Yoko Ono
It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
Baarn, Netherlands: Polygram, 1982
12” LP
Edition size unknown
It's Alright (I See Rainbows) is the sixth solo album by Yoko Ono, and her second after the murder of husband John Lennon. It suffers from coming so close on the heels of the brilliant Season of Glass, and ends up feeling somewhat inconsequential as a result. There are a few good songs on the LP and it certainly sounds better than anything with the Elephants Memory Band, but it’s not a record I suspect many fans reach for first.
The label released two singles (“My Man” and “Never Say Goodbye”) and heavily promoted the disc (see below), but despite their efforts the album reached only #98 on the Billboard charts, compared to #49 a year prior, with Season of Glass.
"The songs from It’s Alright were an attempt to do new sounds. I used shotguns for the backbeat. I brought Sean’s toy raygun to the studio to use it as a rhythm track. I was expecting the usual sneer I had gotten from the musicians and engineers whenever I had tried to do anything that was out of the ordinary. Surprisingly, no one was upset this time. It was ’82 and it seemed as though I was finally in sync with the world.
In a way, the It's Alright time was much more difficult for me as a woman, as a person, than when I had made Season Of Glass. Life went on. I had to walk and talk normally, while I knew that somewhere inside me there was a clock that had stopped in ’80."
— Yoko Ono, Onobox, 1992
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