Yoko Ono - Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
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Music CD Cover Artist: Yoko Ono Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 1997-06-03 Music Label: Rykodisc Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band Album
Free Music Review: Why? Why Not!!!
Hit: 4 Stars
In 1969, a crowded Toronto auditorium full of rock & rollers attending a rock & roll revival (featuring some of the biggest names in rock history) patiently awaited the much-publicized debut of John Lennon's 'Plastic Ono Band'. When the band finally took the stage, they played a set of the usual rock & roll favorites to which the crowd responded well. Then John turned the mic over to his new partner, Yoko... Music as the world knew it would never be the same!!For her first solo album, Yoko divided her set between her newly created primal rock jams taking up side one and her more freeform avant-garde featured on side two. There is no question that the world was not exactly ready for the type of music this revolutionary album offered, but it did not deserve the negative response it recieved. Looking back on it now, this album was probably one of the most groundbreaking of it's era. Here we have a woman, a japanese woman at that, not only leading a rock band rather than just merely singing with it, but also using her voice more like a musical instrument rather than simply singing. The intense energy of the album was something that had not been experienced by most people at that time. From the opening guitar screech of "Why" to the final end of "Paper Shoes" the album never loses it's cretive edge. The two most powerful tracks on the album are of course the full-tilt rocker "Why" and the bluesy "Why Not" which at nearly 10 minutes never allows the listener to get bored. "Greenfield Morning..." is an interesting piece even if only for it's abnormally long title. In recent years, the song recieved a 'hats off' from fellow japanese pop singers Shonen Knife. Their song "Cycling Is Fun" features the line 'I wanna go, I wanna go to Greenfield with a baby carriage...', the song itself has nothing to do with Yoko, but it was a cute salute to the woman who started the whole alternative rock scene.
Side two is equally as intense, but in a different sense. AOS, the first track is a freeform jam Yoko recorded with jazz artist Ornett Coleman and others. The other two feature the Plastic Ono Band again, but not quite a rock oriented as side one. This may be hard to take for people who aren't experienced in this type of freeform music, but it in no way makes it bad.
The cd features two bonus tracks: an early version of "Open Your Box" and a piece entitled "Something More Abstract". "Open Your Box" as it appears here seems a little more, well 'funky' for lack of a better term. It has sort of a James Brown groove to it. This is really no suprise when you think about it, Yoko was after all involved in the black civil rights movement of that era. Even her later recording "Catman" the guitar scratching gives a nod to Isaac Hayes' "Theme From 'Shaft'". "Something More Abstract" is just what the title suggests.