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Yoko Ono - Rising Audio CD

A fair review of the Yoko Ono "Rising" 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: Rising
Rating:
Release Date: 1995-11-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Warzone 2: Wouldnit 3: Ask the Dragon 4: New York Woman 5: Talking to the Universe 6: Turned the Corner 7: I'm Dying 8: Where Do We Go from Here? 9: Kurushi 10: Will I 11: Rising 12: Goodbye, My Love 13: Revelations

Let Yoko rise and conquer....
So I finally broke it out again, and it's awesome. I hadn't played this album/CD in a long time, despite my love of Yoko's music. Yoko was asked to compose some songs for a play called Hiroshima. Memories of the bombing and the war (Yoko lived through the Allied bombing of WWII, and the scars are still there) inspired her to compose an entire album. It was her first CD in quite some time (almost 10 years), but she didn't miss one beat. She sounds as fresh and as engaged as she did with her early work with John. This is one of her finest works, a scarred, scary, but ultimately human portrait of our world. I especially like New York Woman, the brilliant, deeply sad Turned the Corner (with a dark, great vocal by Yoko), the cathartic I'm Dying (which is reminiscent of Don't Worry, Kyoko), the epic title track, and the sweet, sincere finale Revelations. Sean Ono Lennon's band, IMA, backs her very well, with some really powerful bass and crazy guitar (especially on the track I'm Dying). This is essential Yoko, another phenomenal recording from a phenomenal, grossly maligned woman. .


Oh that crazy, crazy Yoko
This cd ain't too bad at all. Somedays this lady scares me to death but other days she's kinda ok. Definitely worth a listen or 2. I ordered it used off amazon and don't feel like it was a bad purchase. Hey, it's better than listening to 95% of the new stuff out there these days.

And by the way, she didn't break up the beatles - so just drop that judgement.


Yoko Ono Is On The Rise!
This album though, is perhaps one of my very favorites (if not my ultimate favorite). I have every full length Yoko Ono cd available, and I love each and every album of hers. I recommend this to any fan of Yoko Ono's, and also to the ones that are wondering what her music is like.
Yoko Ono's popularity has gone up more and more within the past few years, because of the success with the songs they continue to remix, and I think it's great that more and more people are getting into her music. It's unbelievable that so many people dislike her, but don't know what her music and/or what her art is like. Yet, there are so many musicians out there that credit Yoko Ono for inspiring them, and now more and more people are getting inspired by her. GREAT ALBUM, HAUNTING SONGS, WONDERFUL LYRICS!.


Yoko tries something new:)...
It is about fighting her sadness and lonliness and growing up amidst the horrors of war. If you read the liner notes, and the lyrics, you might be slightly afraid to listen to this album. Yoko compellingly compares her friends in New York struck with AIDS, to the sufferings of the people in Hiroshima. It is an album where she expells her demons, but manages to bring you up again to a safe shore. . . and show you some Great music/instrumentation, feeling and just about everything else with her son Sean Lennon's band IMA. It manages to have a Fresh alternative sound and keep the listener interested.
Very Yoko--Very reccomended! ^_^.


Give your respect too a legend of music

This album is moving and good written and it touches my soul, Whit her shrill voice and depressed eyes she will always be the best. The first song I have ever heard from Yoko Ono was Where Do We Go From Here, and especially that song is my favorit. Warzone is about Yoko's childhood days from world war 2 really moving, Wouldnit is about wanted and wishing to be someone you never could be, Ask The Dragon is the supernatural song, Turned The Corner is about how fast but still long life could be, and it's also telling not too waste your life and you should respect and love everyone you love before they are gone, Where do We Go From Here is about the world today it's about how wrong we all are living. Buy this album and give your respect too a legend of music Yoko Ono.


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