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{{Infobox album
{{italics title|all=yes}}
| name = It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
{{Infobox album|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| italic title = no
| type = [[Album]]
| Name = It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
| artist = [[Yoko Ono]]
| Type = [[Album]]
| cover = Yoko_Ono_Its_Alright.jpg
| Artist = [[Yoko Ono]]
| alt =
| released = {{start date|1982|11|2|df=yes}}<ref name="Onobox">{{cite AV media notes|others=Yoko Ono|title=[[Onobox]]|year=1992|type=liner notes|publisher=[[Rykodisc]]|id=RCD 10224/29}}</ref>
| Cover = Yoko_Ono_Its_Alright.jpg
| alt =
| recorded =
| venue =
| Released = 29 November 1982<br />July 1997 (CD reissue)
| Studio = [[The Hit Factory]], [[New York City]]
| studio = [[The Hit Factory]], [[New York City]]
| Genre = {{flatlist|
| genre = {{flatlist|
* [[Pop music|Pop]]
* [[Pop music|Pop]]
* [[New wave music|new wave]]
* [[New wave music|new wave]]
}}
}}
| Length = 36:43<br /> 43:33 (CD reissue)
| length = {{duration|m=36|s=43}}
| Label = [[Polygram]] (Reissued on [[Rykodisc]])
| label = [[Polygram]]
| Producer = Yoko Ono
| producer = Yoko Ono
| prev_title =
| prev_title = [[Season of Glass (album)|Season of Glass]]
| prev_year =
| prev_year = 1981
| next_title =
| next_title = [[Milk and Honey (album)|Milk and Honey]]
| next_year =
| next_year = 1984
| misc = {{Singles
| Last album = ''[[Season of Glass]]''<br />(1981)
| This album = '''''It's Alright (I See Rainbows)'''''<br />(1982)
| name = It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
| type = studio
| Next album = ''[[Milk and Honey (album)|Milk and Honey]]''<br />(1984)<br />(with [[John Lennon]])
| Misc = {{Singles
| single1 = [[My Man (Yoko Ono song)|My Man]]
| single1date = 1 November 1982 (US);<ref name="Onobox"/> 26 November 1982 (UK)<ref name="Onobox"/>
| Name = It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
| single2 = [[Never Say Goodbye (Yoko Ono song)|Never Say Goodbye]]
| Type = studio
| single2date = 25 January 1983 (US)<ref name="Onobox"/>
| Single 1 = [[My Man (Yoko Ono song)|My Man]]
| Single 1 date = October 1982 (US); December 1982 (UK)
| Single 2 = [[Never Say Goodbye (Yoko Ono song)|Never Say Goodbye]]
| Single 2 date = January 1983 (US)
}}
}}
}}

{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r46037|pure_url=yes}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Rolling Stone magazine|Rolling Stone]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/120864link |title=Rolling Stone Music &#124; Album Reviews |publisher=Rollingstone.com |date=2012-06-12}}</ref>
}}
}}
{{italic title|all=yes|noerror}}
'''''It's Alright (I See Rainbows)''''' is the sixth solo album by [[Yoko Ono]], and her second release after the death 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. This album marks her first foray into [[New wave music|new wave]] sounds and 1980s pop production. It charted at #98 in the US.
'''''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==
All songs are written, composed, arranged, produced, and sung by Ono. In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc.<ref>[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<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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."<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine |last=Loder |first=Kurt |date=1983-01-20 |title=It's Alright (I See Rainbows) |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/its-alright-i-see-rainbows-100180/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>

Yoko reflected on the making of the album when writing liner notes for the 1992 boxset ''[[Onobox]]'':
{{Blockquote|text=The songs from ''It’s Alright'' were an attempt to do new sounds. I used shotguns for the backbeat. I brought [[Sean Lennon|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.|author=Yoko Ono|source={{cite web|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/6364|title=''ONOBOX'' by Yoko Ono|date=23 April 2009 }}}}

In 1997, the album was remastered by Ono and Rob Stevens for release on CD by Rykodisc.<ref>[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<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r46037|pure_url=yes}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=":0" />
}}
''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' called it Ono's "most commercially accessible musical effort."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|title=Top Album Picks|date=December 25, 1982|accessdate=2023-02-08|page=87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YyQEAAAAMBAJ}}</ref> 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."<ref name=":0" />


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
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| length2 = 4:25
| length2 = 4:25
| title3 = Spec of Dust
| title3 = Spec of Dust
| length3 = 3:21
| length3 = 3:31
| title4 = Loneliness
| title4 = Loneliness
| length4 = 3:31
| length4 = 3:47
| title5 = Tomorrow May Never Come
| title5 = Tomorrow May Never Come
| length5 = 2:26
| length5 = 2:26
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}}
}}
{{Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Reissue bonus tracks
| headline = CD Reissue bonus tracks
| title11 = Beautiful Boys
| title11 = Beautiful Boys
| note11 = Demo version
| note11 = <small>Demo</small>
| length11 = 2:00
| length11 = 2:00
| title12 = [[You're the One (Yoko Ono song)|You're the One]]
| title12 = [[You're the One (Yoko Ono song)|You're the One]]
| note12 = Alternate take
| note12 = <small>Alternate take</small>
| length12 = 4:50
| length12 = 4:50
}}
}}


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*Yoko Ono - vocals
*Yoko Ono – vocals
*Pete Cannarozzi, [[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]] - synthesizer
*[[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]] – keyboards, synthesizer, piano
*Pete Cannarozzi – synthesizer
*Gordon Grody, Kurt Yahjihan, [[Carlos Alomar]] - background vocals
*Gordon Grody, Kurt Yahjihan, [[Carlos Alomar]] – background vocals
*[[Elliot Randall]], [[John Tropea]] - guitar
*[[Elliott Randall]], Steve Love, [[Hugh McCracken]], [[John Lennon]], [[John Tropea]] – guitar
*[[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]], Michael Holmes, [[Paul Shaffer]] - keyboards
*Michael Holmes, [[Paul Shaffer]] – keyboards
*[[Neil Jason]] - bass
*[[Yogi Horton]], [[Allan Schwartzberg]] - drums
*[[Neil Jason]], [[Tony Levin]], Wayne Pedziwiatr – bass guitar
*[[Rubens Bassini]], David A. Freedman, [[Sammy Figueroa]], Roger Squitero - percussion
*[[Yogi Horton]], [[Allan Schwartzberg]] – drums
*[[Rubens Bassini]], David A. Freedman, [[Sammy Figueroa]], Roger Squitero – percussion
*[[Badal Roy]] - tabla
*[[Badal Roy]] – tabla
*[[Howard Johnson (jazz musician)|Howard Johnson]] - baritone saxophone, tuba
*[[Howard Johnson (jazz musician)|Howard Johnson]] – baritone saxophone, tuba
;Technical
;Technical
*Brian McGee, John Davenport, Jon Smith - engineer
*Brian McGee, John Davenport, Jon Smith – engineer
*[[Bob Gruen]] - photography
*[[Bob Gruen]] – photography

==Charts==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Chart (1982–83)
!Peak<br>position
!Total<br>weeks
|-
|U.S. ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' 200
|align=center|98
|align=center|13
|}

== Release history ==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
!scope="col"|Country
!scope="col"|Date
!scope="col"|Format
!scope="col"|Label
!scope="col"|Catalog
|-
!scope="row" rowspan="2"|United States
|rowspan="2"|2 November 1982<ref name="Onobox"/>
|LP
|rowspan="7"|[[Polydor]]
|PD1-6364<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/732281|title = Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)|website = [[Discogs]]| date=29 November 1982 }}</ref>
|-
|Cassette
|CT-1-6364<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/5138301|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Cassette)|website=[[Discogs]]|year=1982 }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" rowspan="2"|United Kingdom
|rowspan="2"|16 December 1982<ref name="Onobox"/>
|LP
|POLD 5073<ref name="jpgr.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpgr.co.uk/col_pold5073.html|title=It's Alright (I See Rainbows)}}</ref>
|-
|Cassette
|POLDC 5073<ref name="jpgr.co.uk"/>
|-
!scope="row"|Germany
|rowspan="2"|1982
|rowspan="3"|LP
|rowspan="2"|2391559<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/2391559de|title=Vinyl Album: Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982)}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"|Australia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/3376095|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)|website=[[Discogs]]|year=1982 }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"|Japan
|January 1983
|28MM 0241<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/6341161|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1983, Vinyl)|website=[[Discogs]]|date=January 1983 }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"|United States
|1 July 1997<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/509113/ready-or-not-yoko-ono-albums-to-be-reissued/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218211908/http://www.mtv.com/news/509113/ready-or-not-yoko-ono-albums-to-be-reissued/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 18, 2018|title=Ready or Not: Yoko Ono Albums to be Reissued|website=[[MTV]]}}</ref>
|rowspan="3"|CD
|rowspan="3"|[[Rykodisc]]
|rowspan="2"|RCD 10422<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Yoko-Ono-Its-Alright-I-See-Rainbows/release/2454417|title=Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1997, CD)|website=[[Discogs]]|year=1997 }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"|United Kingdom
|26 August 1997<ref name="jpgr.co.uk"/>
|-
!scope="row"|Japan
|1997
|
|}


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 20:40, 27 June 2024

It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
Studio album by
Yoko Ono
Released2 November 1982 (1982-11-02)[1]
StudioThe Hit Factory, New York City
Genre
Length36:43
LabelPolygram
ProducerYoko Ono
Yoko Ono chronology
Season of Glass
(1981) 		It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
(1982) 		Milk and Honey
(1984)
Singles from It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
  1. "My Man"
    Released: 1 November 1982 (US);[1] 26 November 1982 (UK)[1]
  2. "Never Say Goodbye"
    Released: 25 January 1983 (US)[1]

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[edit]

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:

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 by Yoko Ono". 23 April 2009.

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[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Rolling Stone[2]

Billboard called it Ono's "most commercially accessible musical effort."[5] 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."[2]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Yoko Ono.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."My Man"3:56
2."Never Say Goodbye"4:25
3."Spec of Dust"3:31
4."Loneliness"3:47
5."Tomorrow May Never Come"2:26
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."It's Alright"4:23
7."Wake Up"3:47
8."Let the Tears Dry"2:24
9."Dream Love"4:53
10."I See Rainbows"3:15
CD Reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Beautiful Boys" (Demo)2:00
12."You're the One" (Alternate take)4:50

Personnel[edit]

Technical
  • Brian McGee, John Davenport, Jon Smith – engineer
  • Bob Gruen – photography

Charts[edit]

Chart (1982–83) Peak
position 		Total
weeks
U.S. Billboard 200 98 13

Release history[edit]

Country Date Format Label Catalog
United States 2 November 1982[1] LP Polydor PD1-6364[6]
Cassette CT-1-6364[7]
United Kingdom 16 December 1982[1] LP POLD 5073[8]
Cassette POLDC 5073[8]
Germany 1982 LP 2391559[9]
Australia[10]
Japan January 1983 28MM 0241[11]
United States 1 July 1997[12] CD Rykodisc RCD 10422[13]
United Kingdom 26 August 1997[8]
Japan 1997

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Onobox (liner notes). Yoko Ono. Rykodisc. 1992. RCD 10224/29.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ a b c Loder, Kurt (1983-01-20). "It's Alright (I See Rainbows)". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  3. ^ Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (CD, Album) at Discogs
  4. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r46037
  5. ^ "Top Album Picks". Billboard. December 25, 1982. p. 87. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  6. ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)". Discogs. 29 November 1982.
  7. ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Cassette)". Discogs. 1982.
  8. ^ a b c "It's Alright (I See Rainbows)".
  9. ^ "Vinyl Album: Yoko Ono - It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982)".
  10. ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982, Vinyl)". Discogs. 1982.
  11. ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1983, Vinyl)". Discogs. January 1983.
  12. ^ "Ready or Not: Yoko Ono Albums to be Reissued". MTV. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018.
  13. ^ "Yoko Ono – It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1997, CD)". Discogs. 1997.
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