Reviewing for Mojo in 2000, Jon Savage said the preponderance of mid-tempo tracks partly explained the album's popularity among Britrock bands, yet this quality made some of the songs drag.

Harrison's dobro sounds great on "Crippled Inside", and his solo on "Gimme Some Truth" is ferocious. In the UK and Australia, the quad mix was issued on LP record using Sony's SQ matrix system along with a quad 8-track version in the UK. By listening to each Evolution montage, it is hoped a deeper understanding will be gained about the way the songs were crafted. In this charming early and ‘un-produced’ take, the musicians are still perfecting the technical accuracy within the simplicity of their playing and John’s vocal has a palpable vulnerability.Lennon chose to remake "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" on 24 May 1971, [3] the opening day of the main album sessions. Imagine" was not issued as a single in the UK until four years later, to coincide with the release of Lennon's Shaved Fish singles collection.

My guess is that this release is digitally remastered because I've never heard a British-recorded Capitol LP sound as good as this. I love these songs that you know so well and still you can hear things you've never heard before when there is a different mastering. Ultimate Mixes, we make more use of the centre and the space around that centre to create a very different feel.Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – The Beatles" (in Japanese). Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono flew to New York on 3 July to continue sessions for the album the next day, at the Record Plant. Stripped down, the songs and performances are put into sharp focus: Listening to ‘Gimme Some Truth’ with no slap echo on the voice, you can feel the froth coming out of John’s mouth. Lennon angry is so much more interesting than the eternally happy Sir Paul, and this figures in well with Lennon's vocal on 'Give Me Some Truth'.

Lennon later expressed his displeasure with the more commercial sound of the album, saying that the title track was "an anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it's sugar-coated, it's accepted". I have a copy but the inner is a transparent poly sleeve with "Important Notice" EMI text - does this mean the printer inner is missing or that its release just never had one? Yoko wanted that left in because it reflected the attitude of the times not only towards Yoko and what she had to deal with and work through, but how men most often treated women, and, frankly, still do. because the strings are so beautiful – you’ve got Torrie Zito and twenty-seven of the best classical musicians in the world playing. With the addition of John Tout on vibes, John Barham on harmonium and Nicky Hopkins on electric piano, and without the orchestral strings.The album re-entered the charts during 1981, peaking at number three in Norway, [44] five in the United Kingdom, [45] 34 in Sweden, [46] and 63 in the United States.