"Imagine" is so hypocritical if it is analyzed. "No possessions..." but I have always enjoyed the Beatles and their solo work (except for that horrid McCartney stuff with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson). A few days ago, I heard Rush Limbaugh talk about The Pretenders "My City was Gone" which is about Ohio. Rush played the entire song in election thanks to Ohio. He often plays that song as his intro and he discussed the liberal ideology to the song but he still enjoys it. I do, too.
What's really ironic about including "Imagine" on this list is that Lennon himself probably didn't even consider it a great song. There's a DJ on a classic rock station here in New York who once said that his fondest memory of John Lennon was that every time he saw Lennon driving around New York City, Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" always seemed to be emanating from the stereo in Lennon's Bentley. This DJ is convinced that Lennon went to his grave wishing he had written that song.