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Title: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Wayne L. on May 19, 2004, 03:31:27 PM
I think Just Like Starting Over is one of John's " worst songs " as a solo artist because it's too mainstream & too bland like something Paul would record as a solo artist, it sounds like a 50's pop song from Lennon's youth with its Elvis feel even though " I wasn't too impressed " with it when it was released at the time or now since it's not Instant Karma or Imagine, it was great to have John " back in the spotlight " again since I thought I might see this former Beatle live on tour before he was tragedically murdered but this solo classic isn't one of his finest!
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 19, 2004, 03:53:19 PM
I really like Just Like Starting Over...it's that touch of 50's rock that makes it special...
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 19, 2004, 04:28:15 PM
I love it.  It is a great Beatley song, and when it came out I was unaware he was recording again so it was a wonderful surprise (briefly, anyway, until December).

Nothing wrong with that song at all, not a thing.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 19, 2004, 05:40:12 PM
Awww, I love this song.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: The End on May 19, 2004, 06:06:54 PM
It's a good song - not his best though. I thought Woman and Watching The Wheels were better. It's always sad listening the Double Fantasy because the music reminds me so much of that December.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Bruno on May 19, 2004, 10:09:40 PM
It's one of my favorite songs
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Beatle Ed on May 19, 2004, 11:30:44 PM
It always reminded me that even John Lennon had an "orbison" faze. Personally I love the song. And I would go as far as to say I think you're dead wrong. "Starting over" was one of the BEST Lennon songs. He shows a different side in that song, a vunerability, and you're dumb! lol
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: tkitna on May 20, 2004, 01:01:48 AM
The song was great. (that was easy)
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Wayne L. on May 20, 2004, 01:47:43 PM
I don't believe some of you for a moment because Just Like Starting Over is just a  " mediocre song " by John unlike Instant Karma & Imagine. 
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 20, 2004, 02:25:28 PM
[quote by=Wayne_L. link=Blah.pl?b=lennon,m=1084980687,s=8 date=1085060863]I don't believe some of you for a moment because Just Like Starting Over is just a
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Wayne L. on May 20, 2004, 02:32:59 PM
You do.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: tkitna on May 20, 2004, 04:51:45 PM
Well, I aint that crazy about 'Imagine' to be honest with you. I think this song is alot more pleasing to the ear.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 20, 2004, 09:59:36 PM
[quote by=Wayne_L. link=Blah.pl?b=lennon,m=1084980687,s=10 date=1085063579]You do.[/quote]

Guess again.




(Perfect troll technique.  BTW my pointing out how much of a jerk you are doesn't mean I give a sh*t.)

Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 20, 2004, 11:25:25 PM
Wayne is VERY provocative, but we shouldn't mind that. Wayne's threads almost always do well. The trouble is, Wayne can get annoyed
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 21, 2004, 01:57:50 AM
[quote by=Maria link=Blah.pl?b=lennon,m=1084980687,s=13 date=1085095525]Wayne is VERY provocative, but we shouldn't mind that. Wayne's threads almost always do well. The trouble is, Wayne can get annoyed
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Wayne L. on May 22, 2004, 12:37:11 PM
I'm just giving my opinion on this Beatles board, I don't see anything provacotive about it, I'm just speaking my mind like everyboy else. 
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on May 22, 2004, 04:19:20 PM
[quote by=Wayne_L. link=Blah.pl?b=lennon,m=1084980687,s=15 date=1085229431]I'm just giving my opinion on this Beatles board, I don't see anything provacotive about it, I'm just speaking my mind like everyboy else.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: JohnLennon on June 14, 2004, 08:16:56 PM
just like(starting over) owns you
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Runforyourlife on June 15, 2004, 02:15:40 AM
[quote by=tkitna link=Blah.pl?b=lennon,m=1084980687,s=11 date=1085071905]Well, I aint that crazy about 'Imagine' to be honest with you. I think this song is alot more pleasing to the ear.[/quote]


 I'm glad someone spoke up and gave an honest opinion of "Imagine." I really love the song, but I'm tired of it being eulogized and proclaimed to be his best song. That's utter rubbish, because no one can ascertain for the general what anyone's best song is.

Personally, I'm a fan of his obscure, lesser-known, lesser-appreciated songs. I LOVE to death things like "Oh My Love" and "Out the Blue" and "Tight A$" and "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out" and "Remember", "I Found Out", "Crippled Inside" and everything that's on Milk and Honey and, God, his demos...they are seriously beautiful.

 He has soooo many gorgeous, gorgeous songs that just send shivers up my spine and what do I hear people say? "Oh "Imagine." I think I could go on the rest of my life not hearing that song again and be fine. But the others? Never take them from me. I guess I'm one of the few, strange John fans. Don't know...

 But anyway..."Starting Over"? I love it. Great fun, great song, who cares if there's no message. People like Paul's music and he rarely says much. If you like a song for whatever reason, that's all that matters.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Rowdy on June 15, 2004, 10:23:15 AM
Starting Over is one of his best in my opinion.......I love Imagine, but I've just heard it so much....that and "Jealous Guy" often prevent me from putting the Imagine album on because I'm a bit tired of hearing those two tracks.....they're amazing songs, but they've just been overplayed for me.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: SieLiebtDich on August 31, 2004, 11:38:02 PM
what the heck is this person is talking about just like startinng over Rocks \m/ SOMEONE is full of it...don't want to point out who but you'll know who i am talking about ;-)
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Indica on September 01, 2004, 08:52:02 PM
I have to agree about Imagine.
I feel this song has absorbed too much publicity and over-rated context, and as a result..the Lennon* aura that surrounds this rulebook for Peace, has become part of the furniture in the Over-rated section of Rock history.
 Its a good song, but the fame and quality it often gets is just absurd. Like many people have said, there are a good dozen better Solo Lennon Songs.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Herecomesyoursun on September 01, 2004, 09:05:16 PM
Yes there is hype surrounding it but it is still an amazing song.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on September 01, 2004, 09:29:07 PM
Too bad about what's happened to "Imagine". I remember liking it so much when John was still with us; after John died, it just became too much of an anthem, and it kind of took on a whole different spirit as though it was John speaking to us from beyond. It was a little song you rarely heard on the radio, but now it's overplayed.
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: Indica on September 01, 2004, 09:58:14 PM
yeah, couldnt agree more....for once :)
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on September 01, 2004, 10:40:37 PM
It's a beautiful thing, Indy -- a beautiful thing :)
Title: Re: Just Like Starting Over
Post by: on September 01, 2004, 11:37:41 PM
Throw me in with you two.  I have always hated the overplaying and over estimation of this song.  It IS a pretty melody, affectedly performed.  But the lyrics are, frankly, trite.  They were then, they still are.

Still, I guess anthems don't rely on logic.