John Lennon's best song

[spoonless]

Growing up, I always thought "Imagine" was his best... recently I wrote down a page or so of thoughts of mine that I had about the song Imagine when I was first introduced to it, around 9th grade, in my biography. But someone just forwarded me a link to another song of his, a song called "God". How have I never heard this?? They play Imagine on the radio all the time, but this never gets any airplay. I've always thought the intelligence of crowdsourcing generally does a decent job of picking out good songs to play on the radio from each artist (although not nearly as good a job for picking the artists or genres themselves), but this really makes me think that certain songs are intentionally suppressed due to containing ideas that are too difficult or controversial for people to process. I can't imagine why they would have thought Imagine or other songs were worthy of airplay but not this.

And yet somehow, songs like Justin Timberlake's Carry-Out "I have you open all night like you I.H.O.P" get tons of radio play, despite what should be considered controversial sexist lyrics.

Interestingly, Ferris Beuller's Day Off was my favorite movie when I was in middle school, and I had watched it so many times I could recite every line of the movie by heart, including this part where he's in the shower which was one of my favorites...


I do have a test today, that wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car."
[sings Danke Schoen into showerhead for a bit]
Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people.
- Ferris Beuller

but I never knew the line "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me" was a reference to this song!

Comments

[moonaysl.livejournal.com]

But if you listen to all of the lyrics, it's basically comparing the whole tryst (including both parties) to getting what you want from a good tasting breakfast joint. The analogy runs through the song and goes both ways.