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Is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ the worst song of all time?
New York Post ^ | October 28, 2016 | Hardeep Phull

Posted on 10/28/2016 12:12:53 PM PDT by sparklite2

“Dear Twitter,” he posted. “What is the song you most detest and despise? Thank you.”

Within 48 hours, the bemused Brit, who had only around 1,000 Twitter followers, had received several thousand nominations from all over the world, and Lennon’s ballad was a repeat offender.

“I think it’s the whole idea of talking about poverty and misery, while John was actually hanging around in his palatial New York townhouse,” Carter tells The Post. “It’s the duplicity of the whole thing.”

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To: Gay State Conservative

And why did John move to NYC? He “imagined” no taxes.


101 posted on 10/28/2016 1:22:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: tbpiper
I’d say it’s neck & neck with that ballad of unbridled hubris, “I did it my way”.

I prefer the Sid Vicious version.

102 posted on 10/28/2016 1:25:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: chris37

You cannot possibly top this if you tried.

Paralyzed - The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEZAivzl1Q


103 posted on 10/28/2016 1:27:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dp0622

Forgot to ping you to this one. I’m sure you must have an opinion on worst songs. ;-)


104 posted on 10/28/2016 1:27:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: sparklite2

Are there any Genesis fans here? Even though the Phil Collins era was not completely bad (as I like “And Then There Were Three” in particular), the Gabriel/Hackett era was still just that much better, as I have “Foxtrot” and “Selling England by the Pound” on original Charisma/Buddha vinyl.


105 posted on 10/28/2016 1:28:15 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

ANY of yoko ono’s songs on Lennon’s albums!!!!


106 posted on 10/28/2016 1:28:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: mad_as_he$$
"Is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ the worst song of all time?"

Only if it's sung by Yoko.
(Then it moves up from 2nd worse)

107 posted on 10/28/2016 1:29:38 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: sparklite2

all hip hop is like torture to me


108 posted on 10/28/2016 1:30:14 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Genoa
Hey Jude

Yep. hands down.

109 posted on 10/28/2016 1:34:30 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: Genoa
Hey Jude

It's about 7 minutes too long, for starters.

110 posted on 10/28/2016 1:39:30 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

It’s certainly up there.


111 posted on 10/28/2016 1:40:45 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: dfwgator

Wait, wait wait... somehow, I actually enjoyed that :O

I sat there with a grin on my face as I listened, as opposed to a WTF look when I listen to the Mumble Song, and a look of utter disgust when I listen to the Teaches of Peaches (BARF!)

This one was pretty good, might be fun at a party!


112 posted on 10/28/2016 1:43:35 PM PDT by chris37 (It's time to burn the GOP down.)
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To: sparklite2

“The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” is horrible, and the video is worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU


113 posted on 10/28/2016 1:44:11 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: sparklite2

“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” - The Clash

“If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double...”

Well, there’s your answer.


114 posted on 10/28/2016 1:46:43 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: OttawaFreeper

I just got Phil’s autobiography, it’s amazing that The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway turned out to be so good in spite of all the turmoil that was going on when it was made.

I must say though, A Trick of the Tail, is my favorite Genesis album, really showed they could carry on without Gabriel. And I prefer Phil’s live version of “Supper’s Ready” over Gabriel’s.


115 posted on 10/28/2016 1:47:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

John Lennon thought that Yoko’s style of singing was vindicated when The B-52’s came along. How could someone as musically gifted as John Lennon not hear that Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson could sing, scream and “shriek” in key? Yoko could not.


116 posted on 10/28/2016 1:50:35 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

What kind of country is this where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f...... bullet....Explain THAT to me. - Dennis Leary


117 posted on 10/28/2016 1:51:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: OttawaFreeper
What about Don McLean’s “American Pie”?

American Pie is all about my youth. I guess not everybody gets it, but that's OK.

As a kid (12) I used to go to the Hobo camps in Redding CA by the railroad tracks. My cousins and I would sit by the fire and listen to their stories and just talk to them. Don't remember any booze but after 30 minutes or so we would ask them for money because we wanted to go play pool. They always gave us something. It was a different America then and the song sort of captures it for me.

118 posted on 10/28/2016 1:53:27 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

Hey Jude by Wilson Pickett & Duane Allman = Awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8Q2PATVyI


119 posted on 10/28/2016 1:57:03 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Paddyboy

BWAAAHAA!


120 posted on 10/28/2016 2:03:54 PM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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