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Yes, I'm A Witch  Hear it Now

RS: 3.5of 5 Stars Average User Rating: 3of 5 Stars

2007

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Yoko Ono has made her most exciting and uncompromising music recording with fans -- primarily her husband, John Lennon, and, on 1995's Rising, their son Sean. This set of "collaborations" -- new arrangements of Ono's songs with her vocals from the original versions -- extends that family to a generation of alternative-rock and dance-music pupils, including Peaches, Cat Power, the Flaming Lips and torch singer Antony, too young to care if she broke up the Beatles (which she did not) but the right age to appreciate the radical modernism of Ono's early-Seventies LPs. Her long-underrated talent for simple, direct melodies makes it easy for these disciples to rescore Ono's songwriting in their own lingo. Peaches amplifies the sexual undercurrent of "Kiss Kiss Kiss" with electro-bump-and-grind. The Polyphonic Spree, usually on the wrong side of twee, bring the right comfort and light to "You and I," and Le Tigre punk up the vintage feminism of "Sisters O Sisters." Antony doesn't make the most of the pairing of his high tenor and Ono's higher, plaintive wail; he's too far back in the dark of "Toyboat." But Jason Pierce of Spiritualized takes the avant-disco of "Walking on Thin Ice" further out, with a drone-rock backdrop that echoes Suicide's "Cheree" and noise-guitar eruptions that Lennon surely would have loved.

DAVID FRICKE

(Posted: Feb 6, 2007)

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Review 1 of 8

jensduve writes:

Not Rated


I love her special music and I had great luck to see Yoko live. She's a nice person and her songs are great, interesting and sometimes very amazing. Yoko herself knows that her voice isn't comercial, but in a way she is comercial - now in our time. I am glad to live in the same time as Yoko, really. If someones doesn't like her style:don't waste your time with negative or stupid comentaries.no problem, Yoko has x-thousands of fans allover the world and she just want to make our world little bit nicer with her art - ..PEACE !

Sep 4, 2007 17:51:05

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Review 2 of 8

wholedfloyd08 writes:

1of 5 Stars


Yoko has big shoes to fill after Johns death and she is ruining Lennons name. Does she honestly think that she sing? I also disagree with the review and Yoko is the reason The Beatles split. Yes she is a witch.

May 3, 2007 07:28:53

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Review 3 of 8

gusthin writes:

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im from argentina and a big fan.
I listen her music since I was 7, now im 27 and she´s still amazing, I love her!
this record is just great, my fav song: revolution with cat power.

Apr 3, 2007 01:49:20

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Review 4 of 8

thesawtooths33 writes:

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any time she sings she ruins the song, period. stick to running the Lennon empire because i'm sorry, you just have zero musical talent. her husband was the greatest overall composer/singer/musician/personality of all time though. peace....

Mar 21, 2007 14:30:23

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Review 5 of 8

treehorn12 writes:

1of 5 Stars


I once bought a Yoko Ono record on the strength of an RS review. I could only conclude that the reviewer was insincere, and that some other agenda was at work in favoring her stuff. She is rich enough to get her records made without posessing any musical talent whatsoever, but the only reason I can think of for RS to write consistently favorable reviews of her malodorous caterwauling is that it guarantees access to John Lennon's estate.

Mar 15, 2007 21:48:36

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Review 6 of 8

Pagm writes:

4of 5 Stars


Yoko, welcome to the XXI century. It's your time.

Mar 2, 2007 18:30:49

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Review 7 of 8

Calsunbear2 writes:

1of 5 Stars


This is exactly why David Fricke should be working at McDonalds. Yoko Ono?! 3 1/2 stars?! WTF?!

Mar 2, 2007 02:56:32

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Review 8 of 8

garfieldlea writes:

1of 5 Stars


I hate to say it but she could not hold a tune if her life depended on it. She still sounds awful
I had to turn off her track on the computer

Feb 18, 2007 07:45:07

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