Imagine

[Geoff-Allen]

Can you believe that this song was written more than 40 years ago!

Are we ANY closer to the kind of world Lennon imagined?

What songs do you feel inspired by?

 

[sun rise]

I've never heard a Gregorian version of "Imagine" before. It was well worth listening to.

I think we are closer to the new world and are living through its birth pangs. Labor is hard, full of pain. It takes time. Through the pain there is the promise of joy to come. First, an image I find inspiring and then in my next post, a song.

 

[sun rise]

To reach the unreachable star,

Though you know it's impossibly high,

To live with your heart striving upward

To a far, unattainable sky!

 

[Twilight Hue]

My ship is already here. :0)

 

[Geoff-Allen]

I've never heard a Gregorian version of "Imagine" before. It was well worth listening to.

Yes - Gregorian chant can definitely put you in an enjoyable fame of mind!

gregorian chant - YouTube

I think we are closer to the new world and are living through its birth pangs. Labor is hard, full of pain. It takes time. Through the pain there is the promise of joy to come. First, an image I find inspiring and then in my next post, a song.

I hope you are right! Quite painful "birth pangs" for many people!

Namaste

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Sgt Pepper's is 50 years ago!

little help from my friends - YouTube

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Can you believe that this song was written more than 40 years ago!

Are we ANY closer to the kind of world Lennon imagined?

What songs do you feel inspired by?

Most of what was suggested was tried, in North Korea, USSR and communist China

I wonder if John could have imagined really having 'no possessions' and 'no religion' as millions of people in those countries died without those freedoms he enjoyed?

 

[Geoff-Allen]

I wonder if John could have imagined having 'no possessions' and 'no religion' as millions in those countries died without having the right to ever know

Yes - the theory is fine but plugging it into actual practice with fallible human beings is tricky!

Utopia is still more a dream than a reality.

Cheers

 

[Geoff-Allen]

I also love this one -

beatles within you without you - YouTube

Enjoy!

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Yes - the theory is fine but plugging it into actual practice with fallible human beings is tricky!

Utopia is still more a dream than a reality.

Cheers

Yeah I guess so, but most of us live up to that dream way better than he did

Never mind the brand new roller, did you ever spend 32 thousand dollars on a paint job?- me neither, most of us have a hard time trying to 'imagine' not cringing, in such a conspicuous and tacky advertisement of excess wealth. But it's very cool if you're a socialist who left the country to avoid paying taxes

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Yeah I guess so, but most of us live up to that dream way better than he did

Never mind the brand new roller, did you ever spend 32 thousand dollars on a paint job?- me neither, most of us have a hard time trying to 'imagine' not cringing, in such a conspicuous and tacky advertisement of excess wealth. But it's very cool if you're a socialist who left the country to avoid paying taxes

All that may be true but he and McCartney wrote some timeless songs even if they may not have been ideal role models ... few of us are!

Cheers!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

 

[Guy Threepwood]

All that may be true but he and McCartney wrote some timeless songs even if they may not have been ideal role models ... few of us are!

Cheers!

Very true and thanks for the link. I love the Beatles, John was obviously a troubled guy, but he added an edge and we wouldn't have had the band without him. Imagine no Beatles songs?!

They all deserved to make a lot of money while spreading a lot of joy, for who knows how many decades after them? I don't have a problem with that, and in the context of the forum, I don't think God has a problem with that.

I think Paul's more positive messages deserve at least as much attention "I do think there is something greater than me… and that's not easy to imagine"

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Pete Seeger = "L'International"

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Very true and thanks for the link. I love the Beatles, John was obviously a troubled guy, but he added an edge and we wouldn't have had the band without him. Imagine no Beatles songs?!

They all deserved to make a lot of money while spreading a lot of joy, for who knows how many decades after them? I don't have a problem with that, and in the context of the forum, I don't think God has a problem with that.

I think Paul's more positive messages deserve at least as much attention "I do think there is something greater than me… and that's not easy to imagine"

Glad to hear that!

Hard to believe Sgt Pepper's was 50 years ago! - still one of my favorite albums.

Here's a few videos you may enjoy -

sgt pepper 50th anniversary - YouTube

All the best!

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Glad to hear that!

Hard to believe Sgt Pepper's was 50 years ago! - still one of my favorite albums.

Here's a few videos you may enjoy -

sgt pepper 50th anniversary - YouTube

All the best!

Mine too, will check out the link- I have the original album that my parents bought when it came out, which might be worth something if I had not dropped the needle on it so many times!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Mine too, will check out the link- I have the original album that my parents bought when it came out, which might be worth something if I had not dropped the needle on it so many times!

You STILL have vinyl?

WAY before the era of ipods and youtube!

Enjoy the videos!

Cheers

 

[Stanyon]

Are we ANY closer to the kind of world Lennon imagined?

John Lennon was a wife beater and lived in a mansion while preaching peace and love and the virtue of having no possessions, nothing different than so many other peace and love guru's that came before and after him (Bagwan Shree Rajneesh and his fleet of 93 Rolls Royce's comes to mind) the song is a lullaby for children and the video is nothing less than a pretentious cartoon.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

John Lennon was a wife beater and lived in a mansion while preaching peace and love and the virtue of having no possessions, nothing different than so many other peace and love guru's that came before and after him (Bagwan Shree Rajneesh and his fleet of 93 Rolls Royce's comes to mind) the song is a lullaby for children and the video is nothing less than a pretentious cartoon.

I guess your life is "perfect" and nobody could criticise the way you behave?

That's a little mean of me ... but seriously I find I can enjoy their music without the need to approve or disapprove of their behaviour.

Cheers

 

[Stanyon]

I guess your life is "perfect" and nobody could criticise the way you behave?

If someone did criticize me and the way I behaved it surely wouldn't be the first or last time someone did that and I would question the motives and mentality of the person criticizing me to determine if their criticisms are worth considering.

I find I can enjoy their music without the need to approve or disapprove of their behaviour.

Well of course you can but you did say this was a world John Lennon imagined, a world and ethos that he himself did not live up to.