I think what strikes me most about Lennon's recordings of this song is that he applied minimal frills, unlike many of the artists who covered it. He almost speaks the song as opposed to sings it, directly to his audience. There's a purity there.
Lennon channeling his inner Lenin. Simply put, it is an ode to Communism song by a capitalist pig who used to beat his wives while preaching to the rest of us peasants.
@@hw343434 Well, a certain Macca was also capable of doing that. No surprise they actually became relatively close friends (euphemistacally speaking) :-)
It's good to be reminded of how beautiful and iconic is this song. I was a very early teen when it was released, and throughout my life it has been so ubiquitous as to almost become background music. So good that you sometimes forget how good it really is. I remember laughing about how, in a 5-6 year stretch through my high school years, about 30% of all high school prom dances in the country were themed to this song, and then later stopping to realize all over again that yah, the song was that good. Thanks, John.
Inspired by early rock 'n' roll singers like Little Richard, he shouted the lyrics on the recording of "Twist and Shout". Unfortunately, he hurt himself because he lacked technique.
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What is beautiful about imagining there is no heaven? Heaven offers eternal life in paradise with other friends and family who also believe. If there is no heaven all you get is this short life on this troubled planet and then death, nothing. Everything you have learned or earned, everything you have bought or built, everyone you have known or loved. Without heaven everything is lost and if you teach your children not to believe you ensure that they lose everything too. Without heaven this life is for losers.
You can also look at the song this way - All of the things he is pointing out : invisible borders, the ability of the human ego to own anything, differing systems of religious thought, etc. - are things that we have already been programed by society to imagine as a way of life. All we have to do is stop imagining things that give us a false sense of security - but how scary would that be?
IMAGINE by John "Lennon was inspired by several poems from wife Yoko Ono's 1964 book Grapefruit... Lennon later explained that the song "should be credited as a Lennon/Ono song. A lot of it - the lyric and the concept - came from Yoko, but in those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted her contribution, but it was right out of Grapefruit." "Lennon composed the song one morning in early 1971. It was written on a Steinway piano, in a bedroom at his Tittenhurst Park home in Ascot. Yoko Ono watched on as he composed the melody, chords and most of the lyrics, and nearly completed the whole song in one short writing session." Taken from "The Story of... 'Imagine' by John Lennon" by Tom Eames (October 2020).
The amazing thing is, that this guy, who had one of the best voices in rock music, never liked his own voice, and always wanted George Martin to do something, to make it sound different
Most people don’t get this song at all. They use it to justify their views instead and miss the entire point of the song. John Lennon isn’t saying imagine these things don’t exist because he wishes they didn’t, but rather stating that if we only for one moment considered that they might not, then maybe, just maybe we might find what is most important in life. Also, that we might find ourselves, rather than just what others tell us is ourselves.
Hey Beth I love your reactions Can you please react to If I Can Dream by Elvis It was a tribute to Martin Luther King Elvis really pours his heart out. Thank you Beth You are the best God bless you
I know you like Neil Young (me, too). He covered this for "The Concert for New York" in October of 2001 after 9/11. It's one of my favorite covers of this song.
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the people Livin' for today Ah Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace You You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
Lennon was a seeker, and sometimes the questions or ideas--as is the case here--outweighed the melody. Personally, "Working Class Hero" was my all-time favorite by him. Thanks Beth, for doing this song.
Please remember only now does Yoko get credit for the lyrics. Why didn't she get that at the time? Poor lady has suffered so much racist misogyny, on top of being a widow.
Imagine mankind would be able to learn from history! I think mankind tries but in the end is still only nature!! Imagine the last light has died. Looking from the outside what has then been the greatest thing mankind has achieved? For me LOVE! Make it count!!
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I've always particularly thought the part about imagining the world without countries as being a way to bridge the gap between people and bring the world together. John must be looking down, now, and wondering why we haven't heeded his message?
A Perfect Circle covered this and I've always felt each version held its own place. Lennon's comes across as hopeful and a little bitter sweet but Maynard's version is more haunting and gloomy. Almost as if the original was a warning and the latter is telling us time's up.
She produced a lot of Johns solo work. Even if you don’t like her art it’s undeniable that she had some impact. The B-52s name her as one of their inspirations
Why do we have to analyze everything? Just accept it for what it is, a beautiful poetic message in a song. It requires no build-up or explanation by anyone. Probably Lennon's best.
I’m a big Beatles fan and of their solo careers, and I know this song is popular, but John asks us to imagine a world that doesn’t exist and that will never exist. As an idealistic art piece it has its place, however one will never discover what is important in life using the method John suggests. John describes a surrealistic world where all is peace and love and no one is in need and we’re all one unified personhood. But even the world that John paints in this song would have just as many, if not more, issues as the world has now or has ever had. His song is progressive nonsense.
I don't usually read through the comments, but I did for this one. I was expecting negative comments concerning communism, religion and even personal attacks on the man himself. Sadly, my suspicions were proven correct.
Please react to Miley Cyrus' version of Like a prayer from her live album/ the live video, I think it is so incredibly good, yet no one has reacted to it yet!!
It's a voice coach doing reactions, and stopping a video to comment, just like she would likely stop a singer to work on some aspect of something just sung that needs addressing for improvement, until it is understood and corrected. If you want to hear the whole song, uninterrupted, there are videos of it all over YT. If you come to a reaction or analysis video, this is what you are going to get, because that is how this works. C'mon, do you really need me to tell you this?
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As a Metalhead I can appreciate your reaction videos ... but I think I speak for a lot of people when I say we're sick and tired of this song ( Original and remixes included ) :)
Really don't understand the appeal of this artist or this song... John Lennon was a wife beating maniac who's "best song" is literally a hate song about how great the world would be if everyone agreed with exactly what he thought.... neat?
Wait, "Imagine there's no Heaven?" I don't know about that, so he's saying this is it, if your life kinda sucks or does suck and whatever you do you can't make it better or just change it to a different suck. Oh, I hope not. People in that sit got to believe there is a heaven, so they can handle the miserable life they live in. This was a bad John Lennon to analyze.
False narrative. Which heaven are you talking about? Yours, mine, are one of the other millions and millions of gods and heavens. Who decides that? I prefer none. Reality rules.
"got to believe there is a heaven" No, they don't. I hear this often from Christians, and it is garbage, at least for some of us. Sucks and miserable? I feel sorry for you, Christian or otherwise, and I don't mean that flippantly. Also the common "if we didn't have religion how would anyone behave properly and how would we have morals, people would be killing each other everywhere"...again, utter garbage. I might even point of that religion has either been the cause or the excuse, perverting it in the last case, for MANY wars on this planet. "This was a bad Lennon to analyze" For you, maybe. For those of us that prefer to apply logic, experience, and a lack of gullibility, rather than hope and belief based on absolutely nothing, not so much. I am not in agreement with a lot of it, but at a minimum it is food for thought. I was inculcated as a Christian once, and a serious one, choir twice a week, Church, often two services on Sunday, Wednesday night dinners, Sunday school, at least occasionally, and a real belief. And then I really thought about it once or twice when I grew up and thought, you gotta be kidding, this makes absolutely no sense in virtually any respect of the supernatural parts, and the explanations of portents in the sky, plagues, floods, sickness, all the other nonsense in there is patently ridiculously wrong, and wholly ignorant. And I also might point out that you started it. Believe what you will, but don't foist your needs and wants on others, that really does irritate me, especially when people do it with their nose three feet in the air (not you, here, at all, but frequently others. That strikes me exactly like the flat Earthers, thinking that they are superior, knowing something that I don't...far and away most likely it is the other way round, wrt the religion, wrt the shape (or age) of the Earth they are 100% wrong, zero question. They walk around constantly spouting scientific words that they don't even understand to the shallowest of levels, and that usually don't apply to what they are supposedly supporting in the tiniest bit. And DON'T pray for me, that has got to be the dumbest response to "I don't believe" that I have ever heard in my entire life.
Be sober minded with this song although it appeals to many of us we already have the contents of this song and it has brought us to ruin. We have people in countries without possessions Pakistan India and others. We have atheists by the Millions Hoover abandoned God and the church and has corrupted morality and decency. And we have our fill of those who hate our country and show contempt for our country and our traditions. The song asks you to ponder or imagine but we don't have to imagine we already have it and we've had it for a long time no religion no possessions and no God and no country and look where has gotten us I'll say that again look carefully the state of our condition things could not be worse because we have abandoned God tradition family honor and Country why because of a song it's bigger than that we have all been led down the path of a false freedom that puts pleasure and Delight ahead of everything else and has glorified man rather than God.
Gotta love the juxtaposition of a song about peace and harmony coming from a wife beater lmao A talented wife beater, but one nonetheless... Can you tell I don't much care for Lennon?
Do you like Michael Jackson, because he did things that were FAR worse? An adult SHOULD have the sense to depart the very first time that happens. If they don't, they really have no reason to gripe about subsequent beatings, and no, I've never beaten anybody, and despise those who do. Kids, on the other hand, do NOT have the experience, knowledge, and confidence to report sexual abuse.
@@hw343434 Quote from the man himself: "I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace" Womp womp
@@NoExitLoveNow I’m not the original commenter, but I can say that for myself i think it’s an idealistic look at a world that won’t ever exist. I can understand the longing for a world where we all get along, but that’s never going to happen. There will always be disagreements.
This song always seems to go over people's heads. The message of the song is not "peace". The message of the song is "imagine" i.e., the concept of imagining and its causality between non-reality and reality. Anything ever made by any man started by being imagined - That is the message of the song - If you can imagine something it has the potential of becoming reality. The song is ingenious and deeply profound.
@@JoeyBaby47 No, because that comment was nothing more than an ad hominem fallacy. We all have subjective tastes in the arts, but at least explain why you feel the way you do rather than casting vague insults. And BTW, your comments are simply strawman fallacies.
