It's Alright (I See Rainbows) Explained

It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
Type:Album
Artist:Yoko Ono
Cover:Yoko_Ono_Its_Alright.jpg
Released:[1]
Studio:The Hit Factory, New York City
Label:Polygram
Producer:Yoko Ono
Prev Title:Season of Glass
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:Milk and Honey
Next Year:1984

It's Alright (I See Rainbows) is the sixth solo album by Yoko Ono, and her second release after the murder of husband John Lennon. As a variation of a theme concerning its predecessor, the back cover features a transparent image of Lennon in a then-contemporary photo of Yoko and Sean, depicted in Central Park. Released in 1982, all songs were written, composed, arranged, produced, and sung by Ono. It charted at #98 in the US.

Background

The album saw Yoko take her music in a more uplifting direction following 1981's Season of Glass, despite the "bulk" of the album's songs "deal[ing] with her unabated feelings of loss over Lennon."[2]

Yoko reflected on the making of the album when writing liner notes for the 1992 boxset Onobox:

In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc.[3] The 1997 release used newly remixed versions of all songs. Some of the original mixes had a CD release in 1992 on the Onobox set but the rest remain unreleased on CD to date.

Reception

Billboard called it Ono's "most commercially accessible musical effort."[4] Writing for Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder noted its "committed and convincing avant-gardism", which produced a "synthesizer-based pop that’s more adventurous than much of the music currently being ground out by Europersons half her age."

Track listing

All songs written by Yoko Ono.

Personnel

Technical

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabelCatalog
United States2 November 1982LPPolydorPD1-6364[5]
CassetteCT-1-6364[6]
United Kingdom16 December 1982LPPOLD 5073[7]
CassettePOLDC 5073
Germany1982LP2391559[8]
Australia[9]
JapanJanuary 198328MM 0241[10]
United States1 July 1997[11] CDRykodiscRCD 10422[12]
United Kingdom26 August 1997
Japan1997

Notes and References

  1. Yoko Ono. Onobox. 1992. liner notes. Rykodisc. RCD 10224/29.
  2. Loder . Kurt . 1983-01-20 . It's Alright (I See Rainbows) . 2023-06-08 . Rolling Stone . en-US.
  3. http://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/2454417 Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (CD, Album) at Discogs
  4. Billboard. Top Album Picks. December 25, 1982. 2023-02-08. 87.
  5. Web site: Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl). Discogs. 29 November 1982 .
  6. Web site: Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Cassette). Discogs. 1982 .
  7. Web site: It's Alright (I See Rainbows).
  8. Web site: Vinyl Album: Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982).
  9. Web site: Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl). Discogs. 1982 .
  10. Web site: Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1983, Vinyl). Discogs. January 1983 .
  11. Web site: Ready or Not: Yoko Ono Albums to be Reissued. https://web.archive.org/web/20180218211908/http://www.mtv.com/news/509113/ready-or-not-yoko-ono-albums-to-be-reissued/. dead. February 18, 2018. MTV.
  12. Web site: Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1997, CD). Discogs. 1997 .

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