The Beatles Bible - Topic: Yoko's music

mr. Sun king coming together on Yoko's music

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:17:45 +0100

I really hate her Stripped Down Songs From Double Fantasy
At least the Original Mix has great instrumental playing behind her voice

Joe on Yoko's music

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:07:53 +0100

Yes, they recorded them back-to-back with the same musicians. The cover artwork was mostly identical - the J+Y pic on the front had the two under the tree, but with Yoko in John's arms; the back cover had a B+W pic of Yoko as a child rather than John.

There's a story I read recently where Ringo described working up an amazing groove with John and Klaus, expecting Yoko to join in. After about 10, 15 minutes of this it drew to a close, upon which Yoko stuck her head around the studio door and said, "are you ready to start ...

A Fiendish Thingy on Yoko's music

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:42:57 +0100

Joe said:

I need to get a copy of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. I've always been interested in hearing it.

Hold on, John... is that different from the POB I know of? I'm not really up-to-date with Yoko's music, forgive me.

Von Bontee on Yoko's music

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:06:55 +0100

I can mostly rep for that initial Apple trilogy. POB is pretty bracing stuff, recommended to anyone who thinks the Beatles never did anything better than "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Revolution", "Yer Blues" and "Helter Skelter" - and that those four tracks would've been better without chord changes or conventional lyrics. ("Why" and "Why Not" have no lyrics other than the title!) Lennon/Starr/Voormann make an excellent hard-rocking trio, and Yoko's lung capacity is remarkable, love it or hate it. FLY has one album of similar guitar-dominated stuff, a bit bluesier and groove-oriented, and one album of more out-there avant-garde stuff that'll probably ...

robert on Yoko's music

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:42:24 +0100

an interesting Yoko song is "Don't Be Scared" from Milk and Honey - listen to it a couple of times before you decide.

Joe on Yoko's music

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:50:24 +0100

I need to get a copy of Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band. I've always been interested in hearing it.

I don't know a great deal of her work, but I do know that the stuff I've heard (Two Virgins, Live Peace In Toronto etc) isn't nearly her best. I'd like to hear Fly and Approximately Infinite Universe too. Can anyone recommend anything else?

I listened to Yes, I'm A Witch on Spotify. Some of it was pretty good. They've also got Open Your Box, Blueprint For A Sunrise and Rising/Rising Mixes, none of which I've listened to yet.

mithveaen on Yoko's music

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:36:42 +0100

Sunii said:

You should listen to Kiss Kiss Kiss. The song is on Double Fantasy, I believe. If you hate disco music, don't listen to it.

Oh and I advise you to listen to none of her avante garde rubbish. That is a no-no.

I've just heard the song and it's ok. I can do without the moaning at the end, but which disco song didn't have that kind of moaning in the 70s? And I found some nice remixes. To give her some credit the music was a little ahead of her time. Still I can live ...

Sunii on Yoko's music

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:57:39 +0100

You should listen to Kiss Kiss Kiss. The song is on Double Fantasy, I believe. If you hate disco music, don't listen to it.

Oh and I advise you to listen to none of her avante garde rubbish. That is a no-no.

mithveaen on Yoko's music

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:39:25 +0100

Ok Sunii...

After thinking that I don't like Yoko's music I thought "Ok Mithveaen can you name a Yoko's song?" and I couldn't. So I went to youtube and I thought "Ok, let's give a try.." and to my dismay I didn't remeber Walking on Thin Ice is hers. I mean, it's ok and in some parts it seems she's throwing up, but it's good to have fun while fooling around dancing and having tequila. After all Dalai Lama said "Embrace everything".

So I'll have a bash with her music. Can you enlight me a little please??