Yoko Ono fans?

[Dean Winchester]

are there any other Yoko Ono fans in here?

She is one of my favorite artists and I feel she has gotten such a bum rap because some Beatle fans can't handle the fact that Lennon and McCartney were drifting apart, and would rather just place the blame on Yoko.

I think Yoko is very underrated. Some of her early music is unlistenable, but I think after about 1973 or so, her music began to get excellent, and she's never lost her edge in 30 years. Her voice is definately an acquired taste, but I think once you get used to it, you fall in love with it.

If you have a "Yoko sucks because she broke up The Beatles" attitude, please refrain from saying it in here. She's definately one of the few renaissance women in music, and at age 71, is STILL making music that rivals people 40 years younger than her.

[BowWowsBaby]

i feel that she sounds like a screeching banshee lol...no offence its just not my thing

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by BowWowsBaby
i feel that she sounds like a screeching banshee lol...no offence its just not my thing

yep, you've most likely heard one of her early records, lol

[SBTB Geek]

She looks like Mrs. Swan (from MadTV) in your avatar pic.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by SBTB Geek
She looks like Mrs. Swan (from MadTV) in your avatar pic.

rofl, now that you say it.. she really does

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by BowWowsBaby
i feel that she sounds like a screeching banshee lol...no offence its just not my thing

Screaming banshee is an apt decription! No, the Beatles were going to go their separate ways anyway. But Yoko is not a singer!
Holy Moly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
are there any other Yoko Ono fans in here?

She is one of my favorite artists and I feel she has gotten such a bum rap because some Beatle fans can't handle the fact that Lennon and McCartney were drifting apart, and would rather just place the blame on Yoko.

I think Yoko is very underrated. Some of her early music is unlistenable, but I think after about 1973 or so, her music began to get excellent, and she's never lost her edge in 30 years. Her voice is definately an acquired taste, but I think once you get used to it, you fall in love with it.

If you have a "Yoko sucks because she broke up The Beatles" attitude, please refrain from saying it in here. She's definately one of the few renaissance women in music, and at age 71, is STILL making music that rivals people 40 years younger than her.

A bum rap?! She is absolutely an untalented singer!(did I say singer?) Screaming Mimi is more like it! John must have been under the influence in thinking that she had/has any musical talent! Give me a break!

[Penny Lane]

Yoko underrated?

[AKA]

I think she's been given a bum rap as far as people saying she broke up The Beatles. The Beatles would have broken up anyway, Yoko or not.

She seems like a cool person. I'm not much of a fan of her music, though.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by Penny Lane
A bum rap?! She is absolutely an untalented singer!(did I say singer?) Screaming Mimi is more like it! John must have been under the influence in thinking that she had/has any musical talent! Give me a break!

oh, so Yoko's untalented because she doesn't have a great voice? I guess that means Bob Dylan sucks too, right? Tom Waits must also be atrocious and untalented too, right?

If Yoko sucks so badly as a songwriter, why did a bunch of artists record her songs (HER songs.. nothing with John) on a tribute album several years back and many of the critics who decryed the songs when Yoko sang them came around and admitted she has some damn good songs when hearing other peoples interpretations.

At this point, at age 71 in the year 2004... Yoko is STILL on the cutting edge. I respect that, whereas people like McCartney and Jagger have all but given up and are now just making standard dinosaur rock (Bowie was going that route but ended up snapping out of it). Blueprint For A Sunrise was a superior album to Driving Rain, and Yoko has a decade on Paul.

If you go into Yoko's music expecting The Beatles, you're going to hate it. If you go into it and are a fan of someone like Prince or David Bowie, you might like it IF YOU OPEN YOUR EARS AND MIND.

[AKA]

One of the coolest guitar licks I've ever heard is on the Yoko Ono song "Walking On Thin Ice." John laid it down the night he died.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Yoko underrated?

yea, Linda McCartney's music was soooooooooo much better and she sounded like Barbra Streisand when she sang.

Get over your hatred for Yoko, it's been almost 35 years anyways, and SHE'S STILL HERE.

Yes, Yoko IS underrated because of people like you who hate her because "she broke up the Beatles", and have NEVER HEARD ANY MUSIC POST 1971 come in and try to say her music is garbage, when they haven't even heard anything she's done in the past 30 years. She has grown considerably as an artist except people FEAR her so they don't even bother to give her a shot.

I hate it when people say that "she has no talent" when the Season Of Glass, Rising and Blueprint For A Sunrise albums do nothing but prove that opinion wrong, but people come into Yoko with such a hatred that they won't bother to give her stuff a shot because they think John and Paul would've recorded more albums. LINDA WAS JUST AS MUCH A PART OF THE BREAKUP AS YOKO!

Just like Yoko said in a recorded interview, "I was respected in the art world, but once I married John, I was villified. Becuase I was Asian and because I am not a quiet woman. I was trashed, drug through the mud and went from being 'performance artist Yoko Ono' to 'that ugly Jap *****', why? because John and I loved each other"

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by AKA
One of the coolest guitar licks I've ever heard is on the Yoko Ono song "Walking On Thin Ice." John laid it down the night he died.

yep, WOTI is definately one of the greatest songs of Yoko's career

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
yea, Linda McCartney's music was soooooooooo much better and she sounded like Barbra Streisand when she sang.

Get over your hatred for Yoko, it's been almost 35 years anyways, and SHE'S STILL HERE.

Yes, Yoko IS underrated because of people like you who hate her because "she broke up the Beatles", and have NEVER HEARD ANY MUSIC POST 1971 come in and try to say her music is garbage, when they haven't even heard anything she's done in the past 30 years. She has grown considerably as an artist except people FEAR her so they don't even bother to give her a shot.

I hate it when people say that "she has no talent" when the Season Of Glass, Rising and Blueprint For A Sunrise albums do nothing but prove that opinion wrong, but people come into Yoko with such a hatred that they won't bother to give her stuff a shot because they think John and Paul would've recorded more albums. LINDA WAS JUST AS MUCH A PART OF THE BREAKUP AS YOKO!

Just like Yoko said in a recorded interview, "I was respected in the art world, but once I married John, I was villified. Becuase I was Asian and because I am not a quiet woman. I was trashed, drug through the mud and went from being 'performance artist Yoko Ono' to 'that ugly Jap *****', why? because John and I loved each other"

I don't hate Yoko. But a singer? Nope! JMO

[MandieR1980]

She sucks but the truth is if she hadn't been married to John Lennon nobody would know who she was at all and sadly there would be no Barenaked Ladies song about her LOL