31 Jan 2013: it's... 1971!

[CapnJack]

Wow -- George Harrison sings the plight of Bangla Desh

[CapnJack]

Anyone else think Renee will play Ringo's "It Don't Come Easy"?

Yup, I called it!

[Here'sToYa!]

This quadruple shot came a little too easy.

[Big Fingers McGee]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

[CapnJack]

Renee sez Janis Joplin is BOS with John Lennon getting VHM.

[ggould]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.

[RGMike]

Funny: I had a Dr's appt at 9, and when I got in the car at 10:45 10@10 was already over. I assumed it was a super-short 1966 set or something. This looks like it was pretty LN-heavy except for "Bangla Desh".  At least the Janis wasn't "Bobby McGee"...

1. Janis Joplin - Move Over
2. Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate
3. James Taylor - You've Got A Friend
4. Carole King - It's Too Late
(Movie: Willy Wonka)
5. Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff
6. Three Dog Night - An Old Fashioned Love Song
(News: Nixon/Viet Nam)
7. John Lennon - Imagine
8. Paul McCarthey - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
(News: Bangladesh)
9. George Harrison - Bangladesh
10. Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy

[Lightnin' Rod]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.

I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow.  Really slow.  And preachy.  But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.

[RGMike]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.

I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow.  Really slow.  And preachy.  But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.

Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December.

[CapnJack]

The last time AL visited 1971 (back in June 2012), she did a block of solo Beatles, but she delved into deeper cuts from the Imagine and Ram albums.  "It Don't Come Easy" was also played -- wish the flip side would get played ("Early 1970").

[Big Fingers McGee]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.

I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow.  Really slow.  And preachy.  But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.

Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December.

So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.

[Lightnin' Rod]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.

I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow.  Really slow.  And preachy.  But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.

Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December.

So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.

"Rico Suave".  Ha ha ha.   

[RGMike]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.

I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow.  Really slow.  And preachy.  But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.

Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December.

So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.

"Rico Suave".  Ha ha ha.   

If we ever do 2004, then "Hollaback Girl".

[Here'sToYa!]

I'm sorry but I effing hate this song (Imagine). It's ten times worse than Hey Jude or Let It Be.

I'd put "Imagine" between the two others, but yeah, I get what you're saying. Uber-LN

As someone who has played this song in public (church, hospital, parties) I have to politely disagree as strongly as I can.

I think it is a great song, but also a song that I rarely leave on when it comes on the car radio -- I'll click around the presets in hope of something not so familiar and slow.  Really slow.  And preachy.  But if I am in the mood, it is perfectly fine.

Agreed. And 80% of today's set was songs that I really don't need to hear more than once or twice a year. And they play "Imagine" when the ball drops on New Year's Eve, so I'm good until December.

So, what would be the anti-"Imagine"? A song that we can generally agree is terrible, but can also agree that it would spice up a 10@10.

"Rico Suave".  Ha ha ha.   

If we ever do 2004, then "Hollaback Girl".

I think "Imagine" is genuinely a bad song, not just overplayed. Its lowest common denominator sentimentality is way, way beneath John's often breathtaking originality, and I suppose I resent that it's regarded as his signature song.

[RGMike]

I think "Imagine" is genuinely a bad song, not just overplayed. Its lowest common denominator sentimentality is way, way beneath John's often breathtaking originality, and I suppose I resent that it's regarded as his signature song.

I think maybe the piano/melody makes it seem more sentimental than it is. The utopian lyric (particularly "imagine no religion") was pretty controversial at the time.