10 Rock Albums That Were Ahead Of Their Time

There's no real right way to get out of being in one of the biggest bands in the world. After the last few years of the '60s, it was clear that the business side of Apple Records was going to tear the Beatles apart, and Paul McCartney releasing a statement on his first solo album about the Fab Four breaking up certainly didn't help matters. Whereas most artists would be worried about their career at this point, John Lennon was going through his own psychological hell.

Taking some time to go into psychological therapy to deal with his repressed pain and anger from his childhood, Plastic Ono Band was the first time where you got to see the human behind the John Lennon myth, talking about the real connection that he can now have with Yoko Ono on Love and how hard it can be to make your way through life on songs like Isolation or Working Class Hero.

Though the actual songs on here still have Lennon's tunefulness most of the time, the bare production behind a lot of these songs as well as Lennon's naked vocal delivery made it an inspiration for many of the alternative bands that would come just a few years later, from the dream coming to an end on God to the screams of Well Well Well. This might not have been the kind of aggression that Johnny Rotten was good at bringing across, but it's the kind of inner pain that someone like Kurt Cobain might have known all too well.