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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: sparklite2

“We Built This City on Rock & Roll”. Hands down the absolut worst.

I saw Starship (ok Mickey Thomas and a bunch of unknowns. The guy playing guitar actually collapsed back stage of a heart attack and died right after their set) a few years ago and when they played that song my wife giggled through the whole song because she knows how much I hate that song. And no I didnt go to see them, they were opening up for Boston who I did go to see.


21 posted on 10/28/2016 12:22:05 PM PDT by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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To: sparklite2

There are many, many worse...

Afternoon Delight-Starland Vocal Band
Dream Weaver-Gary Wright
I Am Woman-Helen Reddy
Morning After-Maureen McGovern
MacArthur Park-Richard Harris
You Light Up My Life-Debbie Boone

...just to name a few.


22 posted on 10/28/2016 12:22:56 PM PDT by rwfok
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To: sparklite2
What, no "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty?

No "Free Bird" by Lynryd Skynyrd?

For the record, both are in my iPod, but these two songs seemingly appear on "worst" lists all the time.

Overall, I think the list sucks. There a some I agree with, but there are a lot of rock classics on that list that were shown no respect.

23 posted on 10/28/2016 12:23:51 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: sparklite2

What I really love is when you’re at some sort of ecumenical event and some doofus sings Imagine followed by Kumbaya.

Either song causes me to stand up and leave.

I’ve learned to know before I go in what’s probably coming and don’t bother to attend.

My least favorite song in the world is Last Christmas. I run a Trail Life USA troop and someone (my son) told the boys in the troop, so at least once a meeting, they sing it to me. Unngggghhhh


24 posted on 10/28/2016 12:23:54 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: Gay State Conservative

You need to research a bit more, Lennon died a Capitalist, that for fun would debated economics with Socialist.


25 posted on 10/28/2016 12:24:22 PM PDT by heights
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To: sparklite2

I love you, you love me, we’re a happy family...


26 posted on 10/28/2016 12:25:49 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I’d say it’s neck & neck with that ballad of unbridled hubris, “I did it my way”.


27 posted on 10/28/2016 12:26:09 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: sparklite2

Nothing like a millionaire praising a socialist nihilist utopia he chose not to live. But ...Imagine has to tie with....Muskrat Love!


28 posted on 10/28/2016 12:26:11 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam- it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

American Pie is on the list, at the source.


29 posted on 10/28/2016 12:26:27 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Ok, I found Baker Street, because he was listed under G, and not R.


30 posted on 10/28/2016 12:27:05 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: sparklite2
Is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ the worst song of all time?

YES!


31 posted on 10/28/2016 12:28:07 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: heights
...that for fun would debated economics with Socialist.

That song sounded totally serious to me....and to millions and millions of others.Why do you think that visitors to Strawberry Fields (across from The Dakota...I've been there) sing that when they break into song?

32 posted on 10/28/2016 12:28:43 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: sparklite2
Is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ the worst song of all time?

YES. It is my most hated song by far.
33 posted on 10/28/2016 12:29:21 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: rwfok

Every song ever written and/or sung by Yoko Ono is worse than all of those and “Imagine.”


34 posted on 10/28/2016 12:29:23 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Night Hides Not
No "Free Bird" by Lynryd Skynyrd?

You're joking, right?

35 posted on 10/28/2016 12:29:27 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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To: sparklite2
Musically it's a very beautiful song.

Some people pay more attention to lyrics and obviously the lyrics are going to divide people, to begin with religious people and atheists.

36 posted on 10/28/2016 12:29:39 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: Cecily

I knew better than to subject myself to Yoko Ono.


37 posted on 10/28/2016 12:31:19 PM PDT by rwfok
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To: ClearBlueSky
Nothing like a millionaire praising a socialist nihilist utopia he chose not to live. But ...Imagine has to tie with....Muskrat Love!

Whoa, I had forgotten Muskrat Love. Just terrible...BOTH VERSIONS.

38 posted on 10/28/2016 12:31:46 PM PDT by SIDENET (Tagline free is no way to go through life, son.)
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To: sparklite2
Imagine is very annoying. But I don't despise it as much as the hippie ditty "Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign". Whenever that pops up on the radio I change stations. But not before imagining the long haired freaky people singer standing boldly at my fence line bracketed in the crosshairs of my rifle scope. "Here's a sign for you, a$$hole".
39 posted on 10/28/2016 12:32:04 PM PDT by katana
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To: rwfok

You make some good points there, and I’m extremely you did not - even passively - insult me by adding to your list some of my all-time favorite songs:

Escape (The Piña Colada Song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5_EIikdFr8

My Girl Bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHGV3PhEg5c

-— So thank you for that!


40 posted on 10/28/2016 12:32:17 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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