YOKO ONO-"APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE" (1972)

[MichaelHansenFUN]

Sister Morphine meets Pink Floyd!

LOVE IT

sister morphine the song by the stones or a band name?

[funknroll]

@MichaelHansenFUN

I was thinking of the song "Sister Morphine" (co-written by Marianne Faithfull), particularly the subject matter of a woman struggling with desperation and addiction. And the anthemic guitar chords remind me of Dave Gilmour.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

@funknroll good combination!!!

[wallofvideo]

those of you not averse to remixes might note that as of mid-september 2011, a remix of yoko's "talking to the universe" is topping the usa dance charts.

[Sakamotoissarita18]

Who is the one who writes of the above, this is what I call writing. Her music is in the feeling of art.

[AwesomeAkagami]

The one thing you can't deny is that she did good to John. In her own right, in her own way, she made it. She may not have been as big as her husband, but she definetly made it, because she showed us more than we could have ever hoped for. The beauty of music . This woman is so inspiring. I'm surprised that there is no ignorant comment streaming from the mind of one that does not know. It's quite fascinating to tell you the truth. She is more than perfect in her own right and will always yoko.

[ElGrandeOutrageous]

this song rocks!!!!

[fighttheracists]

This is a great song from Ono's album Approximately Infinite Universe. I recommend this album and also Fly which contains songs that are hit or miss but at least interesting.

I also recommend her book Grapefruit.

I think Ono is overlooked as an artist because people didn't like her personally or blamed her for the breakup of the Beatles or something.

One should judge art on its own merit.

[jillaaree]

This song rocks!

[obscuranta]

Thank you for posting this! Beautiful!

[HuckleBuckJr]

This whole album is amazing and consistently excellent. A current group could have a bit hit covering this or some of the other songs.

[beachballsify2]

i fucking love this song, one of her best

[badback22]

Dang shes intense (and cute as a bugs ear). I wonder how much resposibility she has for her sound? She's got the same musical 'sound' in all of her different stuff and I love it. Its a real signature. The bass lines that show up in her music are just plain cool.

[ronedor]

YOKO, I LOVE YOU!!!

[beachballsify2]

this is one of my fav ono songs

[spookynorman]

great album

[LeighBargeld]

Such a brilliant song!

[keith904A]

It appears almost impossible to buy this album. I tried on Amazon but it never turned up - much to my annoyance. The tracks I have heard make this one of the best three albums in the 70s! I am one of those people who are not really interested in the Beatles - Yoko Ono was the key influence and easily outdid any of the so called "fab four" in the 70s.

[lordoid]

@keith904A Try ebay or Discogs. There are some copies to buy right now. Vinyl is a little harder to get and could be a bit more expensive but not impossible. Good Luck!

[morninggloryseed]

Glad to see other folks out there like and respect Yoko's work. APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE was always my favorite album by her, followed by Plastic Ono Band.

So many good songs on this album.

[tapeduk]

two bottles of lonliness.....Great album

[fred166]

simply awesome

[ArcadianQueen]

Thanks for posting - Approximately Infinite Universe is a fucking classic!

[ZoeUnaVideo]

Thanks - it's been years since I have heard the songs from this album. When i used to listen to it in the 70's I so much related to the lyrics and felt a piece of me being expressed. Fast forward to today - i still feel pieces of me / my emotions being expressed. Different days, different life situations and I can still relate.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

SUCH A COOL SONG!!! but everybody is ignorant

[accordionreid]

Great video with Lyrics. Thanks for posting her best song from her incredible album Approximately Infinite Universe.

[accordionreid]

This is perhaps her best song! I love this song!!! I never tire playing this song and the whole album is a Classic. Her heart for people is very amazing. And her love for Created things in our World like the Wind the Sun the Moon water air all these things in our Universe she is fascinated with and writes words and music that makes you appreciate all of life.

[catlover2026]

ive NEVER heard of her!

i heard someone spesak of her and looked it up and now she my FAVEEEE!

she really good i lovee her voice!

[icoGreg]

this song - and album - are both great any way you cut it

[accordionreid]

You are so Right!!

[accordionreid]

You are right! You have experienced her heart and soul. The title track Infinite Universe reveals Yoko's love for people who have been victimized by tragedy through abuse and drugs in a way that Legendary musicians like Dylan could not write as explicit as this song of Yoko's. Is she a folk singer? She is more. Is she an Artist? She is more. Is she a poet? She is much more. Yoko Ono can relate to hurting people's tragedies and writes them down in lyrics that make me appreciate Yoko very much!

[nintendy]

This is a FABULOUS Album!

[accordionreid]

This album ranks up with post-Beatles albums like Imagine, Band On the Run and All Things Must Pass.

[creamstripe]

I have this album on LP and its one of my favorites.

So brilliant. The brilliance is hers. John may have encouraged her and opened some doors and inspired but she has her own talent and incredible vision and words.

Her record with the pyramids on it is full of perspective.

[accordionreid]

I have these Albums too. I agree with you. My favourite on the Universe Album is Winter Song. On Fly I like Hirake, On her first Album, Greenfield Morning and on the Pyramid Album, Feeling The Space I love the Liner notes. They are hilarious and all the songs are incredible. Yoko actually put out more material in the seventies than John Lennon and I am quite surprised at that. I do not thing Lennon had the creativity like the 60's. But he sure encouraged Yoko.

[nintendy]

It's great that you have so many Yoko Albums 'accordionreid'. I do too! ; - )

[accordionreid]

Yes nintendy, I loved her Albums. I listened them a million times. Nobody else bought her stuff, everybody was into Bee Gees or disco I guess. But her lyric content with the music gets great messages out there that are very current today in our society.

[nintendy]

accordionreid

That is SO true!

[nintendy]

accorionreid

As you say; definitely more creative!  I LOVE Yoko!! ; - )

[accordionreid]

Other masterpieces on Yoko's Infinite Universe Album are Death of Samanta, Catman, Smashing

My Face, I Have a Woman inside My Soul and my favourite The Kite Song and the start of her Album Yang Yang is just the beginning, Her song "what a bastard the world is" brings out Yoko's great ability to write scenes of a woman being abused and tormented by an overpowering husband. In the end of the song is a twist - Yoko admits there is a long way to go for equality. This piece of music is a classic.

[nintendy]

creamstripe

Well said!

[accordionreid]

creamstripe it is great that you appreciate Yoko and her great works. Her lyrics are as powerful as Dylan or any poet in my lifetime. The music is great and her lyric is great, but Yoko's heart of love for people (abusive events that women have experienced} are clearly expressed in songs like "what a bastard the world is", "Yang Yang", and her best song "the Kite Song" reflect images of terror, fright in visionary scenes that make you appreciate Yoko's Artistry of Brilliance.

[grainofsandfan]

Y.O. has taken decades of verbal abuse from people

John Lennon wouldn't have married her if he hadn't respected her. He was no idiot. Not by a long shot.  And it is very moving to watch him now on Youtube with her explaining himself and his process of becoming free from sexism.

No one is doing that now and no one was doing that then.

[nintendy]

I agree - Yoko is at long last coming into her own - and I'm so happy she got those Awards!

[accordionreid]

I am very glad too. She should have won an Award for her Album Across the Infinite Univers which is the best Album of the Seventies along with All Things Must Pass, Band On the Run and Neil Young's Tonight's The Night Album and Lennon's Imagine..

[accordionreid]

I agree. She was and still is very influential and talented and very intelligent.

[doingthehansa]

Approximately Infinite Universe was a very good album. Loved it back in the 70's. .

[mechroboticon]

Yoko Ono had the blessing/misfortune of gaining popular attention while she was actually trying to innovate.

I wouldn't call her exactly ahead of her time (there was a whole experimental underground she was a part of), but her and artists like her did anticipate modern popular music and its elements of atonality (Sonic Youth, etc.).

The Beatles, by contrast, were mostly regurgatory, drawing from Buddy Holly, early R&B, ragtime, and even Yoko Ono herself (Revolution #9).

She is a true artist.

[funknroll]

Check out all of the videos:

-YOKO ONO-"GREENFIELD MORNING (I Pushed a Baby Carriage...)" (1970)

-YOKO ONO-"MOVE ON FAST" (1972)

-YOKO ONO-"APPROXIMA TELY INFINITE UNIVERSE" (1972)

-YOKO ONO-"WINTER FRIEND" (1974)

[icoGreg]

great song no matter how you cut it

[raymondwr]

I remembered Yoko on tv when I was 5 years old . I like her then and, the way her john would interact with each other. I also, like her shyness and, the way she spoke. Just recently, afew months ago, I rediscovered her and, I did not know she did her own work, but what I have seen .I am please!

[nintendy]

Yoko has done so much - please listen to some samples of all her Albums on Amazon - she's really a very talented lady!

[accordionreid]

You are right! The Universe Album is very amazing song writing that is very current today.

[DiorBatBrat]

I love this song, it makes me wanna take my clothes off and dance lol

anyways Yoko is amazing :)

[thesection]

This is a really brilliant album - Yoko's great!

[nintendy]

She certainly is! GO GO GO YOKO!! : - )

[cometdust]

most people cant stand up to this kind of  introspective scrutiny.

[outofthebag]

Yoko's early 70 stuff APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE and FEELING THE SPACE are better albums and stand the test of time better that anything the Beatles ever did. They rock with originality - also WALKING ON THIN great.

[Biprov]

"Two bottles of lonliness, patching the holes in her dreams" is one of my favorite lines from any song, ever.

[nanogirl]

Wow, thank you for this!

[MariadeElSol]

Yoko Ono es genial!

Me encanta.

No hay mejor mujer que ELLA.

[MegGriffinX]

This is a really moving song. I like it!

[nothingfails]

if this music doesn't move you and all you can think is hateful thoughts about Yoko, you have no soul

[tonystarks357]

@nothingfails Yoko is so great - I wish they played her more accessible songs on the radio so more people could appreciate her. Anyone hearing "Growing Pain" could never say another bad word about Yoko.

[jhett777]

I bought this album (vinyl) in the 70's from a used record store for $1.00! I was totally blown away and instantly became a dedicated Yoko fan. I am so glad others are finally being exposed to her talents. Love, Peace, and Power to all! VOTE!!!

[badpip]

yeah, got it in the 70's too - deep songs

[RurouniIdoru]

Am I still on YouTube? There's not a single ignorant and negative comment in here (as of this posting)! Applause for all! Not to mention it's a Yoko Ono video, and she's so demonized, which means double applause!

Yoko rocks so hard. It's so cool to know she CAN sing, she just sometimes CHOOSES to sound...unconventional, because she's crazy/awesome.

[RurouniIdoru]

Am I still on YouTube? There's not a single ignorant, negative comment on here (as of this posting)! Applause is in order! (Especially surprising because Yoko's so demonized. Double applause!)

This song is fantastic. I've been looking for a copy of this album for months, or at least a taste of it, and at least now I know what I'm missing. (Anyone know where a girl without a credit card can pick up a copy of this, incidentally?)

[mtopper66]

Wow. Can't believe how good this is. Her stuff in the early 70s was her peak, I think.

[mcjb2]

I agree that this is her best album, it has held up so well and there is such variety on that album. I never tire of hearing the songs.

[chelicar19]

BEST SONG EVER!

[aga1234567891010]

Do you have It's alright I see Rainbow

[funknroll]

Check out all of the videos:

-YOKO ONO-"GREENFIELD MORNING (I Pushed a Baby Carriage...)" (1970)

-YOKO ONO-"MOVE ON FAST" (1972)

-YOKO ONO-"APPROXIMA TELY INFINITE UNIVERSE" (1972)

-YOKO ONO-"WINTER FRIEND" (1974)

[pkgirl88]

This is me, this is what I am suffering. I am Pakistani and I tried to killed meself in 2006, after losing me lover and after abandoining Islam cos the universe spoke to me. Yoko Ono, she KNOWS.

[spinalcrackerbox]

Good to see people talking positively about her work.

It gets really tiring when someone who clearly hasn't even given her 5 minutes drags out the tired old cliches again and again. It's not that everyone has to like it but I could never see how her stuff was bad, especially when we have decades of crass commercial plastic pop crap to choose from.

[yubichang]

shes a great woman,talented and more but we all have daksided in us and we all did some stupid things in the past,we all did hurt someone howeever it takes.I hope shes at peace now,Kudos Yoko.

[iggy5858]

LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[misterfabdu93]

"Approximately Infinite Universe" is the essential album to discover all the musical talent of Yoko. The ill-treatment of the women in the seventies was a subject which was diffused very little at the time. But Yoko does not spare its words.

This is my favourite album of Yoko Ono!!!

[LeCanadienerrant]

We must be twins.! I think exactly the same thing as you. In the mid 70's I learned English listening to this album and reading the lirics from the album cover. She surely was an avant-gardist. You speak of the ill-treatment of women in the 70's but i think it goes much further that .

[accordionreid]

I agree with you. Great statement.

[melilot909]

great! Yoko rocks!

[fasterbludger]

good to see this LP getting the attention it deserves....what about the saxophonist, talk about energy!..can anyone put up some songs off "feeling the space" another great yoko lp, and anything from "I see rainbows", I think its called.

[morninggloryseed]

Such a great song. Another good one from the album is "I want my man to rest tonight"

[cbjargon]

awesome video - she needs to do some more rock, rap & heavy metal songs.

[morninggloryseed]

Wonderful song, wonderful album.  Nice to see other Yoko lovers. She was so ahead of everything.

[9KLLIB]

This whole album ROCKS!!!

[jamesdalphonse]

I love Yoko Ono, check out her two new cd's "Open Your Box" and "Yes, I'm A Witch."

[landrew1208800]

Thank you. Excellent sound.

[jandyrainbow]

Yoko Ono Rocks and so do you Thanks XXXOOOOOOOOOOOOO I want a biological robot with a hint of John Lennon,s face

[onograpefruit]

Funknroll, you rule!

[sbha88]

definitely i hear pink floyd.

[ricwarren]

This is my favorite Yoko song, thanks!

[yokosmile]

You're totally groovy for posting all these fab Yoko songs. Thanks!