[.ca] Feeling The Space

Yoko's final 70's album, another masterpiece:
In the early 1970's, it was impossible to avoid Yoko Ono's presence. Her music was played on radio to the point you'd have thought she owned the stations. When Feeling The Space was released in October 1973, her previous album Approximately Infinate Universe was still in the top 10, and Fly, after 2 years, was still in the top 40! Yoko vowed to take a break after this album to avoid burnout. Feeling The Space quickly became yet another Yoko blockbuster. Staying atop the #1 position on Billboard for 13 weeks, through Christmas 1973. Much like Fly and Universe, this album was also chock full of hit singles. 2 #1's (Women Of Salem and Men Men Men) and 3 other top 10 singles (Coffin Car #2, Women Power #6 and She Hits Back #7). The album sold 8 million copies in the US. Which was a huge hit, but a sign that Yoko was teetering on burning out. We would not see a new album of hers again until 1980, when she conquered a whole new generation and flew back up the Billboard charts. The best feminist album ever

Very compelling and interesting - a favorite of mine:
I treasured this record for years and now finally have it on CD. I love almost every song - especially Mildred, Mildred recorded at an impromptu session with John Lennon during the Bank Street period. Women Power is a classic as well as well Women of Salem. Wonderful and highly recommended!

Second Best Feminist Album from the 70's:
First best is the album Yoko did right before this Approximately Infinite Universe. You want a picture of what the world was really like for women in the early-mid 1970's listen to Yoko.

Both pop and jazzy with a very articulate, directed Yoko:
When you listen to "Feeling The Space" along with her cuts on "Sometime In New York City" you see a more articulate, directed energy emerging from Yoko. The womens' condition and movement is very much in the forefront of her thoughts as a woman and as an artist. You now see the primal sounds of yesterday turn to a very pronounced voice in need of a more structured form in which to communicate. I believe this contrast heightens and helps to reveal the deeper undertones Yoko uses when she creates and expresses her thoughts, feelings and experiences through her arts. Yoko's abstract and advant-garde work speaks very clearly to me, and sometimes the more structured and "coherent" form seems more distracting. However, the lyrics during this and her later periods are poignant and sometimes good poetry. The womens movement has greatly changed since the early seventies, so sometimes the lyrics seem a little dated, as women take ceo positions and show they are as ruthless, petty and blind as were some of their male predecessors they so loudly condemned. Equality and justice are surely "ideals" to strive for. Womens' equality and human rights must surely remain on the forefront of our individual and collective consciousness. It's just that too much and too narrow of a perspective (in this case woman) the message becomes dated and tiresome. That is not to say that this cd hasn't much to say and worth the effort. I would say that POB and Fly speak with a clearer and more universal voice than FTS. FST remains an important and very listenable collection. Take the time to sift through this collection, and you will find some gold nuggets. I especially liked the two bonus tracks, the live "talking" intro by Yoko is not dated.

A Surprising Two Stars:
Of all the Yoko albums, I despise this one least. That's like saying of all the forms of cancer, I despise brain tumors least.

• Growing Pain
• Yellow Girl (Stand by for Life)
• Coffin Car
• Woman of Salem
• Run Run Run
• If Only
• Thousand Times Yes
• Straight Talk
• Angry Young Woman
• She Hits Back
• Woman Power
• Men, Men, Men
• I Learned to Stutter/Coffin Car \oLive\c\o#\c\o*\c - John Lennon, Yoko Ono
• Mildred, Mildred \o#\c\o*\c - John Lennon, Yoko Ono