Audio CD review:
Yoko Ono - Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Yoko Ono - Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Band: Yoko Ono Title: Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band Rating: Release Date: 03 June, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Why 2: Why Not 3: Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City 4: AOS 5: Touch Me 6: Paper Shoes 7: Open Your Box 8: Something More Abstract 9: The South Wind

Customer Reviews You don't have to be a hippie to know it's not music I am ok with Yoko recording some caterwauling and have nothing against anyone who buys it and listens to it. Attention No Wavers and Avant Guard fans: Make all the noise you want, just don't call it music. I do not blame Yoko for "breaking up the Beatles" and I don't believe she did. I am glad the Beatles broke up because they went out on top and never released dreck like Bridges to Babylon or Steel Wheels. I am happy that John met and fell in love with Yoko. But come on, without her famous husband no one would have paid attention to her noisy, annoying albums. If you want music, this isn't for you. Period. An album of screaming by the woman who broke up The Beatles For this Lennon traded away The Beatles? Has anyone ever made such a bad decision?. Supersonic vitamin Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band certainly was a touchstone for me. Y'know the old adage, "Only 100 people ever heard the Velvet Underground - but they all started bands"? The same applies to this one. Inspired - and bewildered - by it in 1971 (when I was 11), I mailed Ms. Ono some "music to wilt cement by" . . . and received, in return, an autographed copy of her book Grapefruit. In 1980, I was among a thousand screeching post-punkers that drew upon the album's bi-polar pandemonium as a shot toward the future. And in (techno-grungy) 1990, I again returned to the muse, fronting a band that covered the entire LP from the stage of CBGB's. None of which means I ever listened to it more than 10 or 20 times! Like seeing Mount Rushmore or dropping peyote, repeating the experience diminishes it. As described by Lennon (in the '70 Rolling Stone interview), the Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band tracks transpired in one frenzied jam session after Phil Spector went home from working on the Lennon album. (Despite his tireless proclamations of Ono's genius, Lennon never felt too compelled to lavish upon her 'art' the finetuning his own work required. ) Certainly, Lennon played a mean guitar on these 'tunes,' anchored by the bar-band thumpings of Starr & Voorman. Trivia: Contrary to popular legend, most critics originally gave Ono a fighting chance. Billboard praised it as visionary. No personage less than Lester Bangs gave it the thumbs up in Rolling Stone mag. Nevertheless, the buying public - no doubt resentful over the misleading similarity of LP covers - knew the difference between a supersonic vitamin . . . and entertainment. . . You can see a complete list of all Yoko Ono discography, or go back to the Yoko Ono tabs