"Acoustic" by John Lennon - **

First Released: 2004

Too bad Yoko decided to issue "The John Lennon Anthology" box set back in 1998, because now every album released with John’s name on it seems like another warmed over greatest hits collection sprinkled with one or two unreleased tracks. The fact that you can cram all of Lennon’s released solo output (released and unreleased) onto five discs makes one realize that his output wasn’t all that plentiful. I don’t mind this album, and it makes for pleasant listening as an interesting contrast to Lennon’s first solo album, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band", but what was the point? Everything of consequence with Lennon’s name on it has truly been released or bootlegged and this is just another example of something for the completists. Casual fans should steer themselves towards the 1970-1975 and 1980 output. It does have the guitar chords spelled out so if you want to learn to play.

The two star rating refers to the necessity of owning this compilation over the value of the four-star music contained therein.