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Yoko Ono - New York Rock Audio CD

A fair review of the Yoko Ono "New York Rock" 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: New York Rock
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Release Date: 1995-05-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: It Happened (Mother) 2: I'll Always Be With You 3: Speck of Dust 4: Midsummer New York 5: What a Bastard the World Is 6: Loneliness 7: Give Me Something 8: Light on the Other Side 9: Tomorrow May Never Come 10: Don't Be Scared 11: Growing Pain 12: Warzone 13: Never Say Goodbye 14: O'Sanity 15: I Want My Love to Rest Tonight 16: I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window 17: Now or Never 18: We're All Water 19: Yes, I'm Your Angel 20: It Happened (Jill) 21: Where Do We Go from Here? 22: Sleepless Night 23: No, No, No 24: Even When You're Far Away 25: Hell in Paradise 26: Toyboat 27: Story of an Oak Tree 28: Goodbye Sadness

New York Rock, ROCKS!
I love the Yoko versions much more, but I actually like this CD also. I bought this just because all of the words and music are Yoko's. Yoko donated money from the proceeds od CD and the Play to AMFAR, so that was another reason to purchase this. I have loved Yoko Ono ever since I first found an old 45 record of her singing Now or Never and I have purchased everything she has ever made since! Yoko is way ahead of her time. . . she is a story teller and her lyrics and music bring out all kinds of emotions in me.


it just doesn't work
When Ono sang "Warzone" and "No No No" on her own solo albums, the effect was downright chilling. Take away Yoko Ono's shaky, but honest singing and you're not left with much. The results here verge on comical. Yoko's stuff just wasn't meant to be performed and sung this way.


The problem with covers of Yoko Ono songs is...
. . the songs themselves are so honestly from Ono's heart, so specifically written for her voice, her sound, her range--endearing and breathtaking and to Western ears "imperfect"--that these trained singers fall short of the true heart of the music.

Listen if you're curious, but the true expression of these songs lie in the original Yoko Ono albums they came from: "Season of Glass," "a Story," "Approximately Infinite Universe," "Fly," "Feeling the Space," "It's Alright," and "Starpeace. "

The clearest example I can think of is Ono's unbelievably beautiful song "Toy Boat" from "Season of Glass," which here is belted out in true musical style, but in the original is sung quietly, tentatively, hopefully.


Oh, you might as well. No one else is.
" What the heck, guys? Buy it, listen to it once, enjoy the fact that the album probably cost twice as much as the latest Varese Sarabande silliness, and try to imagine the staging - better yet, do a revival in your own bedroom!. Let's face it, no one's gonna know if you bought it or not, and you don't have to file it with the rest of your CD's, but come on, aren't you curious? Orchestrations and arrangements by PARADE's composer, Jason Robert Brown? Starring RAGTIME's Lynette Perry? I think it's out of print by now, so if you don't get it here, you may never be able to get it again, and you'll never hear Lynette sing those immortal lyrics: "You jerk, you pig, you bastard, you scum-of-the-Earth, you good for Nothing! Oh, don't go, don't go, please don't go, I didn't mean it, I'm just in pain.


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