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John Lennon - All He Was Just Saying - Top 30 Songs From The Beginning

Artist Song
1964 - Recorded while I Want To Hold Your Hand was on the charts.  If I Fell 
1964 - Came about on an offhand comment by Ringo during filming of first movie.  A Hard Day's Night 
1965 - The Band's first studio triumph.  Ticket to Ride 
1965 - Originally a Ballad.  Help 
1965 - A sly confession of an affair with a journalist.  Norwegian Wool 
1965 - A warm embrace of the author's early days in Liverpool.  In My Life 
1965 - Another S.O.S to the world.  Nowhere Man 
1966 - "But listen to the colour of your dreams."  Tomorrow Never Knows 
1966 - The B-side to Paul's Paperback Writer.  Rain 
1966 - An up-tempo pop tune.  And Your Bird Can Sing 
1966 - The result of over six hours of experiments.  I'm Only Sleeping 
1966 - John's best cut on Revolver.  She Said, She Said 
1966 - Strawberry Fields was an orphange near John's childhood home.  Strawberry Fields Forever 
1967 - John went into the studio just hours after he learned his friend had died in a car accident.  A Day In The Life 
1967 - Lennon sequenced the barnyard sounds at the end so that every beast was capable of consuming the animal previous.  Good Morning, Good Morning 
1967 - This is the third in John's drug soaked studio constructions 1966-67.  I Am The Walrus 
1968 - After studying with the Maharishi in India, John returned to the studio newly energized.  Hapiness is a Warm Gun 
1968 - A "seance" between John and his mother Julia.  Julia 
1969 - written for Yoko as a companion piece to If I Fell.  Don't Let Me Down 
1969 - John Gives notice he's leaving the troubled band.  Come Together 
1970 - John's most persuasive political song.  Instant Karma 
1970 - "Mother you had me, but I never had you."  Mother 
1970 - "They didn't want me so they made me a star"  I Found Out 
1970 - John's first album was recorded in 10 days.  Well, Well, Well 
1971 - John gives inner peace a chance.  Imagine 
1971 - A ballad left off the White Album.  Jealous Guy 
1971 - A good indicator of John's improving spirits.  Cripled Inside 
1971 - John's best love song.  Oh Yoko 
1974 - This song came to him in his sleep.  #9 Dream 
1980 - A song for his son Sean.  Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) 

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Barrydali
Date: 12/15/2005
Definitive, informative, and downright brilliant.
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tombstoneblues
Date: 12/15/2005
This is very good.
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musicgnome
Date: 12/15/2005
Not bad at all...really nice, actually.

Looks like a lot of effort went into this which always scores high marks in my eyes.
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French Connection
Date: 12/15/2005
LOVELY!
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Dom1
Date: 12/15/2005
the notes won me over!
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souldesqueeze
Date: 12/15/2005
Good notes, although I gotta disagree with you about "She Said She Said". ;)

One of my favorite pictures of John, too.
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Erock Music
Date: 12/15/2005
Great mix, though I'd still say I'm Only Sleeping is better than She Said...especially like the first track. It always reminds me of the scene in AHDN where he essentially serenade's Ringo with it.
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Orchid
Date: 12/15/2005
Heaven in a nutshell. Elegant tribute to the late Mr. Sexy.
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The Nightcrawler
Date: 12/16/2005
Great notes. Hard to go wrong with John Lennon.
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Sizzle Meat
Date: 12/16/2005
This kicks ass!
Awesome that you included Oh, Yoko.Lovely cover pic,too.
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Jenergy
Date: 12/16/2005
Wow, this is great and oh so informative. Thanks for doing this!
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steelkillie
Date: 12/16/2005
A really well thought out mix.
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Planet of the Tapes
Date: 12/16/2005
Excellent.
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mckbrd
Date: 12/16/2005
nice one w/notes to boot!!
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scott_bolger2001
Date: 12/16/2005
Great mix, execllent collection of songs!
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 12/17/2005
Nicely done! I kicked the idea of a Lennon mix around after watching a decent documentary the other night. No way I'd top this though.
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p the swede
Date: 12/17/2005
this is brilliant
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nola
Date: 12/17/2005
nice work byz.
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TeamIntern
Date: 3/26/2006
good lawd! i'm sad i didn't see this sooner. i love how comprehensive, well-researched, and informative it is. AWESOME photo, too. Time for another byzantine mix, yo!