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Yoko Ono - Starpeace Audio CD

A fair review of the Yoko Ono "Starpeace" 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: Starpeace
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-08-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hell in Paradise 2: I Love All of Me 3: Children Power 4: Rainbow Revelation 5: King of the Zoo 6: Remember Raven 7: Cape Clear 8: Sky People 9: You and I 10: It's Gonna Rain (Living on Tiptoe) 11: Starpeace 12: I Love You, Earth 13: Imagine [Live][#]

Not as bad as you may think...
Many believe Yoko's "Starpeace" is her worst album to date. . and though this may be true it is far from horrible. It actually features some very good pieces of music such as "Rainbow Revelation" and the superb "Hell in Paradise". But the true gem here is Yoko's rendition of John's "Imagine". She sings the song with such passion and authority I was nearly knocked to the floor with shock. I was expecting her cover to sound cheap and maybe even unbearable in comparison to John's but this is not the case at all. It is a NECESSITY to any yoko fan. All in all, this is the accessible pop-writer Yoko, and it doesn't always work. . . but its still a must have for a yoko collection.


Abjectly Painful
I had no idea! What a manuever! Only one woman could both break up the Beatles and take on the resurgent might of the U. The kind folks at amazon quote "The Label", which tells us "Starpeace was her [Yoko's] answer to the Reagan Star Wars campaign". S. military circa. early 80's! Yoko Ono was going to make DARNED sure the U. S. did go around blowing up the world, by golly. The Hollywood left of today could only hope to be so politically relevant.

Sadly, history leaves us no specific clue of how releasing a music album was going to compete with a multi-billion dollar set of killer satellites that could (should?) have destroyed Ms. Ono in a matter of seconds. A prevalent theory is that the horrible and atonal vibrations emanating from this record were designed to reach out into space and knock the satellites from their orbit. Sadly, the world may never know. In one of the cruelest acts of Communism, the Soviet Union collapsed from the inside so that Ms. Ono's desperate artistic partisan record would never be unleashed upon the world.

And so, unwittingly, Yoko Ono help the East and West find a common cause--curtailment of her music career. That being the case, much like Woody Allen's work since he became officially creepy, it is now only enjoyed within the confines of New York City and by suspiciously effeminate male drama teachers distributed lightly throughout the midwest.


The nadir of Yoko's post-Double Fantasy catalogue
However, I felt this album "Starpeace" was probably her weakest album. I am a huge fan of Yoko, I always defend her.

I do think there is one great track though, Hell In Paradise, I would rank that in my Yoko top 3, but besides that, there's very little to recommend off this. Songs like Remember Raven and Children Power are among the weakest, most banal tracks Yoko's ever recorded. Only 4 tracks off this album appear on the 100+ track Onobox, and Yoko doesn't have that many albums.

Avoid this and get "Walking On Thin Ice", her greatest hits set, which has Hell In Paradise anyways. This album sticks out like a really weak sore thumb in between Season Of Glass/It's Alright and Rising/Blueprint For A Sunrise.


Yoko at a crossroads, the commercial disapointment
However, the album was her cheesiest music to date, some of the songs sounding like Nickelodeon jingles. Yoko Ono released Starpeace in late 1985 with a ton of publicity.

When Starpeace came out, her label and the industry was expecting a #1 album. However, for this one time, Yoko was unable to keep up with the Madonna's, Whitney Houston's and Cyndi Lauper's dominating pop music in 1985. The album stalled at a disapointing #33 (her lowest showing ever) and the album sold less than one million.

Desperate times call for Desperate measures. Yoko embarked on a world tour to support the album in early 1986. It didn't boost album sales, but she sold out every show of the tour, proving that while her fans didn't like the album, they hadn't jumped ship.

This album did score one #1 single, Hell In Paradise. The followup Cape Clear also went to #5, but the third single "I Love All Of Me" petered out at #92, her only single to miss the hot 100.

Is the album as bad as the mystique surrounding it? not at all. Is it Yoko's worst? probably.

Thank god she came back on top with Rising after she took a long break after this disapointment.


Still my favorite Yoko album
It's even my favorite album cover of all her albums. This album has about everything of Yoko's various musical styles.


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