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.

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".

[4] This version included the entire 6-disc box set along with the accompanying 1-disc Walking on Thin Ice compilation and a sculpture by Yoko called A Key to Open the Universe with a signature by Ono, all packaged in a protective carrying case.