why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

aww

when i was a kid my buying choices were highly influenced by quantity of music per dollar. which is how i ended up with stuff like the woodstock soundtrack and the song remains the same, etc

i will never deny yessongs, however. i know exactly when, as we move into 'the teacher the preacher', someone will whistle. and when, at the beginning of 'yours is no disgrace' a woman yells 'yay!'

it rules (also it rocks a little harder than most of the studio versions do, which was cool with both teen and elderly me)

it rules (also it rocks a little harder than most of the studio versions do, which was cool with both teen and elderly me)

It was the first record of theirs I bought (the early 2000s 2CD version) and I'm really glad, because it rocked so hard that I was immediately won over. The studio albums might have taken longer to get their hooks in me.

my first as well, the triple LP, probably 1980

and yah it is undeniable

highly recommend Progeny then, it's also from the '72 band and the sound quality is better

I mean the version of Yours is No Disgrace on there is so insane. I guess the Yessongs one is too but here you can hear Bruford better

That's impressive, since Alan White plays the drums on all of Progeny

lmao was gonna say "even though he plays a more straightforward basher style here he's really ace at it", I thought he was on some of these tracks oops

lol thank you but i don't really need 14 discs of the '72 tour when yessongs is right there

there's a condensed version that's about 100 minutes long and just contains the best stuff (as selected by them), sort of an alternate version Yessongs

oic

ty

gtfo with putting 'the six wives' on that and no 'starship trooper' tho

fucking wakeman

otm

I thought he was on some of these tracks oops

I was imagining the new mix featuring Bruford being simultaneously recorded watching TV back home in England

gtfo with putting 'the six wives' on that

Every time Yes releases "Excerpts from 'Six Wives of Henry VIII'" they're actually saving you a half-hour of listening to the rest of Wakeman's album

they didn't do Starship Trooper during that run of shows, it doesn't appear on any of them

I like the Six Wives excerpt fine, though I must say the QPR show where Pat Moraz plays excerpts from the Refugee album is a lot more fun

now i wanna hear moraz play six wives, see if it's salvageable as music

I was wondering if Jon was ever going to do an autobiography and he talked about writing it recently

A Jon Anderson memoir sure to be a model of lucidity

found a pretty clean copy of Yessongs recently for $7, now if you'll excuse me

god they pull off some wild shit at the end of Perpetual Change

hell yes

no wonder the jacket's always beat to shit, the gatefold works pretty much the opposite way you think it will

omg this is yr first time?!?

I have super vivid memories of this 3LP from the early high school pre-punk years, I own a different copy today sadly but it's still VG+

guys i said hell yes

https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-29-2015/xYEZ80.mp4

oops

nah I've heard it before but my last copy was pretty crackly, not really much of an issue on this particular LP I guess but really I'll take any excuse to whip it out again.

the pressings are notoriously bad iirc, length per side issues probably

yeah still doesn't sound great, the Progeny shows are sonically better I think and I kinda want to shell out for that triple vinyl but I dunno. that said I like the way Yessongs sounds, it's got kind of a punky energy to it, a little down n' dirty, kinda fun actually in a way their studio albums aint

The early 2000s Rhino 2CD set sounds fantastic. These days I own this 2009 Japanese CD version, which also sounds incredible. But there's no arguing with you vinyl people, so have at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrgCUBAHcg

I like how murky yessongs is, it sounds like you’re really in the midst of a filthy battle or just a pit of unwashed rock fans

I've been into the studio tracks from Keys to Ascension lately (or rather, just keystudio). Not sure why these mostly failed to make an impression on me until recently but they're very good, certainly worthy of a better-packaged reissue

the way they packaged those made it seem like they didn't have a lot of faith in the new material

but yeah it's prob worth a re-listen, I remember "That, That Is" sounding a lot like classic Yes in spots

this new jon anderson album is amazing. go band geeks \m/

my store didn't get a copy in yet so i'm just gonna wait, reviews seem to be very positive so far

in the meantime I'm gonna throw on GFTO and marvel at how great Awaken is

YES on the studio tracks on Keys!

I was listening to those last year and feeling the impulse to buy compact discs. There's one that's just those tracks called Keystudio.

"9 copies from $31.42" - Boo

yeah that release was always scarce, I don't think I've ever actually seen a copy (unlike the regular releases, the first of which used to fill the used bins)

i just want to make sure going forward that this is the official jon anderson thread.

well...now is the time. lets see what you got Jon

alright it's pretty good. I thought all the "it's the best Yes album since whatever" talk was kinda lazy, but nah. that's exactly what this album is trying to sound like. Rickenbacker, Hammond, a lot of Howe-style guitar, plus some pretty direct Yes references both musically and lyrically. kind of bitchy when you think about it like the whole point seems he's trying to show the current Yes how it's done. if this was the final Yes album I think it would be considered a major triumph. I know it sounds like damning with faint praise but this is what I was hoping the AWBH album would be

This is really good, superior to the last two Yes albums (which I mostly like despite myself but they are fairly boring), more interesting than anything he’s done solo in a very long time.

did trevor horn really start this thread though

Add me to the True Is Good Not Bad list, although you wouldn’t guess it from his daughter’s artwork!

really nothing about the cover is promising at all, "The Band Geeks" is a dumb band name, True a totally forgettable album title, and like, all that lens flare...Photoshop doesn't even have that anymore

Alright, dammit, you guys convinced me to check it out. The stupid band name and cover art had really kept me away from this stuff.

I had the same doubts as jon but am listening now and, yeah, this is pretty great; a combination of mid 70s and early 80s Yes, with some late 80s fusion shred guitar solos thrown in.