Yesterday morning I had to wake up early to work on a paper, and instead of working on it, I got all caught up in listening to John Lennon bleed out on this album, his post-Beatles cleansing. We had to share it.
From John Peel:
It is nice to be, as Derek Taylor pointed out last week, a member of the Plastic Ono Band. If you remember, you are too - our first hit record and it is a good feeling. Play it somewhere friendly, and sing along and it does feel right.
Sometimes you must read the papers or hear the radio or even watch the degrading spectacle of television (remember when television had a capital "t"?) and feel sad at the cruelty, the stupidity and the selfishness of a great number of those with whom we share this planet. They will take it from us if we don't stop them. Then think, when you are saddened, about some of the good people who breathe the same air you do, who walk the same land you do and who see the same sunshine and feel the same rain as you. Most of them you'll never see or meet or know-but they're there and you'd like them, love them if you did meet then. John Lennon and Yoko are two of them.
I don't know the other Beatles - I've only met John and his lady twice and briefly. However I honestly feel as close to Yoko and John as I do to any other people on earth. To talk to the two of them is to talk to one person which sounds daft but isn't. The chances are good, that you'll never meet them and I probably won't again. It doesn't matter much anyway because it is a joy to know that they are alive somewhere. It is a joy to know that so many good and thoughtful people are alive somewhere - and some are no longer alive in the very narrowness of the idea of "living." It is good to know that YOU are alive. Perhaps it's just another record. Apple IS just another company, John and Yoko are just other people. To me it's a magic record and they are magic people.
Technical Information:
Artist: John Lennon
Album: Plastic Ono Band (Japanese Release)
Year: 1970
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 747 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 247 MB
Length: 0:46:25
Personnel:
John Lennon: guitar, piano, vocals
Yoko Ono: wind
Ringo Starr: drums
Klaus Voorman: bass
Tracklisting:
01. Mother (5:37)
02. Hold On (1:52)
03. I Found Out (3:38)
04. Working Class Hero (3:51)
05. Isolation (2:52)
06. Remember (4:36)
07. Love (3:24)
08. Well Well Well (6:00)
09. Look At Me (2:56)
10. God (4:11)
11. My Mummy's Dead (0:59)
Bonus tracks:
12. Power to the People (3:23)
13. Do the Oz (3:08)
Thanks to Gregor for the original upload!
Plastic Ono Band Megaupload Link