John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
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Artist: John LennonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2010-10-05
Music Label: Capitol
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- John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
- Mother
- Hold On
- I Found Out
- Working Class Hero
- Isolation
- Remember
- Love
- Well Well Well
- Look At Me
- God
- My Mummy's Dead
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Music Review: As One Dream Ends, A New One Begins
Rating: 5 Stars
As I write this review on the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birthday (October 9th) I am saddened by how much life he missed and how much we miss him. In terms of instrumental minimalism (bare bones rock) and intensely personal lyrics, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" is Lennon's rawest album and arguably his best (though "Imagine" comes close).
The album begins with a funereal bell tolling, a bit off-sounding. John sings about parental abandonment with the sparest piano, bass and drums (the latter instruments played by old chums Klaus Voormann and Ringo Starr). There's naked pain in his voice as he screams for his parents to `come home' and the song has particular resonance for me as a child of divorce. Some of the inspiration for "Mother" came from the Primal therapy he was involved with at the time, a psychotherapy developed by Arthur Janov, which added an interesting element to the record. "Hold On" is its polar opposite, with a gentle pseudo-oriental melody and a soothing lyric. A fuzzed-out guitar and funky rhythm section are the background for John's paranoid freak-out turned confession "I Found Out", a favorite from this album and a foreshadowing of the litany used on "God". Another favorite is the melancholy folk song "Working Class Hero", another song I can easily relate to. "Isolation" veers from soft piano-based pop on the fearful & fretful verses to a bluesy bridge in which he expresses his anger and frustration with the public's and media's perception of John & Yoko. "Remember" continues to explore childhood issues while trying to get past them and move on. Again I marvel at the sonic simplicity of this album as none other than co-producer Phil Spector (creator of the famous `wall of sound', a dense, layered sound arrived at by using multiples of the same instruments [guitars, horns, drums, etc.] recorded in an echo chamber with lots of reverberation and used on records like "River Deep Mountain High" and "Be My Baby") plays piano on "Love", sort of a sister song to "Hold On". The following track "Well Well Well" favors the dirty, fuzzy guitar of "I Found Out" and features some terrific screaming mid-song. "Look At Me" is a quiet, introspective folk piece with some lovely double-tracking on the vocals. Guest player and Beatle friend Billy Preston does the honors on the piano on the controversial (especially at the time of its release) gospel flavored "God" in which Lennon renounces everything from religion to the Beatles, angelically singing `the dream is over' which really affected me as a thirteen-year old that had invested my heart and soul in the Beatles. At the same time I realized that John was cleansing himself artistically and personally so I understood.
The first time I heard the final track "My Mummy's Dead", I cried. A lot. Its poignancy still remains today as indeed does the entire record's. "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" is a gift from a true artist whose cross to bear was being so honest and true to himself and his fans. Peace be with you, my brother.
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*Japanese import mini-vinyl CDsDecades later it's a little hard to appreciate just how shocking Plastic Ono Band was at the time of its release. Yes, John Lennon's first post-Beatles solo album is still a must-own for any rock fan, but decades of punk, metal, and grunge have desensitized our ears somewhat to the naked howls of despair that fill tracks like "Mother," "Isolation," and "I Found Out." In addition, "I don't believe in Beatles," the climactic line of "God," doesn't have nearly the resonance as it did around the time of the Fab Four's breakup, when such a sentiment practically bordered on heresy. And yet it's a testament to the high quality of Lennon's songs that Plastic Ono Band continues to be an incredibly moving listening experience. --Dan Epstein
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