Anthology

John Lennon - Anthology

Anthology
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Artist: John Lennon
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  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 Donít Want To Be A Soldier
  19. Give Peace A Chance
  20. Look At Me
  21. Long Lost John
Music CD 2
  1. New York City
  2. Attica State (live)
  3. Imagine (live)
  4. Bring On The Lucie
  5. Woman Is The Nigger of The World
  6. Geraldo Rivera - One to One Concert
  7. Woman Is The Nigger of The World (live)
  8. It's So Hard (live)
  9. Come Together (live)
  10. Happy Xmas
  11. Luck of the Irish (live)
  12. John Sinclair (live)
  13. The David Frost Show
  14. Mind Games (I Promise)
  15. Mind Games (Make Love, Not War)
  16. One Day At A Time
  17. I Know
  18. I'm The Greatest
  19. Goodnight Vienna
  20. Jerry Lewis Telethon
  21. "A Kiss Is Just A Kiss"
  22. Real Love
  23. You Are Here
Music CD 3
  1. What You Got
  2. Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out
  3. Whatever Gets You Through the Night (home)
  4. Whatever Gets You Through the Night (studio)
  5. Yesterday (parody)
  6. Be Bop A Lula
  7. Rip It Up/Ready Teddy
  8. Scared
  9. Steel And Glass
  10. Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
  11. Bless You
  12. Going Down On Love
  13. Move Over Ms. L
  14. Ainít She Sweet
  15. Slippiní And Slidin'
  16. Peggy Sue
  17. Bring It On Home To Me/ Send Me Some Lovin'
  18. Phil and John 1
  19. Phil and John 2
  20. Phil and John 3
  21. "When In Doubt, Fuck It"
  22. Be My Baby
  23. Stranger's Room
  24. Old Dirt Road
Music CD 4
  1. I'm Losing You
  2. Seans "Little Help"
  3. Serve Yourself
  4. My Life
  5. Nobody Told Me
  6. Life Begins At 40
  7. I Don't Wanna Face It
  8. Woman
  9. Dear Yoko
  10. Watching the Wheels
  11. I'm Stepping Out
  12. Borrowed Time
  13. The Rishi Kesh Song
  14. Sean's "Loud"
  15. Beautiful Boy
  16. Mr. Hyde's Gone (Don't Be Afraid)
  17. Only You
  18. Grow Old With Me
  19. Dear John
  20. The Great Wok
  21. Mucho Mungo
  22. Satire 1
  23. Satire 2
  24. Satire 3
  25. Sean's "In The Sky"
  26. It's Real

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Free Music Review: Portrait of Lennon as a Young Artist
Hit: 5 Stars

To reiterate the wealth of information already known about John Lennon would be pedestrian and futile; his childhood, the Beatles and his premature death have been recounted time and again. However, these are cold facts and have little to say about the artist as a man or human being. Whether through the ink on a page or in the image of a photo as seen by an objective lense, the icon remains removed from his public. This is where the genius of "The John Lennon Anthology" comes into play; Through a series of four CDs, the listener grows acquainted with Lennon the family man; Lennon the studio technician; Lennon the political activist; Lennon the angry iconoclast. It is the intimate portrait of a legend as told through his widow, his music and the artist himself. Each CD is broken down into specific time periods in Lennon's life. The first, labeled "Ascot", begins with several outtakes and alternative versions of songs found on his first solo album, 1970's masterpiece, "Plastic Ono Band", which had been recorded as a result of undergoing primal scream therapy. The songs are simple and unadorned of Phil Spector's eventual accompaniment; they move from the emotional introspection of "God" and "Isolation" to the growing political consciousness of songs like "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" and "Give Peace A Chance". Disc 2,New York City, begins in 1972 and fleshes out Lennon's social awareness with startling, blistering live versions of "Attica State"and "John Sinclair". It also contains alternative versions of protest songs "Bring on the Lucie", "Woman is the Nigger of the World" and "Happy XMas (War is Over)". Disc 3, titled The Lost Weekend, covers the year and a half Lennon spent separated from his wife. Prior to this period, Ono's daughter had been kidnapped, he had been arrested for drug possession, and the FBI had been building a file on him because of his political views. The resulting music, much of it eventually included on "Walls and Bridges", is stark and ghostly, speaking of isolation and abandonment. Songs like "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out", "Scared" and "Stranger's Room" are presented as frightening insight into Lennon's state of mind. Disc 4, Dakota, takes a look at Lennon's life during 1979 and 1980, before his tragic end. Though the required songs are all here ("Nobody Told Me", "Woman", "Watching the Wheels" and "I'm Stepping Out"), the real interest can be found in the recorded conversations between Lennon and his young son Sean, and the scathingly satirical Dylan impersonations included near the end of the disc. Obviously, the scope of this box set feels immense (though it covers only 10 years) and it takes a few listens to find the complete picture. Having done so, however, the listener is finally introduced to Lennon the man. It's been a long time coming. Personal Favorites: Disc One: the bare-bones vehemence of "Working Class Hero"; Disc Two: the frenzied passion in Lennon's performance of "Attica State" at the Apollo Theater; Disc Three: the haunting "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out"; Disc Four: the frenetic, heavily-accented "Serve Yourself". Representative Lyrics: "God is a concept/ by which we measure our pain" ("God"); "If you had the luck of the Irish/ You'd be sorry and wish you were dead/ You should have the luck of the Irish/ And you'd wish you was English instead!" ("Luck of the Irish"); "Grow old along with me/ Two branches of one tree/ Face the setting sun/ When the day is done/ God bless our love." ("Grow Old With Me")
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John the primal screamer, John the street politician, John the L.A. party boy, and John the house husband. The John Lennon Anthology provides a window into all those phases of the artist's post-Beatles career. Compiled under the watchful eye of Yoko Ono, this rich stash of demos, studio outtakes and chatter, and live and alternate versions serves as both historical artifact and source of entertainment. --Steven Stolder
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 stock 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." (Contrary to a stage announcement preceding the latter, it's not this failed anthem that has ensured the ongoing memory of the prison massacre.)

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 humor--the outlines of "I'm the Greatest" and "Goodnight Vienna" for Ringo, the loose-as-a-goose "Be Bop a Lula"--and pleasingly bad, like "Serve Yourself," a snipe at Dylan's born-again phase, or some battling studio exchanges with a Phil Spector crazed enough to drive anyone out of the business for half a decade. 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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