"Double Fantasy" wins Album Of The Year GRAMMY '81
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Erik in NJ:
Funny thought isn't it??
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I will say that Yoko tested people's patience in the eighties. Take a look at the timeline of releases after Double Fantasy and John's death in late 1980: 1981 - Season of Glass [Yoko] 1982 - It's Alright [Yoko] 1982 - The John Lennon Collection [John] 1984 - Milk and Honey [John and Yoko] 1984 - Every Man Has A Woman [tribute to Yoko, including one John track] 1985 - Starpeace [Yoko], accompanied by her ill-fated concert tour 1986 - Live In New York City [John] 1986 - Menlove Ave. [John] 1988 - Imagine: John Lennon [John] - album, and movie documentary She wisely slowed down after that!
Yoko attempted a tour????? Details!
She had Billy Joel's saxophonist at one tine!
Many tour dates cancelled due to lack of sales. In recent years, she's done a few one-off shows with a new Plastic Ono Band, which has included people from Sean Lennon to Eric Clapton.
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Erik in NJ:
Well after watching those two video I must now admit that she may have passed up an illustrious and lucrative career....in comedy!!! Wasn't that little guy the one that appeared in Seinfeld??
In truth, she's never been afraid to have people laugh at her. She never says, "Why don't people take me more seriously?" She just puts it out there, and lets the sparks fly! The "Hell In Paradise" video was meant to be in the absurdist vein of videos at the time by the likes of Art Of Noise. Laugh away!!
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Many tour dates cancelled due to lack of sales. In recent years, she's done a few one-off shows with a new Plastic Ono Band, which has included people from Sean Lennon to Eric Clapton.
Well I had to Google it to believe it Here's a pretty humorous excerpt from Pitchfork: "On February 16, the Plastic Ono Band will play a huge show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House. Ono will share the stage with a whole battalion of fellow musicians, including regular collaborators like Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Cornelius, producer Mark Ronson, ex-Cibo Matto member Yuka Honda, and son Sean Lennon. But the bill also includes some gigantically popular old-school entertainer types: Bette Midler, Eric Clapton, and Paul Simon. (Well, she was married to a Beatle.) You're not likely to see Thurston Moore and Bette Midler share a stage again anytime soon, folks. That's the poster above. A slightly less WTF form of the Plastic Ono Band will also play Oakland's Fox Theater as part of San Francisco's Noise Pop festival on February 23. Cornelius, Yuka Honda, and Sean Lennon will once again back up Ono. Deerhoof will open." Strange bedfellows indeed!
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Erik in NJ:
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Many tour dates cancelled due to lack of sales. In recent years, she's done a few one-off shows with a new Plastic Ono Band, which has included people from Sean Lennon to Eric Clapton.
Well I had to Google it to believe it Here's a pretty humorous excerpt from Pitchfork: "On February 16, the Plastic Ono Band will play a huge show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House. Ono will share the stage with a whole battalion of fellow musicians, including regular collaborators like Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Cornelius, producer Mark Ronson, ex-Cibo Matto member Yuka Honda, and son Sean Lennon. But the bill also includes some gigantically popular old-school entertainer types: Bette Midler, Eric Clapton, and Paul Simon. (Well, she was married to a Beatle.) You're not likely to see Thurston Moore and Bette Midler share a stage again anytime soon, folks. That's the poster above. A slightly less WTF form of the Plastic Ono Band will also play Oakland's Fox Theater as part of San Francisco's Noise Pop festival on February 23. Cornelius, Yuka Honda, and Sean Lennon will once again back up Ono. Deerhoof will open." Strange bedfellows indeed!
Yes! And the group Deerhoof is appropriate. Another wacky female Japanese singer, but more of a conventional alternative rock type of band. I will admit that Yoko's collaboration CD with Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth) a few years ago was not much more than random warblings and guitar noise, very little structure or point.
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Yoko tends to sound like Sonic Youth's feedback.
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audi:
Yoko tends to sound like Sonic Youth's feedback.
Kindred spirits! Back on subject, I think the award would have gone to Quincy Jones or Steely Dan, if not for Double Fantasy.
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Agreed. The Dude was an excellent collaboration of many talented artists.
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Gaucho still sounds very fresh today! Double Fantasy sounds a bit dated on some of the (Lennon) tracks. All bias aside, I'd have to give the nod to Gaucho as being the superior album.
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Yoko tends to sound like Sonic Youth's feedback.
Kindred spirits! Back on subject, I think the award would have gone to Quincy Jones or Steely Dan, if not for Double Fantasy.
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Erik in NJ:
Gaucho still sounds very fresh today! Double Fantasy sounds a bit dated on some of the (Lennon) tracks. All bias aside, I'd have to give the nod to Gaucho as being the superior album.
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Yoko tends to sound like Sonic Youth's feedback.
Kindred spirits! Back on subject, I think the award would have gone to Quincy Jones or Steely Dan, if not for Double Fantasy.
I will concede to you that Double Fantasy may not have gotten the nod if John had lived. I do not share your opinion of Yoko, however.
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John's songs on Double Fantasy are awesome.... Woman, Watching the Wheels, Beautiful Boy... all of them.... all of the songs of his on that album are A1. But I can't get over Yoko's contribution. Terrible. And worse, given I bought it when only records existed, if I wanted to skip Yoko's songs I had to get up and lift the needle. And that damn song of hers, the one where she moans and groans, and was quite happy for everyone to know she lay down on the studio floor and "entertained" herself to perfect the effect.... her presence did nothing to enhance what could've been John's greatest album. Imagine Yoko's songs been left off, and others like Nobody Told Me, Grow Old With Me, Life Begins at Forty, for starters, being included instead. That would've made my day.
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toris:
John's songs on Double Fantasy are awesome.... Woman, Watching the Wheels, Beautiful Boy... all of them.... all of the songs of his on that album are A1. ... Imagine Yoko's songs been left off, and others like Nobody Told Me, Grow Old With Me, Life Begins at Forty, for starters, being included instead...
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I don't mind Yoko's songs on Double Fantasy. I like John's intent on providing a dialogue between John & Yoko. That was cool. But it was frustrating when all I want to do was listen to John. But the digital age has made listening to DF a lot easier
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toris:
John's songs on Double Fantasy are awesome.... Woman, Watching the Wheels, Beautiful Boy... all of them.... all of the songs of his on that album are A1. But I can't get over Yoko's contribution. Terrible. And worse, given I bought it when only records existed, if I wanted to skip Yoko's songs I had to get up and lift the needle. And that damn song of hers, the one where she moans and groans, and was quite happy for everyone to know she lay down on the studio floor and "entertained" herself to perfect the effect.... her presence did nothing to enhance what could've been John's greatest album. Imagine Yoko's songs been left off, and others like Nobody Told Me, Grow Old With Me, Life Begins at Forty, for starters, being included instead. That would've made my day.
Had to get up & lift the needle...that's the equivalent to telling your kids you had to walk 5 miles uphill to school. Good one!
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Uphill. Both ways. Barefoot!
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toris:
John's songs on Double Fantasy are awesome.... Woman, Watching the Wheels, Beautiful Boy... all of them.... all of the songs of his on that album are A1. But I can't get over Yoko's contribution. Terrible. And worse, given I bought it when only records existed, if I wanted to skip Yoko's songs I had to get up and lift the needle. And that damn song of hers, the one where she moans and groans, and was quite happy for everyone to know she lay down on the studio floor and "entertained" herself to perfect the effect.... her presence did nothing to enhance what could've been John's greatest album. Imagine Yoko's songs been left off, and others like Nobody Told Me, Grow Old With Me, Life Begins at Forty, for starters, being included instead. That would've made my day.
Had to get up & lift the needle...that's the equivalent to telling your kids you had to walk 5 miles uphill to school. Good one!
Well, toris, there's always Disc 4 of this set: Or make your own disc, if that's not too taxing!
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toris:
John's songs on Double Fantasy are awesome.... Woman, Watching the Wheels, Beautiful Boy... all of them.... all of the songs of his on that album are A1. But I can't get over Yoko's contribution. Terrible. And worse, given I bought it when only records existed, if I wanted to skip Yoko's songs I had to get up and lift the needle. And that damn song of hers, the one where she moans and groans, and was quite happy for everyone to know she lay down on the studio floor and "entertained" herself to perfect the effect.... her presence did nothing to enhance what could've been John's greatest album. Imagine Yoko's songs been left off, and others like Nobody Told Me, Grow Old With Me, Life Begins at Forty, for starters, being included instead. That would've made my day.
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toris:
And that damn song of hers, the one where she moans and groans, and was quite happy for everyone to know she lay down on the studio floor and "entertained" herself to perfect the effect.... her presence did nothing to enhance what could've been John's greatest album.
This is almost "too much info" but thanks for sharing! It's hysterically funny that that sort of thing was part of her "artistic" process. Maybe there was actually a third meaning to the title of the album
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Erik in NJ:
toris:
And that damn song of hers, the one where she moans and groans, and was quite happy for everyone to know she lay down on the studio floor and "entertained" herself to perfect the effect.... her presence did nothing to enhance what could've been John's greatest album.
This is almost "too much info" but thanks for sharing! It's hysterically funny that that sort of thing was part of her "artistic" process. Maybe there was actually a third meaning to the title of the album
Come Together II
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Nancy R:
Come Together II
Actually I think the song is called "Happy Ending"