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| Artist: John Lennon
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 4158
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 24858
UPC: 724352485826
EAN: 0724352485826
ASIN: B0000457L2
Release Date: April 11, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Imagine | | • | Crippled Inside | | • | Jealous Guy | | • | It's So Hard | | • | I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier | | • | Gimme Some Truth | | • | Oh My Love | | • | How Do You Sleep? | | • | How? | | • | Oh Yoko! |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The enduring legacy of John Lennon's best album has overshadowed a glaring historical irony: the Beatles' original architect was also responsible for some of the Fab Four's most erratic solo albums. His recording projects all too often held hostage to polemics both personal and political, Lennon's conflicting artistic sensibilities arguably reached perfect balance just once. Coproduced with an uncharacteristically subtle touch by Phil Spector (a stark contrast to his dense aural constructions for George Harrison's All Things Must Pass from the same period), this is Lennon as whole man. Here he exhibits childlike utopian optimism (the title track), extends romantic paeans to the love of his life ("Oh Yoko!" "Oh My Love," and "Jealous Guy," the latter two begun as White Album demos) and spews bitter, petty acrimony toward his former songwriting partner ("How Do You Sleep?"). Set against such expressions, Lennon's fervent antiestablishment tirades ("I Don't Want to Be a Soldier," "Gimme Some Truth") took on some real weight and perspective, while his dollops of introspection ("How?" "Crippled Inside") have an air of resignation missing from the vitriol of his personal exorcism, Plastic Ono Band. This digitally remixed/remastered redux of the album may invoke the ire of the historically retentive, but it was accomplished under the aegis of Yoko Ono with an ear for clarity and a little more of John Lennon's complex, but always gratifying, soul. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wow July 19, 2008
J. Miller (Walkersville, MD United States)
Still hard to believe this Album came out in 1971. It's one of the best ever. I would vote it easily one of the best of the century. Only reason it is 4 stars is because of Yoko. I don't care for her and wish he had recorded without her, but regardless it is still one of the best. Also, it has a lot more soul than most people realize or ever knew. It's so hard is one of the best songs most people have never heard.
But where's the surround mix? April 18, 2008
A. Holliday (Adelaide Australia)
This is a great album - no question, and I have no complaints about the remastering. But what bugs me is that the original vinyl from the early 1970s was available in quadrophonic (the early version of 5.1), so given this already exists, was released while John was alive (and therefore, you would assume, happy with it), why not put this version out?
You know we'd all buy it again...
 THIS CD ROCKS March 19, 2008
Mark A. Bentz
Very good outing for John, George plays a mean guitar. A must for Lennon fans.
 The loony Lennon March 12, 2008
J. N. Beck
2 out of 32 found this review helpful
Yes fame and a creepy wife doesn't do you good as it tends to rattle your brain, this album goes a long way in proving that Lennon was a walking talking contradiction, the man was nuts and went off to spread a vile message of `peace only through humanity" over the globe, only to be proven wrong by the justifiable hand and trigger of fate Hey John, how's the heat down there going for you? Is it hot enough, ha! Where can I buy Mark David Chapman a man of the century award
Imagine February 23, 2008
Harry Brewer (S'port, La.)
The song "Imagine" will probably be forever considered to be John Lennon's signature song. The album, likewise, will probably be considered his best album. I'm like many others when it comes to John Lennon, "Imagine", though not my favorite song composed by him, is certainly one of the first to come to mind. The album Imagine was a major shift in composition from its predecessor Plastic Ono Band. Plastic Ono Band was raw & powerful, full of angst & anger, full of a man confronting his own demons, doing what he could to exorcise them. Imagine is a much calmer (saner?) album where Lennon has at least partially redeemed himself.
Outstanding tracks include the title song, "Jealous Guy" & "Oh My Love". But Lennon had yet to clear the air on everything; "How Do You Sleep" is a scathing attack on Paul McCartney that might have been more at home on Plastic Ono Band. This version of Imagine (the album) is remastered & is better for it. John Lennon will be best remembered for this album &, though it doesn't quite measure up to Plastic Ono Band, it's still an excellent album. It would be the last really good album that Lennon would release.
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