The one hundred eighty-third album: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band is the first post-Beatles album by a former member on the list, although both George Harrison and Paul McCartney released in the same year and probably before this - a victim of the book's ordering. It is an interesting point of view - John Lennon always felt like the more introspective writer of the McCartney-Lennon duo and it shows through here, with songs that all feel personal on some level, from his childhood, reflections on Beatles fame and reflecting on the changes in society. While the album still drifts into avant garde rock, tracks like Working Class Hero hit the spot far more and these folk tracks and influences help make this album feel like one that's more personal.
That doesn't mean that's all, and Well Well Well is a longer, hard rock track that gets more aggressive, but on the whole the album is calmer, contemplative, not as experimental, but more of a journey through John Lennon's feeling. It's an album of growth, that might not hit you as personally as much as others might, but works as a good statement.