, Paul McCartney is not a loser like you're making him out to be, John." Does it belong on the list of 1000 must-listens? It does fill in a post-Beatles biographical details, if that's something you need before you die, but, on it's own, I'm not so sure. Really good, pretty enjoyable album, important historically, but probably not musically. 4/5.

Dobré, ale Beatles mám radšej...

Not his best work, but not horrible. 3

I'm glad I heard it. He was a good musician and a tortured soul.

It's John Lennon's most notable album. It's really good, combining rock and roll with contemporary. Oh Yoko! Is an extremely underrated track. It's one of the best on there. Truly masterful!

It's got some good songs on and overall I enjoy it, just not as much as the Beatles.

masterpeace

Listened Before? N So, i really WANTED to like this album. Imagine is a fantastic song. The rest of it was just.... boring. John Lennon is touted as a musical genius - but I think he needed the rest of the boys more than he wanted to admit. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Imagine

Cruising to four-star status until "Oh Yoko!". Cringy. Even more cringy that Phil Sector's singing as well.

Enjoyed this much more than expected, excellent musicianship. “How Do You Sleep?” might be the biggest middle finger ever given to an ex-bandmate.

I like john lennon. I didnt grt a chance to finish this album

Fuck offffffffff

Favorite songs: Imagine, Crippled Inside, Jealous Guy, Gimme Some Truth, How Do You Sleep?, How?, Oh Yoko!

The success of the titular track making it pervade my entire life shouldn't detract from the album. I'm glad I listened to the rest. I really enjoyed Crippled Inside and Gimme Some Truth. Don't have any issues with it being on the list.

Excellent

"Imagine me beating my wife" -Also John Lennon

está bueno, tiene temas mucho mejores que otros pero lenon y yo lo sé me hacen gente muy rara y no me deja como disfruta tanto el álbum, igual estuvo bueno

Pues ojo que me lo esperaba bastante mejor

This has its moments but they are few and far between. In general, it just comes across as a bit lacking in variation. Like so many albums on this list, it's mildly interesting at times but a blanket of blandness nullifies any interest it might garner.

I'm a big Beatles fan but I just have never felt a connection to John Lennon's solo music.

Aside from the obvious classic single: a delightfully-entertaining blend of both contemporary & classic/throwback Beatles, fronted by John.

Sick completist masochist that I am, I’ve been listening through the Fab Four solo albums. There are so many, and although all of them are competent, few of them are very good. The best of them tend to be from the early 70’s, right after the breakup. Then again, what rock, pop, or hip hop artists improve as they get older? It’s a weird phenomenon, how popular music-making seems to be for the very young. You hit your thirties, and suddenly you’re as interesting as empty aspic. In my opinion, this is the last truly interesting Lennon album. Imagine that. In my Beatles solo albums listening extravaganza, I’ve focused so far on G. Hari Krishna Son and Ringo, as I already am pretty well versed in the Lennon’s and the early McCartney’s. The 1001 generator forced Plastic Ono upon me last week, and Imagine on me this week, so it seems to be telling me something. It’s like it knows I’m tired of being preached at by Harrison. Returning to Imagine, I’ve got to say, swimming in the Beatles solos pool, love him or hate him, wife beater or Ono-pushover, Lennon was the best Beatle. You can bash his lyrics for being repetitive in I Don’t Want to be a Soldier, but the trancelike simplicity is the point, and he really caught a groove there. You can say he was an asshole. He was, you peasant. He also tells you the truth of how it is. All he wanted was the truth anyway, as declared loudly in How. He’s definitely a hypocrite. As everyone points out, imagine a world without possessions being posited by this guy. But, all in all, he had character. That’s what he brought to the Beatles. The other solo albums from the others lack this astringent personality, and that was a big part of the mix. Of course, Yoko broke him down into a gelatinous mush by the end of it all. This is why his later albums after this spiral down into blandsville. He wanted to be her slave, it seems. I also tortured myself by listening to a few Yoko Ono albums. It’s tough to say what John saw in her, but you know, love is love. I’m curious about how a force like her felt about these gushy love songs like Oh Yoko being sung for her. Listen to her cackle like a witch on her version of Plastic Ono, or moan in intense pain for an hour on Rising, and it’s so strange to think that this (this!) is who the twee anthem Oh Yoko was written for. This was most likely not written as an expression of their love for each other, but moreso acts as a suggestion of the happy go lucky romance that John was trying to cast into the world. This song says more to me about John than Yoko (but what do I know- I wasn’t there!). I just doubt Yoko would’ve written a similar type of song to John. Prove me wrong. It wasn’t her personality. It seems to me, that if wasn’t the mega famous force that he was, she’d be embarrassed by such cheese. So, people spend a lot of time pointing out Lennon’s many flaws. They focus less on his ideals. You may say he’s a dreamer, but he’s not the only one. I hope one day you’ll join us, if you don’t already. This is the best of the Beatles after the Beatles.

Hiked up to church in Cesky Kumlov and this playlist finished at the exact time I reached church. Imagine, a premonition from God itself? Album was ight

lovely album. Jealous Guy is the star. I still like Paul better.

el mejor album

I’m in the John camp. But I do think he did better with band mates who restrained his more self-indulgent side. The song “Imagine” is absolutely a classic. I added “Oh My Love” to my playlist because I hear it so much less often.

Very nice

If I hear the words "uptight, short sided, narrow minded hypocrite, tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinist" I certainly imagine John. I'd rather not listen to him excusing that "I began to lose control" because "I didn't mean to hurt you," but hey, "my love will turn you on" so I guess it's all good? At least he admitted she'd written Imagine once he was on his deathbed.

I love imagine and I guess I thought the rest would be more powerful and meaningful. He felt more indifferent and annoyed. He seemed really unsure if everything except really really loving Yoko (that alone is something though, stand by your woman that the world turned against so completely for just existing!).

It's hard to imagine anyone not having heard the song "Imagine", but this is my first time listening to the full album. Imagine is a beautiful song that asks listeners to not only open their mind to a world without violence, but also a world without "isms" and divisions. How Do You Sleep is such a heavy groove vibe. It's also a diss track at Paul McCartney. But apparently McCartney started it. Regardless it has great slow groove. Some songs seems very personal and come from a place of vulnerability : How? and Jealous Guy. Cripple Inside has a honky tonk feel w blunt social commentary. Gimmie Some Truth is a pretty great social protest song about being sick of the fucking bullshit! Still sounds good today! "I'm sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics... Ive had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians" YES! Oh My Love is a tender song that has a bit of the old Beatles feel. It's So Hard - I really dig the way John Lennon does the blues. This one rocks me.

I was hoping to love this, and it was good, but I wasn't wowed. Imagine is the quintessential peace and love song of the era and a timeless classic. I liked the beats of Crippled Inside, and Oh My Love is a really sweet love song. The couple other hits on here are fine, not great, and overall, it was just a bit too quiet and reserved. It was missing a "powerful" feeling for me.

Very good.

I do no pray at the altar of Lennon

how do you sleep is such a grooovy sexy track man. even if john probably looked like the ragebaited furious soyjack while writing it

I wonder what lennon would thought about the celebrity rendition of "imagine" in the pandemic. I like the message of the song but it's now too pop to have any meaning. other than that, this is not my sound

Can’t listen to Imagine without having severe flashbacks to that COVID era video with Gal Gadot et al. Rest of album alright if a little boring

Paul was always my guy but i get the hype now

Everything on this album is a little same-y for me, and feels a bit like someone else's daydream. Imagine should be so much more beautiful than it is, but it's been ruined by social media - I still like it though!

i found out the other day that i share the same birthday as the guys that killed Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon

There's quite a mix of songs, but the quiet piano and string heavy songs really shine here. Standouts: Imagine, Jealous Guy, Oh My Love, How Do You Sleep, How

you can tell this was made by one of the beatles, enjoyable

Actually pretty decent for the most part. No Beatles tho.

I would describe this as an old-fashioned rock and roll album with plenty of blues influences and a few beautiful piano-infused ballads ("Imagine", "Oh My Love", "How"). It's pretty groovy for the most part, especially the Paul McCartney diss track, "How Do You Sleep?". There's even a fun little pop number on here that I enjoyed, "Oh Yoko!". I would say the album is a good mix of fun and introspective songs. This is pretty solid.

4/10 John Lennon’s post-Beatles life feels incredibly performative to me. He comes across as a complete bastard deciding to spend every public facing moment of his life trying desperately to present himself as being the kind of person that he thinks people think is “a nice guy”. To me, it always felt like he should have spent less time trying to seem like a nice guy and more time trying to actually be one. That seems like a bit of an irrelevant way to start a review of Imagine, but it actually goes some way to explaining my thoughts about this record. We start with the ultimate cheese fest of a song that Lennon thinks represents the nice guy he wants us to see. Why can’t everyone be nice (like me)? Why can’t we forgo possessions (like Yoko’s 80 fur coats in a climate controlled cupboard)? Why can’t we all just get along (like me and Paul)? It’s performative nonsense, dragged through a sickly-sweet melodic pop-song composition. What follows is a fairly erratic selection of songs that, while having moments of quality, often feels like an assortment of demos, rather than a focused and intentional album. The production is all over the place, with Phil Spector doing an incredibly poor job of coaxing quality vocal performances out of John, recording tracks that clip and distort, washing stuff in too much reverb, or making incredibly odd choices about instrumental prominence, so that the record sounds wildly inconsistent. Of course, there are bits and pieces of superb quality scattered through the record. John was a great songwriter and, while not having the rest of the Beatles there (apart from George Harrison, who has some lovely moments of his own) seems to have impacted his song selection, development and editing process (a complaint one could also extend to his former band-mates’ solo projects), the underlying genius is still there. There are also some great instrumental performances, particularly some of the piano, rhodes and guitar work. Interestingly, the best cut on the record is the one where Lennon actually allows his mask to slip and he goes on attack against Paul McCartney. If he’d continued to mine that rich seam, there may have been a lot more grit and energy to this record. Unfortunately, what we end up with is a pretty scattergun effort, with a couple of excellent tunes and a lot of unmet potential. Imagine - A massively overplayed track that’s so saccharine and feels completely insincere to me. This feels a bit like the songwriting equivalent of the apology speech a truly awful person makes to prove how much they’ve changed, because they think it’s how “nice” people talk. The lyrics are those of a 15 year old self-proclaimed poet who tries to seem deep to impress girls. The piano is really poorly recorded, and the rest of the arrangement is completely predictable and obvious. I do like the bridge when he sings “you may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”, but the rest of this can go straight in the bin, as far as I’m concerned. Crippled Inside - This is very twee and blues-country in style. I don’t really see what it does to elevate itself above a fairly decent song within that genre. I mean, it’s ok, there are some cool performances in there, particularly on the piano, and it’s got a nice blend of rhythms and a nice bit of swing to it, but it’s just a bit stylistically odd for me, especially as this isn’t a consistent musical theme across the record. Jealous Guy - Lennon’s vocals on this record so far have been pretty weak, and again this sounds more like a scratch vocal take rather than a finalised one. That viewpoint is only enhanced by the fact that he gives up on singing and whistles for some of it, like he hasn’t finished writing the lyrics yet. There’s some lovely piano work on here though, despite it again sounding quite muffled and poorly recorded. It’s kind of weird, because some parts of the track, like the string arrangements seem almost overwritten, but the rest of it sounds almost like a demo of a really good song that’s not been refined to that point just yet. I can hear the quality of the writing in here, but it’s just not executed particularly well. It's So Hard - This one drops back a bit to the bluesy swagger of Crippled Inside. The strings sound crap, and it’s an uneventful take-off of classic blues. I just don’t really understand what he’s trying to achieve with this apart from to shove in a bunch of double-entendres. I Don't Want To Be A Soldier - And now we get something that is absolutely drenched in reverb, and in places the vocal even clips. Tonally, this record is all over the place. The piano, hidden as deep as it in the mix, is pretty good, as is some of the guitar work. But sonically, this is a clashing mess of a track. I think there are cool aspects to this, but it’s presented in such a poor way that perhaps I’m trying too hard to find positives. I quite like the rhythm and cadence of the vocal delivery, but on the whole, this is a complete mess and drags on, rambling along in it’s cacophonous echo chamber for far too long. Give Me Some Truth - The vocal rhythm is pretty good and this definitely has echoes of some of the Beatles’ more experimental work. Again, the production is poor and the rest of the band apart from the vocal have a very stilted flow to the rhythm. It’s also quite repetitive and bland. Oh My Love - And suddenly we have something that’s incredibly crisply recorded and sounds super clean. This really is an odd sounding album. There’s some really nice modulations and bits of flair in the piano and it dances really nicely around the guitar. It’s quite sickly sweet, but the strength of the interwoven parts hold it up and, while it’s not necessarily the most melodically interesting, the strength of the playing and the tonal manoeuvring of the instrumental parts make it a pleasant listen. How Do You Sleep? - Now this is more like it. It’s got great swagger, dirt and groove with some cool 70s kung-fu movie-esque strings. This is the song in which Lennon’s mask slips and he forgets that he’s pretending to be the nice guy he wants the world wants to see, with a direct attack on Paul McCartney. But he’s way better when he’s being himself. The vocal has great bite, the George Harrison solo is excellent, and I’m a big fan of the rhodes piano. The vibe is so cool on this one and it almost leans into a funk sound, with so much groove and rhythmic layers across the instrumentation. It’s far and away the best track on the record. How? - This is very meandering and takes us back to the kind of aimless feel of much of the record. Not sure why the kick drum is so prominent, but the oddness of the production is pretty par for the course at this point. There’s no real flow to this, it keeps getting into a groove and then everything drops out apart from that over-loud kick. There are some decent melodic moments in here, it just feels lacking in momentum and flow. Oh Yoko! - This is a pretty good little pop song. It’s very twee, but it’s delivered in a bouncy, pleasant way. Lennon’s vocal performance is a tad patchy, but it kind of works with this style of quirky pop song. There’s some good piano playing here and while the rest of the band play things fairly straight, the general vibe and tightness of the performances hold things together really well. I do find Lennon’s overt and direct references to his own life quite odd, rather than the more standard musical approach of making things a bit more generic or metaphorical, but he was definitely a man with the most main character energy one can have. A quality closer.

Just Imagine.

Not that great. Maybe it was an off day but I felt it just didn't hit me like some of his other stuff.

B Imagine 5 Crippled Inside 3 Jealous Guy 4 It's So Hard 3 I Don't Want To Be A Soldier 3 Give Me Some Truth 3 Oh My Love 4 How Do You Sleep? 3 How? 3 Oh Yoko! 4 This is a good album, but it’s not amazing.

Imagine as pessoas tudo

Cool, it has 1 famous song. The rest is kinda mid

It’s not the worst album I’ve heard, but c’mon! Your John fucking Lennon! Get yer shit together!

I've always liked the song Imagine, but the rest of this album was surprisingly boring.

Unique

At least three great songs: "Imagine" (yes, we've all heard this song too many times, but the point is that it's a great song), "Jealous Guy", and "Gimme some truth" (my favourite). Only based on those songs, this is at least 4 stars. Do we have enough further material to reach 5 stars? "How do you sleep?" or "I Don't Wanna be a Soldier Mama" are also very good. "Oh my love" and "How?" are pretty good. I think "Crippled inside", "It's so Hard", and Oh Yoko!" are ok. So, overall, a very good album, with some excellent songs, but I'd say this is more in the 4-star range.

For an album that's so iconic, Imagine feels very underwhelming. Favourite Songs: Imagine, Jealous Guy, Oh My Love. Least Favourite Songs: It's So Hard, I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die.

Imagine my ahh.

Jealous Guy is one of the greatest songs of all time

I haven’t listened to some of these songs. He’s magic. I like the song with crippled in the title.

I think this album is overrated, conflicting, and not my thing. Not a John Lennon fan, less so not an imagine fan… Rating: 4/10 Favorite Song: How do you sleep?

Some classic tunes here but also shows what a petulant git Lennon was.

Dull and vapid, not a fan of the lyrics

Kinda weird an annoying at a point. It’s either you’re already into it or you let it grow on you. Bot bad tbh

Imagine is S+ tier timeless song.

Great I love it

I like 'Imagine' and 'Jealous Guy'. But I knew that already. None of the other tracks really did much for me. Weird variety of vibes towards that odd Beatley Sgt Pepper nonsense to some more 'meloncholic' stuff like the two songs I already liked. I'm giving it a low score because there's nothing new on it I like. (I think it's only worth marking high stuff I want to revisit. Middle 3 score stuff should be stuff I'm really not sure about). 2/5

decent album, Imagine my fav by a long way

Ich habe das Album nie verstanden. Die Beatles haben sich nach viel Streit und Drama getrennt um endlich alleine Musik zu machen und John Lennon kann endlich politisch werden und dann bringt er so ein mid ass Album raus... Ich mein bro.. ach komm lass stecken

Bueno, me gustó, lo podría poner de fondo para trabajar o estudiar

Fantastic record, his best work as a solo artist. Thematically variety of song and honesty passion of his delivery is remarkable….the man had his demons.

British guys from this era would just cut people out of their lives and internalize anything falling out so they could "keep calm and carry on" . This album came shortly after the beatles breakup and you can hear yoko coming through johns voice in alot of the songs. Imagine is a great song though.

"Oh John"... "Oh Yoko"... "Oh John"... "Oh Yoko"

Wow, fantastic. I knew the big songs but the whole album is really good.

Solid album front to back. Own.

The best song on here is “Jealous Guy” and that’s totally undermined by John Lennon not having the self-awareness to understand that maybe he shouldn’t be writing songs about being a shitty, abusive partner when he was, in fact, a shitty abusive partner. The guy could write a melody, sure, but who gives a shit. Didn’t hate that last song about Yoko Ono though, sounds like an underachieving indie band. Nothing here is changing my mind about how The Beatles are massively overrated.

Admittedly, for as familiar with The Beatles as I am, much of the band member's solo work has long alluded me. Looking at the track list, "Imagine" is the only one that stood out as recognizable to me. Working through the album, nothing really stood out as strong as the opening track. I don't think any track was bad by any means, just a lot of okay. Dig the Blues-rocky vibes on "How Do You Sleep?" as that felt something a little more distinctly different from the rest of the body of his work. Overall, the album kind of just washed over me. The lyrics have some meat to them, and it's probably the best part about the album. The production is solid as well. But there really isn't anything that's blowing me away here. I guess I was just expecting more? Doubt I'll revisit this album, I'd rather just go listen to the full band. Favorite Track: "Imagine"

I love John Lennon, and this has many of his best songs.

I honestly thought this was charming. I hadn’t really listened to anything by John Lennon apart from learning imagine in school. But I enjoyed this a lot. Some of the songs I could have done without like I don’t wanna be a solider mama as I just felt it was a peace love and yoko but some of the songs are very touching. I particularly liked how do you sleep? Just beautifully done.

Imagine all the people, but not Paul. Paul can do one

Of course it’s amazing. I think it’s much sloppier than most beatles records, but he’s an amazing sonwriter, sven if the album as a whole and it’s sound doesn’t follow the cohesion i like. I dont want to be a soldier is one of the best beatle songs ever in my opinion. It’s so damn groovy and sounds soo good on the remaster. Loved it very much but i think i’m gonna give it a super strong 4 instead of a 5

I LOVE THIS ALBUM its such an important album and i think everyone should listen to it at least once

Meh. Lennon was a douche.

I love John Lennon! I better since I have him tattooed on my ankle. This album has a lot of my favorite John Lennon songs (Imagine, Jealous Guy, Oh My Love). I also really like the song Oh Yoko! I also knew Gimme Some Truth, How Do You Sleep?, and How? There were a couple songs I didn't particularly like, but overall, this was a really good album.

pretty good tbf

Pretty ordinary

2.5

The title song is really his anthem, isn't it? The rest, meh. His talent was overwhelmed by Yoko, wasn't it? Hard to imagine (?!) he thought many of these were his best work for the time.

im not listening to this shit ass album the beatles r only good in the framing of their time period in which there was lead in the paint and u got shot if u were gay. being a beatles fan is just saying yeah im a racist

'How do you sleep?' Was really good. I like the honkey tonk guitar throughout, but the lyrics of these songs sound like they were written by a 19 yr old college freshman that took their first joint hit after sitting through Poli Sci 101. The Yoko love song sounded like it was a jingle for an antidepressant.

Alright album, sounds like the White album but

Such a diverse set of music!

I love the song Imagine! The rest of the songs are okay/pretty good

So so good. Particularly the title track (duh), Jealous Guy, How do you sleep, Oh Yoko. Probably my second favorite Lennon album to Plastic Ono Band

Decent album with one stand-out track that got a little overplayed. I was surprised to see how many negative reviews this album has mostly from people complaining about Lennon as a person, but I am here to see how the music holds up itself. Besides the obvious, I really enjoyed I Don't Wanna Be A Solider Mama which I felt came the closest to his work with The Beatles. Overall, this album is not nearly as strong as The Beatle's discography, but not a bad album by any means. Favorite Track - Imagine Least Favorite Track - Oh My Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Some good songs on this album. Surprised!

Quality

Album 185. Imagine (https://open.spotify.com/album/0xzaemKucrJpYhyl7TltAk?si=Hafrpdp4T4a_d4hpgGz-rA) — John Lennon (1971) aaaahhh, it's a hard one to review. I've been repeating the word "enjoyable" a lot recently. So, that's very enjoyable, but not great. Sometimes it's actually pretty bad. The songwriting is easy and simple, but good. However, the lyrics are sometimes awful, I don't understand why. This album confuses me, I don't really like it, I don't really hate it and I'm not neutral toward it either. I already have 3 liked songs from the album, nothing new I want to add. 3/5 Liked: — Imagine — Jealous Guy — How Do You Sleep?

Pretty good

In reality, this album's probably more of a 3, but had to give another star for the title track. It's been on at least one of my playlists since I first heard it, and I have a line of it tattooed on my body, so... gotta be a 4.

Let's get the rambling about "Imagine" out of the way first, considering it's the opener. Much has been made of this song's apparently hypocritical messages - Lennon himself had loads of possessions, renting out entire apartments in the Dakota for his coats, for instance. While the message itself is a genuine wish for peace, it kind of comes off as a naive challenge to the militant consumerism that had taken hold over Western society long before Lennon ever decided to write about it. Essentially, I find it tackles only a surface-level understanding of the problems rather than addressing the root cause of the rot. With that said, the rest of the album is actually fairly standard early 70s rock. I imagine that, if the Beatles kept going into the next decade, they would have made something between this and McCartney's Ram (actually, probably closer to that one considering Paul's control freak reputation...) Anyway, Lennon puts on a good performance here, going from gruff blues on "It's So Hard" to fervent anti-war passion on the next song "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama." There's even a psychedelic piece in "How Do You Sleep" and even a loving tribute to everyone's favourite Beatle, Yoko Ono, in the closer. The title track isn't even the only piano ballad on this thing, but the others don't really measure up to it. A strong outing all things considered: it's eclectic without being scattershot, and the writing is evocative without being sappy. A nice happy medium. Key Tracks: I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama, How Do You Sleep, Oh Yoko!

this one is rated 1/5 out of PRINCIPLE john lennon if youre reading this, opps are being sent on your way locked and loaded, sleep with one eye open

It’s better than I thought it would be.

Good stuff

Имагине

Better than regular Beatles, at least the first half of the album.

"Oooooh, si seulement le monde était plus en paix !" *Bruits de violence conjugale "Oooooh, si le monde n'avait pas de frontières !" *Bruits d'enfant négligé au point que Paul McCartney écrit une chanson là-dessus Breeeeef, j'ai une opinion très basse pour John Lennon. Il est connu pour ses violences conjugales envers les femmes avec qui il était en couple, pour avoir négligé ses enfants, bref, un personnage qui a une image publique bien éloignée du personnage assez odieux qu'il était. Donc avoir cet album à écouter m'a un petit peu emmerdé. Et je reste persuadé que si tu sors Imagine et Jealous Guy, tout le monde s'en fout de cet album. Parce que c'était pas foufou non plus. Imagine, ça sonne hyper hypocrite pour un gars aussi odieux et Jealous Guy... j'aimais beaucoup cette chanson à une époque, mais connaître ses histoires de violence conjugale et écouter les paroles en mode "oh non, je suis si triste de t'avoir fait pleurer :'(", c'est particulièrement déplaisant. Non, John, tu n'es pas "juste un mec jaloux", tu es un sac à merde. Le reste de l'album est franchement oubliable et j'aurais peut-être été plus tendre si John Lennon avait été à la hauteur de l'image qu'il voulait se donner. C'est pas le cas. Donc 2/5 et c'est cher payé. Autant je suis obligé de tolérer sa présence dans les Beatles pour profiter du talent des trois autres, autant en solo, c'est non !

you may saaaaay i‘m a dream-eer

Pretty good

An album I own, respect… and rarely feel the urge to play. Imagine is one of those records whose legend eclipses the listening experience. There’s craft and sincerity here, but too much of it drifts by in a soft-focus haze. “Jealous Guy” is genuinely beautiful—fragile, human, and timeless. “Gimme Some Truth” brings much-needed bite, reminding you how sharp Lennon could be when he really dug in. The rest? Polite, well-produced, and largely forgettable. And the title track—important, overplayed, and now so over-familiar it feels more like a slogan than a song. Few people actually want to put it on at home anymore. Not a bad album. Just nowhere near as great as its reputation insists. Plastic Ono Band still tells you far more about Lennon—with far less padding.

I thought I was going to the this, but I was pleasantly surprised. Dreamy

Imagine ansaitsee 5 tähteä. Kaikki muu 3-4. Eli kokonaisuudessaan 4/5.

Opening tracks don't get much bigger than this one. Huge footsteps for the rest of the album to try and fill but the rest of the album is enjoyable. A cool collection of styles including "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama" which sounds like it was plucked from the early 80s. This is my first solo album from a Beatles member in this experience so I am excited to see how the rest compare. 3.5 rounded up to a 4/5

I think it's a sweet record, that might be insincere a bit. Overall I heard the Beatles sound but watered-down, not harmonizing within a full album, and I missed that a bit. In my opinion, had Lennon been able to really develop is soloist catalogue is music would have been great, but here it feels a bit dry

Astonishingly bad to the point where the album put me to sleep.

RATING: 4/10 HIGHLIGHT: How Do You Sleep? LOWLIGHT: Gimme Some Truth

you may say IM A DREAAAAAMER

same thing as in a lot of older albums - couple bangers and some fillers that make a nice album, inconsistent. 7/10 Will I add this album to my library? maybe

3.9/5

Jeg tror, jeg skal høre den her igen. Frataget åbningsnummeret, der er blevet ødelagt af gentagelser. Der kunne godt gemme sig et par fine numre, men emhætten spolerede lytningen.

Honestly, solid album, but it didn’t really move me the way I thought it would. I’m having a hard time finding words for this album, it was completely fine but not as great as I expected.

While Lennon's personal life is complicated, it's no secret that this is a pretty good album. 4.5 bumped down to 4.

I’m at a 5. This is the first solo John Lennon album we’ve gotten, which is a bit surprising when you’re 846 deep, but given the success all of the other Beatles have had with their solo stuff on this list, I never had any doubt this would be good. For better or worse, there’s really not that much to say. “Imagine” as a title track is an all-timer, & it’s supplemented well by 9 other strong tracks that have some good variety to them. Some of them surprised me, like with “Crippled Inside” being a country track & “How Do You Sleep?” being a direct diss track at Paul McCartney, but that’s mostly because I’m largely unaware of John’s solo work outside of the title track here. I do have nitpicks, which mostly boil down to “John, please learn how to progress your instrumentals” on a few tracks, and a couple of rather obvious repetitive spots that feel just a bit stagnant (I am screaming right at “I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die”), but for the most part, this album paces itself well. When it’s not hitting those repetitive spots, it’s very well-written. "Oh Yoko" qualifies even with its repetition because it's just a delightfully sweet track. “Gimme Some Truth” might be my favorite one from just a writing standpoint, although the slower Dylan-esque pace of the track itself works really well with Lennon’s voice. The guitar & percussion throughout this album are both strong as well, with George Harrison’s rather obvious guest spots shining really nicely. It’s just a strong 40 minutes, really. I don’t really have that much to say, and listening to the album will make you understand why, since it’s just that straightforward & that easy to digest. It’s not an album that changed the world or anything (although the title track sure wanted to), but it is an album that just highlights John Lennon’s talents in a really potent way. If it’s too quaint, or if the nitpicks I have feel like bigger problems to other people, I could understand a 3 or a 4, but for my tastes, it’s just 10 consistently good tracks that earn a 5. If nothing else, it gave us “Only a Fool Would Say That”. Imagine if THAT track didn’t happen.

buen disco, con imagen como gran hit, algunos temas medios aburridos igual

Meh.

para alguien tan fan de los beatles como yo, he escuchado demasiado poco john lennon como solista. creo que hasta ahora escucho un disco de él completo. jealous guy imo es la mejor canción del disco. me recuerda un toque al white album la verdad. 3.5 estrellas que creo que bajo a 3, me gustaron como tres canciones, con las otras no vibee tanto.

This has some good tracks on and is a good listen but isn’t an album that gets me going, or even paying too deep attention, like some. It’s fine, and I can see why many people like it. But for me it’s not something that I’d go out of my way to listen to.

I was worried my intense dislike of John Lennon after The Beatles and my complete loathing of the title track would skew my rating unfairly. Luckily, the album is pretty poor anyway. I can't give it nil so let's say the one point is for Bryan Ferry's cover of Jealous Guy.

The title track of the album might well be my least favourite song ever. In the end I enjoyed this quite a bit more than I expected. Did anyone else hear "A day in the life* during Jealous Guy?

So I wound up with plenty of time to listen to this one, despite already knowing the album pretty well, as I spent 6 hours at A&E yesterday with not a lot to do. There was something quite cinematic about listening to Imagine whilst somebody throws up after having oramorph! Lennon's best solo record? Debateable depending on how produced you like him to sound I suppose. I think it is my favourite though. The title track is, despite decades of play, just something beautiful. Hopeful, rebellious, slightly cynical in that Lennon way. I think about all those really really overplayed songs in history, Bohemian Rhapsody, Smells Like Teen Spirit, My Brightside. I think this holds its weight over any of those, although Mr Brightside really might be just a hair behind. Jealous Guy is fantastic and a massive lyrical contributor to all the morally questionable emo music I listened to as a teenager. Gimme Some Truth a classic. How Do You Sleep? Oh boy. It's brutal, isn't it? There's no "bromance" in history that I enjoy more than John and Paul. Both genius', both so full of love, both at times a little angry and mean (although Lennon probably wins in that contest). I think McCartney gets off the hook a little and people forget that he also did some pretty shitty things to people around him, but as he stuck around and became such a treasure that kinda got lost. Still though, great song if a bit harsh.

Very, very good from many angles

Slightly better than Plastic Ono Band, some truly fantastic songwriting, and some absolutely fucking pathetic crap on here too. "Imagine" is obviously solid, but it's hard to overlook the blatant hypocrisy; "Jealous Guy" is gross to listen to knowing this dude was jealous enough to crack 'em in the mouth; "Gimme Some Truth" is banal; and "How Do You Sleep" (although a cool sounding song) is a wimpy, childish jab at my dear sweet Paul. John Lennon could write great lyrics and write great music, but how the fuck did he get so far up his own ass? You sir, are not saving the world -- in fact, you never even came close. Fave tracks: - Imagine (duh) - Crippled Inside - I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama - Oh My Love - How? - Oh Yoko!

Beetle

PEAKKKKKKK

Who knew an album with a lame song like "Imagine" could mostly be fun to listen to. There's some blues, soul, punk and rock and roll. Then there's "Imagine." Gag.

Some good songs, high quality production. But also you can see how an album was missing Paul. 7/10

Oh My Love and Oh Yoko! are quite sweet. The title track and Jealous Guy are classics.

A bit basic but good.

Sorry, is this it? All Things Must Pass came out a year earlier and this is the slop that Lennon served up? an extra point for phil spector's production

Puedo encontrar tres canciones relevantes, pero no siento que sea algo excepcional, al contrario refleja o romantiza la forma real que fue john lennon

It’s a damn good album. Top 10 Beatles solo easily. Maybe top five. Plastic Ono Band edges it for John.

Oh yoko

Cool, his artistic vision I think only exists with yoko!!!

I know nothing about this man other than his membership with the Beatles, his death, and his music production bus that gave us fergie. This album has great hits that are popular for a good reason and catchy melodies that gets stuck in your head. If not for this album, we would not have gems such as Millie Bobby brown’s rendition or the celebrity covid lockdown’s rendition of imagine, both of them I revisited while listening to this album.

Unfortunately I fell victim to the John Lennon propaganda

Once we were past the title track, this was a fairly enjoyable album! Not on the level of Plastic Ono Band, which was a truly complete work that really captured that raw grief and rage after the Beatles broke up, but still solid. I hope I never have to hear the title track again though. Pure schlock.

The global rating on this might be inflated due to the album being made by John Lennon. It was fine. Solid overall. Nothing I’d listen to again other than the title track, which wasn’t really like the rest of it.

I've listened four times to this album trying to find something to say about it, and I keep coming up blank. I enjoy his ballads. I like the rare happy John song to close the album. His songwriting overall is really good, as expected. I guess as a complete project there's just not a lot calling to me. Standouts: Imagine • Jealous Guy • Oh My Love • How Do You Sleep? • Oh Yoko!

Man I do like this album. I know the title song is real cringe hours or whatever we're calling it now but I could not believe how much I enjoyed it the first time I listened. I think he does a good job mixing grooves, intense tunes and the softer stuff as opposed to later in his career when he got a little TOO into Yoko.

Good but I still prefer G.H. solo career

"Imagine" as a song is overplayed, but this album is still really good. Probably Lennon's best. Some tracks haven't aged well (mainly "Crippled Inside") but there are a lot of standouts. "Jealous Guy" and "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier" are some of the best tracks, as is "How Do You Sleep?" which despite being a self-proclaimed "Paul Girl" is an amazing diss track and probably the best song on the album. I'm hit or miss with Lennon's solo stuff most of the time, but this is truly a great album.

Everyone knows the title track. There were blues efforts on other tracks but nothing special. Felt condescending and self-absorbed to me.

Beyond the title track, I don't really have anything of note for this album. It's fine Favorite Song: Imagine

I hate John Lennon Fave track: Imagine

Considering the man’s general conduct, as well as the extent to which he had his head up his own arse - this album has aged horrendously. Rest in piss you fucking loser. 1/5

He's no George Harrison...

Great album. John was a bit of a cry baby at times, How do you sleep still pmo tbh

Generous 3 because it’s a rung above what I’ve been getting recently. RYM Saved a song: N

Insanely strong wistful starting song into hiding hurt, justifying jealousy, nvm just kinda falls off from there until the end 5, 3.5, 4.5, 3.5, 2.5, 3 (ODD), 4, 2, 4

Sorry but Imagine is a corny song and I don’t like it. As for the rest, it was fine. Gimme Some Truth and Oh Yoko were the standouts. A little too lush for my taste but if you’re a Lennon fan I’m sure it’s a good listen. High 3.

Very good post-Beatles music. Clearly he was still angry at Paul. Didn't know that Phil Spector produced this. Of course, every likes Imagine, probably the song Lennon is most closely associated with, but my favorite on here is Jealous Guy.

An album of high highs and low lows. John Lennon was a very complicated person and the gulf between the aspirational and tender "imagine", the vulnerable "jealous guy" and the straight up bullying and meanness on display in "how do you sleep" is pretty jarring to hear in one place. As brutal as the lyrics towards Paul in "how do you sleep" are to hear, for me the most haunting part is hearing George play the guitar solo. Apparently Ringo was also present for some of the recording of this song and told John that he'd gone far enough. What a heartbreaking piece of music. Fortunately we do end with the contented and sweet "Oh Yoko" which i've always liked.

Elsker. Jealous Guy er min yndlings. Nicky Hopkins på klaver er smukt

Good

Ya conocía algunas canciones. Me gustó.

Another impossible album to review because of its myth. I love Lennon’s post Beatles output and this is a beautiful album, very nostalgic sounding with some great songs like Oh Yoko, Oh My Love and How. Got some fillers so only four stars. And yeah the title track I’m not sure how this atheist communist manifesto got to be a popular anthem but that’s funny.

I want to like this more than I actually do. Its no surprise that the piano ballads are the biggest hits. That's where John is at his best, showing heartbreaking emotion. But when he does his "American" thing (country and blues) it just doesn't work.

Would not buy

high 4, maybe 5. maybe i’m saving the lennon 5 for plastic ono. really good album.

Imagine - 3.5/5 Crippled Inside - 3/5 Jealous Guy - 3.5/5 It's So Hard - 3/5 I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama - 3/5 Give Me Some Truth - 3/5 Oh My Love - 2.5/5 How Do You Sleep? - 4/5 How? - 3/5 Oh Yoko! - 3.5/5 What do you get when you separate the Beatles and just put in the guy with the unchecked ego in charge of an album? Well a whole load of meh that's what. A whole lot of filler and not much killer is what John is left with after the Beatles. Imagine has been tainted by whatever happened during COVID, and scores lower as a result. Pretty "eh" all-around. Overall: 3/5 Favorites: How Do You Sleep?

El vocalista principal de los beatles, i love the beatles but a diferencia del grupo musical, como solista este albúm tiene un estilo muy sureño, tipo baquero que no me molesta pero no me mata tampoco.

Although no one could deny the quality of this album, Imagine as a song that unifies the world, John Lennon, and The Beatles in particular, this is not something I would put on and play in my leasure time, simply too depressing and slow for my taste :)

Good but not his best solo Imagine the track is now overfamiliar.

Liked it, but not as consistent or amazing as other Beatles projects post Beatles. I think I need to come back to this again to embrace it more

Pretty mellow, nothing really stands out except of course the title track, which is beautiful and powerful.

Imagine there’s no heaven

I still kinda like ‘Imagine’ even if it’s sappy and reductive. John might have been an ass but I think it’s good for humanity to have some utopian idealism. The Yoko songs are sappy and annoying. I don’t mind Yoko Ono personally, and I think she made John a better person in the end. Speaking of which, why the hell isn’t Double Fantasy on this list??? Anyways, he badmouths Paul on this album. 𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞!

Not a lot from this stood out, but it's still an album from a Beatle, so I still like the way it sounds.

As much as I’d like to give it 5 stars, ‘Jealous Guy’ is kinda messed up knowing what I know about John Lennon, and ‘Oh Yoko!’ is a big miss for me.

Imagine is the best song. Huh.

Better than I expected, not a Lennon fan, but not bad at all. Nothing massively groundbreaking, but clearly influential as an album.

I don't know who was ultimately responsible for most of the production duties here between Lennon, Ono and Spector, but it just falls flat. "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama", the worst offender, sounds like it was recorded in a tin can, and not in any creative or endearing way. Phil Spector already makes my skin crawl knowing all the horrible shit he got up to in his private life, but if this is the product you'd get by letting him in your studio post-1960s (his limelight era), I'm not impressed. Lennon's songwriting is the only thing keeping this from being a total flop because there is some decent material underneath everything that would make a decent 7/10 album with a better producer. The title track is a funny staple of classic rock, also funny that he wrote an entire track getting mad at Paul McCartney. You know the arguments those two had would've been funny as fuck to listen in on back in the day. 4, maybe a 5/10.

Composition is nice, the lyrics read fine but they really feel hollow now.

6/10 The lyrics really are the only thing going for this album.

How can we go forward when we don’t know which way to turn - DAMNN okej, trebalo mi je ovo. Uživala sam, ali ova posl*dnj% p%sm* nije trebalo da postoji😒😒😒 ili sam samo ljubomorna

Only slightly interesting.

Good album, with the classic “Imagine”, some other good tunes, with a couple of duds, John taken so young, wtf…🙏🏼

Definitivamente hay mejores. How do you sleep esta bueno sinceramente, el cual esta dirigido a Paul, tension post-Beatles. Mucha influencia de Yoko Ono.

bro put the communist manifesto in a song and thought we wouldn't notice

Jealous Guy is the jam.

Some absolutely classics, a bit genre-bending.

Imagine being John Lennon. You grow up in a broken home in working class, post war Britain, with no father, being shunted around, you have learning disabilities, trauma and huge amounts of rage, resentment and confusion. You then, in your early twenties, are catapulted into unimaginable fame and adoration. You are hailed as a hero, a legend, a genius. Women hurl themselves at you, and literally millions of people hang on your every word. Imagine what that would do to your already fragile ego? Then imagine you spend the last decade of your life devoting yourself to the messy and painful and imperfect world of figuring your shit out. You read, you listen, you do the therapy, you open yourself up. You fuck up, you apologise, you repeat. You try, in your way, to find make a positive impact, and to find peace. You are murdered, barely 40. Then imagine that for the rest of time chuds on the internet can't stop making asinine comments ala HE SAID IMAGINE NO MONEY BUT HE'S RICH! HE MUST HAVE BEEN SPEAKING COMPLETELY LITERALLY! FUCK HIM AND FUCK YOU I'M SO ANGRY AND COOL There are plenty of other piece of shit rock stars who beat their wives and abandoned their kids, but none of them could write songs like this.

Yes! 🙌 Jealous Guy!

there really was something about the Beatles together that they could never quite replicate in their solo careers.

Magic

just dropped my whole fuckin dinner on the fuckin floor stupid fuckin imagine john lennon fuckin ass

John no falló un tema pero el de yoko lo salteó

I kind of expected more. It's fine. I don't know, something just isn't hitting. I love the Beatles, but their solo albums just don't do it for me. They suffer from not having the input and criticism from the other Beatles, and this album is no different. Title track is a classic. The next few songs are fine, a bit bland but fine. I like Gimme some truth. How do you sleep is kind of offputting. It's a very mean spirited and bitter song and way longer than it needs to be without developing further to warrant it's length. A lot of these songs sound like first drafts, notes put to music that the record company accepted because of who wrote them. Very underwhelmed.

Enjoyed a good bit of this. Only knew two songs on it

Good… but the hype department has been working overtime since 1971 (3.5)

I actually assumed I wouldn't be that arsed with this but it's quite a diverse album. The title track is probably the weakest in the album

3.5

A classic of course.

You know, this just not a great record. A few hits but very flat in general

The lyrics feel like they were written by a pretentious 12 year-old. Some nice sounds though...

Под настроение, но чутка не мое

Does the egomania completely deflate the idealism? The album ending where it does certainly makes it feel that way to me.

Não sou fã de Beatles muito menos do John Lennon E ele era uma pessoa péssima

Overall this is stronger than his previous solo effort. Stand outs are Imagine (though very overplayed), Crippled inside, Jealous Guy, Gimme some truth and How do you sleep?

imagine is a it song but the rest was pretty underwhelming. 3/5

Oh brother, this guy STINKS

It’s just so unbelievably not for me at all actually and I’m very surprised by that god I’m so bored?

Imagine one of the Beatles made a solo album, it's easy if you try, but with no talent and nothing to say, imagine all the songs, and just how shit they'd be, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, this albums really shit. Also makes me think of all those celebrities singing it and that annoys me

All you need to know is Imagine is the best song

Great album, first time.

Imagine is iconic

Amazing

Pretty good. Oh Yoko is a banger. Not the best Beatles solo stuff but a solid effort.

i really like the album.. songs like i don't wanna be a soldier mama are so my thingy.. the subtle sorrow in voice hooks me up

4/5

Ultimately just kind of boring? Expected a lot more from such a well-known album.

Imagine is a bit overplayed as a song, isn't it. Seems more trite as the years go by. I must have heard this album before but don't recall it, and on the back of Imagine the song I was anticipating not enjoying it. But, the title track is probably the weakest song in this record. The whole album is, I guess, a fairly logical follow-on from late Beatles rather than a follow up to his debut? Less interesting that that (due to less Yoko involvement?), but a lot of solid tunes here. How Do You Sleep really points to Lennon's later brief work with Bowie, I reckon. An unexpected 4?

John Lennon sounded like a really bitter person on this album. He definitely had a lot of unresolved mental issues. The only good track besides “Imagine” is “How Do You Sleep?”. Everything else was trash.

I have been listening to the Beatles since before I could speak, know less about their solo careers, really really wanted to enjoy this. I did enjoy some of it— mostly the blues rock tracks, even I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama. How Do You Sleep? is honestly a banger, amazing diss track, can't believe I've never heard it before — it's SO petty. But overall this felt kind of disjointed as an album. Doesn't help that the title track is truly bad. Also minus points for not crediting Yoko for her writing.

Best Song: Imagine This isn't as strong as his last album as a whole but that shouldn't detract anyone from listening. A little bit on the mellow side which might turn me off but it is still John Lennon and a host of amazing musicians. How? and Imagine are highlights. 5/5.

still light a candle for him in December...

no es mi tipo de musica, algunas buenas pero me aburre un poco

Whatever people might think about Lennon as a person, he was a creative force. Imagine is overplayed of course, but overall this album is pretty good. My favourite is the McCartney dis track How do you Sleep - just for the riff, not that I have anything against Paul either

Imagine a world where this album was as good as its reputation.

Some classics

There are a couple good songs here, but the rest of the album is a letdown.

This album is pretty annoying in my opinion. So slow and repetitive and not providing anything great. It's not THAT bad, but I would not choose to listen to a single song from this album again. When it's not annoying, it's just kind of boring.

I have always been very much against the Beatles, found the whole thing a little overrated. This i suppose always extended to the indvidual projects. Thus i had always avoided this album. I really enjoyed the album though. Feels a lot closer instyle and feel to Pink Floyd than a Beatles record and that was something i can get behind.

Did not expect the Paul McCartney diss song.

I find him slightly annoying. The music I very inoffensive but kind of boring

This is so corny. Please let me never hear it again.

I hate John Lennon. My favorite part is the part where he fucking died. maybe crippled inside is alright. I find imagine just annoying. It feels like hes playing the whole “world peace protest song” archetype as bait. Jealous guy would be good if it was made by anyone except Lennon. “I didn’t mean to hurt you” says the guy that cheated on his wife and abandoned his son for the chuzz. Or maybe the songs about Brian Epstein… No, I do not care to separate the art from the artist as it would not exist without the artist. Instead I think you have to look at the art and artist through a view of when the art was released. Kanye wasn’t always a Nazi, and now he is and now his music is bad. “I don’t wanna cheat on my wife mama” or something like that- you know maybe the one good thing Lennon did was the anti-war stuff. The song is actually decent, unfortunately. His singing annoying though and it’s carried by the vocal effects and instrumentation. I like the brass. Gimme some truth is also a good protest song, I think it’s supposed to reflect the decline in government trust during that time. The second half of the album is him and Ono making out in the studio, which makes me want to stop and leave, just like the other people in the studio probably also felt. Ok “How do you sleep” WOULD be insanely good if it wasn’t by John Lennon and about Paul McCartney. I think that attack on him is petty, undeserved, and honestly lame as shit.

Iwie meh erwarted vo sim ‚beste Solo Album,

Imagine so en banger

The title song is legendary, some other very good pieces on this as well. Last song is cringe, sadly

i hate john lennon

It's practically impossible to evaluate the title track of this album on its own terms. "Imagine" has been re-performed and re-contextualized endlessly and it's either the "greatest song ever written" (if you're a Boomer) or absolutely cringe naive nonsense if you're younger than 35. For what it's worth, and for better or worse, it's an elegy for the New Left -- by 1971, the 60s were "over" but the US and the UK were still embroiled in Cold War imperial adventures and Nixon was building his political kingship off hippie bashing. The Summer of Love ideals the Beatles represented were no longer popular, but the social/political problems these ideals were meant to address were alive and well (and, more importantly, the backlash against these ideals was gaining strength). Throughout the 1968 protests across Europe, one of the most popular slogans was "Die Phantasie an die Macht," or "All Power to the Imagination!" Lennon (who previously shrugged off the '68 rebellions) was now free to make political claims in his own name so he rushed to plant his flag with the New Left by paling around with the Panthers and throwing money at a bunch of radical underground publications. But it was probably too little too late, so "Imagine" fails to project "what could be" because it's so hung up in "what could have been." This nostalgia (for a time only a few years prior!) is partly why the Boomers are obsessed with its message -- it makes them feel like "we almost had a revolution" (which may or may not actually be true, depending on what they mean). And like so many New Left icons, its message was completely diluted and appropriated by libertarians and gets dragged back into the limelight every few years by the ruling class as an anti-activist "can't we all just get along" sleeping pill (exhibit A is Gal Gadot). To Lennon's credit, "He'S rIcH aNd He'S tElLiNg Us To ImAgInE nO pOsSeSsIoNs!" is an incredibly shallow critique. Yeah dawg, that's why the song is called "Imagine" and not "I'm a perfect role model and you should live exactly like me." In fact, that's the absolute *strength* of this album -- Lennon is brimming with both ego and humility, hypocrisy and sincerity, condemnation and self-effacement, imperfections and redemption. The 2 songs immediately following "Imagine" directly address Lennon's grossest qualities: his history of violence against women, and his nasty tendency to mock people with disabilities. The former is something he's had to account for endlessly (especially after his death), the latter is something he's rarely criticized for but he nevertheless felt the need to apologize for. Elsewhere on the album, he continues to poke holes in the soft utopianism of "Imagine" by addressing his own feelings of hopelessness, uncertainty, depression, anger, pettiness, mania, neediness, etc. He would probably be the first person to acknowledge the worrisome self-righteousness of "Imagine" because the rest of the album is one long apologia for that ego trip. It's almost a shame how strong of a shadow this song casts -- there are so many other killer tracks here: "Jealous Guy," "Gimme Some Truth," and "How" are among the best he ever wrote, and there's no filler anywhere else on the album. If he left off track 1 and gave it a new name it would be, undoubtedly, celebrated (even by younger generations) as one of the best albums of the 1970s. Nevertheless, despite, or because of, its flaws, I think it is.

wow. today is certainally a big day for ethic polices so that they can say "john lennon is a scumbag! he should be cancelled!" and legitly rate this a 1. like dude hes already dead for fourty tears. anyway firstly, i dont think imagine (the song) is overrated. yes its quite hypocritical considering john is super rich and we need to do things instead of just daydreaming, but -- BUT -- detatching all the context and just looking at the lyrics, the prerequisite of being morivated to build a better future is to imagine it first. or else how do you create a better future without knowing what it may look like at first. you are just hating this song cause its overplayed. just like what you feel towards stairway to heaven. or bohemian rhapsody. or even mr. brightside! also i confess that i was once an mindless paul mccartney glazer. so the concept of listening to how do you sleep when youve grown out from the phase is the funniest thing ever: once the first note played im laughing hysterically like im gonna die. but generally imagine have a run of lennon's best songs and its lyrics are so personal taht sometimes i could feel myself in it. dude jealous guy really made me feel things. 4/5

Germs of good songs ruined by being drenched in reverb, terrible drum sounds, and the like.

Maybe it's just me or maybe this has been well documented elsewhere, but this frequently feels very derivative of existing Beatles songs, to the point where it almost feels like Lennon was 'reclaiming' ideas he thinks didn't hit their potential with the band. - Crippled Inside sounds fresh off the white album (Don't Pass Me By). - Jealous Guy actually reminds me of Maybe I'm Amazed, which was already a McCartney solo number by the time this album came out. - It's So Hard could be Revolution 1.2. - Oh My Love also has white album vibes, specifically Julia (also a solo Lennon number itself). - How Do You Sleep, quite unashamedly Lennon's diss track at McCartney, has strong shades of other bluesy white album cuts, such as Happiness is a Warm Gun, while its self-referential lyrics made me think of Glass Onion. Its central riff is infectious and brilliant though. - How? somehow reminds me of A Day In The Life. I don't think I'm saying this as a dig; not really a shock that Lennon would be using similar ideas on his solo album to the ones he'd recorded a couple of years previously with The Beatles, just an observation and something that tempered my enjoyment of this one. Still a good album but it all felt strangely familiar. Obviously there's Imagine, which is a classic, and Gimme Some Truth has also been a favourite since I first heard a cover of it as a b-side to an early Ash single, randomly enough. Gave it a spooky, spacey feel that really works. The intangible Lennon stardust is sprinkled throughout, so it's highly listenable, and his songwriting is always fascinating and unpredictable.

Old crusty cliche now

It’s on here for a reason.

Solid album, terrible person

Heaven!

I previously heard some songs from this album, but never the album in whole. This was a solid album, but I feel like this isn't his best.

Wholly dull. Another point of proof that Harrison had the better solo career and more talent.

I am not a real John Lennon fan and not even a huge Beatles fan, but I feel there is no denying the power of this album and the consistency throughout. It's solid song after song, from the opening Imagine that has become one of the most recognizable songs in the world, but even the smaller more straight-forward songs are extremely solid pop rock songs. I could see someone giving this a 4, 4.5, or 5, as I just think it is a masterclass of pop rock writing.

Faves were Imagine (of course), Oh My Love, and How Do You Sleep? Everything else was meh.

I’m not sure the rest of the album measures up after the title cut.

So this was pretty ok. I think John was a decent solo artist and I liked the overall sound of this album. I’ve only ever listened to compilations of his so this is the first time hearing most of these songs for me and some of them were really good. While I don’t think that John Lennon has a spectacular voice, I do like it, because it’s tied to so many awesome Beatles songs. A couple on here though…so grating. I’m looking at you I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama and How Do You Sleep. And the way he sings in a kind of screaming voice at times drives me crazy, but not in a good way. I’m stuck between a 3 and 4, but I think I’m going to give it a 3. Jealous Guy was my favorite on here and it’s one of my favorite solo Lennon songs overall.

bueno se puede decir que John fue honesto en la forma en la que ve el mundo sus creencias políticas y que golpeaba a su esposa

Perfección de principio a fin.

Probably his best album. Some classics, fun to listen.

A bit uneven, but the highs are really high.

Great, some bangers. Personal fav How do you sleep?

Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5

That's a Lennon. Favorite Track: To be fair, none of these are particular faves of mine. I guess Imagine for its cultural weight, but Jealous Guy has a great melody, too.

Devastating to find out I like John Lennon

Having only heard the title track I was expecting this to be a lot more downtempo and dreary than it was. I think it’s the most overtly political Beatles solo album I’ve heard but it works in its favour with songs like How Do You Sleep? quickly becoming new favourites. It should definitely be on this list.

Not bad, not my thing, as it's a little too 'light' but some well written stuff

Of course it’s great, just isn’t THAT great.

Imagine how many times I've heard that song in my life. CLASSIC/CHEESE/HIPPIE ADJACENT/KUMBAYA/THAT ONE GUY YOU HATE'S FAVOURITE ALBUM

Very familiar with all Beatles albums, including their solo work. Been a while since I listened front to back, but several of these songs are regularly in my rotation on playlists. As great as Lennon and McCartney were together, they were also capable of creating great solo music. John Lennon is great here. Not sure if as a whole it’s his best, but it still holds up a lot. Jealous Guy is still one of my favorite John songs, and one of the best things he did after The Beatles. I feel like the first three songs of the first half are great then loses some momentum. It comes back strong for the second Gimme Som Truth is John doing better with political music. George Harrison’s guitar kinda makes the song though. Overall, there’s a distinct Lennon sound on all of this. That atmospheric piano like Oh My Love. That snarky attitude on How Do You Sleep? Crazy to have such a mean spirited song after starting an album with Imagine, but that’s all John for you. That song is a vibe and a jam. Oh Yoko is a perfect pop rock with Beatles-esque catchiness. Probably the second best on the album after Jealous Guy. Great album. Despite being a little up and down at times and wild tone shifts, it’s really good. I’ve been giving a lot of albums I like 5s, and think I have to start being a little selective with some 4s. This seems like a low 5, maybe a high 4. Really enjoy the highs of this album.

I hate John Lennon. The only good thing he did without being carried by the Beatles is inspire Steely Dan's 1972 hit song "Only a Fool Would Say That"

Imagine is a nice song but the rest is just weird country by john lenon. Its actually suprisingly bad.and bad country at that

John Lennon hit his wife and was a piece of shit. The least he could do is make some bangers, but the only bangers he makes are his former wife hitting the wall. 0/10

This is an album entirely consisting of popular songs that have better covers of them, or songs that weren't covered for a reason. Nothing bad with it, but not my type of music, and if it was I would listen to the other versions.

Second album proposé après 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band' que j'avais détesté (noté 1/5, très ennuyeux et cris insupportables). Sur ce second album on a les tubes 'Imagine' et 'Jealous Guy' (je connaissais la version de Roxy Music, j'ignorais que le morceau original était de Lennon) qui lui évitent la note minimale. Les autres morceaux ne sont pas vraiment intéressants à mon gout, je me suis vite ennuyé. =>2/5

there are some skips, but overall it is sadly a still relevant record about war

Man people on here seem to HATE Lennon. Anyhow, as an album I think it's a, but it is all about the title track. I honestly believe that "Imagine" changed the way that many people perceived the world, in mostly a positive and less violent and open hearted way. I also like "Oh Yoko." Too bad he's still bitter about Paul at this point in 1971.

This album was awesome If John Lennonhad more time he could’ve been there even bigger artist than he was. Although this album is similar in a few songs to what he didn’t the Beatles is like you can truly see who he was as a musician, not just who he was as part of the Beatles.

imagine by john lenon was a very calming and beatiful album for me it surprised me alot as im not a oldschool music type of guy but this mightve changed my mind

this album was pretty chill to me there was js some songs that sounded repettitve idk if that was js me or john lennon himself being lazy but the songs that werent repettitive were good. jealous guy was my favourite from this albumn