Wheels/Karma
 

Is The John Lennon Collection the only place I can get instant Karam and Watching the wheels? I have a feeling thats going to be expensive, is that my only option?

I'll assume thats a no. If I had mentioned John Lennon when I first showed up here, people would have posted for 3 strait months, now not a post, remarkable.

I've seen it on Amazon going for as little as $0.24, (cheap enough?) second hand.

If it's just the two tracks you want, then I can e-mail them to you from my media player.

get his greatest hit album.. i'm pretty sure it has both those songs.. watching the wheels is my favorite lennon song by far.. and drema #9.. plus a few others that are on the greatest hits.. and working class hero.. anyways..

Lennon Legend, the CD, has both of those songs.
I could send it to you

Ok so I ended up buying Lennon Legend and im severly disappointed. It came down to a choice between "Instant Karma" and "Woman is the ****** of the world" (off of Acoustic)

Seeing as I'd never heard the latter, I bought legend. Songs like "love" and "beautiful boy" made me cringe they were so bad. I don't know how many of you parade around here saying his some supernatural immortal. I can't say they were all bad, I really enjoyed a few "Mother" "Karma" and "Wheels" but I really don't think, on a CD called Legend of all things, this should have been the kind of stuff they threw on it.

I'll think twice before picking up stuff again.

Dude, give it another listen. The more you dig into it, the more stuff you will find. The begining of the CD is great, and so is the end. The middle is average. Listen to (repeatedly until you love them)

Woman
(Just Like)Starting Over
Nobody Told Me
Stand by Me
Mind Games
Borrowed Time
Working Class Hero
Jelous Guy

If after repeated listens they don't grow on you, then I guess you just don't like it. I bought it, was disappointed but listened to it while falling asleep one night, and now I love it

No
Lyrics are aweful
not bad
Not his, not as good, game set match
not bad
Good
great
No no no, write Yoko letters on your own time/dime.

this might not be a good idea saying this.. but what the hell

i like all of those songs.. that bill is saying give another chance to.. and i agree try and try until either you love it and or hate it..
but....as much as i love the lyrics to "working class hero" i think the song its self sucks.. the way he sings it, the instruments everything just bugs me.. but the lyrics are good.. odd really.. but thats about the only song by john lennon that annoys me..

So you don't like the good ones?

well the sound i guess not but its only that song i don't like.. the lyrics are great just not the sound of the song its self..

right now i'm listening to it, to try and see if my ears can handle it but they can't.. sucks.. cause i really like the lyrics..

i remember really really liking lennon legend when i first heard it. and yea i agree with big3, its like they've turned john lennon into a religion, he was just some guy, who could write good music. there was this fan on a doc about him crying and saying "he's got to come back, he has to". insane.

i still like him a lot though.

Apologies but I'm gonna' make a sweeping assumption and guess you don't have kids yet.
That's not a criticism Big3 as I can see why this song could well make you cringe.
Allow me to provide a little insight.
The lyrics to 'Beautiful Boy' are intended for the mind of a child. Namely his son Sean.
Words of love and comfort, from a Father to his son at bedtime.

"Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster’s gone
He’s on the run and your daddy’s here"

Words I wish my Father had sung to me when I was a child.
Words Lennon himself would have loved to hear from his Dad. (at the age of 5 Lennon was asked to choose between living with his Father, or his Mother. He chose his Father, only later to return to his Mother, who sadly rejected him and sent him to live with his Aunt.)

"I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
…But I guess we’ll both just have to be patient…

Lennon died when Sean was only 5. Those words have become very poignant with time. Also Lennon was becoming closer to his mother by the time he was 17, she taught him to play his first musical instrument.
She was killed crossing the road by an off duty policeman who was drunk, after just visiting him at his Aunt Mimi’s.

"Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you’re busy making other plans."

Lennon was an ordinary man, with an extraordinary ability for writing poetic songs.
I hope you can listen again to this song (and the rest of this album) from a different angle and grow to love it as I do. And one day sing this song to your son at bedtime…as I do.

Sorry if my post made you cringe. ;)