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| John Lennon may or may not have been the best of the Beatles, but he certainly was the most unpredictable. His political and social views changed approximately twice as fast as his haircut (and you know that was one fast changing) and his music is probably the most inconsistent you ever could imagine. Experimental unlistenable albums are interspersed with primitive political statements, and so on. Picking up a John Lennon album on a CD store rack is the blind man's buff-- and making the wrong choice can seriously deteriorate your feelings towards the man, while making the right choice might convert you for life even if you never liked the Beatles in the first place |
Not shocking yet. Mostly  Maybe this is more interesting:
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What am I hinting at exactly? Simply the fact that you have tread among his releases with a lot of care; and always bear in mind that John never cared even a tiny bit for commerical sound. Some of his records sound quite conventional - in fact- its hard to imagine anything less inoffensive and more suitable for the general public taste than 'Imagine' and 'Woman' - and some sound unlistenable. This actually means that the standard approach of 'commerical/elitist' is unapplicable to John as it is applicable to, say, McCartney, this parameter simply isn't relevant to his creativity. That is why I cringe when people complain about Double Fantasy being too slick and 'commerical'. Commerical my ass, it just came out that way (Hazel dragoneye note to writer: OH REALLY? It just came out that way.  Okkkkk ) I suppose the last thing on John's mind when he was lying down the tracks was how many copies this would sell. |
The next paragraph goes into John Lennon's personality which is very, very true:
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| He never cared a lot about people for that matter. No matter what he wrote about all the people living life in peace and women being ******s of the world and all that stuff, he really felt little love for individual people. When he wanted to let somebody down nobody could beat him at it. Just listen to 'Sometime in New York' |
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