{"id":1746,"date":"2011-03-17T21:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:55:34","slug":"john-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/john-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN LENNON"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>J<\/strong>OHN LENNON<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gimme Some Truth <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Capitol]<\/p>\n

BOX SET REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLook at me,\u201d sang John Lennon in 1970, with the Beatles\u2019 bitter breakup just behind him and an uncertain new decade ahead. \u201cWhat am I supposed to be?\u201d Every great songwriter asks that question in one way or another, but few do so with the ruthless honesty with which Lennon pursued it through a solo career rich with contradictory impulses, wild course corrections and\u2014of course\u2014an abundance of terrific songs.
\nThis four-disc box set charts Lennon\u2019s course through his final decade by reshuffling his body of work thematically\u2014one disc each is devoted to songs keyed off social issues (\u201cWorking Class Hero\u201d), women (\u201cWoman,\u201d natch), self-examination (\u201cBorrowed Time\u201d) and his early influences (\u201cRoots,\u201d essentially an expansion of the 1975 covers album Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll<\/em>).\u00a0 The juxtapositions are occasionally intriguing, and lesser-known tracks like \u201cOh My Love\u201d and \u201cSteel and Glass\u201d sound surprisingly strong interspersed with Lennon\u2019s acknowledged classics, but anyone looking for rare or previously unreleased material will be disappointed. Never mind that\u2014the real draw here is the jaw-droppingly lustrous sound quality. Gimme Some Truth<\/em> sounds immensely richer and fuller than any previous release of these songs. The reissue campaign that brings us this set also includes a 12-CD box, a one- or two-disc hits compilation and individual rereleases of each solo album, all blessedly unaffected by the excessive loudness, needless remixing and artwork and track-list fiddling that marred the most recent round of Lennon reissues in the early 2000s. In any configuration, the music made during John Lennon\u2019s tragically brief solo career sounds better than ever. \u2013CN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JOHN LENNON Gimme Some Truth [Capitol] BOX SET REVIEW \u201cLook at me,\u201d sang John Lennon in 1970, with the Beatles\u2019 bitter breakup just behind him and an uncertain new decade ahead. \u201cWhat am I supposed to be?\u201d Every great songwriter asks that question in one way or another, but few do so with the ruthless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1270,514,1272,1271,1175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}