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

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

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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!!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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.

What is NAMM, anyway?

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 .. .)

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

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.

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.

never thought I'd see the day Jon Anderson used the phrase "soulless motherfucker" in a song

Holy shit, amazing!

TS: "Go Screw Yourself" vs "With All Due Respect"

"If I may"

wow... one for the This Must Be A Tim & Eric Sketch thread?

I'm unclear on the message here. I thought the unflattering images of Trump in the first chorus meant this was anti-Trump but he's not really a sweet-talker and there are images of Democrats as well, and we see both "gun rights" and "gun control", for instance. So then I thought it might be just general 'both-sides' fatigue like the deYoung song but there are also lots of reminders to vote.

lol yeah "all politicians are crooks but you should get out and vote for them anyway" is kind of a weird message

This video is unlisted apparently? This suggests an additional layer of, uh, ambivalence.

Eating an edible in preparation for getting all Yessed out tonight with the 3xLP of Yessongs

i hope the edible starts kicking in once howe starts vamping right before the opening riff of "yours is no disgrace"

#jelly

i should say, i hope the second edible kicks in at that point

I just hope the thing plays alright, it was three dollars and it looks like its survived multiple hurricanes

more like multiple tormatoes amirite

xpost I misread that as three LP copies of Yessongs. Like, analog Zaireeka.

alright here we go

every copy of yessongs i’ve ever seen looks like it was used for many joint rollings and/or warhammer matches

oh damn there's a little book in here

lmao @ the audience hootin and hollerin for "Excerpts from 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII'"

man how the fuck do you play Close to the Edge

Just plow right through it

wow this is really kickin' in

i hope the edible starts kicking in once howe starts vamping right before the opening riff of "yours is no disgrace"

HA HA YES THIS IS VERY GOOD

my god this Yours Is No Disgrace is the best thing I've ever heard

ok i looked it up and it really is 14 minutes long. thats not just the gummy bear talkin

this is great i am getting yessed out vicariously

The Yes equivalent of Zaireeka is simultaneously playing all five mid-70s solo albums.

Hah, totally had a mental picture of frogbs having some sort of R Crumb/Zap Comix freakout, astral rabbit-hole moment whilst balancing his copy of YesSongs on his knee.

yessongs is probably their single best recording, and yeah the "total mass retain" section of "close to the edge" has a totally impossible groove, no idea how they pull it off

Only a seasoned witch could pull off such a groove.

I actually don't think I've listened to Yessongs since the early 90s, maybe I should give it a spin. Lack of Bill Bruford always ticked me off.

Oooh whatta ride! Jealous!!

alan white does a pretty good job for a guy who had to learn all these crazy difficult songs with limited-to-zero rehearsals

It was definitely a tough situation to be thrown into

Yessongs was the first Yes album I bought; I wasn't sure where to start with their catalog so I figured "Live album? Sure, OK." Definitely the right choice. When I went back for the studio albums, I knew what I was looking for. (I was still totally unprpeared for Relayer, of course.)

Bruford does actually play drums on bits of Yessongs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yessongs#Personnel

the version of "The Fish" on here is also quite insane

have a new level of respect for these guys now, even stuff like Howe having to play that same twisting riff for like six minutes straight on "Siberian Khatru" just seems incredibly difficult

Oh wow, I have these LPs. I haven't spun them in a little while but I remember really liking them, esp the version of "Close to the Edge". I'm excited to listen again.

I guess tonight I'll have to put on its companion, Welcome Back My Friends, To the Show That Never Ends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Bruford does actually play drums on bits of Yessongs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yessongs#Personnel

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true, but that still leaves wild drum parts like "siberian khatru," "heart of the sunrise," and the aforementioned "total mass retain" for alan white

Yeah the lad did a good job at short notice, he gets unfairly maligned imo.

Finally got them out. Man, that version of "Perpetual Change" is everything I love about these guys.

“Sharp!”

It’s a boring pick for best live prog album (I usually go with GGs Playing the Fool) but it’s the right choice

for sheer listening pleasure i'll take the three record run from the yes album - close to the edge over just about anything. to have been in the audience for that close to the edge tour on mushrooms must have been a peak aesthetic experience, like hanging out in bach's church back in the day drunk on communion wine. just imagine! the motherlode they released in progeny of all the shows that went into yessongs is a sweet consolation though

I'll say it again: their debut is painfully underrated. Probably in my top 5.

My choice for best live prog album might be USA by King Crimson or Concerts by Henry Cow. I love Yes but the live albums don't tell me anything I didn't already know about their music. The Yessongs movie is worthwhile though.

I only heard the debut years after I'd heard most of the other albums - it was a lot heavier than I had been led to expect, but Peter Banks doesn't particularly distinguish himself and the covers on it and Time and a Word are pretty weak and ill-conceived. I remember reading somewhere that, in this era, they would play a version of the Young Rascals' Good Lovin' with a 20 minute bass solo in the middle.

Listened to Vol. III this morning. I'd forgotten how great that version of "Close to the Edge" is, jeez. It's actually the first I ever heard. The live version of "Yours Is No Disgrace" really grooves too

holy shit i heard Mr Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow for the first time this week and it is SO good. bits of it hit the same pleasure centres for me that tangerine dream / early animal collective do. big recommend for those haven't heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRHC-nTufaQ

to have been in the audience for that close to the edge tour on mushrooms

<<raises hand>>
well, except for the mushrooms part. my second ever concert. late '72, nassau coliseum, sadly not w/bruford.