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Yes, I'm A Witch |  | Artist: Yoko Ono
Label: Parlophone/EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 80890
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 094638912224
EAN: 0094638912224
ASIN: B000MTEB7W
Release Date: February 19, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Witch Shocktronica Intro | | • | Kiss Kiss Kiss | | • | O'Oh | | • | Everyman...Everywoman | | • | Sisters O Sisters | | • | Death Of Samantha | | • | Rising | | • | Nobody Sees Me Like You Do | | • | Yes, I'm A Witch | | • | Revelations | | • | You And I | | • | Walking On Thin Ice | | • | Toyboat | | • | Cambridge 1969/2007 | | • | I'm Moving On | | • | Witch Shocktronica Outro | | • | Shiranakatta |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
At first glance, this looks like it might be yet another one of those records where an older cult artist is paired with a bunch of younger/ supposedly hipper musicians in efforts to add legitimacy to the younguns and street cred to said cult figure. Such is not the case with Ono's version of a collaborative hipster album, iYes, I'm A Witch/i. Yoko chose all the artists herself, and her choices range from predictable (Cat Power, Antony, Flaming Lips) to not (Le Tigre, Porcupine Tree, Hank Shocklee). The musicians were asked to pick elements of songs from Ono's back catalog and rework them. Most chose her distinctive vocals and created new songs using them (surprisingly, no one chose to work with "Mind Train" off her daring 1971 LP iFly/i). Unsurprisingly, Peaches chose to rework "Kiss Kiss Kiss," the infamous iDouble Fantasy/i song wherein Ono appears to achieve orgasm. Jason Pierce from Spiritualized turns the dance-y 1981 number "Walking on Thin Ice" into a powerful drone/ guitar workout percolating with a drum machine's pulse. The awesomest song is the Flaming Lips' take on Lennon/Ono's "Cambridge 1969," carving a marvelous krautrock-ish groove that cradles Ono's unique vocal talents and Lennon's feedback and makes it something new, and better. The results overall are surprisingly great, though it's a bit disorienting given the eclectic array of artists. Ono fans, of course, will not likely be bothered by that. i--Mike McGonigal/i.
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 hated by all loved by no-one? February 23, 2007
R. Brivio (UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am not really familiar with Ono's work only that she was often blamed for the beatles split and universally hated by all. Therefore I can not comment on her body of work. What I can comment on is this album which is always interesting with a variety of styles ranging from trippy hip hop, rock, acoustic folky like twiddlings and housey dance tracks.
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br /Stand out tracks are the Flaming Lips (Cambridge 69) pairing and spiritualised (Walking on thin Ice)
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br /Give it a go it may dispel a few myths about someone who has been blamed for so much and ridiculed consistently.
Witch Queen of New York March 18, 2009
Dudley Serious
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For all her money who'd be Yoko Ono, probably the most ridiculed and reviled
br /female artist of any serious intent in the last forty years?
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br /She has tenacity, that's for sure, and on this album of collaborations and
br /remixes a roster of younger, cool (whatever that is) artists gleefully
br /declare their admiration for a woman who forged her independent female
br /position way before the likes of Helen Reddy pretended to be pioneers. And
br /the results are rarely less than inspiring. Get this and then, armed with information,
br /explore Yoko's back catalogue.
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 Witchcraft February 22, 2007
G. Bailey (England)
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
(I wrote the following review for a student publication, and thought that since there are no reviews here, I'd post it up. So bear in mind that it's not specifically tailored to an Amazon review.)
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br /In the public eye, Yoko Ono is often seen at worst as the evil harpy who single-handedly split up The Beatles, and at best as a weird conceptual artist. "Yes, I'm A Witch" aims to redress that.
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br /For this album, 16 different artists were given Ono's back catalogue and each selected a song to remix and make their own. The results are surprising and this album skips through chillout and insanely catchy dance to unashamedly funky rock, and lots of stuff in-between that a more capable reviewer would undoubtedly invent genres for.
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br /Yoko Ono's unique vocal style has always polarised opinions about her music and she miaows, purrs and yowls her way through the songs here. Although the vocal lines are usually the only remaining elements from the originals, the tracks assembled here throw them into another light and (sometimes mercifully) shift the emphasis away from her singing.
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br /Many of the songs reflect Ono's politics; 'Sisters o Sisters' contains an empowering chant of "Women! United! Will never be defeated!" One of the highlights of the album is The Flaming Lips' reworking of 'Cambridge 1969', the only song here originally co-written with John Lennon. The song becomes a typically absurd but epic track with bombastic drums and carhorns. Elsewhere, 'O'oh', Ono's ode to New York City, almost recalls Alison Goldfrapp to mind. The Polyphonic Spree's 'You And I' begins humbly and then erupts in a full-on, all-singing, all-dancing cacophony. Cat Power's version of 'Revelations' is backed by a heart-wrenching piano, as well as Power's own added vocals.
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br /Of course, with an album of 17 tracks each co-ordinated by a separate artist, no one listener is going to enjoy the whole thing. Its very strength in diversity of musical style is also its downfall. Sometimes Ono's vocals veer dangerously close to Engrish (on 'Toyboat' for example) and the effect can be seen as either charming or annoying. Peaches' remix of 'Kiss, Kiss, Kiss' is just plain irritating and overly repetitive - Peaches inevitably chose to work on the song in which Ono famously fakes an orgasm, something which no-one's ears deserve to have visited upon them, even the most ardent Bon Jovi devotees. The beauty of another track, DJ Spooky's Rising, is utterly ruined by Ono apparently having a coughing fit. Little touches like this suggest Ono's reputation as a bit of a weirdo isn't entirely undeserved. Still, if you can get past the stigma of Yoko Ono and endure her strange ways, there's a lot here to like. Witchcraft indeed.
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