Surreal Singles Club: Yoko Ono – Hirake (Open Your Box)
Ahh, Yoko Ono. No Surreal Week on a blog would be complete without her. Always remembered by the masses as the bird that split up the Beatles, here at Days Are Numbers however, we regard her as a pioneering female avant-garde artist. But we don’t really have time to get in to that right now and everyone knows who Yoko Ono is, so let’s have a look at her entry in today’s Surreal Singles Club…
Taken from her groundbreaking 1971 album Fly and produced by the avant-garde musician Joe Jones, ‘Hirake’ (or Open Your Box to you and me) was also the B-side to John Lennon’s single ‘Power To The People’. Banned by UK radio for it’s rather risque lyrics, the sonic cacophony of, well, weirdness might have also played a big part of the whole banning thing. Ahem *cough*. As one of my favourite Yoko songs, ‘Open Your Box’ has quite a concise madness about it. It will leave you feeling rather dizzy and give other people a headache. Isn’t that what Surrealism is about or am I getting this all wrong?? You decide!
Yoko Ono – Hirake (Open Your Box)
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Mental, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from Ono.
Wow, I actually really like this.
Wow! I knew you were a Surrealist at heart, Dark Knight!
man she is weird!
Lennon apparently enjoyed sneaking bonkers Ono compositions onto the b-sides of his solo singles, check out the mesmerising ‘Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9fFnVudKSI, which was on the b-side to the frankly shit ‘Cold Turkey’. It sounds like she’s being killed!
I remember when the Daily Mail ran a story along the lines of “Yoko Ono reduced to playing Butlin’s holiday camp”… She was playing fucking ATP!
She may not have split up The Beatles (The Beatles did a pretty good job of that themselves), but she is a bit of a twat. I like her music, though.
Hunter Davies said it was only when you met her, that you fully realised how hot she was. So there you go. She’s the same age as my gran!
That’s all I have to say about Yoko Ono for now.