You may say I'm a cynic, but I'm not the only one: "Imagine" is highlight of Times Square

American Thinker ^ | 12/29/2018 | Stu Tarlowe

[laweeks]

Nothing like an atheist’s song to brighten up the secular new year. The should have yoko nono sing it.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

And how many people think that they are singing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ when they are listening to George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord? How many listen close enough to the lyrics to hear, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna!

I also like the Beatles, all of their music has great melodies, but a few of their song’s lyrics are horrible (not to mention, “Run for your life.”

[MV=PY]

"The should have yoko nono sing it."

Great idea!

That would be the end of this New Year's Eve "tradition."

[MrEdd]

Hell these Bozos can’t even figure out what a turn signal is for, let alone how it works. Let’s just try to master turn signals before thinking about complicated subjects like world peace.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The commie lib “progs” once again fail to come up with something original.

[rey]

Nice.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yes, lyrically, it stinks. Idealogically, I mean.

Not huge on the tune, either. Once again, a minor key, which is dull and depressing.

[Jeff Chandler]

🎶 Imagine there's no Yoko 🎶

[Rennes Templar]

Do you think the PTB are going to choose “How Great Thou Art”?
Better chance of Occasional Cortex bringing a Bible to congress.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

This being the holiest hymn of The Left, I've sometimes sung my own parody of it when demonstrating / counter-demonstrating across the street from Democrats and/or other Leftists:

Imagine there's no Lib'rals.
It's easy if you try.
No haters,
no race-baiters.
No one to cheer when,
babies die.
Imagine all the TAXPAYERS,
LIVING THEIR LIVES FREEEEEE....
...EE-EE-EE-EE-EE!!!!
(etc)

[Don W]

Try putting it into G#dom7. That’s a far cheerier key.

[a fool in paradise]

John Lennon couldn’t even master negotiating peace between the Beatles, let alone his wives or kids.

[a fool in paradise]

I’ve seen an elderly leftist woman get angry over hearing the Beatles’ Taxman still being played these days.

[Leep]

I’m A Loser
The Beatles
I’m a loser
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
Of all the love I have won, and have lost
There is one love I should never have crossed
She was a girl in a million my friend
I should have known she would win in the end
I’m a loser
And I lost someone who’s near to me
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
Although I laugh and I act like a clown
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown
My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for her or myself that I cry?
I’m a loser
And I lost someone who’s near to me
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
What…

[microgeek42]

If that’s the case, he failed.

I have a friend who thought Lennon was a better songwriter because he had to struggle for it, versus McCartney, to whom it came too easily. I thought that was a poor criterion to make the judgement by.

[livius]

Exactly. Who made this choice, Kaiser Wilhelm DeBlasio?

[Catmom]

Certainly the most nauseating.

[Steve_Seattle]

Nice melody, but the lyrics were sappy, even forced, as with the awkward line, “ . . . and no religion, too.”

[Steve_Seattle]

"I have a friend who thought Lennon was a better songwriter because he had to struggle for it, versus McCartney, to whom it came too easily."

After the Beatles split, McCartney's music was melodic but - in my view - somewhat insipid. Lennon's tended to be dark and minimalist. As a pair, they kind of balanced each other out, but after they separated, their worst tendencies were unleashed.

[AlaskaErik]

I can’t believe this writer has never heard of Bebe Rexha. She’s been putting out music for years now. Like Lady Gaga, she was a songwriter before she turned to singing. I first saw her performing with Cash Cash singing “Take Me Home”. She was also featured in the G-Eazy song “Me, Myself and I”. Her most famous song that she wrote before becoming a singer is “The Monster”, performed by Eminem and Rhianna.