Audio CD review:
Yoko Ono - Feeling the Space

Yoko Ono - Feeling the Space

Band: Yoko Ono Title: Feeling the Space Rating: Release Date: 22 July, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Growing Pain 2: Yellow Girl (Stand By For Life) 3: Coffin Car 4: Woman Of Salem 5: Run, Run, Run 6: If Only 7: A Thousand Times Yes 8: Straight Talk 9: Angry Young Woman 10: She Hits Back 11: Woman Power 12: Men, Men, Men 13: I Learned To Stutter/Coffin Car 14: Mildred, Mildred

Customer Reviews I am Woman, hear me roar (sorta) Years later I did a technogrunge tribute of her 1st album at CBGBs. I remember buying this album the week it was released in '73! Wow! Ever since YO responded to a fan letter I sent her in '71 - she mailed me an autographed copy of a paperback Grapefruit; I was 11, I was astounded! - I've been (sorta) her biggest fan. That said, FTS is a letdown after AIU. The LP's 45 - "Woman Power" / "Men, Men, Men" - offers most of the fun. The problem with FTS, I believe, was YO's replacing Elephant's Memory with session pros. "Angry Young Woman", "She Hits Back" and "Woman of Salem" are great tunes, feminist fire . . . hampered by indifferent performances. YO never had as cool a band as EM - especially hot guitarist Wayne Gabriel ("We're All Water"!) - and, alas, Ono employed a bland pop sound throughout the 80's. FTS often sounds like YO emulating Helen Reddy's big chart action, nice try but she sacrificed her shockrock touch. Supposedly YO is getting a new project going with Sonic Youth. That could be blazing. Spotty career or not, Yoko Ono, the Hillary of rockNroll, is elemental cool, an American icon. Woman power!. A Surprising Two Stars That's like saying of all the forms of cancer, I despise brain tumors least. Of all the Yoko albums, I despise this one least. Yoko's final 70's album, another masterpiece Her music was played on radio to the point you'd have thought she owned the stations. In the early 1970's, it was impossible to avoid Yoko Ono's presence. When Feeling The Space was released in October 1973, her previous album Approximately Infinate Universe was still in the top 10, and Fly, after 2 years, was still in the top 40! Yoko vowed to take a break after this album to avoid burnout. Feeling The Space quickly became yet another Yoko blockbuster. Staying atop the #1 position on Billboard for 13 weeks, through Christmas 1973. Much like Fly and Universe, this album was also chock full of hit singles. 2 #1's (Women Of Salem and Men Men Men) and 3 other top 10 singles (Coffin Car #2, Women Power #6 and She Hits Back #7). The album sold 8 million copies in the US. Which was a huge hit, but a sign that Yoko was teetering on burning out. We would not see a new album of hers again until 1980, when she conquered a whole new generation and flew back up the Billboard charts. The best feminist album ever. . You can see a complete list of all Yoko Ono discography, or go back to the Yoko Ono tabs