John Lennon "I Found Out" / "Isolation" / "Well Well Well" (First Time Reaction)

[@L33Reacts]

Leave it to John to have screaming music like this (him and James Brown!) back in the 70s. Wow. What a sampler of Lennon these three songs are. Pure artistic brilliance and unbridled musical ambition. Always pushing the boundaries... if you have a pick by Lennon you think i'd enjoy, leave it here!

[@akadros310]

Oh Yoko (don't worry she doesn't sing)

[@JosephMan485]

John Lennon - What You Got :P

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier, Mama (I Don't Wanna Die) is considered mandatory by many, myself included👍

[@Uetti]

I suggest Meat City, another great rocker

[@marcusthompson5390]

What You Got, Bring on the Lucie(Freda Peeple), How?….. those are just some of them

[@markwade2530]

As Christmas is round the corner give Lennon's Happy Xmas (War Is Over) a spin.

[@pierretoureille7359]

Literally, the most brutally honest and raw songs ever recorded.

[@titusho2]

I love this raw Lennon so organic and with dynamic Ringo! 🪲🪲🍏two Beatles 🩵 love this album 😂

[@dalemcmillan7231]

This is my favourite John Lennon album. Brilliant. ❤❤❤

[@titusho2]

Yes, it is a very raw, organic Lennon, in the pure raw!! And with dynamic Ringo on drums, two Beatles 🪲🪲🍏😄🙏🩵💚 Klous Vorman on bass an 8th beatle ? 😂🎉

[@redadamearth]

NOBODY had a rock scream like Lennon.

[@L33Reacts]

@@redadamearth I agree. That is a one of a kind scream right there. Even these days that style is not the meta lol he is fully blowing his lungs out here and it sounds amazing

[@Nadia-et2zv]

this album is a masterpiece!

[@stevedahlberg8680]

The guitar part in the middle section reminds me a lot in retrospect of Gang of Four, an iconic British post punk band to emerge several years later.

[@comedyriff5231]

I remember when I first listened to Plastic Ono Band, I didn´t get it. I was into commercial shallow music. As the years have past, I´ve returned to Plastic Ono Band, and now I think it´s THE greatest album in pop/rock history. I think it manifests what art is supposed to be. It´s pure authentic expression, wrestling with himself, society and the spiritual. These kind of albums will never do well on the charts, it will never be the most popular, but as far as I´m concerned, it´s the highest form of art.

[@avarandado]

I know it's unlikely, but I really hope Ringo hears this!

[@warmflash]

I was 14 when this album came out. It sucked the air out me. Fantastic. I'm still listening to it. What an artist. 🙏🙏🙏

[@ChasBeauregarde]

Me too I was 13 amazing !!

[@spinynormanbest6410]

👍 Fabulous, my favourite solo album

[@Moz1011]

Isolation is the most beautiful song.

[@debjorgo]

Great song for the covid shutdown!🙂

[@jnagarya519]

"Isolation" is a fucking GEM.

[@Trunkfish]

Definitely the most important Lennon album

[@stevedahlberg8680]

I am SO effing happy you are getting to these. I know I've mentioned some of them several times as have others. I just think it's really crucial to hear this stuff and see how ahead of its time it was. ❤

[@rousefire]

While my school mates were rockin out to The Osmonds, Jacksons, Partridge family... I was digging the the good stuff. I wore this album out.

[@markwade2530]

This whole album is superb, from Mother to My Mummy's Dead. God, it's good.

[@ddthor]

John spills his guts on this album. Wonderful!

[@kweile4339]

John, more John.... Can't go wrong.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Amazing album.

[@wpreite]

From the screams to the distortion, lyrics and simplicity of the production, this is the first grunge album ever! Well, well, well, Curt Cobain loved John Lennon!

[@genegarrett3372]

after going through primal scream therapy, I feel this album was John's way of exercising his deamons.

[@shiannesmith6877]

John is always such a great listen ❤ he was so brutally honest.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Lee, I can't tell you how much this made my evening. This album meant so much to me and was so revolutionary to me in high school. And now that I've been through so much music and have been a musician for so many years, I appreciate it even more deeply. I hear all kinds of things that it presaged. Just blows me away all over again, and I love all three of these songs. But then again I love this whole album, laugh. 😂

[@corawheeler9355]

I never heard these before ... always finding new music here ... new Lennon wtf lol

[@2407paul]

The song "Remember" will hit you like a hammer!!

[@L33Reacts]

@@2407paul I’ll add it to the list thank you

[@2407paul]

@L33Reacts a piano power trio I have never heart since

[@ricardodinapoli21]

" Remember, remember the fifth of November "

[@titusho2]

I love " Remember " the piano is great and Lennons calling .." Remember Remember...love it and Ringo on drums love love it🪲🪲🍏🙏🩵💜😂

[@BecomeConsciousNow]

Well said Lee. Love John!! He's so raw and open with his emotions. It's so refreshing because he's so human and so genuine. Few humans have the courage to be so open and real. Great music that just grabs your attention. Thanks John ❤

[@L33Reacts]

@@BecomeConsciousNow he really is the best, bro. He started so much and is loved by SO many… I wish he was here to see it but then I also don’t want him to see what we’ve become.

[@hongfang2348]

I have lived with all 3 songs most of my life. 'I found out' is one of my favs.

[@AntoineTee68]

I think John Lennon created way more genre, then we think,, or at least gave all genres a start His song Fame with with Bowie, shows the early funk that was taken to new heights.

[@johnpbh]

OKAY - We had the break up of the Beatles but in the same year, 1970, we had an embarrassment of riches with this album, George's "All Things Must Pass", Paul's "McCartney" and Ringo's "Sentimantal Journey" we had 6 Albums worth of completely different music but at the same time it was all the Beatles still. What a lucky time for us...!! Oh sorry L33.. most definitely not my first time hearing it... But it never gets old..!!

[@kevincorrigan7893]

I've always loved how raw this album is. It anticipates some of the great post-punk records in some ways. And yeah, the rhythm section is incredible.

[@captainsatellite2112]

My favorite Lennon album. All the songs are excellent. God is my favorite with the excellent piano and lyrics. Also loved the grungy sound of I Found Out since my sister first played the album when I was 10.

[@thomasmcintosh390]

National Lampoon - Genius is Pain. When you know, you know!

[@shirleybhs9zd6li5i]

Like others have said, my favorite album released after the breakup. John laid himself open and in plain view to all. So stripped down and organic, we feel the angst in his wonderful raspy voice. Loved it, L33. Beyond thanks for this. Blessings all.

[@davidthrower1553]

This is my favourite post Beatles album by any of the Fab Four ….by far. Raw, experimental and such f*****g great music.

[@L33Reacts]

@@davidthrower1553 it’s so good! And everything is so different at points as well. Very balanced album with the variety it employs. I dig it so much

[@ROUGHSEES]

I love this album. It is very dear to my heart. "Well Well Well" is one of my favorite tracks ever, and I am so happy to see it here. John was really into that screaming therapy at the time. It produced some of the best music ever (in my opinion)

[@Nadia-et2zv]

i found out is my fav!

[@marcusthompson5390]

YESSSSSSS!!!!!! You finally did these three songs! I was impatiently waiting for you to listen to “I Found Out” and “Well, Well, Well”. So good! Love this album so much! I don’t think there’s a dud on the whole record

[@L33Reacts]

@@marcusthompson5390 I hope you enjoyed, my friend! I had a blast with these! You weren’t kidding lol

[@damonhines8187]

A stark and even shocking listen when it came out. Still stands up though. Minimal and mesmerizing. Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp performed and recorded 'Isolation' a couple of years ago when Jeff was helping Depp in the aftermath of his nasty court case with Amber Heard. Worth a listen. As is the Gen X(Billy Idol's old band) version of 'Gimme Some Truth'. ✌🏼😀🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊

[@John-jk1ld]

Love, God, Look At Me

[@Moz1011]

Out The Blue from the Mind Games Album

[@francoistraversy4604]

What a good choice..yes yes yes,,,,,s’il vous plait …choose this song🎵🎵🎵🎵

[@Kerazen123]

Yes! Exactly 💯💯💯

[@Kerazen123]

I said the same thing. He would love it 💕

[@robotronrichard]

☮❤🎶 for the algorithm. Good choice! Thanks L33!

[@deechatterton5828]

I LOVE this album! For me, this is the best post-Beatles album. I have always really liked Well, Well, Well but I'm the only one in my friend group who did. I'm thrilled you liked it. It may be primal therapy but it also damn good rock music. thanks for playing this; it's rally great to hear it again.

[@vivasanpietro]

Klaus voorman is a friend of the Beatles from the bar band Germany days

[@dawsonraines]

This album "Plastic Ono Band" in my opinion is the best Beatles solo album and as good as the best Beatles albums (Abbey Road, Revolver, White Album)

[@jonathanmarkham1998]

I really like this album but it’s not even close. I assume we’re discounting Wings for this since you said solo, but imo Ram is better.

[@rcpsammy7186]

RAM is right behind this.​@@jonathanmarkham1998

[@hongfang2348]

The Plastic Ono Band album is a work of transitions. I discovered it during one of my transitions, and so the album will always have a special place in my life.

[@gcofield4498]

This was our grunge.

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

John Lennon was very vulnerable man. He was in pain most of his life and this shows in his music. Jealous Guy, Help, God and so on... no one tells the truth like Lennon.

[@patriciaedwards5183]

No one else lies like him either

[@dawntucker5052]

We miss you John 😢❤ this gets to me every time.

[@cmoplay1]

This album convinced me that I was right about who my favorite Beatle was. I will miss John until the day I day I die.😢

[@jraben1065]

I like the way John put space between singing the "I" and the "-solation". John is thinking about how his feelings of isolation are mainly about fixating on "Me". He is putting the "I" in Isolation.

[@RichardSchaefer-zx9ig]

Good reactions. Definitely react to the songs you've missed on the record. They be "Remember" + " Oh Yoko". IMHO John Lennon w the Plastic Ono Band is the most personal LP ever. He opens himself to the world here. Unapologetically. Classic. Bought it in 1971.

[@trusso11783]

Oh Yoko not on this album. That is on Imagaine.

[@RichardSchaefer-zx9ig]

​@@trusso11783Right, just checked. "Hold On" is the tune I believe Lee has skipped, along w "Remember". I do like both songs, John's vocals are very emotive on both cuts.

[@Kerazen123]

Lee, you made my day today. I don't know how you do it. I loved every video today 💝 especially this one. John is so important to me 💖

[@laurencaulton103]

It's in these "deep cuts" that you really hear John. I sing these to myself, just like "I'm So Tired."

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Lee... Sorry but... 🎧 You talked over John singing clearly 🎤 (& It spoilt my favourite track of these three... I had "Love" played at my second wedding... It didn't help to glue us together, he _still_ left me two years later for my second* 'best friend' just exactly as the first* husband did) ... 🎵"Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand, 👀‼️ Don't get you nowhere, Don't make you a man, I heard of something 'bout my ma and my pa They didn't want me so they made me a star, I, I found out... I, I found out..."🎵 ... 🎸🥁 Thanks for choosing these songs, Lee.👍😏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💕🇬🇧🌝🖖

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

Masterpiece!

[@AP-gb3eh]

No one had even imagined an artist laying themselves so raw and honest, It was mind blowing .I played this album repeatedly as a 11 year old Lennons Art just fascinated me, I read up on all the therapies he had practiced, the countries he had been in that affected his thoughts. John was the older friend I desperately needed , all the rage in me,John helped me purge enough to survive . Still love Lennon

[@slackdude1]

His songwriting got even better. If I ever get out of this strait jacket I’m gonna get his autograph

[@glass2467]

Even though Phil Spector was listed as producer, it was really John himself. He didn't want the big production. He scaled it down to be as simple and raw as possible. Lennon's decisions. He had enough of the hype and over production from the Beatles albums. Lennon is the king of scream, hands down. Grindcore and all that other hardcore screaming is over stylized constant boring swill, imo. Lennon's screams are filled with emotion and meaning. It's real and raw.

[@jamescostigan3721]

Ringo has said he didn't remember Spector being around for much of the sessions.

[@MsAppassionata]

@@glass2467 Grindcore? Never heard of that genre. I’m getting old. 😫

[@L33Reacts]

I agree with your statement regarding this being real and raw while more recent genres are not. There are some excellent bands with screaming in their music these days. I grew up with it, so I’m used to it. But it’s very hard to get into for folks not used to it, and I get it. But this is as close as you’ll get (well well well) from this era. And I love it! John is the best, man

[@L33Reacts]

Between the buried and me is a great example. An amazing, stand out prog metal band. Lots of screams. But also countered with beautiful and understated clean vocals on top of some of the best prog music I’ve ever heard still to this day

[@MsAppassionata]

@@glass2467 Ok. I looked up Grindcore. It’s basically what we used to call hardcore. So many genres, so little time. Sigh…..

[@hungfao]

When this came out, it pretty much scared us. The album was decidedly not commercial on purpose. After I got over the NEW john Lennon, this is the best solo album of all 4, IMO. The thing I liked about John's solo out put was that he seemed different on every album. He was more interesting. There's this album which seems to predict punk by about 7 years. 'Imagine' was a swing back to adding the commercial decorations. However, John says that album was just 'POB' with sugar on top. After this, he kept coming back with a different sound on every album. He seemed to be looking for a style.

[@xtiants]

"They didn't want me so they made me a star."

[@philipcone357]

I always felt John, Klaus and Ringo could easily been a wonderful group. I wish they had recorded more.

[@gettinhungrig8806]

Favourite reaction ever! And the first to 'Well, Well, Well' I've seen. That was priceless your look when the screaming kicked in. Well done Lee.

[@genegarrett3372]

The lyrics of I Found Out may be a little off putting to many. However the lyrics "I seen through junkies, I been through it all. I seen religion, from Jesus to Paul" He wasn't referencing the Apostle Paul. He was so clever. Isolation is one of John's finest songs.

[@adamwachowski1216]

Yep, clearly he had another Paul in mind... Paul VI, to be precise, the reigning pope at the time :)

[@MsAppassionata]

@@adamwachowski1216 Uhh…I don’t think that’s the Paul he was referring to.

[@genegarrett3372]

@@adamwachowski1216 Bullshit. It was (per his own comments) it was a dig at McCartney. He remarked Paul considered the Beatles a religion of sorts,

[@poptart4260]

L:33 , I m 12 new Beatle fan , they break up and this is the new latest music to absorb , talk about growing up fast , I m learning life that wasn’t taught in school , a life lesson , I m so greatful for these people opening up their hearts

[@jonathanpoole5316]

Freda People

[@michaelnorris7353]

Yea man - a fantastic album from beginning to end.

[@ShiverHinge]

raw and real john

[@G.M.1944]

Sublime

[@robertdupuis3300]

Beatles fan since day one, John became my idol. His songs are philosophy, sociology, world view, emotions. I could relate so much. From Help!, Misery to his last LP. I have all his albums and more. All Beatles albums also from the 60s.

[@Turtledove2009]

John, John, John...

[@randygray8921]

My favorite Lennon record.

[@lathedauphinot6820]

What an unbelievable album. John wanted only people he trusted and felt comfortable with. Ringo was used to having fun at Beatle recording sessions, but John was huddled with Yoko and dead serious, and supposedly Ringo was confused, at least at first. Klaus always plays that heavy bass. Remember, he was an artist and didn’t think about being a musician until he met The Beatles in Hamburg.

[@rogerlunde8668]

The best post Beatle-album by far!

[@Russ-gy7tx]

Glad you liked them L33👊

[@stephanieo2509]

Yoko did an album at the same time with the three of them backing her and they JAMMED. If you get past Yoko, its so cool.

[@Coquinagirl]

I love John. His soft songs, Dear Prudence, Across The Universe, and deep complex ones like Tomorrow Never Knows are my very favorite of songs. I understood his seeking help with Primal Therapy. It’s interesting to hear how he tries to express pain in his solo songs.

[@jnagarya519]

Lennon has complete control of his aggression here.

[@KenHunter-lt8wm]

I'm with those who rate this as the best solo Beatles album. It's the purest art. A mix of very delicate and sensitive acoustic songs, stripped bare heavy rock, and big statements (God, Mother, Working Class Hero), and all of them delivered with a searing, uncomprising honesty.

[@deancarter9210]

As for the screamer stuff...you'll love 'Cold Turkey'.

[@dandare42]

After the Beatles dissolved, John felt liberated personally and creatively. But he also wanted to assess his entire life to that point so he and Yoko attended "Primal Scream" therapy. One could debate the merits of it though, as it seemingly made John bitter and apprehensive to everyone afterward, railing against his fame, his former bandmates and the Beatles in general. Not to mention basically flipping out and casting out of his house the father who he accused of abandoning him and being so mean to his own son Julian when he stayed with him and displayed any sort of joy. John was wallowing in his own misery after going through Arthur Janov's therapy. Basically, the worst of John's nasty traits came out and yet, 1970-71 was a cathartic time in his life that led to amazingly raw music. Some of the best he had ever done, in fact. The critics immediately seized upon John as the true defining force of the Beatles because of how raw he was in the wake of their breakup. Of course, he softened up and lost a bit of his edge after Imagine in 1971 by channeling his rage into social and political issues. But man, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band still remains, to me, the pinnacle of solo Beatles. A tremendous landmark album. Almost a harbinger of the punk to come later in the decade.

[@jnagarya519]

"I couldn't walk/And I tried to run" ("Mother"). "They made me a star". He ran away from his childhood traumas into fame.

[@lennon1482]

yea man

[@Turtledove2009]

John had to get a lot of stuff out of his system at this time - and he always let us know what he was going through. So honest.

[@7609RH]

Read The Playboy Interview, the last Lennon ever gave. Essential.

[@gettinhungrig8806]

Listen to the Playboy interview! The printed version is heavily edited. I'd give you a youtube link but it's too late at the moment...too tired. It's amazing what got left out.

[@themadcow71]

Favorite Beatles solo album. Played Isolation quite a bit during the pandemic.

[@deancarter9210]

'Love' ...now there's a love song...

[@backbeat44]

'I Found Out' was punk well before punk

[@genegarrett3372]

The AI generated lyrics at the bottom of the image are so fucked. John "sky" and AI wrote "Die"

[@jnagarya519]

"The world is just a little town/Everybody try to put us down".

[@shiannesmith6877]

❤❤❤

[@ChitwoodMitwood]

Check out Sean Lennon's version on solo guitar

[@ChitwoodMitwood]

Isolation

[@tombeyerlein3813]

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the best Beatles solo album, by a mile. Keep in mind that this came out in 1970. I'd never heard anything like it before, and nobody had. I only wish Lennon had been able to keep up this level of artistry for the rest of his all-too-brief life. Every single song is brilliant and devastatingly honest.

[@redadamearth]

McCartney got a lot of criticism at the time, as Lennon's and Harrison's solo albums had songs so full of personal depth and emotion and McCartney's, while musically fantastic and melodic, just weren't that personal. He just wasn't a guy with many personal demons, so his songs, while brilliant, just never hit people as hard as Lennon's and Harrison's stuff, after the Beatles. In their solo work, you can really understand the dynamics between the three songwriters and why the band was so incredible. Every one of them had an element that the other was missing in their own work, so it just created something special in that mix.

[@dandare42]

Paul made the strange move to go solo and record a homemade sort of album that was basically at the level, or just barely above that, of demos. Yes, John and George had done that but both did that as side projects. "McCartney" was promoted as a solo debut but was more like a collection of demos. He did it to be closer to his new family when it was just getting going but it proved a calculated error because it only had 2-3 tracks worthy of a Beatle LP. Some even were White Album rejects. It was a hit only because of his name but it got critics to turn on a guy who was already being labelled the "lightweight" member of the Beatles songwriting crew. True, he lost his edge and ability to churn out constant gold when not competing with John and George. But it was a bit unfair too.

[@WendyDarling1974]

It’s like blues hits grunge!

[@beholdmessiah6526]

Two great tracks from Walls ad Bridges are Scared and Steel and Glass

[@a.dariuskamali8248]

My only criticism is that these songs are each too good and important to lump together in one reaction. ;-)

[@jaylevy2108]

Definitely Cold Turkey, What You Got, and the song Steel and Glass (amazing vocals on this one)

[@jnagarya519]

Voormann is that Hamburg GUT bass. No frills -- just hammering it! He played for a time with "Manfred Mann". Early "Manfred Mann" had more guts than "The Rolling Stones".

[@jch13213]

This is the album that invented grunge 20 years early