Yoko Ono - Approximately Infinite Universe {WINNER!}

by **NothingFails** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:53 pm

Move On Fast - 40
Approximately Infinite Universe - 40
Death of Samantha - 20

by **CrazyCrazy** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:53 pm

We've Lost:

-22 Song For John
-21 Peter The Dealer
-20 Is Winter Here To Stay?
-19 Now Or Never
-18 What A Mess
-17 Waiting For The Sunrise
-16 Have You Seen A Horizon Lately
-15 Shiranakatta (I Didn't Know)
-14 Winter Song
-13 Kite Song
-12 I Felt Like Smashing My Neck In A Clear Glass Window
-11 Air Talk
-10 Catman (The Rosies Are Coming)
-09 I Have A Woman Inside My Soul
-08 Yang Yang
-07 Looking Over From My Hotel Window
-06 I Want My Love To Rest Tonight
-05 What A Bastard The World Is
-04 What Did I Do!

ooROUND 11oo

TRACKS:

SIDE 1:

o2 Death of Samantha

SIDE 2:

o1 Approximately Infinite Universe

SIDE 4:

o2 Move On Fast

Simply vote out your least favourite so we are left with the final two.

by **Wardo** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:40 pm

Approximately Infinite Universe

by **CrazyCrazy** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:40 pm

Wardo wrote:Approximately Infinite Universe

by **Vindrag** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:12 pm

OUT:
1. Approximately Infinite Universe

Website · by **Mylostlenore** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:01 pm

crazycrazy wrote:
Wardo wrote:Approximately Infinite Universe

Cool song though.

by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:55 pm

Death Of Samantha

by **Chun** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:18 pm

Mylostlenore wrote:
crazycrazy wrote:
Wardo wrote:Approximately Infinite Universe
Cool song though.

by **Chun** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:24 pm

I just searched her on the UK charts and it strikes me that she did not have a hit from this album. I fact, her ONLY top 40 song was Walking On Thin Ice (peak #35 in 1983 and in 2003 same peak). I thought then, maybe she's more of an album artist and looked up the album charts. No, she's not, Season Of Glass peaked at #47 in 1981. How can that be? I especially expected Approximately Infinite Universe to chart for several weeks, making at least the lower top 10 in the UK. She is a well-known personality, after all. Why did it not chart? Didn't she sell it?

by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:31 pm

chun1702 wrote:I just searched her on the UK charts and it strikes me that she did not have a hit from this album. I fact, her ONLY top 40 song was Walking On Thin Ice (peak #35 in 1983 and in 2003 same peak). I thought then, maybe she's more of an album artist and looked up the album charts. No, she's not, Season Of Glass peaked at #47 in 1981. How can that be? I especially expected Approximately Infinite Universe to chart for several weeks, making at least the lower top 10 in the UK. She is a well-known personality, after all. Why did it not chart? Didn't she sell it?

In the 70s and 80s especially, Yoko was almost universally hated and not given a fair shake because of the whole mentality that she broke up The Beatles, and what chart success she saw in the early 80s was largely due to sympathy after his murder.

I'd say its only really been in the past 10 years or so that a new generation has come along realizing how much she's influenced people like Bjork, Kate Bush, Tori, Laurie Anderson, The B-52's, Cyndi Lauper (who called Yoko a nusical inspiration in the liner notes to Hat Full Of Stars) etc... and are willing to check her out with an open mind. If you look at those who like her, they're usually under 35-40, while those who hate her are Beatle fanatics over 45 who somehow cream over the idea of them becoming a bunch of tired old farts touring despite not making a relevant album in 30 years like The Stones and The Who did.

The fact that these 70s albums sold so poorly (AIU peaked at #193 in the US, Feeling The Space didn't even chart) make the old vinyl copies so much more valuable today. I have NM/M records of of AIU and FTS and cherish them.

by **Chun** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:56 pm

Wow, that's interesting. It's amazing how much impact the mass media must have had in the 70s and 80s. I guess they did not support her at all. I suspect that today with the internet Yoko would have had it easier to fight against that wall of hate.

by **Vindrag** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:37 pm

I don't know about the Björk, Kate, Tori and Laurie thing - but apart from that. Yeah. It's crazy how her success depended on such a silly rumour only.

by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:45 pm

I don't think it was an automatic influence the way The Beatles and Stones directly influenced copycats, but at this point I think Yoko is pretty much the mother of all alterna-divas. She was the first to come out when female pop stars were either like Diana Ross or like Babs Streisand. Her music is so much more conventional to earbuds today because of all the females who have emerged in her wake and have challenged what people can handle from a female artist. Whereas Yoko may as well have been alien sounds at a time when The Supremes and Dionne Warwick were all the rage.

by **CrazyCrazy** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:07 pm

Enough of that....as long as she is a hit with us!!

We've Lost:

-22 Song For John
-21 Peter The Dealer
-20 Is Winter Here To Stay?
-19 Now Or Never
-18 What A Mess
-17 Waiting For The Sunrise
-16 Have You Seen A Horizon Lately
-15 Shiranakatta (I Didn't Know)
-14 Winter Song
-13 Kite Song
-12 I Felt Like Smashing My Neck In A Clear Glass Window
-11 Air Talk
-10 Catman (The Rosies Are Coming)
-09 I Have A Woman Inside My Soul
-08 Yang Yang
-07 Looking Over From My Hotel Window
-06 I Want My Love To Rest Tonight
-05 What A Bastard The World Is
-04 What Did I Do!
-03 Approximately Infinite Universe

ooFINALoo

TRACKS:

SIDE 1:

o2 Death of Samantha

SIDE 4:

o2 Move On Fast

Vote for your winner in the poll and make a comment!!

by **NothingFails** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:17 pm

Move On Fast. Yoko rocks on that song. Not necessarily one of her finest vocal performances, but the song as a whole is brilliant and accessible.

by **CrazyCrazy** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:21 pm

NothingFails wrote:Move On Fast. Yoko rocks on that song. Not necessarily one of her finest vocal performances, but the song as a whole is brilliant and accessible.

I think vocally she is just Yoko! 8-)