What kind of music would John Lennon would be making today if he still was alive?

What kind of music would John Lennon would be making today if he still was alive?

I think he would have went full "How do you do fellow kids" and collaborated with Skrillex or something.

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I think his music would've gotten worse and worse until nobody listened to his new albums with like 50 ratings on RYM

>I think he would have went full "How do you do fellow kids" and collaborated with Skrillex or something.
You must be remarkably stupid.

>I think he would have went full "How do you do fellow kids" and collaborated with Skrillex or something.
you do realize he was alive during punk right

It's a good thing he died when he did, because holy god, the 80s would have been a disaster for him.

And what did he do during punk? Hide out in NYC and release a record of MOR ballads with Yoko.

your illiterate

He's also right. The "Lennon went punk!" myth is shit. Name one baby boomer 60s rock star that decided to go punk in the 80s, except for Bob Dylan for that one sole Letterman performance.

After Lennon died, Christgau wrote "I'd always hoped he'd still be making good rock-and-roll when he was 60 and I was 58, and even Double Fantasy didn't dim my hopes." but that seems like wishful thinking. He was saying right before his death that he was too old to rock and ridiculed Paul McCartney and the Stones for still trying to be rock stars as they were pushing 40.

I think he will protest against Trump America

Not necessarily. He was thinking about reuniting The Beatles and a couple songs off Double Fantasy were rock.

I think of all those 60s rockers, only Neil Young really fought to stay relevant during punk. Rust Never Sleeps and its accompanying tour are some of the finest moments of his career.

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How so? The guy from The Doors did it. Why is it so far fetched for John Lennon to do it?

He would have had more taste than to collaborate with Skrillex.

More likely, he would've collaborated with Kendrick.

neil young sort of and then he went synhtpop when that was trendy

Every 60s guy did terribly in the 80s and put out garbage albums, with the odd exception here and there like Graceland, and as user said, Neil Young who began and ended the decade strong, but everything in between was embarrassing.

He did however compliment Lennon for waiting until he had actually had something to say before releasing an album (Double Fantasy was his first release of new studio material in half a decade) unlike the other Beatles who kept churning out shitty albums for the sake of saying they had a new release.

In the 70s, record labels pretty much expected you to have a new album out every year. Yeah I agree that some of those George Harrison and Ringo Starr albums from that period were pretty embarrassing.

80's music wouldn't have sucked if Lennon had been alive to steer the wheel and pass it to Kurt properly

Ringo's Rotogravure [Atlantic, 1976]

This fellow sounds as if he can use a band. Do you think Leon Russell could drum one up? C

Ringo the 4th [Atlantic, 1977]

The idea that people will buy this depressing record just because it was made by a Beatle saddens me. Only they didn't, because for all intents and purposes, it never finished higher than 199 in Billboard's end of year charts, which was no doubt some statistician paying his respects. C-

>neil young
He didn't "go" punk, he already was.

Robert Fripp went new wave/post-punk in the '80s, which is still punk.

Yeah, that. I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to listen to 33-1/2 or Ringo the 4th. We should all be glad that John Lennon didn't bow to record label pressure and release garbage out of contractual obligations.

I don't know but they would have inevitably gotten the whole gang back together and done a few reunion shows that would have been pretty fucking cool. And The Beatles were always much smarter and concious about their legacy than other dad rockers so despite what some may suggest I doubt they would have done anything to fuck it up. John and George would have kept Paul from doing some tacky shit.

I've read some sources say shortly before his death they were already in the preliminary stages of planning of planning a reunion show at Madison Square Garden in 81. Such a fucking shame.

George Harrison released his S/T in 1978 where he dropped all the hippie-dippie mysticism and went back to straight rock, too bad nobody was interested during the height of punk. If he'd put that album out in 1971, it would have been a massive hit.

plastic ono band has more punk lyrics than most punk

>Robert Fripp
70s
>I've read some sources say shortly before his death they were already in the preliminary stages of planning of planning a reunion show at Madison Square Garden in 81. Such a fucking shame.
[citation needed]

can i ask you why you thought it would be smart of you to add [citation needed] to that?

But then Cloud Nine was a huge hit a decade after that. Thanks, Traveling Wilburys.

The Grateful Dead had a bit of a revival in the late 80s.

He'd be writing a pro-refugee song.

>>Robert Fripp
>70s
King Crimson formed in 1968.

>Yeah, that. I don't think anyone in their right mind would want to listen to 33-1/2

Thirty Three & 1/3. Anyway, it's not that bad once you've heard Gone Troppo, which is pretty much the musical equivalent of watching babies being skinned alive and fucked.

>I I have sources of [ridiculous claim]
>what are those sources?
Oh yeah not a smart request was it?
The Beatles formed in 1957

youtube.com/watch?v=CtY5bv-oxLE

>[citation needed]

I've read like a billion different beatles biographies, I'm not gonna be able to point out where exactly I saw that.

The main point is that an eventual reunion was likely. You can find more than enough instances during the 70s where at some point each member had said they'd be open to a reunion.

i bet you go around editing wiki pages 24/7 you loser

Just the money from a Beatles reunion would have been enormous. No way would they have passed up that opportunity.

Not an argument
Not a citation.

If you can't prove it, it's not true.

I can't tell if you're baiting or you're actually like this lol

kek

>implying he wouldn't be the biggest supporter of Trump

Jesus christ why are you such an autist.

It looks like I got this from what Jack Douglas, Johns producer during Double Fantasy, has said.

gothamist.com/2016/07/19/jack_douglas_john_lennon_final_days.php

wogew.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-beatles-reunion-rumours.html?m=1

I don't know where I got the Madison Square Garden thing, but whatever.

Can you give a reason for that statement?

But you just said
>I've read some sources say shortly before his death they were already in the preliminary stages of planning of planning a reunion show at Madison Square Garden in 81. Such a fucking shame.
What was it that you read?

Here's another link with Paul saying it himself.

thefreelibrary.com/Beatles were planning reunion before Lennon's death.-a0207761983

I probably read about the MSG thing in some biography as one of those "offers" he references here.

dude... what the fuck

If you make a claim, you need to back it up.

Otherwise just top posting lies on the internet. It just makes you look stupid.

I fucking said in that post I'm not sure where I got it from, see Again, I've read a shitton of beatles biographies where the authors get interviews with insider people that I probably wouldn't be able to find a source onine. As I said, it was probably just an offer that I remember.

But Jesus dude it was just an anecdote I was adding, wasn't even the main point of my original post. Cool it with the autism dude.

its not gonna be enough for him just watch

posts are anonymous, nobody loses anything from not providing proof but you're being a faggot

literally instead of making 4 really retarded posts about this guy you don't know not giving proof to support an offhand claim you could have just googled "beatles reunion madison square garden" and fucked off

>But Jesus dude it was just an anecdote I was adding
Nice backpedaling
>literally instead of making 4 really retarded posts about this guy you don't know not giving proof to support an offhand claim you could have just googled "beatles reunion madison square garden" and fucked off
You mean he could of.

good, the pretending card, you should have posted this like 10 minutes ago

>good, the pretending card
What do you mean?

He just seems like he would have turned out like that if he wasn't murderd.

>The guy from The Doors did it.
Morrison died after LA Woman which was a great album.

Of course, Lennon's album of 50s rock and roll covers was pretty bad as well.

goddammit you're such a fucking faggot I can't believe I did this.

I went digging through my closet to find this book, it's called You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett and it documents their financial situation after their breakup. I read this years ago so I must have misremembered this paragraph, so okay, Central Park not MSG, fucking whatever, the point of the post was that a reunion was likely and already in the works.

I gotta stop browsing this site man, you people's autism is giving me autism.

and before you say some pedantic bullshit like "hurr that's still not what you said" just look.

I was off by 1.4 miles. Give me a fucking break you enormous fagtron.

At least Rock and Roll had some purpose to its existence beyond filling out a recording contract the way Gone Troppo and Ringo's Rotogravure did.

Ringo Starr was pretty well deprecated during the era of stadium metal in the 70s-80s when everyone was jerking off to Alex Van Halen and Dave Lombardo. They thought his drumming style was silly, simplistic, antiquated, etc. However, from the 90s onward he's been thoroughly rehabilitated.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience formed in 1966, the Who and the Kinks in 1964. What is your point?

Ringo is legitimately an amazing drummer.
Rain, Ticket to Ride, She Loves You, Paperback Writer, Magical Mystery Tour are just a few a few examples of his ability.

Also Taxman has the most ripped off drum beat in history.

not him but john was really short-sighted or impetuous when it came to politics and his activism in the early '70s and very easily influenced by others, and had soured on it by 1980. he also claimed to have never voted.

thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/30/reports-of-john-lennon-s-conservatism-greatly-exaggerated.html

i'm not saying he'd have been a trump fan, myself. i think it's difficult to make any guesses about what he'd be like and what he'd be doing or whether he'd be involved at all. like paul once said, what john liked would depend on his mood any given day.

i could see '70s john going full "hillary and trump are the exact same, vote stein" though

Gone Troppo was just Harrison saying "Welp, I've made my money. All you New Wave kiddies can have at it. I'm off to the golf course. See ya!"

>not him but john was really short-sighted or impetuous when it came to politics and his activism in the early '70s and very easily influenced by others

I also get the impression that this is true of Neil Young. He's a very uneducated guy who's admitted to never reading more than a couple of books in his entire life and he's probably easily influenced into silly political activism like Living With War.

Lennon was a wifebeating tax-evading liberal douchebag who secretly loved Ronald Reagan and Thatcher. He'd love Trump.

>contact between Lennon and McCartney was prevented by a third party.

Gee I wonder who that could have been?

John would have been a Bernie shill.

This should be pretty obvious.

Do you just sit in you own feces and wait for John Lennon thread to pop up so you can copypaste this same bullshit every time?

Here's a hint.
It rhymes with hobo.

Pete Best fucking with their phone lines.

youtube.com/watch?v=_q2tvN2W9Ck

Proto-punk is still punk.

As someone who read the thread and isn't this guy ,
I'm genuinely impressed. This is extremely satisfying on every level. Excellent work.

>bullshit
It's not bullshit, it's factual, and I only post it when it's relevant, like it is now.

lennon in his core was a blues man. as in his songwriting skills regressed to 12 bar blues after the amazing explorations he did in 1967.

sure he would have collaborated with others in other 'styles' but he would've never really changed at his core. mccartney was also a blues man, but his interest in earlier music (like tin pan alley, early 20th century pop and jazz) that his father showed him, actually helped him to become a very well rounded songwriter that could cover many styles despite his rock and roll/blues core. lennon didn't have that.

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really makes u think

I think Lennon would have done some Rafi type shit.

He would probably do pretentious but shallow indie-baroque-pop.

I can imagine him digging hip hop. There seems to be a vague spirit of it on tracks like Give Peace a Chance or Power to the People.

What would be on a theoretical reunion setlist? George transposing the orchestral stuff onto lead guitar would've been fucking amazing.

I went to desert trip, not a big neil young fan but he kicked fucking ass, it was amazing.

Awh i love this fucking video. Nobody once told him that maybe it wasn't such a good idea?

>George transposing the orchestral stuff onto lead guitar would've been fucking amazing.

he wouldn't have done that. not to mention that it just wouldn't sound right. harmonically it would be correct, but timbre/instrument wise it would be wrong.

a reunion would be like how the beach boys have been doing tours lately, or the stones, the main core performing with a backing band/singers playing the parts they can't/don't want to play. for example the sgt pepper or white album stuff would probably include an actual small orchestra for the tour. it would be like this, but better: youtube.com/watch?v=7O8rDK_e8XI