Yoko Ono: selected instruction pieces
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Yoko Ono. (originally published 1964).
Galaxie 500 - Listen, The Snow Is Falling (Yoko Ono cover)
Here’s Robert Christgau’s presciently trenchant review of 1990’s This Is Our Music:
Look, all you young white people, I know fate has dealt you a shitty hand. Rent stabilization is a joke, safe sex isn’t a joke, pollutants can really get you down, and forget the economy. Not to mention the decline of civility on our city streets. So if you just want to sit around and mope about it to each other, we understand. But if you’re looking for a helping hand, you’re going to have to reach out a little yourselves—that’s just human nature. Show some get-up-and-go, crack a few jokes, like on the first song. As my grandpa used to say: “Laugh and the world laughs with you/Weep and you weep alone.”
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice
Aside from being a Disco Not Disco classic, there’s a lot of history to this track:
[Yoko Ono] and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota (their home in New York City) that Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman. John had stayed up all night the preceding weekend listening to a preliminary mix of the song, and died clutching a final mix of it in his hands. Lennon’s lead guitar work on the track, which he had recorded that day, and praised by many as the most fascinating of his career, was thus his final creative act. — Wikipedia
Sonic Youth-Bull in the heather (via ThurstonMoore)
I suppose it’s the case with every non-Kiedis member of Red Hot Chili Peppers that you have to get them out of the band to remember that they’re pretty badass musicians.
Thom Yorke-Dancing
