In loving memory: What's your favorite JOHN LENNON song?

[NightTrain]

Hard to belive it's been 24 years since we lost him. Just imagine what John would've thought of the Bush Junta!

Of course, if I didn't include your favorite J.L. song in the poll, please write it in!

[K8-EEE]

1. Instant Karma....And Can't Wait Til It Gets GWB

I love that song....I would love to believe that some instant karma will be served up to Bushco involving several impeachments!!

[NightTrain]

2. What goes around, comes around.

Or as my late father so eloquently put it: "Pricks usually get theirs." :evilgrin:

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

4. Working Class Hero is also a good one.

[NightTrain]

5. Ooo! Great photo.

I'll never forget when I heard that Lennon was dead. I was 14 years old and just getting into the Beatles. I heard the news on the school bus radio the morning of December 9th. I was in a daze for the rest of the day. :cry:

[NightTrain]

3. I always found it interesting...

...the different directions in which Lennon and McCartney went after the Beatles broke up. Lennon went on to write numerous emotionally deep, humanistic ballads that were love songs in any number of ways.

Meanwhile, Paul inexplicably went on to create some of the most diabetic-unfriendly confections it has ever been my misfortune to hear. "Silly Love Songs," "Hi Hi Hi," "Listen To What The Man Said," "Another Day," "Let 'Em In," "Maybe I'm Amazed," "Say Say Say," "With A Little Luck," "Ebony and Ivory," "Take It Away," "The Girl Is Mine"....

Excuse me, Paul: you were a fucking BEATLE! What happened to you, for chrissake?! :puke:

[ZoCrowes]

13. Uhm

John wrote some complete crap in that time too. Both of them had two great albums and the rest were...not so great. Mind Games was decent (excellent title track), Rock and Roll was a contractual obligation abomination, Walls And Bridges sucked and Double Fantasy was just as cheesey as anything Paul ever put out. You gotta remember that when John went into psycho hermit mode Paul was still making records so he had more opportunities to suck up the place. Paul released 12 albums (including live) between 1970-80 and John released 8. I say between them in that time they had about the same amount of good songs.

Ebony & Ivory and The Girl Is Mine were both sins of the 80s not the 70s. Everybody sucked in the 80s. Hell, Neil Young was sued for making un-Neil Young records that's how fucked up that decade was for aging rock stars.

I think due to the violent nature of Johns death he has become St John the Martyr and a lot of his work has been posthumously elevated to greater heights than it deserves.

And there is absolutley NO EXCUSE for Yoko Ono:Plastic Ono Band, Two Virgins or The Wedding Album.

I still stand by my statement that All Things Must Pass is, hands down, the best of the Beatles solo albums.

[elperromagico]

35. Agree about All Things Must Pass.

Great album. But ultimately, it was probably a mistake to make it three records. Most of George's best material went out the window, and he didn't really produce another excellent album until '76 (33 1/3).

Still, ATMP is probably the best ex-Beatle album.

[tilsammans]

18. Oooo, yeah!

True. Much of Paul's solo work basically sucked.

(You forgot to mention "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time.")

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[NightTrain]

20. Ah, yes! I had forgotten about Paul's Christmas abomination.

Thanks for reminding me, butthead! :P

[emulatorloo]

28. and much of John's was horrible too. . .

Plastic Ono Band and Imagine were great - the rest, ok
Ram and Band on the Run were great. . .and after that some ok stuff and near great

None the less I bought them all and love them all.

[blue neen]

6. I'd vote "other", if you had that category.

#9 Dream is it for me! His voice is haunting in that song.

[NightTrain]

8. Yeah, "#9 Dream" is a good one too.

Unfortunately, ten is a finite number. :shrug:

By the way, did you know that "#9 Dream" actually peaked at #9 in Billboard? Too bad Lennon didn't call it "#1 Dream!" ;)

[arcane1]

7. Wheels..

definitely

:thumbsup:

[Nicole]

9. Stand by Me

is my favorite. I voted for Imagine on this poll.

[NightTrain]

11. Really? I always considered that one of his weaker recordings.

But to me, Ben E. King just owns that song! :headbang:

[ZoCrowes]

15. Agreed 100%

[Nicole]

21. You're right

Ben E. King definitely owns that song.

It is my favorite Lennon song because of the memories it holds. First dance on a first date with a first love. :loveya:

Of the songs Lennon wrote Imagine, Woman & Mind Games are my favorites.

[NightTrain]

24. Yeah, it certainly appears that DU has a fondness for "Imagine."

And rightly so!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

45. Shorter "Imagine" lyrics:

"I am a DUer."

End of song.

[elperromagico]

40. I think he would have been better served by a lower key.

Instead, he did it in A major, which was just too high for him. A high A wasn't out of Lennon's range (he hits A three times on "Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)" and once on "This Boy") but he'd have to scream it on a bad day, and I think he was screaming it on "Stand By Me."

[rug]

10. Beautiful Boy

[chefgirl]

16. Same here

'Beautiful Boy'

It always makes me remember when my son was just a cute little toddler, as opposed to a 15 yr old mouth on two legs.

-chef-

[NightTrain]

17. As a former 15-year-old, I understand where you're coming from!

:eyes:

[ZoCrowes]

12. Love

Love is real
Real is love

[tilsammans]

14. I also like "Jealous Guy" . . .

. . . in addition to the above.

[ZoCrowes]

19. 2 More-Cold Turkey and Real Love

I have a boot with acoustic versions of both of these done at his apartment in the early to mid 70s and the Cold Turkey is fucking jawdropping. His voice on Cold Turkey gives me chills and the chords on Real Love are amazing. He may not have had McCartneys touch when it came to song structure but he could definitely hold his own.

I think both versions of this song are available on the new Acoustic album (I have Anthology and boots with all the material on it.) But I garuntee you the quality is better on Acoustic than on my boots. Mmmmmm 24 bit remastering.

[NightTrain]

23. To tell you the truth, I find "Cold Turkey" grating.

Especially that "primal scream" shit at the end. Fingernails on a chalkboard, man! :hurts:

[ZoCrowes]

25. I don't like the studio version

the acoustic version is where it's at. None of that primal scream shit at all. If the same version is on Acoustic check it out

[elperromagico]

41. As it's an aural depiction of heroin withdrawal,

I'd say Lennon achieved the result he wanted. ;)

[Radical Activist]

22. Jealous Guy

I love that song. Imagine is a close second and it gets extra points for being the Kucinich campaign theme song.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. Would be my #2 choice.

"Mind Games" would be the 3rd, so I voted for it.

"Imagine" has been played to death. Now it's an anthem, not a song.

[hollywood926]

26. I'm glad you put Woman in there...

I love that one. It takes me back to my first crush on a woman...well, a girl - in the 8th grade.

[BrewerJohn]

27. It's always hard to choose in these things

Especially with Lennon. I love "Imagine", and all the others. But "Working Class Hero" cuts it right. to. the. bone.

[emulatorloo]

29. Anything on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

Mother, Remember, God, Hold On, isolation etc etc etc

[vonZapfenau]

30. Overlooked gems

Intuition
Isolation
It's So Hard
I Found Out

but my fave is still Instant Karma

[bobweaver]

31. Sadly, all 4 Beatles slowly declined after the group broke up.

Not much any of the 4 did after 1970 really compares with the Beatles catalog. Sure a few good songs here and there but overall very uneven. Sorry, just my opinion. The Beatles were the most originial musical group of all time. How could anyone compare to them, even ex-Beatles?

[NightTrain]

34. Unfortunately, I must agree.

Not surprisingly, the worst music of all the ex-Beatles came from Ringo! (OK, "Photograph" was a good record, but he had help from both John and George on that one.)

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

47. "All Things Must Pass" was a great album, as was "Imagine."

[elperromagico]

39. The problem with the ex-Beatles was that,

instead of having to produce maybe 6 songs (or 2 in George's case) per album, they now had to fill a whole album of 10-14 songs. So songs that would have been rejected for a Beatles album made it onto a solo album.

The Beatles are unique in that each member had a relatively successful solo career - even Ringo had two #1 hits. But a lot of their success was, I'm sorry to say, running on the fumes of their former group.

Those were some hellacious fumes, though...

[mark414]

32. Give Me Some Truth

damn!

[NightTrain]

33. Kick for the day shift

[elperromagico]

36. #9 Dream.

What a beautiful song. :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

43. Chalk another one for #9 Dream

When I first heard that song, I got it mid-way, and when John sings "Dream, dream away", I thought it was "Dream, dream #8", and wondered if the song had nine stanzas, each describing a dream!

Loopy huh?

[donheld]

37. Just a simply song called "love"

Love
John Lennon
Love is real, real is love
Love is feeling, feeling love
Love is wanting to be loved

Love is touch, touch is love
Love is reaching, reaching love
Love is asking to be loved

Love is you
You and me
Love is knowing
We can be

Love is free, free is love
Love is living, living love
Love is needing to be loved

[Magrittes Pipe]

38. "Why." Oh no, wait, that's by the talented one.

;)

I'd have to go with "Working Class Hero."

[indigobusiness]

42. Rain

In My Life

[kitchen girl]

46. Three-way tie between...

Starting Over, Happy Xmas, and Imagine. Of course, I could only vote once (unlike the repubs...), so Starting Over got my vote. :toast: