Yoko Ono – Fly

...until today we can read those stupid "art critics" with old ressentiments
of disapointed beatles-fans. she was involved in new york fluxus early 60's,
befriended with john cage & lamonte young, before she met john lennon. after
the stunning pre-punk single "why" (70) she recorded her most radical
statement "fly" (71). but her next double-album "approximately infinite
universe" (72) is definitely her key work on 21 tracks. yoko ono was never
more refreshing & relaxing, funny & touching. watch out for her already
deleted "onobox" and her impressive comeback album "rising" (95), later
remixed by tricky & sonic youth...

A deep an eclectic double LP album. Best to understand Yoko.
Heard time to time througt this 50 years

After side 2 finishes with the ethereal, transfixing "O' Wind", side 3 is mind-bending, a flood of Yoko's voice mingling with music on instruments custom-built from household objects. Onobox features a very effective, concise medley edit of these lengthy pieces. The only I can describe the experience is a John Cage composition accompanied by flocks of wild geese.

Essential masterpiece of experimental modern music that sounds eternally fresh

.yoko came blazing into the seventies with a couple of long players of primo trance caterwauling and riff boogie and this one being a double gives the listener twice as much ono to really get a flipped lid with...cerebral blasting screech yodeled over intense echoed pounding urban-swamp slop...lennon's guitar noise really propels yokos avant vocalizing on the 17 minute 'mind train' which is most probably the best moment in yokos rocking years, and she's surely put down some top class screaming here and there as evidenced with the sweet toronto live-peace bootleg...rockers like ringo/klaus voorman as well as lennon plus various delaney and bonnie sidemen are on hand to get the shows pulsebeat going and on a couple of tracks the avant stylings of joe jones tone deaf instruments bang and clang and whirl behind and around yoko as she invokes visions from the beyond...the title track, 'fly' is yoko solo (with some backwards guitar from john) for over twenty minutes of yodeling acrobatics which was originally taped for a ono film of a fly moving over a human body...a most excellent and satisfying avant stew of some immensity that even to this day, right in the here and NOW of the present moment has the power to separate the hep weird-beards from the geeky pretenders (the great unwashed always hated her and always will)...

I would like a copy of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit at $1,95 per copy.

Compared this to the white vinyl Reissue. The original, even in perfect condition, has more distortion and is more compressed with significantly less detail. The Reissue has a more focused low end in comparison. Finally, the Reissue is significantly quieter, which is really important when you get to the title track IMO. Love the glossy artwork on the original, though!