Sometime in NYC [Live]

Yoko Ono, John Lennon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 16, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002UW9
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,966 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Woman Is the Nigger of the World

2. Sisters, O Sisters

3. Attica State

4. Born in a Prison

5. New York City

6. Sunday Bloody Sunday

7. The Luck of the Irish

8. John Sinclair

9. Angela

10. We're All Water

Disc: 2

1. Cold Turkey [Live]

2. Don't Worry Kyoko [Live]

3. Well (Baby Please Don't Go) [Live]

4. Jamrag [Live]

5. Scumbag [Live]

6. Aü [Live]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars now hold on here just a minute..............., May 5, 2003

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COMPUTERJAZZMAN "computerjazzman" (Cliffside Park, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sometime in NYC (Audio CD)

I read the previous reviews of this album, and I must disagree most vociferously. Let me take you back in time to 1972..........I bought this album the DAY it came out, the Vietnam War was still raging, the Pentagon Papers had just come out, and everyone was "politically aware" at the time. I remeber going to a peace march in NYC at the time, and John Lennon spoke, so did Daniel Ellsburg. This album hits the nail on the head when it comes to encapsulating the mood of the times. Sure, there are some crappy songs on this album, but the stuff that is good, is GREAT. There is a lot of good rock and roll on this album (remember rock and roll?). As for the "bonus" album, I don't know about the rest of you, but I think it's awesome! The first side, recorded at the Fillmore East (I think it was recorded the last week this place was open)is with the Mothers of Invention, featuring Flo and Eddie. Maybe a lot of people don't understand this kind of music, but if you're into it, you need to have it. The other side is also a live jam with Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins, Jim Keltner, and others. Maybe nowadays this stuff sounds dated, but not to me. This is not commercial stuff, just a bunch of musicians playing their hearts out. Definitely not Top 40, if that's what you're looking for, look somewhere else.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John Lennon's adolescent album., February 25, 2003

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"keefycub" (Yonkers, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sometime in NYC (Audio CD)

I like this album. It reminds me of my own adolescence. Angry young man and all that.

At the time John and Yoko seemed to be trying to latch on to anything that seemed real to him at the time (it's important to remember what the Lower East Side was like in 1972 when this album came out).

Eventually Lennon grew out of it into more mature fair, never quite escaping the rather antiseptic production until Double Fantasy. And then that jerk had to go and kill him.

This is the album the convinced me that Yoko's detractors were and are wrong. Her songs on this album are very hummable and easy to grasp. It's a trick to write simply, and she does it much better than someone who'd not written rock music before. Her messages are bleak but there's always hope in there somewhere.

The side with Zappa? Well, Zappa's Zappa. Even if you don't like them the results are at the very least entertaining.

The Grande Ballroom side? The messages are bleak again, but they're delivered with passion .... and the call and response between the horns and Yoko (mimicking their skronk)is absolutely magnificent -- they sound like they were having tons of fun when they were playing that gig.

If you've got an open mind and you like to listen to the equivalent of an adolescence in a musical career development, this is for you. If you don't fit that bill, don't grab it because you'll feel like you wasted your money.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE COMPLAINT about this CD!, August 12, 2008

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Tony L. Sledge "beatler11" (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sometime in NYC (Audio CD)

I love the album,every song on it is really captures the era gone by. To me it just seems like yesterday...However , Why did they shorten Were All Water by Yoko? I really was excited when the CD came in and I took a listen to it and the final high pitch scream by Yoko was edited out to a gradual fade....I have been listening to this album since I bought it in 1973 (I had to sneak it in the house because if my parents had seen or heard it I would have been finished) I was very disappointed when I listened to the CD to discover this climatic end to a great piece of work had been altered.