John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo album by English musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970, after Lennon had issued three experimental albums with Yoko Onoand Live Peace in Toronto 1969, a live performance in Toronto credited to the Plastic Ono Band. The album was recorded simultaneously with Ono's debut avant-garde solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team and nearly identical cover artwork. - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1971 - This one will grow on you. There’s something happening here.
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BBC
2010 - Lennon’s solo debut is still grossly underrated.
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All Music
Few albums are ever as harrowing, difficult, and rewarding as John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
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Classic Rock Review
2015 - Unlike any other that Lennon had recorded within or beyond the Beatles, this album was raw and forthright lyrically and stripped to the bare essentials musically.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2015 - This was his demolition of everything the previous decade had stood for, a hard-eyed confrontation with the demons that hounded him and a piercing cry for whatever love remained.
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Sputnik Music
2010 - I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”
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American Songwriter
2008 - After releasing a few avant-garde records, Plastic Ono Band was the album that marked Lennon’s true birth as a solo artist, breaking away from what he then felt was the straight-jacket of his Beatles past.
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Robert Christgau
And left out in the open, without protective harmonies or racket, Lennon's singing takes on an expressive specificity that anyone in search of the century's great vocal performances would be foolish to overlook.
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Nick Bollinger's
2000 - Plastic Ono Band sustains from start to finish an intensity that no Beatles album can match.
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Spill Magazine
Again, not for everyone’s taste, but if you want to hear the origins of punk, here it is.
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George Starostin's Reviews
The best in underproduced rock. Comes straight from the heart and gets straight to the point.
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Classic Rock Review
2013 - Though the album is at times more impressive than enjoyable and it sometimes shows its age during its more corny hippy-ish sounding declarations.
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Record Collector Magazine
Letting it all out for the world to hear
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