Season of Glass [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

From the Label
Season Of Glass is not full of weepy ballads. Yoko attacked life and death directly. Right on the cover are John's bloodied glasses laying on a table. You can see Central Park in the background. The very park he could see as he wrote "Imagine" on the white piano in the white room of their apartment. Some called the photo morbid. Some called it sick. Yoko had gunshots start the song, "No No No." The album was a way to deal with the demons and push on through to the other side of fright and depression.

Product Description
Japanese Release to Contain an Exclusive Bonus Track. No Additional Information Available at this Time.

Season of Glass,Yoko Ono,Rykodisc,Experimental,Pop,Popular Music,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Season of Glass [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

Average customer rating: A Sad but Perfect Tribute to Two Stellar Artists A deeply moving experience, and to hell with the Yoko haters... A Joke, but not a funny one Is she kidding? Disgraceful

Season of Glass Yoko Ono Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: It's Alright (I See Rainbows) Rising Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band Approximately Infinite Universe Fly ASIN: B0000009RM Release Date: 1997-08-26

Tracks:

1. Goodbye Sadness
2. Mindweaver
3. Even When You're Far Away
4. Nobody Sees Me Like You Do
5. Turn Of The Wheel
6. Dogtown
7. Silver Horse
8. I Don't Know Why
9. Extension 33
10. No, No, No
11. Will You Touch Me
12. She Gets Down On Her Knees
13. Toyboat
14. Mother Of The Universe
15. Walking On Thin Ice
16. I Don't Know Why

Album Details

Japanese Release to Contain an Exclusive Bonus Track. No Additional Information Available at this Time.

Customer Reviews:

A Sad but Perfect Tribute to Two Stellar Artists .......2007-05-12

If perfection can be improved upon, leave it to Rykodisc to find a way. When this (vinyl) album was first recorded & released, a mere months in the summer after "what happened" it not only took top honors in my 1981 "best of" ratings (beating out many other much loved 1981 releases), but was proudly, aggressively shared with everyone I knew. It is/was the most profound statement of both sadness & beauty & sheer honesty by an artist who knew all too well & good of such things. If a guest didn't care to hear it, they were none to graciously invited to leave, not just my home, but my life.

I may be old enough (having been born in 1957), but do not recall the death of John F. Kennedy. However, I will never, as long as I live, forget Howard Cosell's announcement of Lennon's death (during an otherwise forgettable - then as now - sports event). At the time, I was grieving my own personal loss of a "doomed-to-fail" relationship in Stockton CA. In the many, days & hours that followed after, through what I thought were my own tears for my own issues, the new quest to search & find high & low for everything in print (local & global newspapers, some from as far away as New York & London), the excellent Rolling Stone magazines, especially of the period [Annie Leibovitz's immediately legendary photos as published on & in the R. S. issue from January 22, 1981 of a naked John wrapped nakedly around a seemingly demure, loving Yoko, to the later published R. S. that featured on its cover the still grieving widow, behind what would become her trademark Porsche Design sunglasses (that even I wore, to flattering effect, I might add), cover of the October 1, 1981 issue]. You name it - and still own every piece of what I've accumulated, "till death do us part" & the collection grows with every passing new release and/or publication.

In early spring of 1971, at a Sunday school class of all places, I brought in & played not the popular A-side of the U.S. single release of "Power to the People" (which all other classmates wanted to hear) but the clearly more aggressive, admittedly jarring B-side of Yoko's "Touch Me" (which to this day recalls memories of unbridled anguish & pain).

Along the way, especially following Lennon's departure, I've been privileged enough to collect many prized pieces of art by Yoko, some reproductions, but one that, as far as I know is, if not original, must undoubtedly be have been a limited edition. Proudly displayed, usually in the front window of my current home, is a gift from Rykodisc for having purchased the entire Ono catalog directly from them: an apparent reproduction of a glass key ("to see the sky through") with a personally signed & dated tag by Ms. Ono, mounted on a sheer-transparent sheet of thick plastic, encased within a plexiglass box, so as to see the western setting sun peering in & through, but also the height of the blues of evenings, as well as often pitch black darkness of late nights' Portland skies; on occasion, I take the box with the key into the basement, where I have transformed what was advertised as a 3rd spare bedroom into, yet again, my personal music (record & CD listening), book-reading, computer & formerly viewing (as I originally had television/video equipment in this room, which has long since moved upstairs to the proper living room). When the Rykodisc re-issues were released, I lived in a duplex, where a second bedroom was transformed into my personal listening room, the "key in box" again sat on the sill of that room. Besides the many subsequent recordings that I've accumulated, I've also come to own books (a second edition dust-jacketed, cloth/board bound copy of "Grapefruit," from 1991 a soft-covered "Arias & Objects," on to the 1995 hard-bound, open-ended boxed "Instruction Paintings & just for completest's sake, the still dust-jacketed, hard-copy first edition of Jerry Hopkins' attempt at slandering her) & the like. More recently, along with the "Yes, I'm a Witch" & "Open Your Box" remix recordings I've collected the 2005 "Onochord" mini-flashlight & postcard used to promote yet another event.

My only regret in this life is that I've yet to see her perform live. A scheduled, & ticketed "Starpeace 1986 Tour" stop in Universal City near Los Angeles CA was cancelled due to lack of sales; still, on May 17, 1986, she made it to the Dyansen gallery on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills to honor all in attendance, celebrities & common-folk alike with her presence at an exhibit of Lennon Lithographs & Serigraphs (a huge, spilling out onto surrounding sidewalks crowd, myself included). It wasn't until then, obviously after the fact, that I found out that the evening before a scheduled performance up the California coast in Berkeley (wouldn't you just know) went on as originally scheduled; if I'd have had any clue, I would have bought tickets for that show as well. Much later, in Spring 1996, when I was in the hospital, I found out, yet again after the fact of possibility, as I was confined to a hospital bed horribly underweight, that she took her "Rising Tour 1996" to Seattle. At least, in 1998, I had the simple low-key, yet still profound honor of meeting their son, Sean, at a crowded, hot & sweaty club in Seattle (the now defunct RKCNDY) promoting his first album, "Into the Sun", along with then little known Rufus Wainwright. Gathering all the courage I could, I secured both Sean's & Rufus' autographs (it was also Rufus' birthday, which I new, and apparently the band & Sean had filled his tour bus with balloons glore. As luck would have it, shortly thereafter, he made a subsequent tour stop at a gorgeous rose garden amphitheatre perched high above the City of Portland.

It wasn't until Ryko (admittedly surprisingly) reissued her recordings in 1997, that I came to the awareness that, while most of these songs were newly written following "what happened," many were also taken from previously unreleased and/or unrecorded compositions from the Apple days. Ryko also honored us with the bonus tracks including the infamous 1981 "Walking on Thin Ice" (that John was clutching the master of when he was cut down) in addition to a demo/home recording of "I Don't Know Why", in addition to a few songs from the "It's Alright" & "Starpeace" outtakes, making what was already a wonderful, blessed, shared tribute to a highly personal, if somewhat angry (and why not!) personal statement.

Now, in 2007, "Season of Glass" remains a classic, often listen to, cried along with, work by a brilliant, artistic woman. Unfortunately, as with the mis-educated public's understanding of the death of ("Mama") Cass Elliot, until Yoko is accorded both artistic & genius status that she so rightly deserves, it will forever be a cause of personal anguish, pain, and yes, perseverance for me to see her duly honored ... hopefully prior to her, & my, demise.

On a personal note, Yoko was born in the same year as my beloved father (1933), and ironically, on the same day, February 18, as his beloved father (who also died within mere days of Lennon, in 1980). As with every other piece of vinyl I proudly own in my still seemingly vast collection (along side an even greater compact disc collection), every one of Yoko's Apple, Geffen, Polydor, etc. releases live, in dust-jackets, no less (included in those albums are original inclusions, such as the still folded poster [Yoko on the links?] & postcard [a hole to see the sky through] of "Fly," as well as the lyric-printed sleeves of "Approximately Infinite Universe").

I am just this May day, in 2007 listening to the brilliant remix collaborative release "Open Your Box," with each track I am once again reminded what a talent we, the entire world, have in Ms. Yoko Ono. I've recently said it, at the time of my 50th birthday, that I want nothing more than to visit New York City to view both the Dakota apartment building & also the "Strawberry Fields" mosaic in Central Park. I've said as recently as yesterday: I'm not dead yet. NYC will happen for me. Hopefully, somewhere along the way an actual experience of Yoko on stage will as well. Hope springs.

A deeply moving experience, and to hell with the Yoko haters..........2007-03-29

This was the first Yoko album I ever bought. It's an immensely moving, substantial album that grows in depth over time. This is a great album, one of Yoko's best, filled with anger, grief, sadness, and maybe, a little hope. It's a lot more straightfoward than Fly or Approximate Infinite Universe, but it is no less a work of art than those other two albums are. The songs here are achingly beautiful, many of which were written before John's death. Yoko poured her heart and soul into this album, and it really shows. I especially love the tenderness of Toyboat, Silver Horse, and Goodbye Sadness. Mother of the Universe is an amazing uplifting, spiritual song that ends the album. The anger and pain of No, No, No and I Don't Know Why are brilliant. I Don't Know Why is especially cathartic, when Yoko screams "You bastards! Hate us, hate me. We had everything". Most of you Yoko haters here still hate her, but she knows you very well, and she doesn't really give a rat's a** about you. I am really astounded at the ridiculously negative, hateful, short sighted reviews that do not address the music that is contained on this CD, but rather the woman herself. I doubt that even a handful of you have actually listened to this CD, and you probably don't intend to. You would rather just indulge in a common sport known as Yoko bashing. Yoko will probably not be remembered by any of you for her art, but for "the phone calls I never made/The letter I never mailed/And the stories I never finished telling anyone". No matter what she does, it's never good enough. Well, what she does is good enough for me...

A Joke, but not a funny one.......2007-02-06

Let's be honest: Yoko cannot sing, not even a little. Her voice can be compared to fingernails on a chalkboard. Her navel-gazing poetry is just as bad as her vocals. Am I bitter that this no-talent woman broke up the Beatles? You bet.

I will give this to Yoko: she was a driving force to the re-civilization of Central Park, and for that I am grateful.

Is she kidding?.......2006-10-28

She must be. A bag full of cats being dragged down the road by a rusted out Ford pickup would be much more pleasing to the ear than the cacophonous drivel that tries to pass for her singing ability. Make it stop. For god's sake, somebody please make it stop!

Disgraceful.......2006-07-29

The album cover, the gun shots on the record, the disco single, the survival themes, etc.--All done to sell the record and advance Yoko's position, myth, status, and legend. Pathetic and disgraceful. This is not an artist experiencing a great catharsis after a trauma but a conniving, shrewd, calculating, stone-cold business person who is a master of media and image manipulation. If you enjoy pretentious, corny music produced by top notch studio cats forced to make something out of nothing, go ahead and buy this. If you want music with heart, soul, pain, loss, emotion, grief, triumphant and catharsis go listen to some George Jones records from the early 80s. I can't appreciate "art" when someone's recording and marketing budget hovers in the millions.

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Haydn: English and Scottish Songs Manufacturer: Opus 111 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000HXHK Release Date: 1999-01-12

Average customer rating: Julianne Baird is the reason to buy this CD

Celtic Caravans - Road to Romanticism Manufacturer: MSR Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002RROZU Release Date: 2004-07-27

Tracks:

1. Traditional Scottish Songs (arr. Haydn)
2. Traditional Welsh Airs
3. Traditional Scottish Songs (arr. Haydn)
4. Instrumental Variations
5. Original English Songs (Haydn)
6. Traditional Scottish Instrumentals
7. Original English Songs (Haydn)
8. Traditional Welsh Airs (arr. Haydn)

Album Description

Traditional Celtic music has almost continually enlivened the world of formal classical music. While Celtic-speaking peoples lived through much of central Europe during the first millennium BCE -- including modern France, Austria, Switzerland and beyond -- during the following 2000 years leading up to our own time, their range has gradually narrowed to just the British Isles and western France. While 'Celtic' in America and Britain increasingly refers simply to 'Irish' music, in Europe 'Celtic' may refer broadly to the music of any of the far-flung branches of the ancient linguistic tree.

Our program explores actual Scottish, Welsh and Irish music as well as arrangements conceived by Haydn and Beethoven to flatter the 'exotic' taste of art-music audiences. In addition, we present Haydn's canzonettas, which are essentially newly created works inspired by English folksong style. At this time, when music was beginning to overflow the banks of Classicism to become Romanticism, the term 'Celtic'had not truly emerged as a political and artistic term. Only in the late 19th century did the 'Celtic Twilight' movement associated with William Butler Yeats consciously attempt to revive ancient relationships between the various far-flung Celtic peoples.

Customer Reviews:

Julianne Baird is the reason to buy this CD.......2007-04-06

If you love Celtic music as I do, this is a must have for your CD colletion. Julianne Baird has more than a beautiful voice; she is a first rate musician and interpreter of these traditional Scottish and Welsh songs.

Check out the third item on the sampler. I think you will love the traditional scottish songs arranged by Haydn.

The CD also includes original English songs by Haydn as well as Haydn and Beethoven arrangements of traditional celtic folk songs and instrumental variations. Lux Musica is the ensemble of flute, violin, violoncello, and keyboard. Their music is well done, but Julianne Baird is the reason to buy this CD.

This is just pure enjoyment.

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Gay: The Beggars' Opera [Excerpts] Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000WX2 Release Date: 1993-01-20

Tracks:

1. 'The Beggar's Opera': Overture
2. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thro'All The Employement Of Life
3. 'The Beggar's Opera': 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
4. 'The Beggar's Opera': If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
5. 'The Beggar's Opera': Our Polly Is A Sad Slut
6. 'The Beggar's Opera': Can Love B e Controlled By Advice
7. 'The Beggar's Opera': O, Polly, You Might Have Toyed And Kissed
8. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
9. O Ponder Well
10. The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
11. 'The Beggar's Opera': My Heart Was So Free
12. 'The Beggar's Opera': Where I Laid On Greenland's Coast; O What pain It Is To Part
13. 'The Beggar's Opera': Fill Every Glass; Let Us Take The Road
14. 'The Beggar's Opera': If The Heart Of A Man
15. 'The Beggar's Opera': Youth's The Season
16. 'The Beggar's Opera': Before The Barn-Door Crowing
17. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Cruel Are The Traitors
18. 'The Beggar's Opera': When You Censure The Age
19. 'The Beggar's Opera': Is Then His Fate Decreed?
20. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Happy Could I Be With Either
21. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled
22. 'The Beggar's Opera': Cease Your Funning
23. 'The Beggar's Opera': Why, How Now, Madam Flirt
24. 'The Beggar's Opera': No Power On Earth
25. 'The Beggar's Opera': Interlude
26. 'The Beggar's Opera': When Young At The Bar
27. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Like A Skiff
28. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thus Gamesters United
29. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Modes Of The Court
30. 'The Beggar's Opera': In The Days Of My Youth
31. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Curse Attends That Woman's Love
32. 'The Beggar's Opera': Come, Sweet Lass
33. 'The Beggar's Opera': Hither, Dear Husband
34. 'The Beggar's Opera': Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
35. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Charge Is Prepared
36. 'The Beggar's Opera': Dance Of Prisoners In Chains
37. 'The Beggar's Opera': Would I Might Be Hang'd
38. 'The Beggar's Opera': Finale: Thus I Stand Like The Turk
39. Lionel and Clarissa: Medley

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