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Who is your favorite Beatle?
Brown Eyes:
I also concur... that when it comes to solo efforts, George wins hands down.
Both John and Paul got to be a little much in their solo careers. As Elle points out... Paul definitely continues to be a little bit much (at least from my point of view).
serious crayons:
For Father's Day my kids bought my husband that CD, "Instant Karma," that compilation of John Lennon songs by various artists that raises funds for Darfur. I listened to it for the first time the other night. The two things that struck me were: 1) there were only a few songs on the album that were even remotely as good as the original and 2) when it comes right down to it, there's only a very small handful of John Lennon songs I like, period.
"Imagine" is a beautiful song. But after that ... what? "Watching the Wheels" is pretty good. On the album, they actually had to repeat two songs. Of course, John's career was cut short ... :'(
As Elle said, George has "All Things Must Pass." And then ... "What is Life" "Beware of Darkness" "Dark Horse" ... does "Badge" count? And then countless less prominent ones.
Ellemeno:
You ever have old family of origin emotions you want catharsis on, try the album "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band." Really, as a whole album it's incredible.
Some John Lennon songs sans Beatles
Instant Karma
Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Give Peace A Chance
Working Class Hero
Power to the People (Which actually used to get played on the radio a lot. Hard to Imagine that now.)
serious crayons:
All but Happy Xmas are on that tribute CD. For some reason, I couldn't remember whether Instant Karma was post-Beatles; anyway, U2 does a decent version of it there. And I think it's Green Day that does a pretty good Working Class Hero.
Brown Eyes:
I quite enjoy Instant Karma. It's one of my favorite solo Lennon tunes.
:)
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