#JohnLennon80 Some John Lennon songs I love:

This is a fantastic Beatles song. As a song formerly only on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack album, it's still underrated, but not as much as it used to be.

A song cleverly mocking people who read too much into Beatles songs that could have been written by Lewis Carroll.

Many rock songs were written about hallucinogens & the psychedelic experience in the 60s. This, one of the first, captures it as well as any of them. Easy to imagine the confusion many former Beatlemaniacs must have felt upon first hearing this.

Existential pain & deep personal suffering crafted into a harrowing dirge. You want to understand the sort of PTSD abandoned children feel for the rest of their lives? Start here.

On the flip side of the coin, here's a song of profound appreciation and gratitude for those who make life worth living. Simple, beautiful and direct.

Soothsayer warns, "Watch out! You'll get yours." Recorded the day it was written & in record stores within ten days, the song might not have been "instant", but it came close. ”

Many Lennon classic are lethargic or unhappy in some way, This is outright rapture & energy. And John captures that as well as anyone in rock.

Best campaign song ever written. #RockTheVote

I like this song because it always reminds me of liking it the first time I heard it. Delivering newspapers at about 4:30am with my headphone radio on.

This song is like a dream about a trip on a seedy Disneyland ride.

“Listen:
Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Left out a number of Lennon favorites, but I prefer to conclude with Bob Dylan's parody of, or tribute to, Lennon's "Norwegian Wood." #JohnLennon80