Imagine

1. Imagine - 10/10 2. Crippled Inside - 5/10 3. Jealous Guy - 7/10 4. It's So Hard - 7/10 5. I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama - 5/10 6. Gimme Some Truth - 6/10 7. Oh My Love - 8/10 8. How Do You Sleep? - 8/10 9. How? - 7/10 10. Oh Yoko! - 7/10

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Imagine (the track) is the draw - the rest of it is so-so. Just not my cup of tea

what an amazing album by John Lennon songs like ‘Oh my Love’, and ‘How do you sleep?’ Are the highlights for me as well as the obvious one ‘Imagine’.

Never been a John guy. Always preferred Paul. Still do, but c'mon. It's Imagine.

Big one. Of all the Beatles I think I have the hardest time getting into John's solo stuff. 'Imagine' comes out firing, one of the greatest songs of all time, and may make you forget about the rest of the songs on the album. The does album grow on you for sure, 'Gimme Some Truth' is catchy, 'Crippled Inside' and 'Jealous Guy' round out a strong first 3 songs, and the album flows from there. I really like it's got some country bluegrass feel to some of the songs, some singer songwriter pieces, 'Gimme Some Truth' leading into the piano of 'Oh My Love' really feels good too. 'Oh Yoko!' sends us out and honestly it's a jam. This is as strong an album as can be for John without Paul, George, and Ringo.

Strong 3.5/5 some really good songs and mid songs but overall pleasant.

Mediocre at best, this album highlights how John Lennon was not the talent of the Beatles. If not for Imagine, this album would not be here. Add in the fact that Lennon was a vapid asshole, and it makes the preachy songs feel as hypocritical and hollow as he was.

A few great tracks. But like the McCartney solo stuff it’s just missing some of the magic. Is this the start of the diss track?

The digs at McCartney on this are ridiculous… “the only thing you done was Yesterday” Wo John, lad…don’t disrespect the frog song like that.

Proof, if it were needed, that The Beatles were far greater than the sum of their parts.

Today I learned John without Paul is like Meg without Jack. Sorry John. RIP to a legend - but the Beatles are where it's at.

Wait do I like the Beatles now?

Meh

Honestly, kind of disappointing. You start off on the namesake megahit, then the tracks that follow are largely protest songs with some blues vibes here and there. I know that the Beatles and most of the British invasion artists were influenced by blues, but try to pep and spice this a little bit too you know?

The title track is a gem I never tire of. The rest is a mixed bag like most of his solo albums. The bluesier numbers are a reach. "Crippled Inside" is either a Paul stylistic diss track (much of the album is) or a belying of the myth that Paul was solely responsible for the cornball side of the Beatles. "Jealous Guy" is the gorgeous disingenuous admissions of a monster. "Oh Yoko!" is the sweetest song Cat Stevens never came up with.

Reminds me a little of the “party’s over” vibe of There’s a Riot Going On, released just two months after this: The door has been shut on the mad rush of The Beatles and the 60s are over, and there are recriminations and regrets; Lennon is older, wiser and more cynical, heroin has entered (and exited?) the picture, geopolitics are on his mind, and he’s got a marriage and a mortgage to pay, and it’s all so damn tiring. Lennon clearly has no interest in cashing in on his fame or aiming for the charts, so then what, exactly? I'm not sure this album really answers that. For all its surface idealism, the song “Imagine” conveys a kind of world-weary exasperation that feels especially pertinent today. “How Do You Sleep?” is a fascinating diss track, followed by a song in which he asks “How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?” The album is interesting and has its moments, but it has a decidedly downcast feel that telegraphs Lennon’s mid-70s malaise pretty perfectly.

I understand the importance of the Beatles, but was never a "fan". My feeling about the beatles is like Dickens; I understand why Charles Dickens is important for the birth of the modern novel, but I dont wanna read Dickens now. So this Lennon record, I knew the title track and jealous guy. The rest did not stick. As a contrast, I listened to McCartneys RAM right after, since it was released the same year and was the second solo lp for each. Hate to say it but I thought Paul's was the better rexord.

7/10

new sample found for me!! the song "Jealous Guy" on this album is sampled in the song "Dreamin of the Past" by Pusha T. I also liked the song "I don't wanna be a soldier mama" given the context of when the song came out. The rest is not really for me.

Little fairy vibe ✨

حلو يمكن اعطيه فرصه ثانيه مستقبلا

(3) better than I thought before i listened to it!

Imagine - 5/5 Crippled Inside - 4/5 Jealous Guy - 5/5 It's So Hard - 3/5 I Don't Want to Be a Soldier - 2/5 Give Me Some Truth - 4/5 Oh My Love - 3/5 How Do You Sleep? - 5/5 How? - 4/5 Oh Yoko! - 4/5 Average score: 3.9/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’m a huge Beatles fan, but the only solo work I’ve listened to has been Band on the Run by Paul McCartney. I’m hoping this will be good, because it’s been six albums since a 5/5—and in those six I’ve had a one star and a two star. This may sound normal for a lot of rating systems, but comparing how I rate things with how others rate things, I’ve found that I often give higher scores on just about everything, so it sort of means everything I’ve been getting has been especially not awesome... Ok, I listened. Honestly, this album made me dislike John Lennon a LOT. I'm not going to talk much about the Elephant in the Room because I haven't done much digging into it, and I've seen a lot of contradictory evidence. I will say that I will always default to believing any accusations of that nature, but as this is a man who died years before I was even born, and whose legacy is already so complex and debated, I feel as if I don't have much to add to the discourse, so I'll try to stay away from it as much as possible. I also won't be talking about it in relation to his character with the exception of Jealous Guy. However, I will immediately bring up another controversy about the title track. It's so out of touch. It's not intellectually or artistically pretentious, but it is morally pretentious. Call me a crazy liberal/vegan, I guess, but I just don't think the guy who spends his millions on a special room for his fur coat collection has the right to just sit there and give his "I have a dream..." speech about peace and love and sharing wealth. Fur coats are even a step below eating meat, because at least meat is literally everywhere and can be necessary for people with certain health issues or for other animals. But fur coats are just a purely aesthetic indication of wealth. The fact that the three other Beatles are/were all vegetarian (with Paul McCartney being almost completely vegan), but John Lennon once bought eighty fur coats in a day just immediately bumps him down to my least favorite of the four. Not to mention, of course, the obvious moral misuse of wealth. Hearing it without background knowledge, however, this song is pretty good. The opening is a bit sudden, and I feel as if the song was placed here simply because it was obviously a hit rather than because it was a good opening sonically—though, lyrically, an argument could be made as it does summarize the themes of much of the album. I'm pretty neutral. Overall, it's a good song but nothing incredibly special. Crippled Inside does redeem it. In my opinion, it is better than the title track both in quality and in context. It's catchy and to the point while also bringing in some genuine artistry and freshness, which is what The Beatles do best. I also love how this song is so upbeat while having incredibly depressing lyrics. Then there's Jealous Guy, which is where I must reference that before mentioned elephant. It's unnerving. It's disturbing. It feels almost like satire. It's exactly what everyone warns you about, like in high school Health class where they tell you to ignore this exact plea for forgiveness and immediately get the hell out of there. It feels like something that'd be used in a domestic abuse prevention PSA. Sonically, the song is pretty good. You can hear the Phil Spector on it (which does NOT help the creepiness, by the way), and it doesn't actually work too badly on this song due to its slow, sad nature. The political messaging on Crippled Inside and I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama are much better than that on Imagine. While Imagine is a very obviously flawed man going "why can't people be better," these two songs have more of a storytelling element to them, and talk from other perspectives that separate Lennon from the narrative. Gimme Some Truth...man, it's hard to be objective about this one. I'm obviously from a different generation. Maybe what he was saying was savage then, but I find it a bit...well, just not very powerful or anything. I agree with the politics obviously. The song itself has great, raw vocals and George Harrison's slide guitar is awesome. So is the "money for dope/money for rope" part. But the part where he just shouts out insults sounds like a kid who's not allowed to curse. Again, could be a generational thing. But there is something to be said about timelessness. I still resonate with the sentiments of songs like For What It's Worth, Ohio, Masters of War, etc—and some of those were from the decade before this. I do think a lot of the power is lost with the wall of sound production. There are a lot of lyrically simple political anthems such as this one that do have power—anything by Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, or the like. And if this song were a folk track or even a stripped-down electric pop/rock song, it would retain much more power. But instead of trying to build energy with harder strumming or solely vocals, the production does much of the work which really takes away a good majority of the weight behind his words. However, I do feel as if this statement is powerful coming from John Lennon. He was a major celebrity—one that was under much scrutiny and, during his time with The Beatles, control. Having him make such a bold political statement does hold a weight unto itself. The next notable track is the worst, and that is the infamous How Do You Sleep? The best way I've heard this song described is "bringing a gun to a fist fight." It's ridiculous. The lyrics are painfully immature and petty. I'd say the only part that really is "savage" is the opening line about Sgt. Pepper, which did immediately hook me in. There seems to be this unspoken rule that artists who became famous in a band do not reference that band in their solo work, and the breaking of this rule along with the obvious target of it are effective in getting the attention of the listener. The other awesome part was the reference to the "Paul McCartney is dead" conspiracy. While it is extremely—painfully—*excruciatingly*—petty, it may become my Roman Empire because wow is that a wild thing to write. That conspiracy in general is so fascinatingly outlandish and iconic in itself, and Lennon's addition to it is just spectacular. I will say, I am most likely biased because Paul McCartney is my favorite Beatle. Oh Yoko! makes for a pretty good ending track. It's a definite tone shift, which thematically brings the album to a close. Sonically, the upbeat simplicity of it also acts as a breaking away from the songs that preceded it. I would say cut Imagine, Jealous Guy, and How Do You Sleep?, and bring back the more stripped-down sound on the majority of the songs, and this would be a pretty solid album. However, Imagine and How Do You Sleep? carry the majority of this album's character, so it's difficult to treat them as one-offs, or duds, or filler—they populate much of the album's artistic and cultural breadth and therefore make it difficult to treat them as simple flaws. Similarly, the fact that Gimme Some Truth—another key track—falls short makes it evident that, whenever John Lennon attempts something great on here, he fails in execution The reason the other songs are pretty good seems to just be because they're simpler in concept. There’s a lot of genuine brilliance and genuine humanity in this album, but its ego-fueled failings often make the gems hard to notice. It’s a sad listen. John Lennon, both the human being and public figure, had such potential. But as what happens to most people, major problems with ego and wealth interfered with his human passions. This album is messy and self indulgent. It’s a man fighting against his own past and present and the legacy he knew was all too inevitable. It’s good art in the sense that it is genuine, but it’s blind art, and it’s art that needed more thoughtfulness and less surface-level, drug-fueled, egocentric rage. It’s the sound of a man falling apart. Recap: Favorite songs: Crippled Inside, I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama, Oh Yoko! Least favorite songs: Imagine, Jealous Guy, How Do You Sleep? Comparisons: Band on the Run, Plastic Ono Band, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Easter, Born to Run, Abbey Road, Buffalo Springfield, So Far, After the Gold Rush Rating: 2/5

oh lennon sweet lemon

Just realized I cant stand him

muchos altos y bajos, oh yoko y how do you sleep lo salvan un poco

Me gustó, sólido

This record covers a lot ground in 40 minutes. It’s got an easy simplicity that masks a complicated bunch of songs. It sounds like someone with a lot of experience made it.

I managed to push past my personal hatred of the single “Imagine” to rather enjoy the album “Imagine”. Big of me I know.

ok

Has Imagine and Jealous guy on it Best tracks

More self righteous crap from the third most talented beetle.

Second best Lennon solo record. Oh yoko and Gimme some true being highlights

Not good

This is one of my favourite albums ever. Reminds me of my dad's house when I was in my teens. I love pretty much every song on this. Oh My Love and How? are beautiful, tender songs.

**An ok album

Apart from the obvious well known tunes, Lennon’s solo material has always left me a little underwhelmed. Can’t help the comparison with Maccas amazing output from the same period. This was released the same year as Ram and is definitely in its shadow. Some classic songs but not a classic album imo

Abgesehen vom Titeltrack hat mich das Album überraschend wenig überzeugt. Aber "Imagine" zieht das Album noch auf 3 Sterne hoch.

Ich war überrascht, wie kalt mich das Album gelassen hat. Einige by the numbers Rock 'n' Roll-Songs, eine ganz komisch-hallige Produktion auf "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama" und der Paul-Diss-Track "How Do You Sleep?"... musikalisch in Ordnung, textlich aber ziemlich peinlich. In der zweiten Hälfte gefällt mir die Platte aber deutlich besser, die zurückhaltenden Songs stehen ihm besser. Und der Titeltrack ist natürlich ein Klassiker.

Das Album hat mich weniger angesprochen als mir der Name „versprochen“ hat.

Manche Alben fangen stark an und hören schwach. Selten auch mal umgekehrt. Für mich persönlich hat sich die Qualität auf die Albummitte konzentriert. Dafür mochte ich gewisse Tracks auch so gern, dass ich hier auch wieder 4 Sterne vergeben kann.

Hat ir nicht ganz so gut gefallen wie das Album von George Harrison, aber war grundsolide und hat halt mit dem Titeltrack den Song überhaupt und allein dafür gibts einen Stern

Truthfully, I’m not sure I’ve ever sat and listened to Imagine all the way through from beginning to end. There’s something about Lennon’s music that makes me sad. I was just six years old when he died, and I was quite sure I didn’t know who he was or even who the Beatles were. But maybe subconsciously, I kind of took on the feeling of that era. I’m not sure. As a digression, these days we have a conspiracy for everything, but I’ve never really heard anyone espouse a theory on Lennon’s assassination. It’s like, of all the assassinations, in this case, we’re sure it’s just one wacko who thought he was Holden Caufield. It’s well known that the FBI was keeping tabs on Lennon and was looking for ways to deport him, but no conspiracy theory? I mean, people are so nutty today that they can come up with “proof” that a shadow government run by the lizard people killed their dog and staged it to look like an accident. But, again, I digress. Imagine is a great album, but, as with most solo Beatles’ albums, it has its hits and misses… well, except All Things Must Pass. That’s a brilliant album and, for my money, the best solo output by any of the former Beatles for just pure quality. But I digress again. I'm listening to Jealous Guy right now, and I really love this song. He’s like, “Yeah, I flew off the handle and probably shouldn’t have called you a psycho hosebeast, but, baby, remember? I’m just a jealous guy.” I wonder, when we later get to the brutal How Do You Sleep, if maybe Lennon was a bit jealous of McCartney? He rips Paul to shreds in that song. It’s really another level to what Paul did when he took some veiled shots at Lennon in his song, Too Many People. Could Lennon have been feeling the pressure of having to be the voice, or leader, of a generation fighting for world peace, while all Paul had to do was write silly little love songs and be happy? Maybe Lennon secretly wished he could just write silly love songs and not be the face of a revolution? When Bob Dylan went electric, he just wanted to play rock and roll, not fight the man his whole career. Imagine sounds weird, but in a good way. Like the slide guitar played by Harrison on I Don’t Want To Be a Soldier Mama sounds like he played it in the loo while the rest of the band was in the studio. Quirky things like that make it seem like there’s an audio surprise around every corner on this album. Meanwhile, lyrically, I think this album speaks as much to today as it did to the '70s. Gimme Some Truth could be released today by someone like Jack White, and it would sound as new as it did in 1971. I'm sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth I've had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians All I want is the truth Just gimme some truth See? After listening to Imagine a couple times in the last day, I agree it’s an important album for more than just the music. It was created by a genius and half of the songwriting team that essentially created modern rock and roll. of It has songs that still speak to us today, though it’s sad we haven’t seemed to make much headway from this album’s debut over 50 years ago. For a music geek, the production tickles your earholes constantly. Easily deserves to be on the 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, so get busy listening.

I’ve never been a fan of John Lennon’s solo output save for a handful of songs and this is more of that feeling. Couple of good tracks but a lot of weak bluesy tracks that just don’t do it for me.

Nearly gave it a 4 because of “Oh Yoko” but I’m feeling generous as he got shot

I don't quite know what to make of this album. Part of the challenge is separating the artist from the art. Certainly, earlier in his life John Lennon was a pretty poor human being. Does that invalidate the beauty of his poetry? Does the fact that he seems to have largely repented and tried to make amends makes his music more acceptable. In the end I think this is a middling work of art. I like the honesty of Jealous Guy but don't have much time for Imagine or Dear Yoko.

Liked Songs added to my 2025 playlist Imagine - imagine all of the people.... living for today

Come on

John Lennon is the Paul McCartney of freshman-psych level human analysis, being a clueless jagoff lacking self-awareness, and generally being a complete wanker. Phil Spector is a genius who made all that sound terrific, as long as you ignore the attempts at substance.

It was pretty good. A couple of weaker tracks, but generally the tracks were good with a couple of standouts.

🥇crippled inside 🥈oh my love 🥉how do you sleep? HM: jealous guy, gimme some truth, oh yoko

I love the 70s sound, and it’s another welcome glimpse into a great artist that was taken too soon. There are some great tracks here but also a few forgettable ones, that have a bit too much of a cynical edge to them. You can really feel him missing the levity of Paul’s additions to these songs. The perfect ying to his downbeat yang. An enjoyable listen but not an all-timer.

The title song is, while almost overplayed, still a favorite of mine. I never heard the rest of the album before. I had no idea that Jealous Guy was originally a Lennon song, having only heard the Roxy Music version. The rest of the album is mostly decent stuff with some occasional echoes of the Beatles, unsurprisingly.

Eh. Lennon as a solo act has never done all that much for me, more of the same from this

Nice retro vibe, amazing album, John Lennon is a LEGEND

Feels like an album was made because he wrote the single Imagine and needed to bulk it out. Forgettable and in need of a lot more influence when writing, something his previous three bandmates could've helped with.

There's one good song . . .

Jealous Guy is a great song .. but I like the Roxy Music version more. Imagine is also a great song … but I feel like I’ve heard it too often. The album was fine, but I thought I’d like it more.

Another album from a titan of music. Another album that I found myself underwhelmed by

Cançó(ns) que més m’ha agradat - Imagine - How do you sleep (???) Cançó(ns que menys m’han agradat) - Ses altres, pero sobretot: - Oh Yoko! (sembla sa cançó de Hay Day) Comentaris: you may say i’m a dreameeeer. No és es meu tipus d’àlbum, no m’agrada gens sa seua veu. M’ha costat escoltar-lo Nota: 5/10

Nicht ganz meine Musik Bester Song 1. Listen: jealous guy

Pretty good! Imagine is amazing, but none of the other blew me away.

I hadn't heard the rest of this album but I always like Imagine. Some of the songs are too bluesy for me though. Some are good though.

I wanted to like it but he’s kinda whiny

12/14/25 This is what I get for complaining about Fiona Apple. Having to listen to a piece of shit wife beater next. "I never meant to hurt you" "how do you sleep at night" giant liar and hypocrite. Unable to listen to this without being angry. 3/10.

While there are some great songs here, the record kind of just melts into the background. I know why it's a great album, and I can hear it, but nothing really grabbed me.

aj Lenon lenon

Some sad and pretty songs - especially Oh Yoko - that remind me of Elliott Smith.

Aih saakeli kuin hyvä

John Lennon’s best and a top 3 post-Beatles album. Love or hate the title track, it kicks off into a great time right after and showcases John’s finest ballads. One of my favorite tracks, I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier, is a tense, primal track with a sick groove, the kick drum doesn’t get this crazy again until Oh Yoko, surprisingly. Also a fantastic closing song with a beautiful piano.

Second Lennon album in three days. While this may be his most successful solo album to my ears, including the most mid anthem in rock history, it also includes his apology for abuse. He was an open book when it came to his art and for that I appreciate him, but I also find much of his solo work both pretentious and juvenile at the same time.

On balance …

Sure

I think this is probably John's best solo album. Highlights: "Imagine", "Jealous Guy" and "Oh Yoko!"

Just imagine if this album didn't exist. What would hipsters listen to?

Love John Lennon

2.5 rounded up i guess. not sure how often i would relisten to this but i see how it's here in terms of influence (though obviously can't hold a candle to the beatles' work as a whole). the paul diss track is surprisingly a favorite. i listen to this version of imagine less than the glee cast or the infamous pandemic video

Classic

Most everyone would recognize this artist and opening track, but can’t say I was familiar with a single other song on the album. Imagine is the obvious stand out, but I found How Do You Sleep and the drama behind it interesting to learn about.

One great song and som ok songs

Gimme some truth is good and obviously imagine and jealous guy are big songs but not moved by rest of it.

3/5 Imagine is an all time track but the rest of the album was good too. I could definitely relisten to this one and bump it up but I enjoyed it for what it is.

Great album. Some good rock songs on it but my preference was for the slower songs. Still so much bitterness and a his naive sense of can’t we all just get along” while he lives in a mansion is still there, but I prefer this to his first solo album.

I still like "Imagine" and its message despite it being played to death, and even realizing that John didn't live the ideals he espoused. I still think it takes balls to sing "no religion" and "no countries". The rest of the album is coffeeshop worthy - nice for background but not really gripping or mould-breaking.

Repeat listen

Only a couple of days after getting Paul's solo album, we now get to explore John's. The titular opening track has been commercialized and memed to death so it's honestly lost a lot of luster. I'm sure when this album released, it's messaging felt very profound. However, we now know a lot about Lennon's abuse towards women, which makes a lot of the peace and love messaging lose its meaning. A song like Jealous Guy was probably intended to be a reflection of personal flaws, but it now comes across as a lazy excuse for poor behavior. From a musical perspective, it is nice to hear Lennon explore the blues and country that inspired a younger John. Some of the later songs feel very contemporary in their sound and production. You could place them in the modern age and some would maybe mistaken it for a Tame Impala track. So far, I think I'm giving the edge to McCartney. 3.5 Stars

It's fine. I am okay with this as background music.

Best album of any Beatle solo or collectively. Incredible songwriting.

I liked it more than I expected. It was competently made. I still really don't like John Lennon. The title track was pretty good.

Pretty good, gives Billy Joel vibe

This record serves almost as a synopsis of Lennon's life, beginning and ending in a quite poignant note (with Yoko being slapped on if course)

Nah, just nah, fuck this dude, not because of his fame but because of his music. Boring as shit.

I’m glad the whole “Lennon good, McCartney bad” narrative has died out.

Nice! A chance to hear a solo album from one of the greats. I do love The Beatles, especially their last few albums, but have not been able to explore the vast catalogue of their solo albums. This album starts with one of the greatest songs of all time so it’s going to be hard to follow that. After that iconic song it does seem like the front half of the album is loaded with some so-so blues based numbers but it seems to even out in the back half with a series of good songs. By the end I did feel like it was a good listen and will hopefully have more time to explore all the other solo albums by the great musicians of The Beatles.

I like John lemon lol

He whistles! Great album I had never jammed in holistically before. What a shame we lost him so young.

Imagine är en så uttjatad låt att det inte går att tycka nåt om den längre, varken bra eller dåligt. Jag vet inte om det är så längre men i en herrans massa år var det världens mest spelade låt (det här var innan streamingens era så hur man mäter det idag känns oklart). Att recensera Imagine skulle vara som att recensera ljudsignalerna vid ett övergångsställe. Så vi tar det andra istället. Hela b-sidan tycker jag är bra utan att vara fantastisk, spretig kanske men överlag bra. A-sidan har större problem, men där finns å andra sidan Jealous guy, tveklöst skivans bästa spår. Det är bara det att när du hört Roxy Musics version vill du aldrig höra någon annan än den (köpte faktiskt den singeln idag). Lennon blandar och ger men alldeles för stabilt bra för att ge i från sig ett hafsverk, trean är klar

Så sönderspelad som Imagine är, är det lätt glömma att det faktiskt är en bra låt. Så även Jealous guy. På plussidan tycker jag även I dont want to be soldier mama, How can you sleep? och Oh Yoko! hamnar. Medan en del annat här är mer att betrakta som dussinlåtar i Lennon-katalogen.

Förvånas av hur spretigt det den här plattan är. Det finns ingen musikalisk stringens. Snarare en samling låtar som i mångt och mycket verkar var och en för sig. Definitivt gäller detta de två hitsen. Imagine är väl i grunden en bra låt om än uttjatad. Jealous guy är dock betydligt starkare även om jag föredrar Hathaways version. Budskapet är ju dock naturligtvis ruttet. Men som Margo Price sjunger i Long live the King, He was a feminist (kan ifrågasättas) and an asshole to. Blueslåtarna med King Curtis på sax är också trivsamma som avslutande Oh Yoko. Men är finns också skräpmat som Crippled inside och Oh my love. Stark tvåa men till en trea kan inte album som inte är ett album nå.

Imagine - sönderspelad Crippled inside - Monty Python Jealous guy - håller fortfarande It's so hard: gubbrock-blues. Borde stannat i byrålådan. I don't wanna be a soldier: intressantaste spåret, men lyfter inte riktigt. Lennons röst är alldeles för vek och snäll för en sån här låt. Gimme some truth: helt ok Nixon-kommentar Oh my love: riktigt bottennapp 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 bra låtar. Trist produktion. Svag sång. Knappast topp 1001.

Very good record. The production sound is unique, it almost has a lofi sound with lots of Spector string layers on top. Pretty cool. I think this album 1000% benefits from being titled and beginning with Imagine. I think the rest of the album after imagine is good but not necessarily great. It’s hard not to compare to McCartney and Harrison solo music of the early 70’s, which I just enjoy more. However still a great listen.

a few mature songs towards the end, but the rest is slop

I had to take a long hard look at myself and ask, if this hadn’t been made by a Beatle, would I think all that highly of it? And the answer is, no, not really. This is John approaching his most self-righteous and pretentious state (to be fully realized in Some Time in New York City), and the sound is too sappy and overproduced for my taste. The title track has always been wildly overrated. The melody’s nice, but there’s nothing too special about it and the lyrics scream of John’s self-importance more than they relate any deep message. (But maybe I’ve been poisoned by the Gal Gadot video back in 2020.) The album’s best moment happens when John abandons his delusions of being some kind of people’s poet and attacks his former best friend in a mean, nasty diss track. Probably more revealing than any of the peace-on-Earth stuff, which John was never the best at, no matter how much he wanted to be. His specialty was always mining negative emotions, providing the darkness to Paul’s light, so it’s only fitting that he fails by straying from the grim intimacy of Plastic Ono Band but strikes gold by mocking his old foil. So yeah, not John’s finest. It’s not bad, there’s good songs here, but it’s red meat for the haters in some ways. Best song: How Do You Sleep

Some nice melodies on this one, but most of the songs are too simple to leave a mark. A lot of them are ballads that just repeat the same chords the entire time. If the lyrics were good there would be a beauty in this simplicity, but the lyrics are also simple without much depth. The lyrics contain such controversial statements as "I don't want to die" and "give me the truth." "Crippled Inside" switches things up, but its jaunty melody and breakdown at the end just sound goofy. "How Do You Sleep" is likely the best song musically, though its vitriol contradicts the whole "brotherhood of man" thing from earlier. "Oh Yoko!" might be the best song, as it's got a carefree melody and there the simplicity is beautiful. And the title track? Pleasant, not bad, but not as deep as it thinks. Like most of the album really.

3/5 - would give 3.5 if I could. I enjoyed the album overall, just not something I'd probably go back to listen to again. First couple of songs I really enjoyed, the rest were solid but not stuff I'd listen to.

Some guy and a guitar who did pretty well. Strongest first song ever? It's gotta be up there. The rest is solid and polite. How Do You Sleep was great for something I hadn't heard before.

ну классика тип. но мне такое не всегда нравится

Standouts Jealous Guy

Pretty good, though inconsistent in my opinion considering who it's coming from. Contains one of the best diss tracks in history. Favorite track: Imagine

Quite enjoyed it, obviously Imagine is a fantastic song, but the others in the album I rather liked except Jealous guy.

Think he's in love with himself a little too much.

Curiously uneven but still a classic.

Some classic tunes

Just a tad self indulgent at the end. But a real classic

Albums done by individual Beatles are always proof that the creative power of that band was in the group, not the individuals. And John Lennon proves that best of all of them. Un-restrained by McCartney his worst is on full display here. To be fair, the lyrics are often great. But Lennon is at his best when he directs his venom at himself. At least this avoids the criticism of hypocrisy that applies whenever he directs lyrics anywhere else, which is most of the time. The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking. Melodically though it's an equally difficult listen and if it was anyone other than Lennon I might not have got to the end of the album. Imagine is a plodding dirge. Crippled Inside is the worst song by a Beatle since Don't Pass Me By (which to put in context was written and sung by Ringo). How Do You Sleep is a better attempt but the lyrical content (from a wife beater, adulterer and waitress-glasser) just drags it down too much. 2 from 5. Only Jealous Guy saves it from a 1.

There's too much history about Lennon to review this unpassionately so focusing on the lesser known tracks I was a bit underwhelmed. That said its high points are high.

It was good but a lil slow(?) for me I like rock though so vibes

As a huge Beatles fan, I really should’ve listened to this album before this year. I like the idea that both Lennon and McCartney had to get one album out of the way before creating masterpieces with their second albums. Imagine is a deeply personal album and, like many of his other works during his solo career, at times very uncomfortable and disorienting. Some of his songs may also focus a bit too much on his relationship with Yoko, which may distance himself from his audience. Though I still think there’s a lot of universality and accessibility in the very direct words of many of these songs that everyone can relate to. These songs may be less technically complex than what he was doing with The Beatles; however, he achieves very palpable feelings in them that I feel he hasn’t done before. The extreme honesty and anxiety in songs like Jealous Guy and How?, the strong affection in songs like Oh My Love and Oh Yoko!, and the anger and frustration in Gimme Some Truth and How Do You Sleep? are just some examples of his constantly developing songwriting ability. All of this to say without even mentioning the title track that continues to be his most identifiable and iconic song, more so than any of the ones he wrote while in the greatest band of all time. I believe this will remain as my favorite Lennon album.

Imagine a world without John Lennon. Next week will be the 45th anniversary of John Lennon's death. I will always remember Casey Kasem's AT40 show when Casey announced the death. I was just 13 years old at the time. This is a really great album. Standouts: Imagine, Jealous Guy, Oh My Love 5/5

Lots of blues influence which was unexpected just knowing the hit single 'Imagine'. Second half seemed more like a vendetta tour when he was with The Beatles.

its aight

Great Songs: Jealous Guy Good Songs: Imagine, Crippled Inside, It’s So Hard, Oh My Love, How?, Oh Yoko! Mid Songs: I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier Mama, How Do You Sleep? Bad Songs:

Title track is amazing, and there were some other good ones too, but there wasn’t enough variety here to make me love it as much as some Beatles music.

I know imagine more as a meme than a song. It's fine. A bit dull and a bit offensive for what it encourages in others compared to how it's author was living. As an album it's got some kind of message, but the tracks vary in quality. Gimmie some truth is pretty good even if the politics are very on the nose. Ultimately a 3 or 4.

A couple of hits and the rest missed

I’ve heard many of the songs through the years. And actually a song I hadn’t heard which was the Yoko song at the end. I thought that was sweet and kind of weird all at the same time. The mix on the album was very treble heavy, and I almost found it painful at times to listen. All right album. Didn’t change my life.

7/10

Verbal autofellatio, especially Jealous Guy was torture. For most of the album I just felt like he was feeling so good and smug for singing these lyrics. Left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

I feel like I got too many people around me that hate this guy for me not to be influenced by them. I don't really like any songs apart from crippled inside though.

Doceniam wpływ jego twórczości na światową popkulturę i jednocześnie nie zgadzam się z treścią przekazu - moja uśredniona ocena 3

This is a good album, but I probably will only seek to listen to the song Imagine from it again.

Imagine was one of the timeless songs. Imagine the album, not so timeless, but solid throughout.

Very out there. Packed the catchy melodies that McCartney brought to the Beatles.

Definitely can tell who brought the creative genius to the Beatles, and it wasnt Lennon. Having heard some solo albums by Paul and George Im very disappointed as I didnt like as many of the songs on the album as much as I thought I would. Nevertheless you can tell this is a very emotional album and very heartfelt too. Which I can appreciate so I'd give it a 6/10

It's been a while since I played this album. I don't have a lot of Beatles or Lennon in my library, though I've recently listened to some Plastic Ono Band. Overall, in 2025 the album suffers a bit from overexposure of some of the songs, including Imagine (a bit of a naive political statement), and Jealous Guy. Some of the other tracks are a bit more robust.

Good - really enjoyed - quirky mournful songs

Ubiquitous megahit title track aside, this is a great collection of catchy blues influenced rock songs. I really enjoyed this!

I've never sat down and listened to this album in one go before. It's quite hard to come to a judgement about it for me. Imagine and Jealous Guy have been ubiquitous over the past 45 years but the rest of it, pretty much ignored. On balance, some good, some bad.

I enjoyed this quite a bit more than I expected to, and a lot more than I enjoyed Paul’s solo album that I had a few months back.

The song Imagine is an all time banger. The rest of it is fairly standard stuff. Decent, but not great.

Better than I expected.

Meu desvio de caráter foi nunca ter ouvido este álbum completo. Dito isso, baita clássico e digno, sem dúvidas irei reouvir em outros momentos. A música Imagine, ainda assim, é um outstanding absurdo aqui.

6/10

Ok. Imagine is one of the best and most beloved songs of all time. But the rest of this? Not so much. John needed an editor and a therapist. There were lots of ideas here, but not much was fully developed. Feels a little slapped together. Phil Spector really pushed for catchy bits. But it doesn’t totally fit. I get why people hooked into this at the time. But, in the context of his entire body of work, this is kinda mid.

John Lennon uno de mis artistas favoritos, el disco imagine es una serie de emociones expresadas como how?, un increible desahogo personal , imagine un discurso con mucha carga social , oh my love , de las mejores canciones de amor que escuche y favoritas o su beef con Mccartney en How do you sleep?, siendo canciones magnificas y cada una muy diferente emocionalmente a la otra -10-10

Paar Dulli Lieder aber auch miese Banger

Some classics and some other good stuff

Beautiful music

Slow, dreamy Lennon

One of the seminal albums of all time.

If there is one thing this list has taught me it's that John Lennon's solo output is...not that great. I'm in the minority that thinks the lyrics to Imagine are kind of ridiculous, especially coming from a serial cheater and all around not very nice guy. Oh Yoko is pretty great and brought back memories of the Rushmore soundtrack. The rest is forgettable.

Imagine is a great song, but the rest of the album is not great.

Day 20: Best tracks: Imagine, How Do You Sleep?, Gimme Some Truth … 7/10. Does it belong on the list? Yes.

Day682 - my least favorite beatle playing his most annoying album

Any album, let alone single song, that has 800M listens (on Spotify) deserves acknowledgement. The title song has done that, and I was thinking that might actually be low. Everyone, across continents, knows "Imagine", the melody and the words. Mix in the often covered "Jealous Guy" (160M, Bryan Ferry's version is great), the equally covered "Gimme Some Truth" (17M, Pearl Jam favorite), plus "Oh My Love" (35M) & "Oh Yoko!" (25M). Even "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier" (Mad Season cover is cool) & "How Do You Sleep?" (Great song! The Magnificent Bastards cover is solid with Scott Weiland on vocals) get some airplay. Really good songs on this album, it deserves a spot and can say that as this is my first walk through of this entire "Imagine" album. 4 stars, based mostly on the quality of songs, mix of hits, staying power, musical Mt. Rushmore title track and popularity.

You’re either a John person for the lyrics or a Paul person for the melody, and I’m a Paul guy. I think I expected better of the album going into it tbh. Imagine and Crippled Inside are the highlights.

Post John Lennon just doesn’t interest me much, most of it could have ended up on Let It Be. That said enough to keep you interested

Peaks at start but not the strongest album. Drifts throughout and never really caught me. Expected more

Didn't finish but was okay. I think I can extrapolate that this might have been one of Ben Folds' influences. I guess, being on the aro ace spectrum, it all sounds kinda whiny and self excusatory especially the "I'm just a jealous guy." ugh. But sound-wise I didn't hate it and I actually liked the 'Imagine', because I'd like to imagine that world too.

Super overrated, Imagine is the best song here but the rest are just ok. For all the crap John gave Paul over sappy love songs this album is sure full of em.

So, I know this one is controversial. I'm not actually sure how I feel about the guy. I was born the same year he died. I've done some reading and I'm still not sure about him. He doesn't seem like someone I'd like to know. However the album, to someone like me who doesn't know much about Lennon, is good. The music is good. It sounds nice. I can't give it a bad rating simply because half the world hates the guy. I'm rating the album only, not the person behind it. It's not perfect. It does get a bit boring after a while. But overall it's nice to listen to.

Leading with the hit. This has to be one of the most played songs of all time. People love Imagine. I always thought of John Lennon as a pretentious jerk who wrecked the Beatles...I'm reconsidering. I don't love this album, but I like it significantly more than I thought I would. He's a great song writer, there's no denying that. This is definitely better than the Wings album on this list. I love Oh Yoko! It's a great song and it's great in Rushmore.

3.5

OK some songs not bad, but def not all around insane John Lennon was just a guy 7.9/10 3.5/5

Heard songs from it before. My mom is #teamlennon so liking John is kind of a default for me. The album is actually cool, early Beatles solo albums are funny because you can hear what each member contributed to the band's sound. How Do You Sleep feels a bit uncomfortable, like listening to your divorced parents fighting or something 3/5

People always argue over John vs Paul and I find myself going back and forth. I used to prefer John much more, and lately found myself going towards Paul. However after listening to this again I can’t deny that it’s an amazing album.

I know enough to understand this as an important piece of musical history. I think it is musically a good album but it is largely not to my own subjective sensibilities. Wikipedia labels this as a rock album. I think I need to do some digging into the roots of rock music. This is an album where I can kind of see how rock became the genre it is today.

I may be biased because I’m a massive Beatles fan, however John isn’t necessarily high on my favourite Beatles list (he was last for a while). I went through a phase late 2024 of listening to John’s solo work because I’d only really listened to George’s (because he’s my favourite). I used to think it was a load of overly political crap but some of it grew on me. This album in particular became one of my favourite Beatles solo albums (its second only to ATMP). I love practically every song on here from its overly played title track to the lovely Oh My Love to the scathing How Do You Sleep. I think it’s post-Beatles John at his best. Oh My Love is probably my favourite solo John song as well which helps.

I’m not sure why but I didn’t think this was going to be as good as it was. The 2 famous hits besides, I didn’t know anything else but had a good time here. Particularly I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier Mama and Oh Yoko!

I like imagine. Rest was dull and I'm starting to think all of these will be dull

4.45

I love the Beatles. Always have; always will. I have also never liked a solo project from a Beatle. John Lennon is insufferable, especially on his own. There are a few halfway decent songs here, but overall it's just not that good. 2 stars.

A pantheon album and a few classic songs (title track, jealous guy, oh yoko!) but it can be patchy elsewhere (I don't want to be a soldier, crippled inside, it's so hard). On Rym it's a 3.5 for me, but the average songs bring the classics down here. It's not a vinyl I reach for often

I also own this on vynil😭😭. Discovered it in sept 2023 bought in Januar? 2025

Definitely felt like an eclectic collection of random unrelated songs than an album, but each Individual song was decent. Better than I was expecting.

Not my style. Crippled Inside had a nice melody.

Pleasantly surprised by the "non popular" songs

Exactly what I expected. All in all a good album with some well known songs. I hate to admit it, but I really liked “Oh Yoko”. Album came out in 1971 a year after the Beatles broke up, and it seems like it was quickly slapped together and put out so fans could hear his solo stuff. Unlike Double Fantasy, which was four years after his previous album which shows most masterpieces take time. I don’t know if this album is a must listen. I’d download a song or two and that’s it.

The title track is obviously the highlight but also loved How Do You Sleep

Nice

I went into this album expecting not to be impressed. I was pretty much correct. I think Lennon is incredibly overrated, but Imagine as a whole wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Its got some catchy moments and some good grooves. Standouts were "Imagine" - I mean, its the only song on this album anyone knows - "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama " - although its about twice the length it needs to be - and "How Do You Sleep?" I probably wont re-listen to too much of this, but it was solid and I'm glad I finally gave it a listen through. 3/5

The reviews of this are so lopsided hes either the most brilliant musician ever, or a rapist wife beater. I think this album and the one before it is him literally grappling with those two dynamics in his life. How do you declare a flawed human a geneous and how do you demonize someone who is trying to be a better person, albeit someone who will inevitably slip back into his old habits once the drugs get to be too much? I don't know the answer. His first few albums with the beatles, his songs are unlistenable because of how shitty he is to his love interests, and I think Yoko is very much his inspiration to get better. I don't know if he would have lived as long as he did if it wasn't for her. especially after listening to this album. This album is very up and down. He is trying to be a lot more raw, but is a lot more subtle than the last album. It doesn't quite work. A good but ultimately flawed album. much like the creator.

There were some unexpected groovy/funky songs on here. It was a decent listen, not something I would reach for again.

You May Say I'm A Dreamer 1001 Albums Generator 152 (10/31/2025) "Man if we didn't have religion, there would be nothing to kill or die for" - guy who lived in the secular century that included the biggest atrocities ever committed by humanity. John Lennon was a retarded communist, but he can write a tune, and the songs outside the title track have lyrics that range from fine to good. How Do You Sleep? is one that I had not heard before that I really enjoyed. The cringe factor of the title track is off the charts and some of the experiments here don't work great, but it's a serviceable album. Paul and George both had better solo albums than this. 3/5. Favs: Crippled Inside Jealous Guy How Do You Sleep? Least Fav: Imagine

Sure

3 Stars (8/15)

classic

At least it doesn't have as much Yoko as Double Fantasy, I guess? When you know a bit about Lennon's personal history "Jealous Guy" is incredibly offputting/creepy.

Bursting with life and creativity

Saw a review of Rush’s Moving Pictures that said it was self indulgent, which I wholeheartedly disagree with. If anything is self indulgent, it’s this album. Pretentious, whiny, boring, overrated.

I’d rather not

No matter how good this is, this fucker hit his wife and people forget that

In the end, it's John & Yoko, again. As a result, it's self-centred and whining about stuff no one is interested in, especially his beef with Paul. I also found this musically uninteresting and quite boring.

(2.5) less good than i remember

I don’t like John Lennon but songs are good

Great album. Well produced, a lot of rock n roll on this. Jealous Guy must be one of the greatest Lennon’s compositions. So beautiful.

Obviously a great song as the title track. The rest of the album is a bit formulaic and twee for me.

A couple of classics but gets a little self indulgent and seems like he’s complaining about something for most of this album.

One hit wonder, with several ok.

It’s hard to like this album as I always thought the Beatles were an overrated band , however I had to force myself to listen to it . I recognised quite a few of the songs and can understand why they are given the credence attached to them and also appreciate the strength of the lyrics , but unfortunately they do not instilled a joy in me and encourage me to immerse myself . Therefore it is an unfortunate low score

I liked a couple of the songs (Oh my love, and How?) but other than that the album is quite weak

i have to be honest, i stopped this half way through.

I've had enough reading things by neurotic psychotic pig headed politicians. It seems like we did not make much progress in 60 yrs?

oh he wanted to be elton john so bad

A bit meh for me, 2/5

Beyond the title song, the others are beautiful, important, and the Paul diss track! wow.

Meh. I know that htis is John Lennon, and that clearly everyone has agreed that this dude is a demi god, but it's just not very good.

Surprisingly enjoyable. Was not looking forward to listening but was not actually what I was expecting. Thought it would just be a Beatles esque sound but got some classic 70s rock type vibes. I could revisit this

The songwriting and arrangements on this album are top notch (great strings). Terrific team of musicians, includining some fine slide guitar from George Harrison. A musically pleasing album However, while John's first solo album was powerful and authentic, this just sounds like complaining. The songs are strong. John's performance is heartfelt. But the self-centered bitterness of this album removes any enjoyment I might receive from listening to it. John's "How Do You Sleep" scorched earth attack on Paul just comes off as unnecessarily cruel. Not all therapy sessions need to be broadcasted. Favorite Song: "Oh My Love" it's the beautiful, shining moment of this album.

A classic of course. Album tracks (how do you sleep a special stand out) are actually miles better than the famous two songs on this.

Didn't know most of the songs in the album, and it was just ok. Of course, the two bests know songs do bring the album higher. 7/10

mediocre British blues music

Meh. I get it but I do not love John Lennon's solo output as a general rule.

I'm not the biggest John Lennon fan, although I am a big Beatles fan. I am glad that I listened to this, but I think it is reminiscent of a lot of other post-Beatles albums by the members of the Beatles. 1 or 2 standout, classic tracks, surrounded by fine songs that are not very memorable. John and Paul brought out the best in each other, so this ultimately doesnt live up to any of the late-period Beatles albums. But yeah, it was fine.

Meh

there sure is some self indulgent crud on here amongst a couple of good songs.

What a terrible album

Too many blues jams

Не могу сказать что прямо обожаю эту пластинку, но оценка всё равно высшая.

3.5

Honestly whoever wrote these songs ought to have been shot. Partially redeemed by the title track and How Do You Sleep, a song which takes the biscuit more than an opportunistic thief at a McVitie's factory.

Can't hear Imagine without thinking of Gal Gadot & co thinking it was a good idea to sing "Imagine there's no heaven" at the height of Covid. As someone who doesn't like the Beatles, this is the Beatles but more boring.

I don't remember the first half, but I think that I enjoyed it

That is too many people to imagine

< The Beatles 1 or 2 decent songs. Kind of a who gives a shit album. Tired of listening to every album made by any needle beatle. For the record, the ranking of beatles goes 1. Ringo Starr 2. George Harrison 3. Pete best 4. John Lennon 5. An actual beetle 6. Paul McCartney

This was SO much better than "Plastic Ono Band", good lord that one was awful. This album is very boring by comparison, and in this case that's a good thing. Hard to listen to imagine these days without thinking of Gal Gadot.

Imagine must be one of the most overplayed tracks of all time. Album ok but nothing to write home about. Best tracks Jealous Guy I don't want to be a Soldier Mama and How do you Sleep

Not a big fan of this album. Double Fantasy is so much better.

Pretty classic, although also pretty overplayed...preferred him in the Beatles!

not my favourite

Tengo mixed feelings con este album, porque tiene unos TEMAZOS y otros que me dejaron medio puzzled. Por ejemplo, la cancion del nombre larguisimo que consiste en repetirlo 20 veces ...... la que le dice a yoko que es posesivo ...... en fin. Me gustó, yo a John lo banco bastante. Favs: Crippled Inside, How Do You Sleep?, How?, Oh Yoko

Este album abre con LA canción. Será la cosa más cursi jamás escrita, pero siempre me voy a emocionar al escucharla. Hay algunas canciones que no había escuchado y que, para sorpresa de nadie, tienen una musicalidad en las letras que no se puede igualar. Este anglo trata las sílabas como notas musicales, no sé explicarlo mejor. Con How Do You Sleep se me parte el alma por cierto, cómo le vas a decir eso a Macca. Canciones increíbles que no conocía: Jealous Guy, I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama, Gimme Some Truth, How?

Quizás el disco más atemporal que ha salido hasta la fecha. Imposible escucharlo sin sentir el peso del mito, pero incluso dejando eso a un lado, sigue siendo un trabajo precioso en su sencillez. Suena vulnerable, irónico, a veces ingenuo, pero siempre humano. La verdad que justo venía de escuchar Human Happens (uno de los nuevos singles de Magbay) y ya estaba en el mood de "Expresar las inquietudes contemporáneas a través del arte es el mejor servicio que se le puede hacer al mundo." Cosas que ya sentía y manifestaba Lennon en su tiempo; de ahí que este álbum sea tan importante. ¿Para qué estamos aquí, si no para dejarnos el alma en pos de una vida mejor, más justa y más solidaria? Favs: Imagine, Gimme Some Truth, How Do You Sleep?

Aún sin ser el mejor de su carrera, este disco tiene las canciones más iconicas de John Lennon fuera de los Beatles. A la playlist: Imagine, Crippled Inside, Jealous Guy, Gimme Some Truth, How Do You Sleep?

Emotional and powerful

A great album overall with some fantastic songs but there are poor ones that just take away from the others - stand out songs - oh, yoko, jealous man, crippled inside, How do you sleep at night

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

Song Titles are mildly problematic for what I know about him now but overall good album

4 estrelas porque é o lennon e tem dois mega hits (Imagine / Jealous Guy), algumas das melhores canções já compostas ; mas o phil spector produziu que nem o nariz dele. argh

It feels so personal. Almost none of these songs sound like pop, very far from the tightly crafted doses of dopamine the Beatles had been so good at. If I had been around to hear it at its time, I would have been super excited about the rest of his career.

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…

I loved it

This really wasn't very good. These songs felt very underdeveloped, surface-level, and self-indulgent. "Oh Yoko, my love will turn you on?" Jesus Christ.

The title track is overplayed and inescapable, but the rest of this was really enjoyable

Gorgeous music if you can stomach the preachiness that comes with any Lennon project. I did genuinely enjoy myself going through Imagine multiple times. It’s succinct, focused, heady when the pace demands it, thoughtful and poignant at its most effective. If you’re all in on the mythos that is John Lennon it’s any easy 5. I’m not quite that enthusiastic about the guy, but he could write one heck of a ballad. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Gutes Album.

Awesome

I LOVEEE THIS ALBUM so good

Well I didn’t plan to like this

The song to really pay attention to is “Jealous Guy,” written originally in 1968. It is a statement of John Lennon’s deep challenges with relationships and fears of inadequacy. Probably written with Paul (not Yoko) in view. On the other hand, “How Do You Sleep at Night” is a rebuke to Paul and a response to Paul’s song “Too Many People.” (Which is, I think, the better song. But it’s all such a sad breakup / breakdown.) The title track is John at his Johniest, claiming to have found The Answer and to be The Teacher. He didn’t push so hard in this direction until after the Beatles. And then there’s “Gimme Some Truth,” another holdover from the last days of the Beatles… An uneven album filled with psychology, history, and one man trying to find himself anew.

Both John and Paul had early success as solo artists, but the rift in their relationship leaves an indelible mark on their music. Imagine, an excellent solo effort, is more uneven than The Plastic Ono Band, and some of its best tracks are carry overs from the Beatle days. The back and forth attacks between John and Paul seem more like cries for help rather than true artistic differences. Still, John delivers some excellent material. Even "Oh, Yoko" plays better to me (thanks to Wes Anderson for using this track to great effect in Rushmore).

Perfectly fine! Not a fan of the title track but there are several other decent tracks here.

Full of brilliance. But sadly, as a whole, not brilliant. A flawed gem.

Decent enough but more of a Paul man

"As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves, which is variously called 'present' or 'culture,' but that is actually a symptom of consumption." Imagine a world without The Beatles, a world without 'Imagine,' a world where a record was never released, a world where we were not given a tongue-lashing for thinking for $10. Imagine making $10,290 a year, driving to the record store, and naturally, imagine this record is on a big, giant, shiny display. You buy the Imagine record, race home in one of three popular automobiles: 1. Chrysler New Yorker 2. Chevrolet Vega 3. VW Beetle You get home, hang your keys to avoid losing them, and head to your home entertainment system. You imagine what Imagine will contain as you peel back the vinyl wrapping enshrouding your disc. Complete your turntable ritual, dear future listener, you are about to Imagine. You drop the needle, there is a slight crackle, you walk back to your couch across the shag carpet, and take a seat. The four bars play, and then you are asked to imagine. Imagine your religion is nonsense, imagine everyone living for today, no countries, so easy, no wars, no death, again your religion, imagine I type the same thing again; Imagine, owning nothing, I am a rock star that is taking you into my chapel for the next thirty-seven minutes - only two minutes in folks. The Album of John continues, Crippled Inside, listen closely to that one, I picture a band playing in a dive somewhere in the mid-south region of the U.S to a perplexed crowd, wondering just exactly what is being said, following Imagining there is nothing but sheep. It would seem that we need to imagine what Beatle John would imagine and then recognize the need to embrace his beliefs to fix our spiritually crippled selves. John admits he is flawed and jealous, which in turn gives him the blues, because you have to eat, drink, and feel things. However, it's really hard to be Father John, and he has to keep the world satisfied; it's so hard, and life is going down. Fear not, Protest John is about to tell you what a rich dude from Britannia does not want to be: a soldier in America! The fifth track suggests that if 'Imagine' is about anything, it is about imagining John Lennon being awesome. Imagine pulling up the old tone arm and tossing on something a little different or an album that encourages the listener to think and consider rather than "trust me, man, I'm Father John Lennon". Or continue forward, enjoy the remaining five tracks; John's rants about wanting truth, a soulful ballad with nice piano, I am gonna throw a wobbly at my ex mate Paul, another whiney ballad, and closes with the " I love my wife song; I dunno, it's a self-centered preachy record with unfinished thoughts and half-baked philosophy. At the end of the day, the music on the album sounds like manufactured pop music, created in a factory of confusion, depression, and struggles that come with fame, only to have it evaporate due to the complexities of relationships; cough, Yoko. Admittingly, I don't know a lot about The Beatles; they were never something I was into, it was just too damn Sesame Street sounding to me; at least the early material, I recognize what their pop phenomenon did for music, they proved that if you marketed right and did the right things, well, mansions.

On Imagine's Wikipedia page, I saw that Ben Gerson of Rolling Stone said that it had a substantial portion of good music but he liked Lennon's first LP more and that, i agree with. This is a pretty solid album and definitely up there as one of Lennon's better works. I thought that all the songs no matter what vibe they had, be they soft and melodic or catchy and upbeat, worked well on this album. Lennon's vocals also were pretty good on this record as they portrayed each vibe on this album well. Granted, there are a few awkward moments on some of the songs but i don't think any of them were bad. This is a solid listen but i still prefer his earlier LP. Best Song: Imagine Worst Song: I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama

Imagine if this album was interesting

I loved these songs as a teenager and still it’s John Lennon and everything but as an adult I had surprisingly little sympathy for his relentless self pity and the navel gazing at his trauma. I know he was damaged goods and his childhood was fucked up, but Christ you were a beatle for ten years John, how bad can it fucking BE?

Nice to check out the non-singles.

I enjoyed this album more than I was anticipating, definitely better than his first release, Plastic Ono Band. I've always been pretty indifferent to the endlessly overplayed title track, "Imagine," and even Lennon considered it a sugar-coated anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song. However, I'm not entirely sure, outside of a couple of tracks, if anything on here launches this into the stratosphere of greatness.

Honestly, all I hear is a lost Beatles album when I listen to this. It's not as vibrant and layered as a regular Beatles album. It's more subdued. It's stylistically similar, but you definitely notice the repetitive sounds and lyrical themes and the glaring absence of the others.

Well this is a difficult, musically he is a legend, but an asshole of a person, there is some good in here but a lot of what feels like rejected Beatles songs

Great album,

Reviewing anything Beatles or adjacent is like being on the jury for celebrity trial. How can one be impartial? The instinct will either be to slam it for sake of preserving some intellectual hipster credibility that doesn’t exist. Or even worse, crawling up John Lennon’s ass because no one’s rectum will ever feel as good as his. I’ve always cherry picked his catalog and never listened to his solo albums straight through. That being said the two most boring songs bookend the beginning and end of this album. In my youth, I used to think “Imagine” was a truly profound artistic statement. Now, especially after that awful Covid celeb montage, it’s become this trite juvenile pseudo-intellectual anthem. Yeah I can imagine just about anything, what the fuck else about it? The piano sound still remains one of the best ever captured on record though. This whole thing sounds like an artist very unsure of his future and sometimes, that uncertainty/leads to some great moments. Jealous Guy and Oh My Love are probably among the best songs on the record. The piano compliments the vocal and melody so well on each. Really delicate and beautiful pieces of music. They seem honest and genuine expressions of real emotions, which was a new thing for pop stars shedding pre-fabrications of Brill Building showbiz. Crippled Inside as well is solid nice tune. How do you Sleep has a great gritty vocal and swampy groove behind it It’s not a bad album with pockets of greatness. Then that fucking harmonica at the end “Oh Yoko” comes and shits in the punchbowl. Then they had the audacity to pan that bullshit from left to right in the headphones. Unacceptable behavior

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 did not grow up with a love for The Beatles because my Gen X parents thought they sucked, to be honest, so there was no Beatles songs or solo Beatles music in the house at all. It wasn't until Rockback 4 came out with the keyboard controller and the song "Imagine" as a playable option that I began my journey with them. Because that was my first introduction, naturally my first favorite Beatle was John. As I grew up, I learned about the man he really was and he is no longer my favorite Beatle - so it is hard to review this without thinking of the man behind the music, but I will do my best. "Imagine" is a really lovely sentiment about a utopian paradise but as I grew up and started to understand the message he was trying to tell, as well as begin to understand the world around me, I found myself becoming increasingly turned off by the lyrics. I know his intended targets were the politicians of the world, but I think the way the lyrics have been weaponized in the 50 plus years since (which he doesn't have control over because he isn't alive, I know that) have soured the song. - Sonically, I have always thought it was a gorgeous track and I still do. The chord choices are great, and the sound of the piano almost fades in and out like a dream or like a warped vinyl record. The addition of strings and the tucked drums really drive the track forward. I also really like "Jealous Guy", musically. Another great piano opening with some classic Lennon melodies to paint the picture of the story. The lyrics also scare me a little though lmaoooo. As the album progresses, it is clear that Lennon has a vision for some real cool soundscapes. "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier Mama" has such a unique sound scape and that is due, in part, to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound on full blast here. George Harrison features on guitar on this track and knows EXACTLY what to do and where. And the saxophone part?!?! COOL. I probably enjoy this track the most because of the sonic journey it takes you on. "Oh My Love" is another sonically beautiful track. Lyrically, I also think it is a sweet ode to Yoko. I think you really get a throwback to the half of the Voltron he was in The Beatles on this track. It makes me want to listen to "Because".

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.

It’s weird how much of the myth of the man gets shattered by reality. Songs of love and compassion, while being a shitty father, partner, and friend. That’s the cognitive dissonance that hangs over Imagine. It’s gorgeous, idealistic, peaceful, but it’s hard not to hear the hypocrisy bleeding through. “Imagine no possessions” from a man living in a mansion. “Give Peace a Chance” from someone who couldn’t make peace at home. Still, it’s one of those records that transcends its creator’s flaws. The melodies are hauntingly simple, the production has this ethereal warmth, and for a brief moment, you can believe in the dream he’s selling - even if he couldn’t live it himself.

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

97/1001 :: John Lennon - Imagine Heard before? ✅ Would I revisit? ✅ Rating: 9 Listen before you die: Yes Fav Songs: Imagine, How Do You Sleep, Crippled Inside, Jealous Guy If you don’t listen to this album and go “holy shit John Lennon was a Fucking G!” I don’t know how to help you. This album is pretty much flawless. It’s a more realized Beatles sound with John contemplating life, relationships and tackling heavy issues in plain sight. The song that always gets me is “How Fo You Sleep?”, a seething shot at his old pal Sir Paul McCartney. Also interesting that George is on almost every track but no writing credits go. The only thing I don’t love about this album is the last song Oh Yoko!. Im not a huge Yoko fan but either way this song misses the mark and feels tacked on to the end of the album. Overall this a 5 star record.

I don’t think it’s a controversial statement to call John Lennon one of if not the greatest songwriter who ever lived. His body of work in and out of the Beatles is parallel only by his fellow Beatle Paul McCartney. Not just that he’s a profoundly inspiring and interesting figure. Imagine was John’s second album after the breakup of The Beatles and his first to be a proper pop/rock album after the raw, emotional, and beautiful John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band in 1970 and it almost meets that records highs. Opening title track is one of the most gorgeous lyrics in the history of music it’s poetry at its finest and the backing track is lush and beautiful to boot. “Crippled Inside” is a really interesting lyric and musical piece that finds an odd humor in its lyrics and is fantastic. “Jealous Guy” is arguably the greatest song of Lennon’s solo career, the lyrics touch on Lennon’s past behaviors and draw attention to the flawed man Lennon himself knew he was and tried to better himself from. “It’s So Hard” is another great lyric with great music (it’s hard to say praise over and over). “I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama” has a solid groove and great lyrics. “Gimme Some Truth” is one of the most scathing lyrics Lennon ever wrote and feels so relevant. You can hear his anger and it feels cathartic to listen to “Oh My Love” is really pretty. “How Do You Sleep?” is John’s diss track on Paul after “Too Many People” this song has one of the greatest grooves of all time the performances are amazing and that slide guitar solo from George is excellent. The lyrics do turn me off a bit though. “How?” is deeply profound and asks an amazing and important question of how John should be expected to love and be as good as he can be when he never learned how. The record ends on the pop sensed “Oh Yoko” a great fun track to end the album. Truly one of the greatest albums of the 70s which means one of the greatest of all time.

Not university brilliant and I could do without the self-indulgent Oh Yoko. But it contains Imagine, How, and the bitchy How do you Sleep? I think for that it scrapes a 5.

Imagine is an amazing single. The rest of the album left by bored. Did I like it? Kinda. Did I hate it? No. Would I listen again? No.

Second Beatles solo album, second disappointment. Jealous Guy is very good, Crippled Inside is good, Imagine is very preachy from a man who beat his first wife, and the rest is bollocks saved only by his voice and the strong session players. Come Together is the last great Beatles song John wrote, maybe it's the last great song he wrote all together...

A great album with a few of the greatest songs ever written.

His second solo album. Rock. We're all complicated beings. We have all compromised our beliefs at times, let ourselves and others down. We are a juxtaposition of right and wrong. Lennon's messges in this album range from beautiful and right on to absurd and hypocritical. This album is a journey through all of that and I like it. The production is great too. Lennon's best work comes with the ego check that are his mates in The Beatles, however this is good.

ну норм, но многовато жанров и зачем злобу свою записывать…

Nope

8/10 Favorite: Jealous Guy

No, I really don't like it. Even 'Jealous Guy' gets on my nerves. Next album, please.

Slow paced a bit to sad for my taste

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

Imagine there’s no John Lennon

It’s No Beatles album but it was decent

Meh

Uninspired swill.

This album feels a lot like an extension of The Beatles, at least compared to the post-Beatles McCartney albums I’ve heard. George Harrison played guitar on some of it, so that probably helped. If you’re a Beatles fan, this one might be for you! I’m glad the whole album doesn’t demand the same gravitas as the title track, but putting “Imagine” first kinda starts things on a somber note. I’m sure John made that choice because he wanted people to hear his important thesis first; that’s SO John. I know it’s supposed to be hopeful, but I’ve always found that song to be kind of a bummer and would rather hear it at the end of the record. He also included a Paul McCartney diss track (“How Do You Sleep?”), which is definitely not weird at all! I don’t think I’ll be seeking out a vinyl copy, but this was fine.

It was somewhat enjoyable

Has one massive hit, but the rest is forgettable.

Some seriously good tracks, obviously. Not really my bag, but good.

Good

never really took to the whole Yoko years with John. while there are some great songs here the overall outcome is poor

Just okay IMO.

There are some great songs on this album. But then the rest is quite wishy washy. And most of them just go on too long, they could all be a minute shorter at least. Just shut up, John. 3.0/5.0 Best Song: Jealous Guy

Imagine us the most saccharine wanky song of all time, but the rest of the album is fine. It’s not got a lot of highlights or lowlights it’s just fine