 "Yoko walks like an Egyptian" | 2008-04-14 |
| - Reviewed By birdbrain4u |
Out of all the album covers Yoko has put out over the years, this is my favorite.
The ancient splendor of the pyramids and Yoko as the mysterious Sphincter is so apropos. |
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 "I am Woman, hear me roar (sorta)" | 2007-12-20 |
| - Reviewed By onceuponatimecraig |
I remember buying this album the week it was released in '73! Wow! Ever since YO responded to a fan letter I sent her in '71 - she mailed me an autographed copy of a paperback Grapefruit; I was 11, I was astounded! - I've been (sorta) her biggest fan. Years later I did a technogrunge tribute of her 1st album at CBGBs.
That said, FTS is a letdown after AIU. The LP's 45 - "Woman Power" / "Men, Men, Men" - offers most of the fun. The problem with FTS, I believe, was YO's replacing Elephant's Memory with session pros. "Angry Young Woman", "She Hits Back" and "Woman of Salem" are great tunes, feminist fire ... hampered by indifferent performances.
YO never had as cool a band as EM - especially hot guitarist Wayne Gabriel ("We're All Water"!) - and, alas, Ono employed a bland pop sound throughout the 80's. FTS often sounds like YO emulating Helen Reddy's big chart action, nice try but she sacrificed her shockrock touch.
Supposedly YO is getting a new project going with Sonic Youth. That could be blazing. Spotty career or not, Yoko Ono, the Hillary of rockNroll, is elemental cool, an American icon. Woman power! |
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 "FEELING THE SPACE (APPLE RECORDS/1973)" | 2005-03-06 |
| - Reviewed By prospero722000 |
| At first I was tempted to downgrade Ono's fourth solo album because it seemed to pale in the shadow of her previous offering (the staggering, double record set "APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE"), but the breezy, open air quality of these immaculately crafted tunes are in many ways superior to even the best moments on that LP. And no: I won't listen to another criticism about her voice. Yes, there are certainly better singers, but I can think of no other performer who has written more daringly original music than Yoko. Even if you aren't up to the wild vocalese experiments of the "PLASTIC ONO BAND" and "FLY" albums (or her tepid audio collaborations with husband John Lennon) that's no excuse to ignore her mainstream pop/rock releases. There isn't another singer alive capable of putting across the climatic build-up and execution on "Woman Of Salem" or who could belt out the anthemic "Woman Power". Her performance is extraordinary, and the instrumentation moves easily from country ("If Only") and ballads ("Growing Pain") to rock ("Coffin Car") without skipping a beat. Although her militant feminism can be hard to swallow (i.e. "Angry Young Woman", a frightening tableau about a wife who sneaks out of the house one night and leaves behind her husband and children in order to start a new life for herself), the music certainly isn't. A fact which makes "FEELING THE SPACE" a masterful piece of work. HIGHEST POP ALBUM CHART POSITION: None. |
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| "A Surprising Two Stars" | 2004-07-18 |
| - Reviewed By zacharythefirst |
| 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. |
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| "Yoko's final 70's album, another masterpiece" | 2004-03-29 |
| - Reviewed By yokogoddess |
| 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 |
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| "Second Best Feminist Album from the 70's" | 2001-11-01 |
| - Reviewed By ladyciarda |
| 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. |
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| "Both pop and jazzy with a very articulate, directed Yoko" | 2000-10-29 |
| - Reviewed By inkblacklimitededitions |
| 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. |
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| "Very compelling and interesting - a favorite of mine" | 1999-05-15 |
| - Reviewed By david7771 |
| 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! |
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