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

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not that there's an answer for this, or anyone would try to take a stab at one, but still

trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"yessed out"?

amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

you know, in and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there. I'd like to know.

trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

We in the USA like to smoke ourselves some dope, trev.

Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

like look at half these threads right now. I'm not complaining. I'm just curious.

trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i am a camera

Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I just recently got dial-up and when I come home drunk but not tired this keeps the mind busy. lick it up.

CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not actually listening to Yes, just Utopia. Soz.

Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

What ILM looks light after midnight...

http://yes.iq.pl/images/jade_sea.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.huether-net.de/tickets/yes.jpg

Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Ian pretty much nailed. We got our smoke on and our drink on, and then we slap on "Yours Is No Disgrace".

Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human silly human siillllyy huuuuuuman race....

Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

it's when us Yes fans are at our most alert.

http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/cbg.gif

wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

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Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I still don't understand the question. Can you speak Amurrican and explain?

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I positively affirm and agree with you, trevor. Now, what was the question again?

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah crap, the formatting screwed up my lovely ascii art.

I fucking love "Yours Is No Disgrace" so damn much. What a beautiful, beautiful song. Howe's playing on the whole Yes Album just blows me away.

I grew listening to WIOT out of Toledo, Ohio, and when 90120 came out they used to play "Our Song" all the time because it had that line "Toledo is just another stop along the good king's highway". Like, they actually thought it was about Toledo, Ohio!!

Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I have to go to bed. Guess this is the best place to leave it for now.

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I can try, guy upthread. It's late in the great plains. There are many threads with new answers. Many of these new answers seem to involve Yes references. In the daytime this doesn't happen. The question is is this some strange phenomenon? What are its roots? Should something be done about it? Or should it just go on? I think it should. But am I wrong? Why? That is the question.

trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

grew up listening. damn, why I have been doing that dropping words thing so much lately??

Yes fans jonesing for more YESSOUNDS should totally check out those two latter-day Os Mutantes LPs, by the way. When they got all progged-out. Total Yes homages.

Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Pleasant Plains, one down one to go, another town and one more show.

Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Or to put it another way. Say I'm a veteran ILMer. "I think I'm appalled by these shenanigans. Yes. . . . No!" Is this an ILM death knell? That would be an interesting meta-discussion that will not occur.

trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh. See, I haven't EVER listened to a Yes song before (exception proving rule would be "Owner of a Lonely Heart" which I rather like) so all that's been going right over my head.

I thought "yessed out" was some sort of cockney slang for "sucking it's own dick" or somethin'.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link

a few days ago, i felt like that dude in the "owner of a lonely heart" video when he was on the rooftop surrounded by the oh-so menacing members of yes (circa '84, so no rick wakeman [the ONLY vaguely scary member of yes EVAH]).

Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Forksclove, you should ditch the indie rock and pick up The Yes Album and Fragile toot sweet. Two of the finest albums on God's green, sticky, hydroponic earth.

Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link

ME OTM, though that's not where the goodness stops by any means.

Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Jon Anderson could potentially be scary in an evil elf-leprechaun sort of way.

Your mention of the "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" video reminded me there was one version that had a guy with maggots crawling around on top of his closed eyelids. Did "Fear Factor" rip off this idea? I think MTV stopped showing that version.

wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

speaking of the raincoats cds (er, on another thread tonight), those os mutantes reissues on omplattern are now OOP and worth $$$$. i actually parted with mine at some point, for reasons i don't quite understand.

i love yes. sometimes i'll be walking around and suddenly a bass line from some yes song will pop into my head and i'll be all excited.

would that ilm actually were a bit more yessed out.

amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm. Well I'll certainly give it a run. Anybody who wants to mail a representative single or two is welcome to.

One of my (many) large gaps of musical knowledge is rock of any variety from 1970-1985 or so.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's all about "Tempus Fugit" for me, man.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link

The really technical part of "Heart of the Sunrise" is killer.

Wobbly, if you're out there, tell your Jon Anderson at NAMM story . . .

best

Drew

Drew Daniel, Friday, 27 August 2004 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link

actually I'm all tulled out tonight.

AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link


Was this NAMM in Anaheim in like 96? At one of those shows I heard rumors that Jon Anderson was there and I was pissed that I never saw him. But for all I know he goes to all of them...

wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay I guess he's not so here's his story of spotting Jon Anderson at NAMM

at a booth that sells vocoder software there is a man earnestly saying in a silvery, elven speaking voice reminiscent of Glinda the Good Witch "no, no, NO, you don't understand. I want to make my computer-" and here he erupts into a shivery high melodious flutter "s-i-i-iing!" and it's HIM and he's singing the word "sing" in THAT Yes voice.

Drew Daniel, Friday, 27 August 2004 05:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh my god, Drew -- that story is amazing! I think I would die on the spot. Such a voice.

What is NAMM, anyway?

Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The biggest US musical instrument trade fair.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't is just late at night in the US the Brits arrive, and drive the whole thing stupid?

___ (___), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...
REVIVE!

Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks Eisbar, I loved this thread.

I just watched some of that DVD "The Future Is Wild", the cheezy computer animated forecast of what freakish species will dominate this planet in 200 million years. It was very Yessed out too, CGI supercontinent-formation footage and giant global oceans (topographic tales of .. .)

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

um, i was just listening to the following yessed out record:

http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg

stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

does it also SOUND like yes, jbr?

Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

does not matter!

Olias of Sunhillow Critical Edition, with commentary track guest starring the 'scientists' from The Future Is Wild

sharkopath (Jon L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link

does it also SOUND like yes, jbr?

maybe a little like the trevor horn yes (or maybe i just wish it sounded more like trevor horn yes).

it's basically arp-heavy metronomic 1978 eurosynth cheese.

stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

This should have said "North America" to include sundar.

LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i still have yet to consciously hear a yes song

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

not purposefully or anything, i mean, i'd like to hear a yessong i guess

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there anyone besides me who can't hear the pastoral-rainforest sounding intro (and outro) to "Close To The Edge" without mentally visualizing Roger Dean's impossible landscapes? And vice-versa?

Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

ahh, side A of 'close to the edge' has really been doing it for me lately. i love all those drum fills that go right through the first ONE beat and splash back in somewhere in the middle of the bar. anothe reason of why i like it so much is because it kind of reminds of this local band here called form of rocket that does similar type things (fast, frenetic parts / churning, odd time signatures / that drum fill thing)

6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there anyone besides me who can't hear the pastoral-rainforest sounding intro (and outro) to "Close To The Edge" without mentally visualizing Roger Dean's impossible landscapes? And vice-versa?

I always see a Dean landscape, or some Art Nouveau P. Craig Russell planet landscape whenever I listen to Yes. Except for Yes mach-90125 and onward.

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

that rolling stone interview series is so good, binge-read all of them and desperately want more, was not a fan of the addition of Benoit David at the time but he sounds like a great guy that did everything he could, I get Anderson not wanting to do Drama material, I guess, but I wonder why he didn't want to do Astral Traveller

Florin Cuchares, Friday, 10 February 2023 05:14 (one month ago) link

just want to say that i appreciate tarfumes waiting to post this until it was late at night in the u.s.

mookieproof, Friday, 10 February 2023 05:49 (one month ago) link

Lol

https://www.rollingstone.com/t/king-for-a-day/

calstars, Friday, 10 February 2023 12:16 (one month ago) link

Some of that kind of stuff I remember pretty vividly from that book by the drummer for Semisonic, how the other two guys had already been in the other band, Trip Shakespeare, and were much more world weary and battle-hardened.

The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2023 12:25 (one month ago) link

Always think that singing is- like guitar but more so- kind of deceptively easy to start on - everyone can do a little something! - but then really, really hard to do at a high level. Bass on the other hand, particularly electric bass, is a very logical and straightforward instrument. You still have to put in a lot of work to be at the top of the game but the practice throughput is much higher. So somebody playing a lot of fast and loud notes all over the place on the skinny neck of a Rickenbacker giving someone else a hard time, I dunno about that.

The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 February 2023 13:08 (one month ago) link

Lol

https://www.rollingstone.com/t/king-for-a-day/

― calstars, Friday, February 10, 2023 12:16 PM (yesterday)

A must-read series for anyone considering joining one of their favorite bands as a replacement.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:39 (one month ago) link

Dennis DeYoung has weighed on in Burt Bacharach's passing. #onethread

after the pinefox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 February 2023 04:18 (one month ago) link

https://youtube.com/@progessiverockstories

Have you guys heard these little yes album documentaries? Really good

calstars, Thursday, 16 February 2023 03:35 (one month ago) link

It’s not late at night rn where I am but just popping in to recommend the latest YES “Ultimate Music Guide” thing from NME or Uncut - unsure. It’s an engrossing read as far as these things go. Love the ‘70s interviews.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 18 February 2023 14:00 (one month ago) link

I’m at a bar where it’s “prog night” and currently Jon Anderson doing Awaken with some Icelandic orchestra is projected on the wall, life is good

frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 01:40 (three weeks ago) link

By the way LJ if you’re still here I did request Cardiacs “Flap Off You Beak” and it KILLED. I guess I found the right crowd. Weeeeird feeling

frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 01:45 (three weeks ago) link

This is up in WI? I can only imagine it is several shades of weird.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 March 2023 02:01 (three weeks ago) link

Prog night sounds amazing, I wish I knew about something like that down here.

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 March 2023 02:07 (three weeks ago) link

Dance on a Volcano lmao this rules

frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 02:36 (three weeks ago) link

that jon anderson with todmobile concert is really something

was checking out a solo jon anderson show the other night and like, I can't imagine what fresh hell it would be to play yes with just an acoustic guitar, probably helps that he sang/co-wrote the tunes but he really does an admirable job, would see a solo jon show in a heartbeat

Florin Cuchares, Friday, 3 March 2023 03:07 (three weeks ago) link

https://youtube.com/@progessiverockstories

I only watched the one of these he did for Duke and it was really good. Need to watch more.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 3 March 2023 04:51 (three weeks ago) link

oh yeah I've only watched that guys Yes videos but they are very good and are clearly a passion project, lord knows how much time it must take to research and produce them but very much picking up a dropped ball for all of us late night in the u.s.

Florin Cuchares, Friday, 3 March 2023 05:21 (three weeks ago) link

This is up in WI? I can only imagine it is several shades of weird.

yeah it brings some strange and interesting people out. for me it's nice because I actually get to be the young guy at the bar again :) also lets me indulge my inner On Cinema Gregg Turkington, half the conversations were just "you know what other band this guy was in??"

frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 14:33 (three weeks ago) link

MIRROR to the SKY (5/19/23) better not blow. that would be three in a row if so

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:04 (three weeks ago) link

I mean, I'm not holding out a lot of hope that this is going to break that run, but I'll be thrilled to be proven wrong. Not having "Mystery Tour" on the tracklist already makes it better than the last one.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:18 (three weeks ago) link

By the way LJ if you’re still here I did request Cardiacs “Flap Off You Beak” and it KILLED. I guess I found the right crowd. Weeeeird feeling

― frogbs, Friday, 3 March 2023 01:45 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

siiiick! gj

imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:23 (three weeks ago) link

three songs longer than nine minutes. the title track is the longest since "endless dream" on talk. my hope is steve howe is really feeling it again

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 19:33 (three weeks ago) link

That Todmobile/Jon Andrson version of Awaken might be the best version ever

MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:19 (three weeks ago) link

^^^this, i often watch it

imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:32 (three weeks ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dMQpNP1wGY

I love how Doug immediately cops the idea behind the chord sequence in the 'workings of man' section.

MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 20:51 (three weeks ago) link

that big grin! i know the feeling pal. "wow!"

imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:02 (three weeks ago) link

there's an obvious question i have regarding a certain other band our man could be made to hear, and it appears the answer is 'not yet', my vote is 'jitterbug'

imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:16 (three weeks ago) link

okay it's 'dirty boy' really, obviously, ffs, lol

imago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:20 (three weeks ago) link

Everso...

MaresNest, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 21:33 (three weeks ago) link

new song out today. it's uh...not bad? some nice playing from Sherwood (who I suspect wrote most of this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WSqjH6mFhk

frogbs, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:22 (two weeks ago) link

did roger dean do that art because it looks like someone did some fake dean-inspired work

song is surprisingly not horrible but it's not good either ('find my place in the jewel collective' no)

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 10 March 2023 14:55 (two weeks ago) link

It appears he did, yeah

MaresNest, Friday, 10 March 2023 15:03 (two weeks ago) link

All of this is very...naff.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:38 (two weeks ago) link

It sounds like a Yes song put together with AI so, yeah, that album cover is probably ideal.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:39 (two weeks ago) link

sometimes my favorite yes is Drama yes, and I wish they had leaned more into that era a decade ago when that was the lineup, with a ringer on vox, tho presumably even trevor horn realized that was a mistake as he re-recorded the vocals himself later

and I get that trevor horn was never going to tour the countryside singing in yes for funsies, but it might have been cool to somehow keep him on as the brian wilson and have a bruce johnston to play the county fair or whatever

anyways steve howe's yes is fine I guess, it sounds kind of like yes, I admire that they are still bothering to write new music at least

Florin Cuchares, Friday, 10 March 2023 19:07 (two weeks ago) link

I really like the cover, I think some of Dean's newer work looks different because it doesn't have the same textured detail? I didn't like his new version of a Uriah Heep album I bought recently, it wasn't an improvement and I wonder why he changed it?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 10 March 2023 22:56 (two weeks ago) link

did roger dean do that art because it looks like someone did some fake dean-inspired work

song is surprisingly not horrible but it's not good either ('find my place in the jewel collective' no)

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, March 10, 2023 9:55 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i want to believe he's singing about the jeweled antler collective

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 March 2023 23:14 (two weeks ago) link

Looks like someone hipped Doug to the Todmobile version of Awaken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVT2SNjM44

MaresNest, Friday, 10 March 2023 23:30 (two weeks ago) link

lol yeah c'mon roger dean, have we polled dean covers? was pretty unassailable for at least three decades right?

Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 11 March 2023 00:11 (two weeks ago) link

Relayer is my favorite and Dean's favorite too

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 11 March 2023 00:34 (two weeks ago) link

Whose idea was it to put a butt on the cover of going for the one

calstars, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:02 (two weeks ago) link

its stupid that steve jon and rick arent touring together with some amazing drummer before they all kick the bucket

kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:02 (two weeks ago) link

hipignosis! xpost

kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:03 (two weeks ago) link

Topographic oceans cover is my favorite

calstars, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:03 (two weeks ago) link

my favorite yes cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13HWa1ssYl8

reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:57 (two weeks ago) link

The Anderson/Rabin/Wakeman band was pretty good at least. Too bad they didn’t do a studio album.

frogbs, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:57 (two weeks ago) link

Maybe I'm feeling particularly uncharitable but that new song made my brain bleed.

Listening to Magnification, an album I maintain is underrated, as a palate cleanser.

but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 12 March 2023 23:50 (two weeks ago) link

I CAN FEEL NO SENZS OF MEASURE

calstars, Sunday, 12 March 2023 23:52 (two weeks ago) link

One down, one to go

calstars, Saturday, 18 March 2023 01:22 (one week ago) link


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