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Yoko Ono - Feeling the Space Audio CD

A fair review of the Yoko Ono "Feeling the Space" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Yoko Ono reviews here, or go back to the Yoko Ono tabs.

Yoko Ono Band: Yoko Ono
Title: Feeling the Space
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Release Date: 1997-07-22
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: 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 [Live][#][*] - John Lennon, Yoko Ono 14: Mildred, Mildred [#][*] - John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Give Yoko a Chance
Her relationship with John Lennon is a huge part of her art/music, but not the element she should be judged against. Yoko Ono is an artist in her own right. She pushed boundaries, played with sound, noise, different aspects of expression. She was an innovator. Her music opened the door to punk and post-punk and new wave, without ever sounding like anything else. Listen to it without succumbing the tired old (codger) bias about how she screwed up the Beatles. For real, people. Some of these reviewers offer nothing enlightening about the music, good or critical. Just more boring ideology. People must have a lot of time on their hands in order to simply express their dumb, and frankly annoying, small-minded outrage about Yoko Ono. .


Yoko walks like an Egyptian

The ancient splendor of the pyramids and Yoko as the mysterious Sphincter is so apropos. Out of all the album covers Yoko has put out over the years, this is my favorite. .


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!.


FEELING THE SPACE (APPLE RECORDS/1973)
And no: I won't listen to another criticism about her voice. REVIEW: Ono's fourth solo album seems to pale in the shadow of her previous offering (the staggering, double record set "APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE"); but the breezy, open air quality of these immaculately crafted tunes are in many ways superior to even the best moments on that LP. Yes there are certainly better singers, but I can think of no other artist who has written more daringly original music than Yoko. Even if you aren't up to the wild vocalese experiments of the "PLASTIC ONO BAND" and "FLY" albums (or her tepid audio collaborations with husband John Lennon) that's no excuse to ignore her mainstream pop/rock releases. There isn't any other singer capable of putting across the climatic build-up and execution on "Woman Of Salem" or who could belt out the anthemic "Woman Power". Her performance is, at times, quite awe inspiring; and the instrumentation moves easily from country ("If Only") and ballads ("Growing Pain") to vaudeville ("Men Men Men") and rock ("Coffin Car") without skipping a beat. Although her militant feminism can be hard to swallow (i. e. her pro-abortion stance, the violence of "She Hits Back", and the irresponsibility of "Angry Young Woman": a frightening tableau about a wife who sneaks out of the house one night and leaves behind her husband and children in order to start a new life for herself), the music certainly isn't (a fact which makes "FEELING THE SPACE" a masterful piece of work). ANOTHER BIG PLUS: the Yoko-as-sphinx cover art! Freaky yet cool! HARSH LANGUAGE: only 1 instance on the live CD bonus track "I Learned To Stutter/Coffin Car". VIOLENCE: about 9 instances. SEXUAL REFERENCES: about 3. DRUG REFERENCES: 1 reference to "smoking myself to death" on "If Only".


HIGHEST BILLBOARD ALBUM CHART POSITION: None

HIT SINGLES: None.


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.


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