John Lennon Anthology

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Amazon.com's Best of 1998
John the primal screamer, John the street politician, John the L.A. party boy, and John the house husband. The John Lennon Anthology provides a window into all those phases of the artist's post-Beatles career. Compiled under the watchful eye of Yoko Ono, this rich stash of demos, studio outtakes and chatter, and live and alternate versions serves as both historical artifact and source of entertainment. --Steven Stolder --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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The story The John Lennon Anthology tells--that of the questing former Beatle who took five years off to raise his son before returning with an album of peaceful reflections on the househusband life--isn't new, but for all its monumental status, it does help bring Lennon into focus again as a person and a musician. Since his murder in 1980, Lennon-the-man-of-peace has too often obscured the rocker, the dad, the flawed human being in the public consciousness. While this massive stock of odds and... read more --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

John Lennon Anthology

Tracks:

Working Class Hero
God
I Found Out
Hold On
Isolation
Love
Mother
Remember
Imagine
"Fortunately"
Baby Please Don't Go
Oh My Love
Jealous Guy
Maggie Mae
How Do You Sleep
God Save Oz
Do The Oz
I DonWant To Be A Soldier
Give Peace A Chance
Look At Me
Long Lost John

Tracks:

New York City
Attica State (live)
Imagine (live)
Bring On The Lucie
Woman Is The Nigger of The World
Geraldo Rivera - One to One Concert
Woman Is The Nigger of The World (live)
It's So Hard (live)
Come Together (live)
Happy Xmas
Luck of the Irish (live)
John Sinclair (live)
The David Frost Show
Mind Games (I Promise)
Mind Games (Make Love, Not War)
One Day At A Time
I Know
I'm The Greatest
Goodnight Vienna
Jerry Lewis Telethon
"A Kiss Is Just A Kiss"
Real Love
You Are Here

Tracks:

What You Got
Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out
Whatever Gets You Through the Night (home)
Whatever Gets You Through the Night (studio)
Yesterday (parody)
Be Bop A Lula
Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
Scared
Steel And Glass
Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
Bless You
Going Down On Love
Move Over Ms. L
AinShe Sweet
Slippinnd Slidin'
Peggy Sue
Bring It On Home To Me/ Send Me Some Lovin'
Phil and John 1
Phil and John 2
Phil and John 3
"When In Doubt, Fuck It"
Be My Baby
Stranger's Room
Old Dirt Road

Tracks:

I'm Losing You
Seans "Little Help"
Serve Yourself
My Life
Nobody Told Me
Life Begins At 40
I Don't Wanna Face It
Woman
Dear Yoko
Watching the Wheels
I'm Stepping Out
Borrowed Time
The Rishi Kesh Song
Sean's "Loud"
Beautiful Boy
Mr. Hyde's Gone (Don't Be Afraid)
Only You
Grow Old With Me
Dear John
The Great Wok
Mucho Mungo
Satire 1
Satire 2
Satire 3
Sean's "In The Sky"
It's Real

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

John the primal screamer, John the street politician, John the L.A. party boy, and John the house husband. The John Lennon Anthology provides a window into all those phases of the artist's post-Beatles career. Compiled under the watchful eye of Yoko Ono, this rich stash of demos, studio outtakes and chatter, and live and alternate versions serves as both historical artifact and source of entertainment. --Steven Stolder

Amazon.com

The story The John Lennon Anthology tells--that of the questing former Beatle who took five years off to raise his son before returning with an album of peaceful reflections on the househusband life--isn't new, but for all its monumental status, it does help bring Lennon into focus again as a person and a musician. Since his murder in 1980, Lennon-the-man-of-peace has too often obscured the rocker, the dad, the flawed human being in the public consciousness. While this massive stock of odds and ends--studio outtakes and chatter, live and alternate versions, demos--is necessarily diffuse, it does a great service. It restores the iconic Lennon to normal size.

Some of the set's most striking moments come at its beginning, in eight previously unreleased takes of songs that filled most of 1970's Plastic Ono Band. One of rock's most uncompromised albums, it found him angry, sad, and reflective to bursting. The tapes included on Anthology, though, feature a Lennon who, if not happy, is fully in his element--making rock & roll. Even as he's making dry runs for exorcising demons, he's still the guy who fell for the music as a Liverpool teenager; on an early, shuffling version of "Hold On," he leads his guitar line into the main riff of Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk."

Elsewhere, we get long looks at the fits and starts of Lennon's years as a solo artist and as part of a duo with Yoko Ono. He slips from the grace of "Imagine" and "It's So Hard" into the raw polemics and lousy rhymes of "John Sinclair" and "Attica State." (Contrary to a stage announcement preceding the latter, it's not this failed anthem that has ensured the ongoing memory of the prison massacre.)

The honesty of Lennon's vocals throughout his career is often commented on, and they provide some of the greatest treasure here. Whether an alternate of the pained 1974 "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out," the joyfully full-on rocking of "Be Bop a Lula" and "Move Over Ms. L," or a gorgeous "Be My Baby," it's the voice that's the window to this man's soul. We also see how pained he was at his temporary separation from Yoko, as he even inserts a line of "Jealous Guy" into the demo for the rollicking "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" and abashed pleads for "one more chance" on a similar tape of "Mind Games."

Finally, there are the many moments of good humor--the outlines of "I'm the Greatest" and "Goodnight Vienna" for Ringo, the loose-as-a-goose "Be Bop a Lula"--and pleasingly bad, like "Serve Yourself," a snipe at Dylan's born-again phase, or some battling studio exchanges with a Phil Spector crazed enough to drive anyone out of the business for half a decade. Anthology is flawed, but its wide-ranging picture of Lennon's post-Beatles years is that of someone you'd love to have spent some time with. --Rickey Wright

Amazon.com

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Customer Reviews:

Wonderfully raw........2007-06-09

I'm more of a "casual fan" like the kind mentioned in Annie Van Auken's review. However, I really enjoyed this set. It's a nice collection of live tracks, alternate takes, and pre-production, stripped-down versions.

Some of the major highlights:
1. Love (which doesn't have the almost too quiet to hear opening like the album version)

2. Remember (which shows that, even when something has him tickled, John still has a powerful voice despite giggling in parts of the song,

3. John Sinclair and the audio of the quote prior to the song which is on the previous track (Apathy isn't it, and we can do something. Ok, so flower power didn't work, so what. We start again.)

4. Two nice alternate takes on Mind Games.

5. Stranger's Room - which is a wonderful early cut of I'm Losing You

6. The Hank Williams-esque Life Begins at 40, which is very eerie to hear now for obvious reason.

These and some superb in home and live recordings of old favorites, including three versions of Imagine, and a nice rendition of Come Together.

Hold that line... hold that line... hold that line...........2007-02-17

This album presents the potential purchaser with an imaginary line. Whether or not you should buy ANTHOLOGY really depends upon which side of that line you're on. For completists, LENNON * ANTHOLOGY is a godsend or revelation; for the casual fan, this collection is a jumbled rough-cut head-scratcher. If you don't own all of John's solo albums, you probably won't want this one.

More so than the BEATLES ANTHOLOGY series, this set is replete with fragments, false starts, incomplete demos, slight or off-key vocals and silly chatter. If John was still alive, he never would have released most of this stuff, and with good reason. There's something to be said for specifically detailed Last Wills.

TOTAL RUNNING TIMES --
DISC ONE (Astor) -- 65:41
DISC TWO (New York City) -- 65:01
DISC THREE (The Lost Weekend) -- 63:25
DISC 4 (Dakota) -- 72:52

Why did I wait so long?.......2007-01-21

I've looked at this set for many years, but never could bring myself to pay the premium price for it. I finally gave in and bought it and I'm really glad I did.

It's a fantastic set, both in content and packaging. It's refreshing to hear different versions of the songs we're all used to hearing. And there's plenty of music that I had not heard previously.

Overall, the sound quality is very good, but some songs do suffer the limitation of being home recordings but are still very listenable. I actually prefer John's solo "Real Love" over the doctored up Beatles version.

I could have done without Sean's contributions, but as he was an important part of John's life, I can accept them.

Like Johnny Cash's "Personal File" this is an intimate look at the performer; kind of like having him sitting in your living room and playing a private concert just for you.

Yoko often gets criticized for her handling of John's material, but this is a quality offering in every respect and shows us John the Man vs. John the Beatle.

Highly recommended.

It's John - what more needs to be said?.......2006-10-05

The only knock on this excellent box set is that there is a little too much chatter. I really don't need to hear Lennon talking. The music does the talking here.

5 stars - excellent amazon purchase.

A set worthy of Lennon's legacy.......2006-05-13

If you like Lennon's solo work but you don't want to buy all of his albums separately, Anthology is the way to go. It includes most of his post-Beatles songs and some nice extras. Like the Beatles' Anthology sets, Lennon's has demos, outtakes and studio chat. Sean Lennon's appearances are quite cute.

The packaging is very nice, but because the box is cubical, you might not be able to store it with the rest of your CD's. The obligatory booklet is loaded with great details.

The only shortcomings of this set -- if any -- are (some of) the songs themselves. Face it, on the whole, John's solo work didn't match the brilliance of his Beatles output. But, he cranked out his fair share of solid songs, some masterpieces, all of which are found here.

Karaoke Music CDG: JOHN LENNON'S KARAOKE ANTHOLOGY CDG RSZ607

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A great collection of songs on this karaoke disc

Karaoke Music CDG: JOHN LENNON'S KARAOKE ANTHOLOGY CDG RSZ607
RADIO STARZ
Manufacturer: RADIO STARZ
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Karaoke | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000AARJE0

Product Description

Title: Whatever Gets You Thru The Night; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 1| Title: Power To The People; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 2| Title: Mind Games; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 3| Title: #Dream; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 4| Title: Imagine; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 5| Title: Give Peace A Chance; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 6| Title: Instant Karma; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 7| Title: Just Like Starting Over; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 8| Title: Nobody Told Me; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 9| Title: Woman; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 10| Title: Cold Turkey; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 11| Title: Watchin' The Wheels; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 12| Title: Stand By Me; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 13| Title: Working Class Hero; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 14| Title: Love; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 15| Title: Jealous Guy; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 16| Title: Mother; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 17| Title: Happy X-mas/war Is Over; Artist: Lennon, John; Track: 18|

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A great collection of songs on this karaoke disc.......2005-07-16

Radio Starz - John Lennon's Vol.7
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01.Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
02.Power To The People
03.Mind Games
04.#9 Dream
05.Imagine
06.Give Peace A Chance
07.Instant Karma
08.(Just Like)Starting Over
09.Nobody Told Me
10.Woman
11.Cold Turkey
12.Watchin' The Wheels
13.Stand By Me
14.Working Class Hero
15.Love
16.Jealous Guy
17.Mother
18.Happy X-Mas/War Is Over

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Anthology 1 { Long Box }
The Beatles
Manufacturer: CAPITOL
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000MXRFMG

Product Description

Track listing Disc One: 1. Free As A Bird 2. Speech: John Lennon 3. That'll Be The Day 4. In Spite Of All The Danger 5. Speech: Paul Mccartney 6. Hallelujah, I Love Her So 7. You'll Be Mine 8. Cayenne 9. Speech: Paul 10. My Bonnie 11. Ain't She Sweet 12. Cry For A Shadow 13. Speech: John 14. Speech: Brian Epstein 15. Searchin' 16. Three Cool Cats 17. Sheik Of Araby, The 18. Like Dreamers Do 19. Hello Little Girl 20. Speech: Brian Epstein 21. Besame Mucho 22. Love Me Do 23. How Do You Do It 24. Please Please Me 25. One After 909 (Sequence) 26. One After 909 27. Lend Me Your Comb 28. I'll Get You 29. Speech: John 30. I Saw Her Standing There 31. From Me To You 32. Money (That's What I Want) 33. You Really Got A Hold On Me 34. Roll Over Beethoven Disc Two: 35. She Loves You 36. Till There Was You 37. Twist & Shout 38. This Boy 39. I Want To Hold Your Hand 40. Speech: Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise 41. Moonlight Boy 42. Can't Buy Me Love 43. All My Loving 44. You Can't Do That 45. And I Love Her 46. Hard Day's Night, A 47. I Wanna Be Your Man 48. Long Tall Sally 49. Boys 50. Shout 51. I'll Be Back (Take 2) 52. I'll Be Back (Take 3) 53. You Know What To Do 54. No Reply (Demo) 55. Mr. Moonlight 56. Leave My Kitten Alone 57. No Reply 58. Eight Days A Week (Sequence) 59. Eight Days A Week (Complete) 60. Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey!

Peace Love & Music - Starbucks 25th Anniversary Anthology

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Peace Love & Music - Starbucks 25th Anniversary Anthology
Spirit, Traffic, Love, The Chambers Brothers, Tim Buckley John Lennon , Todd Rundgren, Joan Baez, Marvin Gaye, Lee Michaels Al Green , and The Allman Brothers Band rod Stewart
Manufacturer: Polygram Special Markets
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000O3I1NQ

Product Description

Starbucks takes you back to 1971, the year they opened the first Starbucks in Seattle. We listened to music oin 45" and LP's and this is what we were listeneing to.

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