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John Lennon - Anthology (1998) Retail CD
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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 doesmore… 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

Tracks
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Working Class Hero |
| 2 | God |
| 3 | I Found Out |
| 4 | Hold On |
| 5 | Isolation |
| 6 | Love |
| 7 | Mother |
| 8 | Remember |
| 9 | Imagine |
| 10 | Fortunately |
| 11 | Baby Please Don't Go |
| 12 | Oh My Love |
| 13 | Jealous Guy |
| 14 | Maggie Mae |
| 15 | How Do You Sleep |
| 16 | God Save Oz |
| 17 | Do The Oz |
| 18 | I Don't Want To Be A Soldier |
| 19 | Give Peace A Chance |
| 20 | Look At Me Look At Me |
| 21 | Long Lost John |
| 22 | New York City |
| 23 | Attica State |
| 24 | Imagine (2) |
| 25 | Bring On The Lucie (Freda People) |
| 26 | Woman Is The Nigger Of The World |
| 27 | Geraldo Rivera |
| 28 | Woman Is The Nigger Of The World (2) |
| 29 | It's So Hard |
| 30 | Come Together |
| 31 | Happy Xmas (War Is Over) |
| 32 | Luck Of The Irish |
| 33 | John Sinclair |
| 34 | Mind Games (I Promise) |
| 35 | Mind Games (Make Love Not War) |
| 36 | One Day (At A Time) |
| 37 | I Know (I Know) |
| 38 | I'm The Greatest |
| 39 | Goodnight Vienna |
| 40 | Jerry Lewis Telethon |
| 41 | Kiss Is Just A Kiss |
| 42 | Real Love |
| 43 | You Are Here |
| 44 | What You Got |
| 45 | Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out |
| 46 | Whatever Gets You Thru The Night |
| 47 | Whatever Gets You Thru The Night (2) |
| 48 | Yesterday |
| 49 | Be Bop A Lula |
| 50 | Rip It Up/Ready Teddy |
| 51 | Scared |
| 52 | Steel And Glass |
| 53 | Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox) |
| 54 | Bless You |
| 55 | Going Down On Love |
| 56 | Move Over Ms L |
| 57 | Ain't She Sweet |
| 58 | Slippin' And Slidin' |
| 59 | Peggy Sue |
| 60 | Bring It On Home To Me/Send Me Some Lovin' |
| 61 | Phil And John 1 |
| 62 | Phil And John 2 |
| 63 | Phil And John 3 |
| 64 | When In Doubt Fuck It |
| 65 | Be My Baby |
| 66 | Stranger's Room |
| 67 | Old Dirt Road |
| 68 | I'm Losing You |
| 69 | Sean's Little Help |
| 70 | Serve Yourself |
| 71 | My Life |
| 72 | Nobody Told Me |
| 73 | Life Begins At 40 |
| 74 | I Don't Wanna Face It |
| 75 | Woman |
| 76 | Dear Yoko |
| 77 | Watching The Wheels |
| 78 | I'm Stepping Out |
| 79 | Borrowed Time |
| 80 | Rishi Kesh Song |
| 81 | Sean's Loud |
| 82 | Beautiful Boy |
| 83 | Mr Hyde's Gone Don't Be Afraid |
| 84 | Grow Old With Me |
| 85 | Dear John Something More |
| 86 | Great Wok |
| 87 | Mucho Mungo |
| 88 | Satire 1 |
| 89 | Satire 2 |
| 90 | Satire 3 |
| 91 | Sean's In The Sky |
| 92 | It's Real |
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- John Lennon - Anthology (1998) Retail CD
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