Yoko Ono - Fly - 2x Vinyl LPs

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What you hear on Fly is Yoko Ono's disarming combination of opacity and visceral, personal transparency in full bloom. It's one of the most unbridled, most captivating soul albums ever made.And that's right where she wants you: vulnerable, wide open to any-and-everything, ready to have your world tipped onto its head. She's a master of spinning your head around. First, you get the Bar Band from Hell of "Midsummer New York" to kick things off. It's about the last thing you'd expect from Ono coming off Plastic Ono Band. But here you are, listening to Ono channeling Elvis. Why am I all of a sudden bopping along to it?At 16-minute-plus, the tranced-out, motorik-inspired boogie "Mind Train" is rough-and-ready for your next basement get down. Movement and perspiration required. Then, we have the absolutely gutting blues of “Don’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand in The Snow)." Full of ache and raw emotion, the song is a love note, a plea for forgiveness, to her estranged daughter Kyoko shot across the universe on a flaming arrow.Ono follows this stampede of emotion with the self-referential torch song "Mrs. Lennon," a wounded song that gets right into the Universal Loneliness. And so here you are. You're devastated. You're exhausted. You're exhilarated. And you're only 1/4 of the way up the mountain that is Fly. Dig deep, traveler, it’s worth the climb.

SIDE A:
1. Midsummer New York
2. Mind Train
SIDE B:
3. Mind Holes
4. Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only
Looking For A Hand In The Snow)
5. Mrs. Lennon
6. Hirake
7. Toilet Piece / Unknown
8. O’Wind (Body Is The Scar Of Your
Mind)
SIDE C:
9. Airmale
10. Don’t Count The Waves
11. You
SIDE D:
12. Fly
13. Telephone Piece
BONUS TRACKS:
14. Between The Takes
15. Will You Touch Me
16. The Path
17. Head Play (Medley: You/Airmale/Fly)