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Posted by biograph1985 on 18 November 2010 - 7:51pm.
In 2010, we finally have some perspective on a diminutive anomaly named Yoko Ono. Sure it's hard to get the true story on John Lennon so long as she's around, and yes, she is going to outlive all of us, but much of her art and music is nonetheless impressive to put it mildly. She made some pretty great music on albums such as Plastic Ono Band and Season of Glass, but my favorite is probably "I'm Moving On" from Double Fantasy (1980). That said, what is your favorite Yoko Ono song?
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Yoko
Occasionally brilliant, as on Mindtrain, from the Fly album, and occasionally nuts, as on this.
Midsummer New York
None of them,
of course. No revisionism here, the popular perception of her as a screeching nightmare is pretty much spot on.
Yoko Ono's music is rubbish
And so is her art.
I Follow Her on Twitter
and have come to realise that she's not strictly playing from a full deck.
I Agree with This
As For her music I heard enough on Double Fantasy not to want to hear anymore
We're All Water
from Some Time In New York City.
Also, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band in its ear-mangling, screeching nightmare entirety. It's great. FWIW her husband often said it featured his best-ever guitar playing. And he was right.
Every morning
I fling back the duvet and treat the entire street to my rendition of that catchy little number 'Two Virgins Part One'.
It always ends with a police car.
Siren
There's no police car on my copy. Perhaps you have a rare previously unheard mix of the album? That might be worth a few bob.
Or
a few bobbies at least.
As I have said on another thread...
...she has got very good breasts.
I'd ask
Albert Goldman about that. But then he's dead. Which is fine.
and a Guardsman's Busby
between her legs. Quite traumatized me when I saw that cover browsing in Rumbelows record racks as an 8 year old.
Her "music"traumatized me further.
"racks"
fnarr fnarr
*sticks head in bucket of bleach*
When on holiday in Japan
last year we went as a family to a Japanese baths. Obviously the sexes were separated but my daughter was horrified that all the ladies had a 'Guardsmans Busby' between their legs.It is obviously de rigeur over there.
I thought the music was pretty traumatic too and wrote a sneering comment on here. However I was pointed in the direction of her 'Open the box' album which is really very good.
Still bonkers though.
I met her last year
And can attest - courtesy of an alarmingly low-cut top - that that is true.
Wow
You could see her Guardsman’s Busby??? That must have been a very low-cut top???
Listen, The Snow Is Falling.
Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
Well said
I concur in spades.
The Galaxie 500 version is also wonderful.
The shortest
would be my preferred choice.
I like the bits
between the tracks
Cambridge 1969
26 minutes of full-on screaming. Not to everyone's taste, I know, but if one enjoys a good scream-up, Life With The Lions is one hell of an album.
Side 2 of Live Peace In Toronto is bloody marvellous as well. Meanwhile, the version of Baby Please Don't Go on Some Time In New York City is made all the better for Yoko's random shrieks.
Can't really say that I like it when she tries to sing, though.
Plastic Ono Band album
Great music?
I've only ever heard a few minutes of it, but I'd suggest that it's one to file alongside Metal Machine Music.
It gets better.
In spite of Yoko rather than because of her.
From then on his solo career just became an extended sadness.
Plastic Ono Band album - Yoko
Do you think I'm referring to the John Lennon Plastic Ono Band album? Otherwise I don't understand the second line.
I mean Yoko's POB album that has the virtually identical front cover to John Lennon POB of the two of them lying in the shade of the tree. The rear of each had a childhood photo given identical treatment.
Cruel writers suggested at the time that the similarity was done in the hope that some people would mistakenly buy Yoko's version.
Yes but
Cynicism aside, they have near-identical covers because they are two halves of the same project ie. two artists expressing pain, anger and remorse brought to the fore by Janov, primal scream therapy etc. Same studio, same musicians. They should be packaged and sold - and listened to, gosh, all the way through - together.
Ah yes,
the pain of being international celebrities. Not knowing which Personal Assistant to ring next. Or which fucking acorn to plant.
Contemptuous
But not without merit. You, I mean.
Funny.
That's what all my teachers say.
I agree
Barry. They are companion albums. When I heard about the Double Fantasy Stripped project, I wondered not if they'd do the same to Milk and Honey, but if they'd do the same for Season of Glass. After all, Season of Glass is the companion (or tragic follow-up) to Double Fantasy. You almost can't have the one without having the other.
Toy Boat
What a record.
I had never thought of those two albums as a pair but you're absolutely right.
The Emporer's New Clothes...
in everything she has done. Art, music, whatever....there's nothing behind the curtain.
Upon investigating the recent reissues
I thought this was the best track on STINYC...