Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
by Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band by Yoko Ono
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 7,979th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
64/100 (from 62 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1970 (124th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,199th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,979th)

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Overall rank: 7,979th | 1970s rank: 1,199th | 1970 rank: 124th
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2025 kaduphemingTop 99 Music Albums of the 1970s35/9913
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2025 Norman BatesTop 100 Music Albums of 19708/1005
2025 Norman BatesTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s72/1006
2025MaxStorm98Top 76 Music Albums of 197070/760
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2025mttr-in-plcTop 28 Music Albums of the 1970s16/289
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2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 197074/1001
2024SD100852Top 20 Music Albums of 197019/201
2024 EyeKanFlyAM Bubbling Under 1970s 464/98 -
2024JohnnyoGreatest albums of the 70's (101 - 200)52/100 -
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2023 MadhattanJackTop 53 Music Albums of 197022/533
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Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 53
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64/100 (from 62 votes)
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01/06/2026 00:49 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,68170/100
 
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03/07/2024 21:17 thepardunk  Ratings distribution  2,57269/100

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55/100
From 04/08/2023 16:45 | #295879
The unbearable lightness of dissonance and experimentation.
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70/100
From 09/24/2021 07:11 | #274116
Pretty straight forward to sum this one up

It’s definitely not as terrible as the detractors claim and I’m a Beatles nut

However

It’s not as good as some critics declare (Pitchfork giving it 9.1 / 10 )

It’s simply Yoko Ono being Yoko Ono with John in the mix and on the cover

All up better than ok and definitely ahead of its time
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50/100
From 08/17/2021 19:23 | #272602
i dont get how ppl from this site can so overpraise Radiohead yet bash on this one. You want experimental? well things wont get more experimental then in here. By the way i dont give a shit about Yoko or her music, but i dont like double standards - if "Ok, computer" is suppose to be the best album ever, and "Kid A" is the best album in 2000s, then by those standards this album should be in top 10 of all times.
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70/100
From 04/29/2021 11:14 | #269110
Not terrible, definitely not great either lol. This made Trout Mask Replica much easier to listen to. Whatever you called this, I call this "proto-punk" because of the instrumentation and Yoko's screeching. Ringo's drumming is just fantastic.
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70/100
From 11/09/2017 01:44 | #201010
Way more interesting than the Lennon/Plastic album. The highs are higher and the lows are lower, but if I had to chose between a mediocre, but consistent album and an album with a few amazing songs, for me the answer seems rather obvious.
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From 05/25/2017 05:57 | #191367
Holy shit this album is fucking rad. Way better than anything the Beatles ever did.
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45/100
From 04/09/2014 21:38 | #108890
It's not THAT bad. More boring than repulsive. For all the fuss that's made over Yoko's vocal self-flagellations, they're pretty harmless. Put in the context of the German experimentalism of the day and the more radical elements of psychedelia, they aren't even that remarkable (unless you consider the feminist angle). It's the album's go-nowhere repetitiveness that bothered me the most. I rather like the rhythm section. You got Ringo's punchy drums, Voorman's goofy-in-a-fun-way basslines and Lennon's caustic (though a little understated on this album) guitar. But none of these songs do much with them.
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From 02/15/2013 14:31 | #65150
What a terrible album. I have never heard anything less musical than Why Not. The wailing and screaming isn't the least bit artistic. Yoko Ono is a knob.

I'm going to go listen to The Soft Bulletin to redeem myself.
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