John & Yoko's 'Wedding Album'

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Come on, JL meeting YO is the only reason the Beatles are more fondly remembered than the Searchers or Herman's Hermits! Reason - cross-generational 'appeal', while all the older people who grudgingly gave them props because 'McCartney is as good as Cole Porter etc' are now dead or sheepish now that everyone realises that the 60s sucked or at least that far from being days of rage and tumult they were a fucking party in comparison to the shit we have to put up with now, back to sleep Boomers! Make it the Big Sleep too!, while JL ensured back-catalogue longevity by doing the weird shit that would give subsequent iconoclasm fans something to 'emulate'/laugh at/condemn/idolise/whatever. Anyway the album is pretty good IMHO. OK the first piece is a bit dull but the second has an interview where JL talks politics, and fuck me sideways if he doesn't actually make quite a bit of sense - yeah, surprising or what? The absolute last person I would've ever expected to have a coherent and reasonable point of view concerning the Man, but there it is. The YO bonus tracks are the shit!!! (As in 'great') Serious, compared to the stuff she was coming out with in 1969, almost all a)chick singers b)'experimental pop artists' haven't even reached the starting line! My fave chick singer except for maybe Nico and Martha Davis of the Motels

― dave q, Saturday, 14 September 2002 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of Martha D I am INFATUATED with that woman's voice. Does anybody else sound like her, besides Sophie Ellis Bextor?

― dave q, Saturday, 14 September 2002 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)

welcome to my world - now expect to get in arguments with 99% of the planet when you say something positive about a) yoko, b) john and yoko, and c) any of the "unfinished music" albums.

yoko's "plastic ono band" is the bizznomb.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Saturday, 14 September 2002 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i think the first three CDs on onobox are great

i think this meeting-of-mismatched-minds/cultures was genuinely one that powered odd changes in pop culture at large
(as in lennon invented hippies, yoko invented punk and the struggle between the two was the productive energy of the 70s, which is anyway the important decade in rock heh)

i think i'm sadder, in a way, for the music we lost that *yoko* wd have made had lennon not been shot (as in, her input to the plastic ono band in the 80s and 90s, rather than his: she was the first person he was ever in awe of — since his mom anyway – and i think that really muffled him... until he got bored with it, contempt had always been his best muse, and i think he had come to dislike himself for this)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 September 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

my favorite thing about John and Yoko was that they could write good pop songs that pleased the masses and throw down some clear the room noise that made many folks experience something outside of the pop spectrum.

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Never heard it, but I was just thinking today that "Oh Yoko" is probably the best pop song any of the Beatles wrote after 1965.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I missed the Yoko Ono retrospective at the SF MOMA, and I bought a membership to the museum in part because I wanted to see the show. I wish I could say laziness was the only reason. Anyway, she always seemed serious and intelligent, I mean that in a good way. There's a single-disc distillation of Onobox out there; should I get this? I know some people love her. I vaguely remeber the well-regarded single "Walking on Thin Ice"... in my mind's ear it sounds kinda like "Broken English"... am I off-base?

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 15 September 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

I decorated my literature classroom with laminated printouts of a few favorite album covers, including Life with the Lions. Today after class, a student came up to me and told me that not only does she love the Beatles, she loves Yoko and thinks her music is deeply underrated. Fifteen years old. It's nice when things go right in the world.

― TheNuNuNu, Friday, 5 September 2025 12:16 (one month ago)

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