If you don't like John Lennon Plastic Ono Band, you have to be musically uneducated, because it's a masterpiece creatively, musically & artistically.  JLPOB is a gem of the highest degree with few equals among solo albums by any of the former Beatles.  Lennon's songs from Mother, Working Class Hero, Well Well Well & I Found Out would make Dylan blush as far as I'm concerned.  

Quoted from Wayne L.

Lennon's songs from Mother, Working Class Hero, Well Well Well & I Found Out would make Dylan blush as far as I'm concerned.  

haha, is this a joke?? Your telling me that lyrics such as 'I took my loved one out to dinner, so we could get a bite to eat' is far superiour to 'Take me disapeering through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time' ?? Lolz, and you think WERE musically uneducated!

I agree with Wayne, except about the Dylan bit*. It's not a fair comparison, because it's not like against like. Lennon was deliberately being as simple and direct as possible, while Dylan was always trying to be complex and ambiguios. It's like comparing Da Vinci against Picasso.

* and the uneducated etc bit.

Do you think Like A Rolling Stone is superior to Working Class Hero legthi?

Hmmmm, not really, they're on a par.

Every time I listen to the album I like it more and more. I think it's really good, but now so well created as 'Imagine', sorry. Well Well Well is to me the weakest track in the album, he really goes crazy and is too long.

Even if you don't like this album, at the very LEAST, one has got to give it credit for it's sparse, brutal honesty.  This guy gambled it all by releasing this album and any lesser talent would have had disastrous results.  I think it's brilliant--an incredible portrait of where John was at the time--exorcising his past and his demons in every form--from semi-cacophony to absolute beauty.  One of my top 10 if ever on a desert island.

Quoted from 834

Even if you don't like this album, at the very LEAST, one has got to give it credit for it's sparse, brutal honesty.  This guy gambled it all by releasing this album and any lesser talent would have had disastrous results.  I think it's brilliant--an incredible portrait of where John was at the time--exorcising his past and his demons in every form--from semi-cacophony to absolute beauty.  One of my top 10 if ever on a desert island.

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Its a masterpiece , yeah 834 it would be in my top ten any day  

I like it well enough. The thing is a lot of times when an album gets overpraised, for example like Sgt Pepper, it has a pendulum effect, I mean that by years on down the road after hearing what a fantastic album ( fill in the blank ) is, it seems people see through it and go on to say ( fill in the blank ) was better. You even see it with individual songs... just tell a hardcore Zepplin fan that Stairway to Heaven is the best Zep song, and they'll name 10 other Zep tunes they think is better.
Kind of like a lot of Beatles fand pick Revolver and Abbey Road over the lauded  Sgt Pepper.
     The point is, I think when POB was released it astonished people and critics with its raw emotinal power. Now, many fans are picking Imagine and Mind Games.  

I loving this album a little more every time I listen to it.

Quoted from wingsman

I loving this album a little more every time I listen to it.

There are some good songs on it but others seem to be fillers. But most of the albums are so heheheh.

Quoted from sewi

There are some good songs on it but others seem to be fillers. But most of the albums are so heheheh.

I know just one album which 9 tracks are masterpieces, and it's Innervisions by Stevie Wonder. It's really the only album I've ever heard that I feel amazed during its entire run. It's the greatest album ever in my opinion.

I think POB is a good album, but I couldn't really say that I think it's anything more than that. It does have IMO some of his best songs, but I can relate to anyone who finds it too stark and bare, because I certainly do.

Imagine is his best album as far as I'm concerned.

Imagine is certainly more listener friendly. As we've already said, POB was a shock when it was released. Deeply personal and introspective. Not at all what you expected from a Beatle. I often wonder how it sounds to young ears today.

Btw Ian, nip on over to the Song Survivor Game. (Link in my sig.) You only have a day left for Sgt. Pepper.

I should be ashamed of the relentless plugging. But I'm not!

I think John should have come back with  a POB  sounding album in 1980 , i would have liked to have heard  " Father " and " Devil " it would have blown McCartney 11 out of the water ?

DaveRam