Yoko Ono POX

Yoko Ono - Pick Only Ten

tracks/songs/noise pieces/films/etc. Includes anything that she appeared on, including solo albums, Beatles records, collaborations, remixes, performances, etc.

Goodbye Sadness
Why
Mind Train
Midsummer New York
Don't Worry, Kyoko
Run, Run, Run
Woman of Salem
Mind Holes
Woman Power
Remember Love

This is my first POX and I'm already cheating with that Fly entry; I could easily fill up more than half a Yoko POX with pieces from that album, but I want to reserve space for some of her other marvelous work across the decades. I love Fly so much.

This may sound pompous, corny, or even like a benign flipside to that which is "trenchant" in the ILX sense, but I could also simply include Yoko's life here -- life as a rich performance in the broadest sense, and also as sustained resilience, resistance, and generosity in the face of remarkable amounts of public abuse. Yoko has inspired and fueled a desire for transformation in so many people I admire.

Aria and Solo for Piano with Fontana Mix (Cage)
Cut Piece
Grapefruit
Cambridge 1969
Why
Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City
Fly (film, song, album: special shout-out to all-time favs Mind Train and Airmale)
What A Bastard the World Is
Walking on Thin Ice (solo and with Jason Pierce)
Early in the Morning

Lennon’s Imagine vs Yoko’s Walking on Thin Ice

I'll raise you twenty!.

the gauntlet's been laid down ;)

I woulda picked the same for #1.

I haven't moved past Fly, and I don't know why. I love everything on it, and everything on POB, and everything on Life With The Lions. I heard her Double Fantasy songs last week for the first time since, hm, 1980 (I didn't like them at the time, but I was eight and I wanted more Beately Beatle sounds, like "Watching the Wheels") and loved them. So I have some listening to do.

I have access to a load of postcards of her Voice Piece for Soprano for Simone Morris.
Loads were printed for the Tulca Festival but they don't seem to have been labeled very well. So while they're free to take I don't think people are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AShdkFArvOA

1. The time I greeted her in an office-building lobby and brought her up in an elevator to a recording booth.

Cool. Was Davis Spinozza on that date?

David

It was just an interview thing