TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of John Lennon
John Lennon
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.3400
John Lennon Album Rankings
1
John actually had a few solo releases before this album, but I've chosen not to subject my ears to them at this time.
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2
After the harrowingPlastic Ono Band, John Lennon returned to calmer, more conventional territory withImagine.
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3
When John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980, the world was shocked and saddened. I, on the other hand, was unmoved.
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4
This 15-song collection (expanded to 19 in 1989 for the CD), released just short of two years after Lennon's death, provided a very generous overview of his solo career on a single LP, drawing on most
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5
Asingles compilation, and a damned good one at that. The album tracks chosen to be singles, frankly, are just about the PERFECT introduction to solo Lennon.
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6
Track listing: 1) I'm Losing You; 2) Working Class Hero; 3) God; 4) How Do You Sleep; 5) Imagine (take 1); 6) Baby Please Don't Go; 7) Oh My Love; 8) God Save Oz; 9) I Found Out; 10) Woman Is The Nigg
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7
John Lennon'sMind Gameswas a retreat from its more political predecessor, 1972'sSome Time in New York City, but it was still a reflection of its time.
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8
Track listing: 1) New York City; 2) It's So Hard; 3) Woman Is The Nigger Of The World; 4) Well Well Well; 5) Instant Karma; 6) Mother; 7) Come Together; 8) Imagine; 9) Cold Turkey; 10) Hound Dog; 11)
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9
Looking around the net, it seems like virtually every critic (except my long-lost twin brother, George Starostin) dismisses this album as a relative throwaway, a patchy product made in an alcoholic ha
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10
Although the chaotic sessions that spawned this album have passed into rock & roll legend and the recording's very genesis (as an out-of-court settlement between John Lennon and an aggrieved publisher
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11
Track listing: CD I: 1) Working Class Hero; 2) God; 3) I Found Out; 4) Hold On; 5) Isolation; 6) Love; 7) Mother; 8) Remember; 9) Imagine (take 1); 10) "Fortunately"; 11) Baby Please Don't G
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12
Track listing: 1) (Just Like) Startin' Over ; 2) Kiss Kiss Kiss ; 3) Cleanup Time ; 4) Give Me Something ; 5) I'm Losing You ; 6) I'm Moving On; 7) Beautiful Boy ; 8) Watching The Wheels ; 9) I'm Your
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13
The legend of John Lennon, stripped bare of its romantic and willfully misinformed tales of idealism and near-religious fervor for "changing the world," is mostly a lot of short stories about a stubbo
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14
Track listing: 1) Here We Go Again ; 2) Rock And Roll People ; 3) Angel Baby ; 4) Since My Baby Left Me; 5) To Know Her Is To Love Her ; 6) Steel And Glass; 7) Scared; 8) Old Dirt Road; 9) Nobody Love
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15
During the vulnerability of adolescence, a young music fan's love for a musician can quickly transpire into idolatry.
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16
The story behind this records conception could fill this page by itself, but i'll try to summarize.
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23
Two years after the first great Lennon revival -- arriving in 1988, as an attempt to deflate Albert Goldman's trash-talking biography -- Capitol released Lennon, a four-disc box set summary of his so
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37
The third and last of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's experimental albums to be released within a one-year period, Wedding Album, like Unfinished Music No.
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