Onobox

Onobox
Box set by
ReleasedMarch 1992
Recorded1968–1992
Genre
Length388:18
LabelRykodisc
ProducerYoko Ono
Yoko Ono chronology
Starpeace
(1985)
Onobox
(1992)
Walking on Thin Ice
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[2]

Onobox is a 1992 comprehensive 6-disc collection of Yoko Ono's work from 1968 to 1985. The discs are grouped by era and theme. Disc one centers around the albums Fly and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, while Disc two features nearly the entirety of Approximately Infinite Universe in a different running order and most of the tracks remixed exclusively for this boxed set. Disc three features the entire Feeling the Space project, which was originally conceived and recorded as a double album before being edited down, while disc six is the previously unreleased 1974 album A Story, which was later reissued separately with an expanded track listing, along with the rest of Ono's back catalogue.

Discs four and five center on her relationship with her late husband and musician John Lennon, with "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss" highlighting songs from their duet albums Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey, while "No, No, No" focuses on the albums Yoko released in the aftermath of the murder of John Lennon.

Onobox was complemented by an accompanying one-disc "greatest hits" release, entitled Walking on Thin Ice. While the Rykodisc press release for Onobox declared the collection "not as bad as you might think", it also urged the public to "smash your preconceptions". Which, for the most part, they did, finding the box gave "Yoko Ono the avant- garde heroine her due".[3]

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r65810
  2. ^ Tom Carson (March 6, 1992). "Onobox". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
  3. ^ "Onobox: review". ew.com. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2015.