Onobox Box Set by Yoko Ono

Onobox Box Set

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Onobox Box Set

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So... you're browsing Amazon... if you're like me there's nothing so remarkable about that. I mean, browsing Amazon is like a hobby nowadays. The song samples are like a sonic encyclopedia. So, therefore, if you're here you're probably half-curious about whether the horror stories about Yoko are true and you're half-thinking that (maybe) if you make the big investment on this giant anthology then it'll contain all the stuff from all the albums and you'll get all of Yoko in one for-sale package. I thought the same thing; because, on first look it appears that they're all here but you're just not sure and you're certainly not gonna check. Well I have. The long-and-short of it: you get 12 non-LP tracks but in exchange you LOSE 27 LP tracks see the next paragrapg for which ones). You'll also lose the album art and the sequencing from the original albums. To me, that seems like a lame deal since half of her LPs are for sale here used for under five bucks on a good day. Do what I did: Search Yoko Ono in music and save a link to each album in you favorites under a folder named, like, Used Yoko, and check there for used deals every week. That's how I got all the LPs. After awhile you figure out which one are never for sale used under $7: Season of Glass (SOG) , Approximately Infinite Universe (AIU), Double Fantasy (DF), Milk and Honey (MAH), Fly (F), Feeling the Space (FTS), Plastic Ono Band (POB), The Wedding Album (TWA), Live Peace in Toronto 1969 (LP), and Sometime in New York (SINY) and which ones always (or sometimes) are: Two Virgins (2V), Life With The Lions (LWTL), Rising (R), Rising Mixes (RM), Blueprint For A Sunrise (BFAS), Starpeace (S), A Story (AS), and It's Alright (IA). The title abbreviations will be used later to signal you to which album every track on Onobox can be found on. I did this as a space consideration singe I didn't want this review to be super long. Please note that some tracks marked as Non-LP can be found on comps and imports, but buying two pricy imports is almost like buying the Onobox. This brings us to the portion of the review where I list where each track can be found. For most of you, this information is immaterial, so if you're that type of person, just skip to the last paragraph. Each track is separated by a semicolon (;) and the abbreviation after the song (right before the semicolon) refers to the album title...those abbreviations can be found earlier in this paragraph, with two exceptions. Walking on Thin Ice (WOTI) is the compilation made from this box. It has one song that you can't find on nay album and you can usually get it for $2 but if you're gonna buy this, there's really no point unless you want to use the liner notes to house the CDR you burn these 11 exclusive tracks onto. That's my plan, since I already got the Onobox. The other Abbreviation is on the Onobox-exclusive tracks. They're marked with the abbreviation ONOBOX so you can find them easily. . You lose: aos POB; "something more abstract" POB; ms. lennon F; hirake F; airmale F; you; fly F; between the takes F; will you touch me F; song for john AIU; air talk AIU; I learned to stutter/coffin car FTS; wake up IA; I see rainbows IA; turn of the wheel SOG; mother of the universe SOG; I love all of me S; children power S; rainbow revealation S; king of the zoo S; remember raven S; sky people S; you and I S; it's gonna rain S; starpeace S; imaine S. . DISC ONE: no bed for beatle john LWTL; mind holes F; o'wind (body is the scar of the mind F; why POB; why not POB; greenfield morning I pushed an empty baby carriage all over the city POB; touch me POB; paper shoes POB; mind train F; open your box POB; toilet piece/unknown F; don't worry kyoko TWA, F, SINY, LP; telephone piece F; midsummer new york F; The Path ONOBOX; don't count the waves F; head-play (medley of you-airmale-fly) ONOBOX; is winter here to stay AIU. DISC TWO: yang yang AIU; death of samsara AIU; what did I do! AIU; approximately infinite universe AIU; what a bastard the world is AIU; catman (the rosies are coming) AIU; I want my love to rest tonight AIU; shiranakatta (I didn't know) AIU; peter the dealer/deeler AIU; I felt like smashing my face in a clear glass window AIU; winter song AIU; kite song AIU; now or never AS, AIU; what a mess AIU; I have a woman inside my soul AIU; move on fast AIU; looking over from my hotel window AIU; waiting for the sunrise AIU. DISC THREE: growing pains FTS; yellow girl (stand by for life) FTS; coffin car FTS; warrior woman ONOBOX; woman of salem FTS; run run run FTS; if only FTS; a thousand times yes FTS; straight talk FTS; angry young woman FTS; potbelly rocker ONOBOX; she hits back FTS; men men men FTS; it's been very hard FTS; mildered mildred FTS; left turn's the right turn ONOBOX. DISC FOUR: walking on this ice SOG, DF; kiss kiss kiss DF; give me something DF; I'm moving on DF; yes I'm your angel DF; beautiful boys IA, DF; open your soul to me ONOBOX; every man has a woman who loves him DF; hard times are over AS, DF; don't be scared MAH; sleepless night MAH; o'sanity MAH; your hands AS; let me count the ways MAH; forgive me my love ONOBOX; you're the one IA; there's no goodbye ONOBOX; have you seen the horizon lately AIU. DISC FIVE: I don't know why SOG; mindweaver SOG; even when you're far away SOG; nobody sees me like you do SOG; silver horse SOG; no no no SOG; toyboat SOG; she gets down on her knees AS, AIU, SOG; extension 33 AS; never say goodbye IA; spec of dust IA; my man IA; it's alright IA; let the tears dry IA; dream love IA; hell in paradise S; I love you earth S; in cape clear S; goodbye sadness SOG. DISC SIX: a story AS; loneliness AS, IA; will you touch me AS, SOG; dogtown AS, AIU, SOG, etc.; it happened AS; tomorrow may never come AS, IA; winter friend AS; heartburn stew AS; yes, I'm a witch AS; yume o moto ONOBOX; o'oh WOTI; namyohorengekyo ONOBOX; we're all water SINY; joseijoi banzai ONOBOX; sisters o sisters SINY. . I felt it was my duty to write a few words, as this is the last Yoko Ono review I will likely write. Yoko Ono reviews are mainly used to review and critique her as a person, and not her music. You know how I know? That caterwauling and shrieking and screaming that is supposedly all of her recordings is actually only found on a handful of the many recordings, namely, POB, F, LWTL, LP and that's it! All the rest sound like variations of John's recordings, Walls and Bridges and SINY come to mind. I would only ever recommend to you one of her recordings that you could get for under five. The first album I bought was POB which I bought because I thought it was going out of print. I definitely got ripped off because I got it for $22.00 at a place on Broadway in NYC but I'm not mad because I got most of the other ones for a steal. The used for cheap ones I recommend for you guys is A Story. It's her last album of the seventies...recorded in 1974, during the same lost weekend where John recorded Walls and Bridges and Rock and Roll. Most of her recordings have that easy listening/lounge act sound that you find on Walls and Bridges. When I heard it for the first time...I thought "THIS is Yoko Ono?!?" I too assumed she was some shronky witch. I really bought POB as a gag record and I laughed it before I liked it. Beyond that album...my other favorite albums are LWTL, POB, FTS, AIU, and SOG but they are of course expensive. But, duh, that's why people don't sell them... because they like them. One final word...Yoko isn't an artist that if you catch her on the wrong album, you might not like her (like Sonic Youth). She's more of an artist like Beat Happening (who I like) that you're more like to hate altogether than to have a good introductory album. My rationale in recommending a cheap album is that, hey, three dollars is like a latte or two slices of pizza! That's not really much of a risk. I will recommend to you two things, first, shipping is usually $2.50 per record, so when you see a used record offer add on $2.50 to the price to figure how it would stack up to a used CD store and second buying used CDs on Amazon is far safer than buying used from a place like Gemm or Ebay because if you buy used on Amazon, you can pay with your credit card straight to Amazon and that's a lot more secure than giving your credit card number to some guy who you don't know or buggering with paypal. That's it. I hope you liked it. If mot, you're clearly a horrible person. Ha.

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