Anthology Box Set (Ltd.Ed)

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Product Details

Artist : John Lennon
Format : Best of, Box set
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724383061426
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 4
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1998-11-03
UPC : 724383061426

ASIN : B00000DG1Q

Track Listings for

Disc-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

Disc-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

Disc-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

Disc-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

Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

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 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".

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

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

Un Essentiel amazon.fr

Il fallait bien un coffret de quatre CD pour résumer la carrière solo et les nombreuses facettes de John Lennon. Du militant engagé dans des combats idéalistes ("Give Peace A Chance", "Imagine") au roi de la ballade à coeur ouvert ("Woman", "Jealous Guy"), du père modèle ("Beautiful Boy") au fou de rock'n'roll (ses reprises de "Be Bop A Lula" ou Peggy Sue"), le portrait d'un Lennon complexe et empêtré dans ses contradictions émerge de cette anthologie. Compilées par Yoko Ono, ces 92 plages s'adressent tant aux fans qu'aux profanes. Les premiers se délecteront de raretés telles que les démos de futurs classiques, de nouvelles versions des standards des Beatles (l'entendre déclamer "Yesterday" vaut son pesant d'or) et les chansons que Papa Lennon faisait enregistrer à son fiston Sean. Les seconds découvriront un artiste majeur dans l'histoire du rock, mélodiste imparable, parolier sensible maniant avec finesse humour et ironie, interprète fin et effacé derrière ses créations. --Isabelle Chelley

Customer Reviews

Load of rubbish and average demos ! (2004-07-20)

This is the most ridiculous time and money wasting box set I've come across. Mind you, I'm a Lennon fan, and I own all of his official releases. This is a definite far cry from the 6 CDs of Beatles' Anthology as a comparison. This box set serves to satisfy only the fanatical Lennon personality fan, notice that I mention personality fan, NOT a music fan, cause this set is full of non-sensical studio and family chatter.

Most of the alternate takes are rather similar to the final masters released officially. The only really interesting track is "Imagine Take 1" from the 1st disc, with a harmomium backing. Most of the home demos are either short snippets or the sound quality is so bad, there is no point in straining your ear to hear it, anyway again, the demo versions are not much different from the studio takes. The few tracks of John and Yoko talking rots, urghh, that pisses me off. And who would want to hear baby Sean's mumblings ! More than once, that is ! As to John's singing from the newpapers and his other funny mumblings like "The Great Wok", I leave it to you fans, except that I think those are a waste of time as well.

A Glipse Into The World of Winston O' Boogie (2004-06-10)

This four CD set offers up plenty of studio outtakes,unrealesed material and home recordings that offer moreof a glimpse into John Lennon's personal life then in any musical sense.But as music goes this set contains two must-haveLennon versions of songs he penned for Ringo Starr-"I'm TheGreatest" and "Goodnight Vienna".So for the true fan this boxis a treasure!

A great collection (2004-05-05)

I bought this Anthology just a couple of months ago and can't stop listening to it. This collection is not merely for a hard core Lennon/Beatles fan but for anyone even somewhat familiar with his music. If you are a luke warm Lennon fan, it will win you over. Although I own almost every Beatles and Lennon album, Anthology has many suprises that will not disappoint such as wonderful previously unreleased material (i.e. Mr. Hyde and Dear John) and superior versions of old songs (such as I'm Losing You.) Plus you can hear John's engaging sense of humor and infectuous wit. Although some books claim John was always asking the producer to "bury his voice" and cover it with all sorts of studio tricks, some of his best stuff is his voice accompanied just with a piano or soft accoustic guitar.

I highly recommend this collection.

Love Some Of It, But . . . (2004-04-15)

I'm a bit torn over this box set. I bought this box set at my local HMV, and in typical in-store HMV fashion, it was overpriced. In fact, it cost me just over $100 after taxes. So was it worth it?

Kind of. I love the raw tracks of such early works as "God", "Imagine", "Mother", and "Jealous Guy". The first CD in this set is really good, I love it so much!

2nd CD? It's okay. Nice live versions Of "Women Is . . ." and "Get Back", but most of the album is kinda boring.

3rd CD? I barely listen to it. I can't really point anything out on that one, it's currently collecting dust on my shelf.

4th CD? I love the tracks with his son Sean (only 4 or 5 years old at the time of the recording) and the tracks where John imitates Bob Dylan, ("Satire" #1, 2 and 3)but for the most part I find this dry, besides the versions of "Woman" and "My life" (the original of "(Just Like)Starting Over", no?)

Overall, it's a nice set for any die-hard John Lennon fan to have, but I don't think it's worth ALL the money I spent.

Final judgement? Buy if you adore John Lennon (like me). If you're a casual fan, avoid.

LOST LENNON TAPES (2004-02-14)

I have a sneaking suspicion Yoko Ono released this 4 cd set to stem the tide of bootlegs that have popped up over the years of Lennon's solo work, not to mention to cash in on The Beatles' "Anthology" gravy train. The first disc is in my opinion, the best of the bunch and I have played it 11 times in one week.It is made up of alternate takes of Lennon's first and best few albums after leaving the biggest group of all time. This music is so simple and powerful, I doubt anyone today could come close to this level of honest, painful and personal lyrics and match it with hooks and melody. This guy was unbelievably good. Then on the second disc something goes very wrong. The great lyrics are replaced by shallow political sloganeering like Give Peace A Chance and Attica State and all semblance of melody goes out the window and the singing is strangely strained. Actually, after hearing the second and third disc of this set, Lennon was very wise in laying off for a couple of years because he was creatively running on empty. After a ten year hot streak of writing classics, it is understandable that he was exhausted and tapped out. There are a few classic exchanges with legendary producer/alleged murderer Phil Spector at the end of disc three from the "Rock and Roll" sessions that are almost as painful to listen to as they are funny. Phil is so annoying I don't know how Lennon(or anyone) could put up with him. Disc four bounces back nicely with the "Double Fantasy" and "Milk and Honey" sessions with some cute help from Sean Lennon on a few tracks.Obviously, you have to be a hardcore Lennon fan to shell out the big bucks for a four disc set of outtakes but the sound and quality is so much better than the innumerable bootlegs that this should slake your thirst for all thing Lennon for awhile.

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