AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

OK, I just got a totally evil idea for a ‘tribute’ album.

Imagine There’s No Mercy: Deconstructing the Music of John Lennon features 12 classic John Lennon tracks sorted through the worst sort of cultural filters imaginable:

1. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) performed by a German oompah band
2. Across the Universe in the style of Wesley Willis, rendering it even more random and incomprehensible
3. Instant Karma! by a Western swing band
4. A Day in the Life by the Gramercy Park Madrigal Ensemble
5. I Am the Walrus arranged after the manner of Sun Ra
6. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, klezmerized
7. Give Peace a Chance by the Texas A&M University Marching Aggies
8. Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite a la Pantera
9. Dear Prudence in the ’smooth jazz’ style
10. Nowhere Man by a very, very untalented boy band
11. Revolution in the style of Burt Bacharach
12. Imagine rendered in telephone touch-tones