Audio CD review:
Yoko Ono - Starpeace

Yoko Ono - Starpeace

Band: Yoko Ono Title: Starpeace Rating: Release Date: 26 August, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Hell In Paradise 2: I Love All Of Me 3: Children Power 4: Rainbow Revelation 5: The King Of The Zoo 6: Remember Raven 7: Cape Clear 8: Sky People 9: You And I 10: It's Gonna Rain 11: Starpeace 12: I Love You, Earth 13: Imagine

Customer Reviews 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. . You can see a complete list of all Yoko Ono discography, or go back to the Yoko Ono tabs