BEAUTIFUL MINT '70 Orig JOHN LENNON Plastic Ono BEATLES

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      MINT IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAP

     A FANTASTIC 1970 FIRST PRESSING

    John Lennon Plastic Ono Band

                      ...USA - APPLE RECORDS - SW 3372

Co-produced by Phil Spector, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band shows John Lennon striving to demolish every icon in sight -- be it Krishna, Jesus, sex, dope, or the Beatles. While George had told us that the world of our senses is pure illusion ("beware of maya"), John takes exactly the opposite tack, dismissing mysticism as "pie in the sky," another drug to dull the pain of reality. Lennon's music on this album is as raw and claustrophobic as George's All Things Must Pass was lush, expansive, and uplifting.

Plastic Ono Band sounds more like a demo than a Spector production; surely Phil has never been kept on so tight a rein. Many of the tracks were captured in just one "take," and most feature only two instruments besides John's piano and guitar: Ringo's drums, and the bass of Klaus Voormann, who at the time was cited in numerous "scoops" as McCartney's replacement in a new Beatle line-up.

The albums' impact on Lennon is clearly reflected in a harrowing journey through John's past, Plastic Ono Band leaves the bare wires of his ravaged emotions exposed as never before or since. Songs like John's self-proclaimed revolutionary anthem, "Working Class Hero" -- whose melody and solitary droning acoustic guitar recall the angry young Dylan of almost a decade earlier -- closely echo Dr. Janov's theories. "Well Well Well" and the "Mama don't go, Daddy come home" segment of "Mother" climax with screams;  they are certainly chilling.

"Mother," possibly Plastic Ono Band's most powerful piece, opens the album with the tolling of funeral bells, as if to symbolize the casting off of John's past (elsewhere he sings "now I'm reborn... I was the walrus, but now I'm John"), then introduces a sledghammer rhythm so slow and so taut that it threatens to snap under the tension.

But the most intimate and scary moment of all is the last: the 48-second "My Mummy's Dead," set to the crushingly banal tune of "Three Blind Mice." This is preceded by Plastic Ono Band's big statement, "God," in which Lennon renounces by name all the myths he has ever believed in: magic, Bible, mantra, Gita, Kennedy, Elvis. Like the layers of an onion these are peeled away one by one, and after the climactic "I don't believe in Beatles" all that's left is: "I just believe in me."

In his Plastic Ono Band John takes the honesty of his last Beatle songs as far as it can possibly be taken, wrenching each word and note straight from the gut. At the time, Lennon told Jann Wenner: "The poetry on this album is superior to anything I've ever done because it's not self-conscious...." Of the equally minimalistic music he said: "I always liked simple rock.... I was influenced by acid and got psychedelic like the whole generation... but when you just listen, the piano does it all for you, your mind can do the rest.... I don't need anything else."

John called the album his "Sgt. Lennon," and many critics seemed to agree with him. Yet Plastic Ono Band's impact owed as much, if not more, to non-musical factors as any Beatle record had. Many of his new songs were like unpolished entries in the most private of diaries; their meaning, or lack of it, depended upon the nature of the listener's relationship with John Lennon. If only within the context of the man and his previous work, Plastic Ono Band was a powerful, fascinating and at times heartbreaking document.

1. "Mother" – 5:34
2. "Hold On" – 1:52
3. "I Found Out" – 3:37
4. "Working Class Hero" – 3:48
5. "Isolation" – 2:51

6. "Remember" – 4:33
7. "Love" – 3:21
8. "Well Well Well" – 5:59
9. "Look at Me" – 2:53
10. "God" – 4:09
11. "My Mummy's Dead" – 0:49

CONDITION: The cover is all clean and solid MINT in original factory shrink wrap (still has the original store sticker on the outside cellophane, removable if desired)  - a perfect 40 year old copy having NO bends, no split seams and no writing. TOPS!

The vinyl is all clean and glossy clear M (-) about as nice as you could hope for.

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