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| 1. Working Class Hero (Anthology Version) | |||
| 2. God (Anthology Version) | |||
| 3. I Found Out (Anthology Version) | |||
| 4. Hold On (Anthology Version) | |||
| 5. Isolation (Anthology Version) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. New York City (Anthology Version) | |||
| 2. Attica State (Anthology Version) | |||
| 3. Imagine (Anthology Version) | |||
| 4. Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple) (Anthology Version) | |||
| 5. Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (Anthology Version) | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. What You Got (Anthology Version) | |||
| 2. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) (Anthology Version) | |||
| 3. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (Anthology Version) | |||
| 4. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (Anthology Version) | |||
| 5. "Yesterday" (Parody) (Anthology Version) | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. I'm Losing You (Anthology Version) | |||
| 2. Sean's "Little Help..." (Anthology Version) (Feat. Sean Lennon) | |||
| 3. Serve Yourself (Anthology Version) | |||
| 4. My Life (Anthology Version) | |||
| 5. Nobody Told Me (Anthology Version) | |||
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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 stack 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".
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 humour--the outlines of "I'm the Greatest" and "Goodnight Vienna" for Ringo, the loose-as-a-goose "Be Bop a Lula". 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
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow and wow again!,
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This review is from: Anthology (Audio CD)
What more could a budding John Lennon fan ask for?This large collection of Lennon's work seems to sum up perfectly what John Lennon was about to so many fans-A great songwriter that wrote a hell of a lot of good songs. I found the small but chunky book a useful insight into periods of Lennon's life and I also really appreciated the information about some of the previously unreleased Lennon home recordings! My favourite CD out of the four has to be the Dakota CD. Not only was this period of his song writing my favourite, it was also his last. I thoughroughly enjoyed listening to alternative takes of my favourite Lennon songs like "I'm Losing You" and "Woman". This collection of John Lennon's work is a real treat for all his fans and I would recommend it to everyone!
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This boxset is amazing!,
This review is from: Anthology (Audio CD)
The set spans John's years as a solo artist from 1970 to 1980. I've always felt John's solo albums were over-produced by himself and Phil Spector, John's voice seemed to get lost in the recordings, however in this set his voice is to the fore and the songs sound 10 times better than than do on his albums. Disc 1 ASCOT: (the best) revolves about his first two solo albums, Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. Disc 2 NEW YORK CITY: John's political phase with Sometime In New York City and Mind Games.Disc 3 THE LOST WEEKEND: John's famous "Lost Weekend" which features Walls And Bridges and Rock N'Roll. And finally Disc 4 DAKOTA: which features many rare demos as well as his Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey albums. However I should state this set is probably only for hardcore fans of Lennon, but true fans will cherish listening to John singing Real Love on his own, a diffrent version of Imagine, a live Come Together from Madison Square Garden and John chatting with Sean at the Dakota.
19 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not really worth going out to get,
By A Customer
This review is from: Anthology (Audio CD)
The first Lennon box set really was a "Best of", but that got withdrawn presumably to facilitate this release. This is really for the very, very hard core Lennon fan. I love the Beatles(got everything they made)I like John Lennon too and have his albums, but this is a step too far. It is just not something you could put on and sit back and listen to. Well if you did it would be only once. It is too disjointed and "cut up". Snips of alternate takes vie with bits of conversation and some live snippets(by in large not very memorable..Attica state and the political stuff). This really sums up the box set phenomenon,which is (a) lots of unreleased stuff, not much released hits (b) Lots of hits not much unreleased (C) A mixture of a and b. This falls into the (a) category and to be brutal you don't need it, it is not one to play to your friends.
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