Some Time In New York City
by John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band With Elephant's Memory & Invisible Strings
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Overall rank: 9,663rd | 1970s rank: 1,372nd | 1972 rank: 136th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Beatles Solo Works - RANKED | 46/52 | - |
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 66 Music Albums of 1972 | 28/66 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | davidhuret | Top 37 Music Albums of 1972 | 35/37 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Leonard | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2025 | TheSmiths82-87 | Top 19 Music Albums of 1972 | 17/19 | 1 |
| 2025 |  neilgee | Top 100 Music Albums of 1972 | 15/100 | 4 |
| 2024 |  PAPPITUFO | Top 99 Music Albums of 1972 | 68/99 | 2 |
| 2024 |  madsnyland | Top 26 Music Albums of 1972 | 21/26 | 1 |
| 2024 | davidhuret | Ranking: John Lennon (1970-1980) | 7/7 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 45 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 126 | |||
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Mother Nature's Son TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/12/2012 20:28 | #57699 | TOP COMMENT
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Hard to rate this album. I would normally have given it 50/100, but at least I can skip (which I will for the next times) the other half of the album. I'm actually not against Yoko Ono and her voice. It's actually beautifully melancholic, if not a bit off-key, on "Sisters, O Sisters". But her frustrating wailing that doesn't seem to stop ever on parts of this album? No, thanks!
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clockworkfiction3 03/15/2011 00:37 | #19197 | TOP COMMENT
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The studio album is completely underrated. It's an album about then recent news and injustice, done mainly in the style of 50s rock and roll songs, with lots of great brass. Women is the Nigger of the World, John Sinclair, Attica State, New York City and Sunday Bloody Sunday are all really good songs. Even Yoko gives a couple good songs with We're All Water and Born in a Prison. It's a lively, meaningful rock album that I would give a solid 4 out of 5. ...............The live album on the other hand sucks big time. Cold Turkey is okay, if not a bit repetitive, and then over the next 40 minutes we get to hear Yoko shouting over loud guitar. It's awful. Don't Worry Kyoko obviously has meaning to it, but it's ear bleedingly awful and 16 minutes long. Even Zappa can't save this live album, which gets about a 1 out of 5 from me.
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JuJu83 12/14/2012 06:57 | #57856 | TOP COMMENT
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As a Lennon fan, I would love to rate this album with "Plastic Ono Band" and "Imagine" - even "Walls and Bridges" - but it does not hold up, musically.
"Some Time..." lacks hooks, strong songwriting, (astonishing for a work by John Lennon,) and is only really interesting for its single, Ono's "We're All Water," and as an artifact of its times.
A "diehard" Lennon fan, even I cannot recommend this album.
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Nowhereman1965 09/14/2018 18:17 | #221046 | TOP COMMENT
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There are many good aspects to John Winston Lennon. However, one bad aspect was the way he was easily led. He jumped onto bandwagons. Always with good intentions, but sometimes it led down a blind alley. This album is exhibit No.1. Musically it’s very poor for a Beatle. Lyrically at times it’s embarrassing. There is the odd good song. John Sinclair for instance. But his naive take on other issues does not stand the test of time. The live part is inessential. One of the poorest albums by an ex Beatle.
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1972 was the first year in a decade that none of the Beatles released an LP that was any good. Sadly, this LP is a mess.
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