Leave it to John to have screaming music like this (him and James Brown!) back in the 70s. Wow. What a sampler of Lennon these three songs are. Pure artistic brilliance and unbridled musical ambition. Always pushing the boundaries... if you have a pick by Lennon you think i'd enjoy, leave it here!
My favorite Lennon album. All the songs are excellent. God is my favorite with the excellent piano and lyrics. Also loved the grungy sound of I Found Out since my sister first played the album when I was 10.
@@redadamearth I agree. That is a one of a kind scream right there. Even these days that style is not the meta lol he is fully blowing his lungs out here and it sounds amazing
I remember when I first listened to Plastic Ono Band, I didn´t get it. I was into commercial shallow music. As the years have past, I´ve returned to Plastic Ono Band, and now I think it´s THE greatest album in pop/rock history. I think it manifests what art is supposed to be. It´s pure authentic expression, wrestling with himself, society and the spiritual. These kind of albums will never do well on the charts, it will never be the most popular, but as far as I´m concerned, it´s the highest form of art.
Well said Lee. Love John!! He's so raw and open with his emotions. It's so refreshing because he's so human and so genuine. Few humans have the courage to be so open and real. Great music that just grabs your attention. Thanks John ❤
Like others have said, my favorite album released after the breakup. John laid himself open and in plain view to all. So stripped down and organic, we feel the angst in his wonderful raspy voice. Loved it, L33. Beyond thanks for this. Blessings all.
The Plastic Ono Band album is a work of transitions. I discovered it during one of my transitions, and so the album will always have a special place in my life.
I think John Lennon created way more genre, then we think,, or at least gave all genres a start His song Fame with with Bowie, shows the early funk that was taken to new heights.
John Lennon was very vulnerable man. He was in pain most of his life and this shows in his music. Jealous Guy, Help, God and so on... no one tells the truth like Lennon.
I like the way John put space between singing the "I" and the "-solation". John is thinking about how his feelings of isolation are mainly about fixating on "Me". He is putting the "I" in Isolation.
I love this album. It is very dear to my heart. "Well Well Well" is one of my favorite tracks ever, and I am so happy to see it here. John was really into that screaming therapy at the time. It produced some of the best music ever (in my opinion)
YESSSSSSS!!!!!! You finally did these three songs! I was impatiently waiting for you to listen to “I Found Out” and “Well, Well, Well”. So good! Love this album so much! I don’t think there’s a dud on the whole record
Good reactions. Definitely react to the songs you've missed on the record. They be "Remember" + " Oh Yoko". IMHO John Lennon w the Plastic Ono Band is the most personal LP ever. He opens himself to the world here. Unapologetically. Classic. Bought it in 1971.
Beatles fan since day one, John became my idol. His songs are philosophy, sociology, world view, emotions. I could relate so much. From Help!, Misery to his last LP. I have all his albums and more. All Beatles albums also from the 60s.
No one had even imagined an artist laying themselves so raw and honest, It was mind blowing .I played this album repeatedly as a 11 year old Lennons Art just fascinated me, I read up on all the therapies he had practiced, the countries he had been in that affected his thoughts. John was the older friend I desperately needed , all the rage in me,John helped me purge enough to survive . Still love Lennon
A stark and even shocking listen when it came out. Still stands up though. Minimal and mesmerizing. Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp performed and recorded 'Isolation' a couple of years ago when Jeff was helping Depp in the aftermath of his nasty court case with Amber Heard. Worth a listen. As is the Gen X(Billy Idol's old band) version of 'Gimme Some Truth'. ✌🏼😀🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
Lee... Sorry but... 🎧 You talked over John singing clearly 🎤 (& It spoilt my favourite track of these three... I had "Love" played at my second wedding... It didn't help to glue us together, he _still_ left me two years later for my second* 'best friend' just exactly as the first* husband did) ... 🎵"Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand, 👀‼️ Don't get you nowhere, Don't make you a man, I heard of something 'bout my ma and my pa They didn't want me so they made me a star, I, I found out... I, I found out..."🎵 ... 🎸🥁 Thanks for choosing these songs, Lee.👍😏🏴💕🇬🇧🌝🖖
From the screams to the distortion, lyrics and simplicity of the production, this is the first grunge album ever! Well, well, well, Curt Cobain loved John Lennon!
Even though Phil Spector was listed as producer, it was really John himself. He didn't want the big production. He scaled it down to be as simple and raw as possible. Lennon's decisions. He had enough of the hype and over production from the Beatles albums. Lennon is the king of scream, hands down. Grindcore and all that other hardcore screaming is over stylized constant boring swill, imo. Lennon's screams are filled with emotion and meaning. It's real and raw.
I agree with your statement regarding this being real and raw while more recent genres are not. There are some excellent bands with screaming in their music these days. I grew up with it, so I’m used to it. But it’s very hard to get into for folks not used to it, and I get it. But this is as close as you’ll get (well well well) from this era. And I love it! John is the best, man
Between the buried and me is a great example. An amazing, stand out prog metal band. Lots of screams. But also countered with beautiful and understated clean vocals on top of some of the best prog music I’ve ever heard still to this day
The lyrics of I Found Out may be a little off putting to many. However the lyrics "I seen through junkies, I been through it all. I seen religion, from Jesus to Paul" He wasn't referencing the Apostle Paul. He was so clever. Isolation is one of John's finest songs.
Listen to the Playboy interview! The printed version is heavily edited. I'd give you a youtube link but it's too late at the moment...too tired. It's amazing what got left out.
McCartney got a lot of criticism at the time, as Lennon's and Harrison's solo albums had songs so full of personal depth and emotion and McCartney's, while musically fantastic and melodic, just weren't that personal. He just wasn't a guy with many personal demons, so his songs, while brilliant, just never hit people as hard as Lennon's and Harrison's stuff, after the Beatles. In their solo work, you can really understand the dynamics between the three songwriters and why the band was so incredible. Every one of them had an element that the other was missing in their own work, so it just created something special in that mix.
I remember where I was when I heard JFK was dead. Iremeber exactely what I was doing when I heard John was dead. I knew instantly that he was my favourite.
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the best Beatles solo album, by a mile. Keep in mind that this came out in 1970. I'd never heard anything like it before, and nobody had. I only wish Lennon had been able to keep up this level of artistry for the rest of his all-too-brief life. Every single song is brilliant and devastatingly honest.
I typically entertain myself by singing some tunes while walking the dog. A few days ago, I found myself singing two of these songs: I Found Out and Isolation. This LP has always been a favorite of mine because along with his singing, most of the tunes were a bit more hard driving. To add to it, the lyrics were definitely more edgy-perhaps more controversial-than anything else I heard up to that point for the early 70s. Lennon was obviously making this LP as something very personal. It was clearly not intended to be a commercial release. Regarding the people who rag on Ringo's drumming, I believe they are unable to see past the early Beatle days when he had just a basic drum kit. They cemented their opinions on their first impressions and never bothered to expand their minds from that day forward. Incredibly pathetic.
Leave it to John to have screaming music like this (him and James Brown!) back in the 70s. Wow. What a sampler of Lennon these three songs are. Pure artistic brilliance and unbridled musical ambition. Always pushing the boundaries... if you have a pick by Lennon you think i'd enjoy, leave it here!
Oh Yoko (don't worry she doesn't sing)
John Lennon - What You Got :P
I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier, Mama (I Don't Wanna Die) is considered mandatory by many, myself included👍
I suggest Meat City, another great rocker
What You Got, Bring on the Lucie(Freda Peeple), How?….. those are just some of them
As Christmas is round the corner give Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is Over) a spin.
This whole album is superb, from Mother to My Mummy's Dead. God, it's good.
My favorite Lennon album. All the songs are excellent. God is my favorite with the excellent piano and lyrics. Also loved the grungy sound of I Found Out since my sister first played the album when I was 10.
I was 14 when this album came out. It sucked the air out me. Fantastic. I'm still listening to it. What an artist. 🙏🙏🙏
The song "Remember" will hit you like a hammer!!
While my school mates were rockin out to The Osmonds, Jacksons, Partridge family... I was digging the the good stuff. I wore this album out.
NOBODY had a rock scream like Lennon.
@@redadamearth I agree. That is a one of a kind scream right there. Even these days that style is not the meta lol he is fully blowing his lungs out here and it sounds amazing
I remember when I first listened to Plastic Ono Band, I didn´t get it. I was into commercial shallow music. As the years have past, I´ve returned to Plastic Ono Band, and now I think it´s THE greatest album in pop/rock history. I think it manifests what art is supposed to be. It´s pure authentic expression, wrestling with himself, society and the spiritual. These kind of albums will never do well on the charts, it will never be the most popular, but as far as I´m concerned, it´s the highest form of art.
after going through primal scream therapy, I feel this album was John's way of exercising his deamons.
Literally, the most brutally honest and raw songs ever recorded.
We miss you John 😢❤ this gets to me every time.
Amazing album.
Isolation is the most beautiful song.
Great song for the covid shutdown!🙂
This is my favourite John Lennon album. Brilliant. ❤❤❤
Well said Lee. Love John!! He's so raw and open with his emotions. It's so refreshing because he's so human and so genuine. Few humans have the courage to be so open and real. Great music that just grabs your attention. Thanks John ❤
i found out is my fav!
I know it's unlikely, but I really hope Ringo hears this!
Like others have said, my favorite album released after the breakup. John laid himself open and in plain view to all. So stripped down and organic, we feel the angst in his wonderful raspy voice. Loved it, L33. Beyond thanks for this. Blessings all.
The Plastic Ono Band album is a work of transitions. I discovered it during one of my transitions, and so the album will always have a special place in my life.
I think John Lennon created way more genre, then we think,, or at least gave all genres a start
His song Fame with with Bowie, shows the early funk that was taken to new heights.
👍 Fabulous, my favourite solo album
John Lennon was very vulnerable man. He was in pain most of his life and this shows in his music.
Jealous Guy, Help, God and so on... no one tells the truth like Lennon.
John spills his guts on this album. Wonderful!
I like the way John put space between singing the "I" and the "-solation". John is thinking about how his feelings of isolation are mainly about fixating on "Me". He is putting the "I" in Isolation.
Masterpiece!
☮❤🎶 for the algorithm. Good choice! Thanks L33!
Lee, you made my day today. I don't know how you do it. I loved every video today 💝 especially this one. John is so important to me 💖
Definitely the most important Lennon album
Love, God, Look At Me
National Lampoon - Genius is Pain. When you know, you know!
I love this album. It is very dear to my heart. "Well Well Well" is one of my favorite tracks ever, and I am so happy to see it here. John was really into that screaming therapy at the time. It produced some of the best music ever (in my opinion)
I've always loved how raw this album is. It anticipates some of the great post-punk records in some ways. And yeah, the rhythm section is incredible.
YESSSSSSS!!!!!! You finally did these three songs! I was impatiently waiting for you to listen to “I Found Out” and “Well, Well, Well”. So good! Love this album so much! I don’t think there’s a dud on the whole record
Klaus voorman is a friend of the Beatles from the bar band Germany days
I have lived with all 3 songs most of my life. 'I found out' is one of my favs.
This is my favourite post Beatles album by any of the Fab Four ….by far. Raw, experimental and such f*****g great music.
this album is a masterpiece!
John is always such a great listen ❤ he was so brutally honest.
Good reactions. Definitely react to the songs you've missed on the record. They be "Remember" + " Oh Yoko".
IMHO John Lennon w the Plastic Ono Band is the most personal LP ever. He opens himself to the world here.
Unapologetically. Classic. Bought it in 1971.
John, more John.... Can't go wrong.
I never heard these before ... always finding new music here ... new Lennon wtf lol
Beatles fan since day one, John became my idol. His songs are philosophy, sociology, world view, emotions. I could relate so much. From Help!, Misery to his last LP. I have all his albums and more. All Beatles albums also from the 60s.
No one had even imagined an artist laying themselves so raw and honest, It was mind blowing .I played this album repeatedly as a 11 year old Lennons Art just fascinated me, I read up on all the therapies he had practiced, the countries he had been in that affected his thoughts. John was the older friend I desperately needed , all the rage in me,John helped me purge enough to survive . Still love Lennon
A stark and even shocking listen when it came out. Still stands up though. Minimal and mesmerizing.
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp performed and recorded 'Isolation' a couple of years ago when Jeff was helping Depp in the aftermath of his nasty court case with Amber Heard. Worth a listen. As is the Gen X(Billy Idol's old band) version of 'Gimme Some Truth'.
✌🏼😀🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
Out The Blue from the Mind Games Album
What a good choice..yes yes yes,,,,,s’il vous plait …choose this song🎵🎵🎵🎵
Yes! Exactly 💯💯💯
I said the same thing. He would love it 💕
It's in these "deep cuts" that you really hear John. I sing these to myself, just like "I'm So Tired."
Lee... Sorry but... 🎧
You talked over John singing clearly 🎤
(& It spoilt my favourite track of these three... I had "Love" played at my second wedding...
It didn't help to glue us together, he _still_ left me two years later for my second* 'best friend' just exactly as the first* husband did) ...
🎵"Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand, 👀‼️
Don't get you nowhere,
Don't make you a man,
I heard of something 'bout my ma and my pa
They didn't want me so they made me a star,
I, I found out... I, I found out..."🎵 ... 🎸🥁
Thanks for choosing these songs, Lee.👍😏🏴💕🇬🇧🌝🖖
From the screams to the distortion, lyrics and simplicity of the production, this is the first grunge album ever! Well, well, well, Curt Cobain loved John Lennon!
Favourite reaction ever! And the first to 'Well, Well, Well' I've seen. That was priceless your look when the screaming kicked in. Well done Lee.
raw and real john
This album "Plastic Ono Band" in my opinion is the best Beatles solo album and as good as the best Beatles albums (Abbey Road, Revolver, White Album)
I really like this album but it’s not even close. I assume we’re discounting Wings for this since you said solo, but imo Ram is better.
RAM is right behind this.@@jonathanmarkham1998
I always felt John, Klaus and Ringo could easily been a wonderful group. I wish they had recorded more.
❤❤❤
John Lennon wasn't working class. He was middle class.
Favorite Beatles solo album. Played Isolation quite a bit during the pandemic.
The best post Beatle-album by far!
'Love' ...now there's a love song...
Freda People
This was our grunge.
Even though Phil Spector was listed as producer, it was really John himself. He didn't want the big production. He scaled it down to be as simple and raw as possible. Lennon's decisions. He had enough of the hype and over production from the Beatles albums. Lennon is the king of scream, hands down. Grindcore and all that other hardcore screaming is over stylized constant boring swill, imo. Lennon's screams are filled with emotion and meaning. It's real and raw.
Ringo has said he didn't remember Spector being around for much of the sessions.
@@glass2467 Grindcore? Never heard of that genre. I’m getting old. 😫
I agree with your statement regarding this being real and raw while more recent genres are not. There are some excellent bands with screaming in their music these days. I grew up with it, so I’m used to it. But it’s very hard to get into for folks not used to it, and I get it. But this is as close as you’ll get (well well well) from this era. And I love it! John is the best, man
Between the buried and me is a great example. An amazing, stand out prog metal band. Lots of screams. But also countered with beautiful and understated clean vocals on top of some of the best prog music I’ve ever heard still to this day
The lyrics of I Found Out may be a little off putting to many. However the lyrics "I seen through junkies, I been through it all. I seen religion, from Jesus to Paul" He wasn't referencing the Apostle Paul. He was so clever. Isolation is one of John's finest songs.
Yep, clearly he had another Paul in mind... Paul VI, to be precise, the reigning pope at the time :)
@@adamwachowski1216
Uhh…I don’t think that’s the Paul he was referring to.
Check out Sean Lennon's version on solo guitar
Isolation
Read The Playboy Interview, the last Lennon ever gave. Essential.
Listen to the Playboy interview! The printed version is heavily edited. I'd give you a youtube link but it's too late at the moment...too tired. It's amazing what got left out.
The AI generated lyrics at the bottom of the image are so fucked. John "sky" and AI wrote "Die"
McCartney got a lot of criticism at the time, as Lennon's and Harrison's solo albums had songs so full of personal depth and emotion and McCartney's, while musically fantastic and melodic, just weren't that personal. He just wasn't a guy with many personal demons, so his songs, while brilliant, just never hit people as hard as Lennon's and Harrison's stuff, after the Beatles. In their solo work, you can really understand the dynamics between the three songwriters and why the band was so incredible. Every one of them had an element that the other was missing in their own work, so it just created something special in that mix.
I remember where I was when I heard JFK was dead. Iremeber exactely what I was doing when I heard John was dead. I knew instantly that he was my favourite.
Yoko did an album at the same time with the three of them backing her and they JAMMED. If you get past Yoko, its so cool.
Have you reacted to the rest of the album? It’s really amazing start to finish. Probably my favourite solo Beatles record.
Phil Spector didn't show up. Basically Lennon produced himself for this album.
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the best Beatles solo album, by a mile. Keep in mind that this came out in 1970. I'd never heard anything like it before, and nobody had. I only wish Lennon had been able to keep up this level of artistry for the rest of his all-too-brief life. Every single song is brilliant and devastatingly honest.
As for the screamer stuff...you'll love 'Cold Turkey'.
15:01 I laughed so hard at what you were holding in there! Thou shalt not compare Lord Paul McCartney unfavorably! 😅😅
I typically entertain myself by singing some tunes while walking the dog. A few days ago, I found myself singing two of these songs: I Found Out and Isolation. This LP has always been a favorite of mine because along with his singing, most of the tunes were a bit more hard driving. To add to it, the lyrics were definitely more edgy-perhaps more controversial-than anything else I heard up to that point for the early 70s. Lennon was obviously making this LP as something very personal. It was clearly not intended to be a commercial release.
Regarding the people who rag on Ringo's drumming, I believe they are unable to see past the early Beatle days when he had just a basic drum kit. They cemented their opinions on their first impressions and never bothered to expand their minds from that day forward. Incredibly pathetic.
Try " I'm losing You"
There is a great cover of Isolation on RUclips by Justin Currie that is brilliant.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers did a great version of I Found Out