Oh no a Yoko Ono Albums Poll

I haven't heard them all but Approximately Infinite Universe's "conventional" songs and reified funk blew me away last Xmas. I'll either vote for it, POB, or the deeply strange Season of Glass.

I love AIU, it strikes a great balance between her various strengths.

kinda expect Fly to win this though.

I haven't heard a couple of the Unfinished Music ones and missed everything between Season of Glass and Blueprint fro a Sunrise. Yes, I'm a Witch was pretty great though.

Won't vote cos I've only got Approximately Infinite Universe. It's good though!

Fly is amazing. So are Plastic Ono Band and Approximately Infinite Universe. And Season of Glass is really great, as well. Kind of expect that one to take it, honestly.

would've been interesting if she'd kept making records through '75-'80 while John stayed home

um, everybody needs to watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0EjS7tLmkg

I was going to ask if anyone owns Starpeace, supposedly one of her worst.

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
Fly
Season of Glass
Rising
Blueprint for a Sunrise
Yes, I'm a Witch
Open Your Box

^^ own & heard these, first three are untouchable, voted plastic ono band but it's a toss-up between those three

kinda bums me out that there is like zero live footage of the POB/Fly era

Of the first five Feeling The Space is the one I couldn't warm to at all: tuneless.

of the first eight

"The Sun Is Down" from "Between My Head And The Sky", which got my vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib9KltPa4Fw

the best moments on Fly are better than Faust at the top of their game.

Gotta vote for "Fly" because DUCK DUCK TRAIN DUCK DUCK TRAAAAAIIN but really love Ringo's stuff on the 1st album. So incredibly raw. Last year I really got into "Life With The Lions" but its really more of a John & Yoko thing. My first intro to Yoko was "Season of Glass" and that album is still one of the most beautiful ones I've ever heard.

Soooo wish The Beatles had made a noise record w Yoko in 1971 instead of splitting.

kinda bums me out that there is like zero live footage of the POB/Fly era

― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Me too. Or what i would give for studio footage of Ringo, Klaus, John, and Yoko noising the fuck out!

However, John & Yoko made plenty of experimental films around this period, so there is plenty of visual accompaniment available. Btw, does anyone know about the below clip? Is it official?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4EVj76htYs

non-sync sound, but real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqCpvzXGTE

Season of Glass for me, with AIU a close second. Walking On Thin Ice compilation is very accessible for anyone looking to get into Yoko, IMO. I never much went for her primal scream stuff, but I do like her pop songs.

I was listening to Life With The Lions and Wedding Album not two weeks ago! (Also gave Two Virgins another try - still hate it.)

POB gets my vote, but yeah Fly comes close.

(Hey, where's "Live Peace in Toronto 1969?)

Oooh! This thread may be the one place people would appreciate this - I convinced my fiance to pose with me in similar garb/style as the Wedding Album cover, with intent to Photoshop ourselves into the cover & print for the wedding!

pics plz!

Will do - haven't done it yet! But I sourced the floppy white hat. ;) Wedding is in August and I'm doing lots of rock and roll photoshopping so will throw it all up here sometime for everyone to see!

Oh yeah, "fiance" = not marrried yet, duh.

hey, I'm just glad someone else is as excited as me! All my friends hate Yoko and their eyes glaze over as soon as they hear "John and Y--"

get new friends

I HATE being confronted with boring and shitty attitudes towards Yoko.
Side two of Live Peace in Toronto is something special.

Better than Side One!

I used to try and find new friends but eventually I just decided Yoko would be 'headphone music' - my fiance can live with her music, though I've never seen another IRL person who would choose to put on one of her albums. ;)

Yeah, doesn't real life just suck, sometimes! (doesn't 've to be in NYC, either ;)

..I'm in Toronto, living peace as best I can!

I am fortunate to have a wife that digs Yoko Ono. Now if we could only find a drummer for my long-fantasized-about Yoko Ono cover band....

xpost - I'm a few miles north of you doing likewise!

(xpost - not a few miles north of me i don't think!)

just ordered me a fly

Other albums may be more adventurous, but Season of Glass makes me feel sadly beautifully human.

OK, make that a few miles WEST of Toronto! (More than a few, actually. Man, I suck at geography/navigation)

Saw Yoko + We Are Plastic Ono Band show last year and it was pretty transcendent. Toss up between AIU and Fly.

I always enjoyed the irony in the Wedding album..

Basically, side 1 is their version of "John and Marsha" Stan Freberg, and I'm sure John would know exactly that and that Yoko probably didn't.

Alright Myogna, let's start a 2 person campaign to get Yoko to Onotario! :D

Invite her to your wedding!

xpost - I love that story about the test pressing with the electronic tones being reviewed as part of the album proper.

Oh man! What an idea. I wonder if, like the Queen, she'd send a letter on official letterhead informing me she regrettably is unable to attend. Worth a shot!

Has anyone heard "A Story"? That's the one that was unreleased until recently right...?

Never heard it nor "Feeling..." - have to catch up.

She's taken out a full-page ad in today's Metro.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

IIIIIIIII JUST WANNA FLY

pretty? for a white guy, even??

Totally would vote for Live Peace in Toronto if it was an option. Since it's not, Fly.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

please note that I would have voted for Fly if I had remembered

Damn, I missed this poll but I generally agree with its outcome. The first 3 and Rising are the only ones I particularly care for.

Season of Glass is in the wrong place, and I'm scratching my head about the zero votes for Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey...

I like those but was consciously excluding the J&Y albums

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/yoko-ono-hospitalized-after-possible-stroke/

:(

Sean Ono Lennon
‏@seanonolennon

Hey guys it was only rumors from press: was NOT a stroke, just dehydration/tired. She is FINE. Thank you everyone for your concern @yokoono

whew

Cant deal w prospect of losing bowie and yoko in the same year tbh

So many amazing songs!

No "What a Bastard the World Is"?!

Plastic Ono is a hard number one, but some of the songs on Approximately Infinite sneak up and gut punch me when I'm not expecting it. 'Smashing My Face' and 'I Want My Love to Rest Tonight' in particular are doing something lyrically that seems initially clumsy and slightly amateurish but that ultimately feels deeply profound and wise, something ineffable that I can't really compare with any other songwriter I'm familiar with.

otm

or the way she chooses a jaunty arrangement and tune for the title "I Felt Like Smashing My Face In A Clear Glass Window."

Great list, and I can think of no more perfect introduction to an artist than "Why."

And with all the occasional recent flare-ups about "OMG PAUL AND RINGO GOT BACK TOGETHER," I am sure I'm not alone in wishing for a Yoko + Ringo reunion.

YES

approximately infinite universe is so fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIukmrsUvc

Feeling the Space needs some love. songwriting up there w Season of Glass imo.

am sure I'm not alone in wishing for a Yoko + Ringo reunion.

bunch of great players on season of glass. hugh mccracken! earl slick! george young! tony levin! andy newmark!

most of them on Double Fantasy iirc

lol yeah literally all of them except george young. never managed to get around to double fantasy

Her presence toughens him.

and here i thought all that time i spent ignoring post-imagine john lennon solo records was time well spent

you're not wrong, but you need her stuff on DF ("Kiss Kiss Kiss" and "I'm Moving On") in your life

oh yeah i'm familiar with "kiss kiss kiss" and how it completely rules.

*"cleanup time" starts* well i'm really looking forward to the next yoko song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_o-NA4u5kg

feel like lou reed would've killed to write this song

also "i don't know why" is SUCH an amazing song

meanwhile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZrHWe3aZ0

season of glass is p much all killer imo

I make allowances for the show tunes

love season of glass

no one can see me like you do oh oh oh

i see your face with a trace of light

she was a great songwriter