John Lennon - Mind Games REACTION
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This song is a masterpiece and Lennon’s vocals are A+.
His song 'Jealous Guy' is a masterpiece. He has many.
John was a genius.
Every time I want to say I like Paul or George better I remember that plastic ono band exists, and it’s probably the most important album any of them made. Must do that one.
I agree, it's a seminal album. No other Beatle has that kind of album even to this day, and Paul and Ringo are still making albums.
That albums good but it’s no Band on the Run or Ram
@@StepnieW Paul has several albums that are as important or more so than Plastic Ono Band.
The McCartney album is credited for having had an impact on DIY musicians and lo-fi music styles. Then there's RAM being considered the first indie pop album and influencing many, even to this day. McCartney II was ahead of its time and was a precursor to 80s pop music and lofi/bedroom pop movements. All 3 of these albums have influenced many artists/musicians
@@ewest14nah
@@Vanderstein950nah
I love how optimistic this album is, which is rare for 70's Lennon.
The anniversary edition of his first (and maybe best) album "Plastic Ono Band" was released yesterday, with new clean remixes. Would be the perfect time to react to this album.
Working class hero is one of my favorite songs from John Lennon I think you guys would like that one👍🏻
John has lots of great songs. Remember John was the leader of the Beatles . It was his band in the founding days. Paul did become his partner which improved both there musical knowledge and abilities.
Please listen to John Lennon Plastic Ono Band album. It's a classic masterpiece.
George Harrison produced "The Life Of Brian" and played even in it
Good fun guys .. enjoy your reviews. I think comparing Beatles kind of misses the point ... the magic was the combination of 4 unique individuals and how well they crafted together. You take one of the 4 elements away and you do not have the Beatles .. the magic is lost. I think the solo careers are interesting and enjoyable as highlighting the talents that each had. (And if you think Ringo didn't bring much to the table I suggest a little exploration of what a range of professional drummers have said about him .. he also contributed something special to the mix :-)
Fair points ty
Lyrically, John's best work was post Beatles but he put it out before Mind Games. It's on 3 albums, Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Sometime in NYC. John opened up and revealed himself, which he did not do as a Beatle.
George's best 2 songs, Something and Guitar Gently Weeps, are with the Beatles, but it's slim pickings. So the large volume of good work from George is after the Beatles broke up.
Paul's best work is with the Beatles lyrically. His post Beatles lyrics are shallow. Music is ok but, if I'm going to look for great music in the early 70s, it won't be Paul, John or George. It would be Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and the Who. If I'm going to listen to great singer/songwriters in the early 70s, it won't be John Paul or George. It would be Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot and Bob Dylan. So the main thing that I look for from the solo material is depth and honesty of lyrics from X-beatles. John gives me that in the 3 albums I mentioned above. George gives me that in All Things Must Pass and Living in the Material World.
Your favorite song on the Revolver album was a John song too.
Plastic Ono Band , his first solo álbum...is awesome and very personal for him , if you could react to that álbum it would be awesome , greetings
Amazing album, I think they would be very surprised by it.
It's currently being remixed and getting the "super deluxe treatment". It will be out next week with a stereo remix, 5.1 mixes, raw mixes and a million outtakes. You won't find a better time to make reaction of it.
Yes absolutely!
John Lennon
Watching the Wheels
Whatever you put in your coffee...keep it up :)
My favourite Python-moment will remain Paul's famous as well as controversial 'Penny Lane'-sketch.
Pleasant Lennon track, this.
Thanks for your reaction. If you want to hear something different and much harder from John, try 'Cold Turkey' about his struggle with heroine.
You should check Fame written sung and played by Bowie and Lennon from the album Young Americans, it was so funky that James Brown stole it!!
Beatles Lennon is genius. Don't see how anyone could not be sold.
There's no accounting for bad taste.
Most Lennon gold can be mined in the deep cuts. Songs like: Gimme Some Truth, Bring on the Lucy, Meat City, Sweet Bird of Paradise, and others.
A++++ ! ...duds no one can deliver that beautiful style the beautiful message, his heart felt gutty reality in the song, the melody, his grilling.. just an awesome song by a great 🪲🍏....🙏🎭
I love that he love's love
Check out Working Class Hero or the album Plastic Ono Band
The Beatles were a huge influence on Ween :)
I would love to hear you guys react to the album Imagine. I mean the one song of John that almost everyone knows is the title track. It would be a perfect end of the post-Beatle solo album trilogy.
I thought everyone alive knew this song. I guess I'm getting old..
Listen to "Mother" by Lennon.
You laugh about Monty Python, but George Harrison actually was the 7th Monty Python
John Lennon/Instant Karma
Listen to John’s song from Sgt Peepers. ITS GETTING BETTER
Isn't that Paul?
@@murdockreviews they both contributed to that ! 🤡
POB is the place to start with Lennon imo. the abuse thing is so overplayed. He did slap his girlfriend Cynthia once. He never beat her as has been repeatedly exaggerated. Cynthia stated clearly that he apologized repeatedly to her for a month and said it would never happen again. She stated, "and he was true to his word" McCartney has said he never saw any signs of abuse. In fact Lennon, amounts his peers, like Elton to Bowie, call him very thoughtful and caring. He had an acidic wit and was quite cutting and sharp at times but was a softy in many ways. He also had a ton of self doubt and was very critical and open about himself. in short a complex figure.
As we all are complex
Ty for that info
@@WelpHereWeAreOnCZcams there is more information on John's abuse of women towards may pang (from her own words in her book) where he abused her. And in the same party (McCartney's birthday party) where he beat up Bob Wooler he also groped and hit a woman there too. John was open about how he was abusive towards women. I'm getting tired of seeing his fans just gloss over his actions as not that a big a deal and not part of a larger pattern that John himself recognized was something that was wrong with him. Not to mention, physical abuse is one thing, but verbal abuse is also important. And John with his sharp tongue did that too, particularly with how he treated cynthia and julian during the divorce.
@@just-so-were-crystal-clear5245only have her word for it.
@@just-so-were-crystal-clear5245nobody says he was perfect but people are way too hyperbolic when it comes to John.
@Jill Valentin Harry Nillson confirmed May's story. There is no reason to assume she is lying. To me there is a world of difference between not being perfect and abusing your spouse. Saying that he did these things is not hyperbolic, its just stating an inconvenient fact. He was definitely troubled, ill give him that.
It staggers the mind that dude stage-left thinks that John Lennon only wrote what he wanted to be and not what he was, which would make Lennon an epic hypocrite. BUT IN FACT, there is NO Lennon post-Beatles' anything without his brutal self-analysis put to vinyl. Lennon's greatest, most famous Post-Beatles' work is almost entirely self-lacerating, self-indicting, self-inventorying songs confronting HIS sexism, misogyny, and abject failures: "God," "Mother," "Jealous Guy," "Woman is the N•gg•r of the World," "When You're Crippled Inside," etc.
I really don't know what to say. Lennon's entire funk/soul-grooving album, Walls and Bridges, (which went to #1 in America in 1974) with songs such as "Going Down On Love," "You Don't Know What You've Got Till You Lose It," "Bless You," his Top 10 hit (and mysterious, gorgeous ) "Dream#9" ALL forthrightly confront, explore, reveal, indict himself, his folly, his madness, and the cost to others. Even that album's #1 hit, "Whatever Gets You Through The Night," a DECEPTIVELY enthusiastic pean to the stupid, mindless hedonism of the early-mid seventies reaction to the trauma of the collapse of high-concept, revolutionary 1960s idealism is, on any closer reading, a self-revelation of the cost of his own folly: Lennon needs to "get through the night" because he has effe'd everything up worthwhile and true in his life.
OTHER CASES IN POINT: Lennon's biggest post-Beatles' radio pop hits, of which he had quite a few, such as the Beatlesque/Smokey Robinson homage, "Woman," openly exposes his grappling with his all-too human failures, almost ironically delivered via romantic pop melody glory....
Lennon's American chart-toppers included the iconic "Imagine," "Oh, Yoko," "Oh, My Love (with George Harrison's gorgeous fingerpicking on "Lucy," his red Les Paul), "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," "Dream# 9," ALL of which address to one degree or another the fragility and complexity of the human condition and Lennon's own all-too human foibles.
And WHAT is this love showered down for Middle-of-the-Road-Beatle-Legacy-Squandering Paul Macca's dreck?
REALLY???
It's like "reviewing" and getting wow'd over Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" (Paul's work) while only vaguely hearing something or other about "Hamlet" (Lennon's Plastic Ono Band) or "King Lear" (George Harrison's ATMP)--and giving what glimpse and entendu parler you got of Shakespeare's "hard-sell" oeuvre a "solid C+ or B-." It's beyond insulting. On sophistication of that Mind Games' chord progression alone, and that of much of the rest of the album's songs (not my favourite of Lennon's post-Beatles work, btw), Lennon bested Macca's tiresomely overrated Band on the Run.
IF you are remotely interested in Lennon and quite prepared to go beyond Macca's post-Beatle pablum, you would need to listen to Lennon's masterpiece, Plastic Ono Band--which serious music critics have long argued, with just cause, entails the only Beatles' solo album that truly challenges Harrison's All Things Must Pass as the undeniably greatest of the four's post-Beatles' records; both albums find pride of place on all of the "Greatest Albums of All Time" lists (Rolling Stone, NME, Melody Maker, et al.).
As for Paul's post-Beatles permanent decent into treacle and dreck (e.g., the haunting, transcendent pre- Black Lives Matter call of alliance, "Blackbird," versus the shockingly shallow, cringe-inducing White condescension and grotesque sentimentality of "Ebony and Ivory"; the Beatles-era's harrowingly honest "For No One" versus the White, White Wonder(less) bread dough of "Silly Love Songs," an inadvertent dead-on summation as to what ALL of Macca's post-Beatles' oeuvre entails), it all amounts to so much of this and that: Rien, Zéro, Nul, LE MAL DE LA BANALITE, to spin Arendt's riff. Lennon's "How Do You Sleep" of the Imagine album starts off as the ultimate "throwing shade" divorce song; but it is George Harrison's mocking, sneering, sharpened scalpel-weapon slide guitar playing that slices, dices, and finishes off Macca's bourgeois insufferability, treacle, and suburban complicity, by transforming Lennon's all-too-accurate lyric into the never-to-be-recovered-from judgement of History:
"You live with straights who tell you, you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you're gone you're just another day
Ah, how do you sleep
Ah, how do you sleep at night
Ah, how do you sleep
Ah, how do you sleep at night"
Put on John Lennon's "Meat City" and enjoy the blood sport.
@@JayKFilmz : Why deflect through your made up "Paul vs John thing?" This "reaction" piece once again featured what the charitable would note as an astonishingly baseless claim--the absurdly false claim that, in effect, Lennon wrote about himself and the world only as he wanted them to be and not as they were--when in fact almost the entirety of Lennon's oeuvre consists of self-lacerating explorations of the world, the human condition, and himself and his failures and foibles.
Paul Macca enters the fray because of this reaction piece's fawning praise of his post-Beatles' work, which even a semi-serious and casual Beatles fan can discern is, at best, treacle, banality, awfulness--at best--and at worst includes White sentimentality, dishonesty, and condescension (the execrable "Ebony and Ivory") in subject matter (Black Lives Matter) to which Beatle-era Macca once composed with stunning insight, sensitivity, and poignance (i.e., "Blackbird").
What is "childish" is YOUR resort to the extended Red Herring logical fallacy, your "are-you-Yoko" gambit , which you employ to (a) deflect from a series of irrefutable arguments pointing out the jaw-dropping ignorance, or at least all-too convincing demonstration of same said, by one of the reviewers and (b) the irrefutably dubious musical taste and cultural awareness of said reviewers in fawning over post-Beatle Paul Macca, in as much as (a) the Macca did not produce the two or three solo Beatle albums that consensus holds as enduring masterpieces in their own right of the rock era (1963-1984)--All Things Must Pass, Plastic Ono Band, Imagine--and indeed, the nearest the Macca got was the thoroughly, tiresomely overrated Band On the Run and his curiously underrated first two solo albums, McCartney and Ram. (c) and the scathing indictment of How Do You Sleep stands in both form and content: musically, Lennon's vocals and especially Harrison's slide guitar playing cut more deeply, and convey more scathing shade than any single Macca performance since the Beatles broke-up and the lyric of the song speaks the ineluctable Truth so savagely that Macca's entire ensuing career only proved Lennon's point, verbatim.
Why don't you cease with the "childish" feints and the churlish dishonesty? A "reaction" piece serves to draw attention and generate further reactions. This one certainly did, albeit not one of the content creators' or some select viewers' liking.
I couldn't care less. It's NOT my problem that the content creators or some such of their viewers have not, do not, and will not think through or even avail themselves of the enormity of facts available through countless publications or that abstruse thinga-ma-jiggy, "G-O-OG-L-E "
Coming at me with a patently vulgar, extended logical fallacy requires a pointed, fact-based rebuttal and rebuke, an informed "reaction." You just got it.
@@JayKFilmz : So, Jay, you lose the argument on the facts and cannot and will not address the glaring, inconvenient truths -- so you resort to "certifiable" whining, ad-hominem, and lying. That's original.
lol.
It's not my problem that I have a vocabulary redolent of a good education, long reading list, and curiosity about the events of the day. It's YOUR problem. I'm not the one posting "reaction" pieces, which pivot on presumption that the presenters MIGHT ACTUALLY KNOW SOMETHING of that to which they "react." But I am the one calling out the jaw-dropping lack of knowledge, fallacies, and twaddle in said "reactions."
Your charge of "fawning" over is "certifiable" falsehood and fragile Dudeism at its most pathetic. Nowhere in any of my posts do I state or suggest that Lennon was a "nice guy," a moral guy, or even a mec with whom one would like to have a beer. But I did point out the irrefutable fact: John Lennon's core breakthrough as a rock artist in the late modern/post-modern era 1963-1984 is (a) his unflinching, often brutal honesty as the nature of the human condition--and his own person.
I backed my argument (Lennon, chronicler of the human condition and self-inventorialist) with a list of Post-Beatles' Lennon songs and albums, most of which topped the charts at the time and remain iconic. My views accord with every single major music publication, published retrospective, and academic publication, ranging from America's premier academic publication, The New York Review of Books, to the usual suspects, e.g., Rolling Stone, Melody Maker, Time, NYTimes, Le Monde, et al.
So, your charge that I "fawn" over Lennon is literally a crétinous lie.
Likewise, the charge that I devote "half" my arguments to "putting down" the Macca is also churlishly, childishly dishonest on two points: 1) quite literally the word count and lettre count of any of my posts weigh heavily in pointing out the "reaction" vid presenter's lack of knowledge versus the ACTUAL SONGS Lennon recorded that demonstrates irrefutably the fecklessness of said "reaction" vid statements. 2) the "reaction" presenters DO "fawn" over the Macca, revealing their own low-to-middle-brow music tastes, low knowledge base, and dubious critical analytical skills.
It goes like this, Jay: put out a "reaction" vid on any important artist/cultural figure who has impacted world history over the past fifty years, you will get a "reaction." It's matters not a f*****g whit if the "reaction piece" is on James Baldwin, Bell Hooks, Eminem, Dr. Dre, or John Lennon: viewers will expect the presenters to KNOW something of which they speak--and if not, at least have the INTEGRITY and the HONESTY to state so up front, so as to get the discerning viewers' proverbial break and even some of the actual facts, backstory from said viewers.
Or, one can whine, bloviate, fake, fumble, and forfeit, as you have Jay. But it ain't a good look.
Jess Sayen'....
@ksfhhnfan: "What's funny" is that you come up at me with the most witless and stupid series of non sequiturs and actually believe that you have a collection of coherent propositions that entail a bona fide "argument." FOR EXAMPLE, are you really going to stupidly put yourself on record as to claim that the openly bisexual Jann Wenner( in 1970, no less), editor of the then "counterculture" bible, RS, was as "straight.
LOL. You don't even know what a "straight" is, connard.
You base your mangled claim that "Klein" wrote the "best line" in How Do You Sleep solely on the claim of one Felix Dennis, who has all of Z-E-R-O corroborating witnesses, Z-E-R-O studio notes, Z-E-R-O claims from Klein himself, a notoriously, loathsome and litigious mountebank and parasite who would have claimed that he composed all of Stravinsky's pieces if he could have gotten away with it.
Likewise, your claim about "most of Paul's hits" is also incredibly, ineffably stupid, in that (a) NONE of Macca's mere "hits" has either the iconic power of "Imagine" or the scathing, ineluctable annihilating force of "How Do You Sleep" and (b) Chapman assassinated Lennon in 1980, whereas the moribund, banal, and unspeakably middle-of-the-road Macca lived to insult the discerning listener's intelligence, desecrate his own Beatles' legacy, and induce the need for one to listen to gangsta rap and punk ad-nauseum for another forty-one years of his G-d awful excrement that ranged from White condescension and treacle ("Ebony and Ivory") to fatuously awful, unintended self-indictments ("Silly Love Songs") that make the likes of Donny and Marie Osmond seem like George Clinton's and Bootsy Collin's very talented siblings. Some do not suffer fools gladly. BY CONTRAST, I gladly make fools suffer. Now you know .Now, kindly allez-vous faire vous foutre, enfoiré
you sound wack bro
Nice!
its interesting to note that the only time they 'heart' something is when its rather derogatory towards Lennon. speaks volumes on the objectivity. don't expect to get an open review, especially as they started with what is often called his weakest album in Mind Games, although I think a lot of that is due to poor production and mix, but that's just me.
C + ???????????????? Your joking...................Lennon was the single most influential musician from early 60s to today.
You guys like Taylor Swift 💀
i like lennon in the Beatles then the first 2 solo albums but that it. not a fan of mind games walls and
bridges or double fantasy.
Love #9 Dream ! 🤡
Silly
John Lennon could write beautiful songs . Far too often John’s lyrics are just gibberish put to a very good music background. Mind Games is a classic example of that . “Doing the mind Guerrilla” What ? “Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind” ?What? . That’s just two lines . My biggest issue with this song is it just plods forward.
Like Imagine , it just drones on with no real rhythmic difference from start to finish. Plenty better Lennon songs
Mind games forever
No
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Yes and its ok cause you’re entitled to your opinion too
You don't like LENNON. I just unsubcribed
Rgr. Bye.
Please react to his Lennon's.. " #9 dream" and " Give me some truth".🪲🍏🙏🩵🕊