Imagine

Oh brother, this guy STINKS

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

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

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

i hate john lennon

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

Overrated

This was terrible. Everyone has heard the title song, and it gets sullied by the fact that he was a terrible human. The rest of it was complete crap.

Juvenile garbage, a true knob and hypocrite.

No like

Bit too slow for me

Honestly if I had to listen to Imagine I’d 🔫 John Lennon too.

This album is terrible. Imagine is a good song and it’s understandable how it got so big. But the rest of it is awful.

"Imagine" and "Jealous Guy" are pretty good. "How Do You Sleep", his dig at former Beatle band mate Paul McCartney, is only notable for that reason. Outside of his LP "Double Fantasy" Lennon never really had a great solo record IMHO.

gave up after 2 songs, too slow and a bit boring

i refuse to listen

Boooring

The first two-tree songs are okey, but it’s totally not my type of music. Sorry John Lennon, but no.

Meh

This album sounds like loneliness and sadness. I just like if you feel in loneliness, this will probably be the album.

It gives off the specific kind of anti-war messaging that throws out all geopolitical factors in favor of "what if nobody actually believed in anything". An excruciatingly boring album, worsened by the 6-minute droning in the song "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier, Mama".

Asks the world to abandon possessions, borders, and religion while being delivered from the softest, safest piano bench imaginable. Nice sentiment, aggressively smug execution.

Just realized I cant stand him

Repeat listen

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

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

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

Meh

What a terrible album

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.

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.

"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.

Nope

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

Imagine there’s no John Lennon

Meh

Absolute shite made even worse by the final song oh yoko

This album had a strong start with Imagine, even though I've personally found it a bit questionable given how similar that opening is to The Who's Getting in Tune (which is also on this list, and released a few months before Imagine). No idea if I'm reading into things there, though. By the time you get half way through it is plainly obvious that this album is musically all over the place. While there are some good tracks, they're generally overshadowed by the rest of the album.

Eh

Don’t get the hype. Imagine and Oh Yoko are good.

Ok I’m not going to lie, I did come in with some preconceived ideas about how I was gonna hate this album and I didn’t hate it! Peg and black cow do feel like the only reasons I’d come back to it but overall not too bad!

DNL

imagine all the people czemu john lennon śpiewa o tym będąc takim złym człowiekiem nie kochanie, nie jesteś fajny i nie jesteś dobrym człowiekiem przestań się użalać nad sobą male manipulatorze life is so hard for you sweetie!!!!! HIPOKRYZJA I TYLE a muzycznie denerwujace i bez polotu

He was the least talented of the Beatles!!!

Kjedelig

Imagine og Gimme Some Truth er bra. Ellers er dette ganske kjedelige greier. Harrison var det ekte geniet i The Beatles.

Too bad I can't give it zero stars. I get it, the Beatles were completely revolutionary to a generation. Blah, Blah, Blah. Please make it stop.

this was rubbish - couldn’t even get through every song without skipping. so bland and boring. just cos this guy was a beatle doesn’t make everything he does good

The only thing I dislike more than the title track is the rest of his solo discography. He was a piece of shit, too

First song gave me higher expectations for the album. Rather just stick to their group work.

I can’t imagine ever liking this. Get it?

Jealous Guy might be the most uncomfortable I’ve ever been listening to a song in here.

So far I'm not digging it. Imagine is an amazing song, literally one of the best, the rest of the album....I know he was going for a vibe with the effects on the singing but it's just annoying. Dude can be a great songwriter and he's not helping the lyrics with the effects. It falls flat for me. Oh and Jealous Guy makes him sound like he wrote down evidence in a domestic violence case. I had someone tell me it was an apology to his first wife but it's not a good look and the song makes me think of way too many lifetime movies. I don't want to be a soldier mama could have been a great song. Instead he choose repetitive lyrics and voice effects to a slowed down drum track. It's six minutes of droning effects and a saxophone. Maybe because I was born after Beatlemania that I just don't get it. Maybe this is one of those you had to be there albums. I don't buy that because I have enjoyed a lot of music that came out before I was born and love it. All I know is this is an album with one amazing track and a ton of filler.

Abesti batzuk ondo daude, baina Jonh Lenon ez zait asko gustatzen. Ez dut ulerzen berak egindako musika.

More rubbish from the most overrated man in pop music. Dreary dreary dreary. Only Jealous Guy gets pass marks but that was done better by Roxy.

Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Che Guevara, Elton John están junto a otros en mi lista de degenerados mentirosos genocidas e hipócritas que han creado este mundo como está hoy. Imagine...basura inimaginable escupida con sarcasmo santurron

I'm sorry that I had to listen to any solo John Lennon stuff. Not content with ruining the Beatles, he needed to be a shitty person outside of the music industry too. All of these songs just seemed so vapid in that context.

Fuck John Lennon.

Painful

Seems like I might not like John Lennon, now I know. Imagine - massively overplayed and not a good song. Extremely wealthy man tells people to imagine there’s no possessions. Jealous Guy - Bryan Ferry did it better, and his version isn’t tinged by being sung by a wife beater. Most of the rest of the album felt like sub Beatles filler. Some really great keyboard work redeems some of it. Seems like the Beatles must have helped John Lennon not to write shit songs quite a lot. Can’t imagine listening to this again this lifetime.

fuck you john lennon. this is an awful album. if there are no john lennon haters then I am dead Would I listen again: NO Deserves to be on this list: NO 0

Um album custo com talvez a musica que eu mais deteste na vida sendo a única memorável

I’d like to imagine I never listened to this album. Holy shit was that dull and boring. The stupid biases of this list really piss me off. Like we could have a much better list if the writers would shed their biases, especially toward British artists. Fuck

I know that the former Beatles never reached the same musical heights individually as they did as a band. But I did not expect it to be this bad. I like the song Imagine from time to time but the rest was truly a bore at best. I absolutely hate It’s So Hard. I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama goes on way too long. And why do all the vocals have these weird effects? Disappointed, to say the least.

Meh. Barring the title song which is of course a classic, this was a tedious affair. The songs sound like what you hear on your buddy's EP that he recorded in his bedroom. Many of them are overwrought. I was out of the room for a minute during "Gimme Some Truth" and when I came back it was still going, repeating the same lines that had been playing when I walked out, and there was still two and a half minutes to go. Almost all of the good moments on this can be attributed to the piano playing of Nicky Hopkins.

Wife beater and hack

I cannot describe how much I loathe the Beatles and John Lennon.

Feck off

boring

Never got this guy.... i do love Bryan Ferry's cover of Jealous guy though

two really amazing songs and a bunch of garbage does not a good album make

Good god, what a nothing album. The lyrics were basic as hell and extremely repetitious. Really nothing to like about this one, even if the song "Imagine" has stood the test of time. 1/5

honky tonky whatever

First hate review. Fuck John Lennon. An honest review would be a 3. Good production with lyrics I hate. Standouts: Oh My Love and How?

The cover artwork of John Lennon's "Imagine" album is a stark disappointment, failing to convey the depth and ambition of its music. The image feels uninspired and overly simplistic. The choice of an untreated photograph lacks the artistic flair expected from such an iconic figure, making it seem more like a casual snapshot than a carefully crafted piece of art. Additionally, the superimposed elements do not harmonize well, resulting in a cluttered visual that detracts from the album's message. Overall, this artwork does not do justice to the profound themes explored within the album itself. Album artworks rated: 5/1001 The music's overrated af btw

My least favorite BEATLE. No on Yoko Ono. Primal scream therapy for sure in 1971.

insufferable

imagine would be an okay song if it was written by literally anyone else also why did this white man think he could make blues??????????? stay in your lane the fuck. when someone's finally able to bring him back to life ill be first in line to punch him in the face "I'm sick and tired of hearing things / From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics" exactly my thoughts while listening to ur album john thank you

Legendary, but very possibly overrated title track. Not a great album opener, either. Rest of album, Lennon tried to be Bob Dylan (except Lennon is a better vocalist) and failed. “Oh My Love” and “How?” are dimly lit bright spots buried on side two. “Imagine” thinking this is a good record.

woof

cringe

i hate john, imagine all the people? imagine if he didnt beat his wife

Who cares man. Shut up.

Let's get this out of the way early, I hate the title track. The album opens with, in my opinion, the worst "message" song in history. It's a man who has been incredibly wealthy and influential for almost a decade, in large part due to the colonialism of the UK extending his market, who called himself bigger than Jesus, calling for everyone else to ignore all that and just give good vibes, bro. If only people weren't greedy, or religious, or nationalist. And yet, he's always been greedy, and religious, and, at the most generous, became arguably the most famous artist in the world due to nationalism and colonialism. And yet he dreams that everyone can just get along and stop hoarding the wealth and power. And yet, in large part, his "philanthropic" works were primarily marketing, having less to due with actually donating any amount of his fortune and more on telling people who are already struggling that they should be ashamed for not giving more. It's also a pretty generic song musically, which I want to blame for the dredge that is charity singles that came after, but that might be too harsh. Anyway, there's nine more songs. Crippled Inside is interesting, but a pretty bland honky-tonk song. The Beatles made better, and this song is a decade behind the times, and not in a good way. In a boring way. Jealous Guy really sounds like a "sorry not sorry I beat you" song. I at least get the feeling that someone like Nate Ruess is legitimately trying to atone. This is more a, "You shouldn't do things that make me want to hurt you." So, fuck that, too. I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama, I don't know what this song wants to say. It wants to say something. The most obvious message, I guess, is that being anything other than a successful artist is a misery that he truly can't actually comprehend. Hey, the next song says, "I'm sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics" so that's basically how I feel about this album. But Harrison does put down some great guitar here. "Money for dope, money for rope" is a good line, though. Oh My Love is a serviceable little song, but it's just that. I expect this level of songwriting from a Starbucks album. It also feels out of place on an album that otherwise wants to say nothing very loudly. How Do You Sleep is interesting. In 2024, gives the feeling of a rapper trying to start shit with Eminem and then getting treated as an afterthought with a solid fuck you song that's even better than what started it, and is still a throwaway. How and Oh Yoko are both just okay songs. Again, these are perfectly serviceable deep cuts on a coffee shop album. It's impressive how bad this album is. John Lennon is supposed to be the greatest songwriter of all time, and it's just high horse bullshit followed by petty grievances and his most boring songs yet.

Imagine an overhyped album featuring sanctimonious lyrics presented as if they were profound, alongside boring instrumentals and cliché melodies. It was easy to tune out in the background so it has that going for it at least. 2/10

Snoooooooooooze.

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Gross.

Feels like an album from a very mixed-up soul. I can't think of any reason to ever listen to this again.

I see why he spent so long in bed. So boring a lazy Im surprised he spent the effort to record

I'll say it up front - Post Beatles John Lennon was the least favorite my solo Beatles artists. This album just confirms the way I felt - I don't get it.

Perhaps I could give this a fairer shake on a better day but man I hated listening to this after a pretty miserable day.

Don't like John Lennon.

Pretentious nonsense

Did Not Like the Album. Gets one Star for the Song Imagine...

Good tunes but fuck he was a jaded cunt wasn't he. The writing ranges from mildly pessemsitic to straight up depressing with a good measure of problematic white boy energy sprinkled in for good measure (that last one is something I've noted as common in his Beatles songs as well). Also witnessed two super gross dog shit interactions while listening to this on the way to work, one where a bloke was catching the shit straight into the bag direct from ass, and another where a lady at the cafe had her dog drop a clean one straight onto her while she was carrying the dog inside. Felt that these interactions were well aligned and definitely worth mentioning here in gruesome detail. Also the bag to ass situation was to the chorus of Imagine which made me laugh pretty hard. Anyway back to the album. The Paul diss track is the dog shit flavoured icing on the cake for me, so petty and unnecessary. How dare you say those things about Paul, John, how dare you. ONE STAR.

Yeah

imagine is a classic, banjo beats fucking sucks lmfao, jealous guy is pretty good instrumentally, it's so hard instruments lowkey kinda bang but i hate what he does with his voice sorry john lennon sorry old people, idwbasm dragged on for so long especially considering i got tired of it about 1 minute in. it was so boring i got tired of writing the title. to be honest i was just waiting for it to end and then it just kept going, but then it got to the next song and it's not much better so maybe this kind of music just isn't for me. also i lowkey cant understand what he's saying. the bass line on how do you sleep is just so repetitive and boring and the drums feel like someone is hitting me in the head with a hammer. also the instrumental break sounds like it's played by a 16 year old kid who just learned how to do vibrato. tbh i liked "how?" i think his slower and more emotional songs (imagine) are just better because the rest just sounds like loser country played by a 16 year old and sung by someone who's trying too hard sorry john lennon. also i genuinely laughed out loud at the harmonica played by an actual chimpanzee at the end of "oh yoko" because what the fuck was that. 1/5

I remember liking this when I was young. I was also idealistic and actually believed the random crap spouted when I was young. Now this entire album just rings of the worst impulses of John Lennon without the balance of the rest of his former bandmates.

Pretty boring and uninspired. Did John Lennon "Imagine" this album being good? Maybe if you like the Beatles it'd be more appealing, then again maybe not because this kind of sounds like a last ditch effort to maintain relevance. This review was written before the last song. Please fix my ears. It got so much worse.

So, I can't separate the art from the artist, and the art is pretty basic at that. Jealous Guy made me angry.

Not for me

omg boring af

Apart from the big hits which I don’t particularly need to listen to again, I found this dull. If someone wrote me a song called Oh Lucy along the lines of Oh Yoko, I’d dump them

Not a fan at ALL!

Imagine abusing women and children and becoming a poster boy for peace. IMAGINE.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO imagine- 3 only because of that one millie bobby brown video crippled inside- 2 jealous guy- 1 or 2 its so hard- 1 i dont wanna be a soldier mama- 1 or 2 gimme some truth- 1 oh my love- 1 how do you sleep- 1 how- 1 oh yoko- 2 mark david chapman is a saint

This kinda sucks, right?

Boooooo

Bored me. 1/5

not good

Hated it. John Lennon is insufferable.

As far as i understand John Lennon was a pretty shit person

Starts with a classic, but really not my style at all. Not enjoyed the album as a whole.

I imagined it

Didn’t really like at all. Wouldn’t re listen to any songs

Couldn't even finish

"Imagine" is literally the worst song anyone has ever written in the history of humankind, and it somehow manages to be the best song on this album. Fuck you John Smellon. This is a Ringo Starr household. There are many opinions I can tolerate, but if you tell me that John Lennon's solo career is good, I will fart in your general direction.

Hm… big time whining. Nothing was a star for me. Wish he wasn’t speaking because I love that pondering, traveling, endless guitar sound and beat.

Worst beatle

So glad to get this one out the way. I'm going to rate this as fairly as I can, pretending I don't know that John Lennon was such a terrible person. Imagine is awful, it infested the UK charts for months and was played to death on the radio and TV throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Like a bad cancer, it kept coming back again and again, even into the 1990s and early 2000s. We finally got remission, but it's a constant danger, lurking somewhere, just waiting to be played again for some reason. Jealous Guy sounds so bad sung by Lennon. Bryan Ferry made it his song and sang it so much better. The rest of the album is just dull, pale shadows of Beatles songs hung together by session musicians. Some of the songs are awful, really bad, irredeemable garbage like "I don't want to be a soldier mama" that just lurches on and on without going anywhere. The faux "peace people" crap surrounding this whole album makes me feel physically ill at times. Then I realise I'm back to the fact that the two people who put this album together are detestable, vile human beings. I hate to think how Lennon would be if he hadn't been gunned down in the 1980s. He was already a cynical, vicious piece of work and I don't think he would have aged gracefully like Paul and the rest of the Beatles did. He was probably one of the fakest people who ever existed. I was half-hoping "Oh Yoko" might be half decent, as I had heard rumours that it was different to the rest of the album. But no, it was probably the most vomit-inducing trash on the whole album. So this was forty minutes of utter shite. I hope I don't get too many other albums like this one where it's almost physically painful to get to the end. I would rather have to listen to three hours of Sandy Shaw than be forced to listen to this garbage again.

F JOHN LENNON

John Lennon used Sing

it wasn't very effective.

Fuck this album…. The song writing is so shit. I couldn’t not finish this

I'm not going to lie. I have a deep, seething hatred for John Lennon. I can't stand his voice. I can't stand his lyrics. I can't fucking stand the song "Imagine," literally one of the most hypocritical and preachy songs ever written. I've tried to listen to this album before and never got past "Jealous Guy," which, frankly, is hard to listen to knowing Lennon's history of abusing women. I did manage to listen all the way through the album all the way through this time, and I tried, I REALLY tried, to listen with unbiased ears. I'm sorry, but I still think this is hot garbage. Literally the only song I like is "Oh My Love," but there are cover versions I much prefer over this one. Besides that one song, every song on this album is grating, boring, or frankly unlistenable (shoutout to "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama," one of the worst songs I've ever heard). John Lennon was so far up his own ass, and it really shows in his pretentious lyrics throughout. I know a lot of people love this album, and of course, to each their own. But for me personally, this album can go fuck itself.

awful.

Really didn't like this, surprisingly. Stopped listening part way through. All a bit grim.

Get this shit out of here. 1 star.

che noia, manco una canzone bella

Eh…. Not very memorable. Great back up band!!

Poor - 1.5. First half of the album is just awful, second half improves a little. Low quality singing, dull melodies, asinine lyrics. Would not recommend. Standouts: Gimme Some Truth, How Do You Sleep.

ni en pedo saludos

No thanks

nah

ah, não..... "imagine" é uma musica muito chata... detesto

Not one song made it to the playlist. Maybe I only like songs I've heard before? Didn't pay much attention to the lyrics, though -- was doing other things.

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