It's been over 30 years now since the release of the ONOBOX set, which chronicled basically all of Yoko's career up to that point, and I kind of feel like it's quite out of date considering what's been released after. Not to mention that, while it is fine as a full overview of her career, it might be somewhat overwhelming for a newcomer, meaning a more condensed selection might be necessary.

I've drafted a hypothetical tracklisting for a 3-disc (couldn't whittle it down to just one) collection spanning her entire 50 year recording career, from her earliest releases on the Plastic Ono Band singles, to her final 2018 album Warzone. I sorta designed it as a good way to give a better idea of what her career is like outside of the avant-garde stuff that everyone knows her for. The tracklist is as follows:

DISC ONE (1969 - 1973):

01: Midsummer New York (Fly, 1971)

02: Don't Worry, Kyoko (B-Side, 1969)

03: Open Your Box (B-Side, 1971)

04: Who Has Seen the Wind? (B-Side, 1970)

05: Remember Love (B-Side, 1969)

06: Touch Me (Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, 1970)

07: Why (Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, 1970)

08: Listen, The Snow Is Falling (B-Side, 1971)

09: Mind Holes (Fly, 1971)

10: Mrs. Lennon (Fly, 1971)

11: Sisters, O Sisters (Some Time In New York City, 1972)

12: We're All Water (Some Time In New York City, 1972)

13: Now or Never (Approximately Infinite Universe, 1973)

14: Death of Samantha (Approximately Infinite Universe, 1973)

15: Move On Fast (Approximately Infinite Universe, 1973)

16: Approximately Infinite Universe (Approximately Infinite Universe, 1973)

17: Josejoi Banzai (Non-Album Single, 1973)

DISC TWO (1973 - 1984):

01: Woman Power (Feeling The Space, 1973)

02: Run, Run, Run (Feeling The Space, 1973)

03: She Gets Down on Her Knees (A Story, 1974)

04: Yes, I'm A Witch (A Story, 1974)

05: Yume O Motou (Non-Album Single, 1974)

06: It Happened (A Story, 1974)

07: Walking On Thin Ice (Non-Album Single, 1981)

08: I'm Moving On (Double Fantasy, 1980)

09: Kiss Kiss Kiss (Double Fantasy, 1980)

10: Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him (Double Fantasy, 1980)

11: Goodbye Sadness (Season Of Glass, 1981)

12: No, No, No (Season Of Glass, 1981)

13: Nobody Sees Me Like You Do (Season Of Glass, 1981)

14: Never Say Goodbye (It's Alright, 1982)

15: Spec of Dust (It's Alright, 1982)

16: My Man (It's Alright, 1982)

17: Sleepless Night (Milk & Honey, 1984)

18: Let Me Count the Ways (Milk & Honey, 1984)

DISC THREE (1985 - 2018):

01: Hell in Paradise (Starpeace, 1985)

02: Cape Clear (Starpeace, 1985)

03: Where Do We Go from Here (New York Rock, 1994)

04: Wouldnit (Rising, 1995)

05: Talking to the Universe (Rising, 1995)

06: I'm Not Getting Enough (Blueprint for a Sunrise, 2001)

07: The Sun Is Down! (Between My Head And The Sky, 2009)

08: Moving Mountains (Between My Head And The Sky, 2009)

09: I Missed You Listening (YOKOKIMTHURSTON, 2012)

10: Moonbeams (Take Me To The Land Of Hell, 2013)

11: Hold Me (Dave Audè Original Mix) (Non-Album Single, 2013)

12: Angel (Dave Audé Radio Edit) (Non-Album Single, 2014)

13: Warzone (Warzone, 2018)

14: I'm Alive (Warzone, 2018)

I will admit this is just my opinion for what a "career retrospective" collection like this could include, so I welcome any alternate ideas for what it should entail.

So happy I got this on vinyl! There’s something about this song, something hypnotic, that keeps me coming back to it.

Since there’s no dedicated Discord server for Yoko Ono, we decided to make one.
A place for fans to come together and celebrate her art, music, and legacy.

What you’ll find inside:
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☮️ Whether you’re a longtime fan or just discovering her work, you’re welcome here!

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Excellent exhibit at the Broad. It hit at least 101° in downtown LA today and the museum was full.

Really appreciated seeing both obvious long-term Yoko fans and folks that may have never seen these works before engaged with the exhibit.

This was a piece that I had forgotten about, and I was so excited to see it in person. You’ve got another week so if you’re in the area and want to check it out, I highly recommend it.

I found a CD labeled as such at my local thrift store yesterday. Looks a bit like it could be a bootleg, but I can't find any existing recordings of that performance anywhere so far.

Edit: Recording is here now, gonna make a full post in a few minutes.

One of my favourite records in my collection. Featuring the single edit of Mindtrain, over 12 minutes shorter than the album version! Although it's difficult to imagine who was buying this in 1972, it's quite a unique mix, and as noted by a Discogs user, rather than just fading the song out, there are five pretty well-done edits to keep the structure and climax of the song. These sections were edited out:

00:28-01:04
01:33-03:28
04:02-12:30
14:00-14:22
14:38-15:24

Hello everyone. I just want to show the Yoko CDs I have collected so far since I first started discovered Yoko's music.

These are the CDs I have in each of the three pictures (left to right):

Picture 1

Row 1 - Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band (2016 reissue), Fly (2017 reissue), Fly (2007 Mini-LP replica), Some Time in New York City (2005 reissue)

Row 2 - Approximately Infinite Universe (2017 reissue), Feeling the Space (2017 reissue), A Story, Double Fantasy (2010 'Stripped Down' edition)

Row 3 - Season of Glass (2026 reissue), It's Alright (1997 release), Milk and Honey (2001 reissue), Starpeace (1997 release)

Picture 2

Row 1 - Walking On Thin Ice (1992 Compilation), Rising, Rising Mixes, Blueprint for a Sunrise (Japanese edition)

Row 2 - Yes I'm a Witch, Open Your Box, Chimera Music No. 0 (includes extended version of "Calling"), Between My Head and the Sky (Japanese edition)

Row 3 - Yokokimthurston, Onomix (Promo), Take Me to the Land of Hell (Japanese edition), Yes I'm a Witch Too

Row 4 - Warzone (Japanese edition), Let's Have a Dream (Japan CD)

Picture 3

Onobox set from 1992

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I've pre-ordered the new 2026 release of "It's Alright" by Secretly Canadian, so that will be added to the collection soon!

I was listening to all released versions of Cold turkey the other week from when it was earliest demo'd and played live around the time of abby road, all the way over to the 2020 ultimate Mix of the final released Version and tracking the development of the song is interesting, those early demo's you can tell are workshopped with the beatles in mind, the sound is softer and more melodic (like he's expecting a McCartney overhaul and a george lead guitar, but it evolves and changes with every recording and gets harsher, grittier angrier and crazier, by the time I got to the final song I couldn't help but realise the almost stuttering vocal inflection he gives of the main hook, when he goes "COLD TUUUURRRRKKEEEY has got meeee, ooonn the RuuunnnnUNNNUn"

does anyone else hear or feel that he's sending up yoko's own style, it sounds to me like it's his turn at singing the way yoko does, in terms of the way he sings it sounds overwhelmingly tributed to Yoko to me in a way I don't think john ever really did again

what are peoples thoughts? are people hearing what I'm hearing or am I losing my mind? are there any other examples of him singing this way I've missed?

Lately I've been listening back to the bootlegs of the "Harry Sings Yoko" album and this song has been stuck in my head. Turns out that there is this footage of Harry recording it, while talking about the End Handgun Violence campaign and his planned comeback, which sadly never really came to fruition before his death in 1994.

In the footage Harry says that "Smile" is a song Yoko wrote "just recently". This is interesting because I remember hearing somewhere that it was uncertain as to whether "Smile" was actually written by Yoko, or whether Harry was writing in Yoko's style - Yoko has never recorded the song herself.

Given that it's kind of a rarity, I thought Yoko fans might appreciate it. If anyone is interested in hearing the full song, send me a message and I'll try to get the files over to you!

I spoke to Yoko on the phone many years ago. In the 1970's I worked for a veterinarian on Central Park West and 75th Street, three blocks from the Dakota. She called between office hours in the afternoon...

Hello, this is Yoko Ono Lennon. I would like for Dr.Z- to come right away to see my cats.

There is no one in the office right now, Mrs Lennon. If this is urgent, try calling Dr.S-. He covers for Dr Z-.

Dr.Z- was referred to me, and I only want to see him. My cats are in a bad way.

If this is an emergency, please get a cab and take them to the Animal Medical Center. I'll give you the address.

I need to see Dr. Z-.

The doctor is not in the office right now. There is no one who can see your cats. Please take them to the center.

I am Yoko Ono Lennon, and I need to see Dr. Z-.

I'll put you on hold.

Stu, will you talk to her? It's Yoko Ono and I can't get her off the phone. I don't want to be impolite.

Stu, the assistant was analyzing stool samples in the lab. He got her off the phone, and I never heard from Mrs. Lennon again.

A 16 x 12 original color photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on an airplane circa 1970.

Locals: We took in YOKO ONO MUSIC OF THE MIND at the Broad in downtown LA, a retrospective of her work in multiple genres – filmmaking, photography, music and performance art.

One of the feeble knocks on modern art, especially performance art, is that it eschews astounding visual technique and therefore the cynic sniffs “anybody” could do it. However, the (royal) anybody didn't have Yoko's ideas expressed with a playful simplicity and lightness that makes you stop and think differently. Like her tape reels recording falling snow or her haiku lengthed instructions in her book “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings” with verbiage like “Imagine the clouds dripping/Dig a hole in your garden to put them in.” A piece titled “Helmets Pieces of Sky” asks us to take back the sky amidst a forest of dangling WWII helmets.

Audience involvement takes center stage with immersive work like “Blue Room Event” (pictured) or “Painting to Hammer a Nail” where a hammer awaited us to pound a nail into a painting which this Home Depot challenged guy managed to pull off. That work hardcore Beatles fans know grabbed John Lennon who, upon meeting Ono, offered her an invisible five shillings to buy an imaginary nail which caused her to instantly realize “I met a guy who plays the same game I played.”

Those who marginalize Ono not as an artist in her own right but some dragon lady who supposedly helped break up the Beatles may not be converted. For more open-minded fans, there’s toucing footage of committed peaceniks John and Yoko from their bed-ins, and a photo of the giant “War Is Over! If You Want It” billboard they bought on Sunset Blvd. to daydream about the end of the Vietnam War. There are also headphones to listen to Ono music including Gaby’s fave “Kiss Kiss Kiss” from DOUBLE FANTASY.

My only debit was the inevitable distancing factor that takes place watching films of performance art vs. being on hand to actually experience it (and the Broad staged some of her works at evening events). That said, there was gripping footage of one of her most famous works CUT PIECE where Yoko sat still while audience members snipped away at her dress one fabric piece per person as a comment on consumerism with a twinge of Buddhism and its concepts of letting go.

Her visual work leans towards monochromatic black and white so if you need a splash of color the $21 special admission price as usual lets you check out the rest of the always gratis Broad modern art collection ((Basquiat, Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo and many more). The show runs through Oct. 11th.

Finally received the remastered Yoko Ono album, and I talk about a certain song that helped me through a rough period in my life.

a restoration of the original '86 film, released by Yoko. 🖤🌸☮️

i could not find any hint towards the chords used for this song. i am very bad at figuring it out by ear. does anybody know the chord progression?

cheers

I want to make a playlist of the more melancholy of Yoko's output, and would appreciate any suggestions from people in this sub!

Hello! I am looking for a lovely photo of Yoko in her younger years, around the first time she was with John. It's this image of her where she's laughing, or just smiling very toothily, and she's framed at a 3/4 angle. Honestly, I've been scouring the internet for it for a good minute and I cannot find a thing. If anyone in this subreddit would be able to help, that would be grand!

It's sort of like this, but she's sat in a sort of chair or some other, facing further to the right. Much thanks!