Yoko Ono ‎– It's Alright (I See Rainbows)

This edition from Argentina it's not included in All Releases List of this record: https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/9180853

This album is a great introduction to Yoko Ono. It is bizarre, but it may also be her most accessible album. Lovely songs.

This is the album that my wife blames for getting me started on falling in love with "outsider" singers/musicians. I get it. Yoko isn't going to get the leading role for an opera, but there was something about her performance in this album that was really heartfelt. My mom had borrowed this album from the city library back in the mid-80s because she knew this was John Lennon's wife. She told me John Lennon was a singer that got killed. I was in 3rd grade at the time and I barely even knew who the Beatles were, let alone who John Lennon was. When I put on the record, I had ended up putting on side 2 first and I literally thought she was crying the whole time she recorded the album. Maybe that's why she couldn't stay in pitch. I thought, wow, this is the most emotional music I've ever heard; for someone to be grieving so badly that they'd record an album while sobbing the whole time! Ok, so at the time, I had no idea that she really couldn't sing and that's how she actually sounded. But the impact left an impression on me and opened my ears to listen beyond the recorded sound and the unpolished performances. Later in life, I would get into lo-fi music such as Sebdoh, Daniel Johnston, and The Folk Implosion; and other quirky bands like Deerhoof, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Danielson Familie. And this Yoko Ono album was what started it all.