― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://yes.iq.pl/images/jade_sea.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human silly human siillllyy huuuuuuman race....
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/cbg.gif
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Wobbly, if you're out there, tell your Jon Anderson at NAMM story . . .
best
Drew
― Drew Daniel, Friday, 27 August 2004 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:54 (sixteen years ago) link
What is NAMM, anyway?
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link
― ___ (___), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
― 6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes!
― J. Sam, Saturday, 20 February 2021 05:09 (one week ago) link
Currently wearing my XXL black Relayer sweatshirt
― J. Sam, Saturday, 20 February 2021 05:10 (one week ago) link
Silly human race
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:27 PM (nine months ago)
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 20 February 2021 06:12 (one week ago) link
In some ways their most impressive album, in that it's still very much rock music, but a completely fresh and wild take on it
― imago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 09:14 (one week ago) link
hey frogbs how's it sounding? i've been spinning Olias Of Sunhillow and it is great when i'm in the right mood. i keep waiting for it to start.
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 20 February 2021 10:01 (one week ago) link
Speaking of which:https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/jon-anderson-olias-of-sunhillow-2-disc-remastered-expanded-edition/
Released March 26, 2021
• A NEWLY REMASTERED & EXPANDED 2 DISC EDITION OF THE LEGENDARY 1976 SOLO ALBUM BY YES VOCALIST JON ANDERSON• NEWLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES• FEATURES A DVD WITH A HIGH RESOLUTION 96 kHz / 24-BIT REMASTER OF THE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX ALONG WITH A 5.1 SURROUND SOUND UP-MIX DERIVED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES• WITH FULLY RESTORED ARTWORK AND AN ESSAY WITH AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JON ANDERSON• INCLUDES ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET WITH NEW ESSAY
― spot fuckify (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 February 2021 10:11 (one week ago) link
Was it necessary for Yes to replace Kaye with Wakeman in order to achieve the level of commercial and musical success they did with Fragile?
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:25 (one week ago) link
I think Tony Kaye didn't like playing anything other than the Hammond, but by that time synthesizers and Mellotrons etc were all the rage so just sticking to the organ would have seemed a little dated. Plus Wakeman was a much better and more versatile musician.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:31 (one week ago) link
Sure, but I get the impression some comments above are hinting that something was lost between The Yes Album and Fragile, and it's hard to pin that on anything other than Kaye's departure.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:41 (one week ago) link
I don’t think Kaye’s presence made much of a huge musical difference. He was a fine player but I dunno... maybe their minds were expanding, musically, as a unit and someone as —um — expansive as Wakeman fit where they were headed much better than Kaye?
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:47 (one week ago) link
Wakeman brought a neoclassical flair to the band that made Fragile and later works possible, but this also diluted the rock elements that made Yes Album so effective. So I think it was necessary, but meant losing a more focused rock energy.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:53 (one week ago) link
I'm not sure why Fragile is so inferior (imo) but it is. The songs just aren't nearly as strong. They were transitioning away from being a rock group into something else, and they rushed out their transitional album
― imago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:55 (one week ago) link
Or what Moodles said
One listen to Kaye's post-Yes band Badger tells you where he was at musically, kind of blues prog. I don't think they'd have made Close to the Edge with him still there. Topographic Oceans neither, but that's another story.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:56 (one week ago) link
The Yes Album and Fragile would both be much better with the shorter songs excised, other than Long Distance Runaround/The Fish.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:57 (one week ago) link
Another way to look at is that Kaye was willing to chug away and let Howe take the lead. With Wakeman, you end up having two lead instrumental voices battling it out for space.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:58 (one week ago) link
Do you mean "Clap" and "A Venture " from the Yes Album? Really disagree there.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:59 (one week ago) link
Xp
Squire was always the lead instrumentalist but yes fine ;)
― imago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:59 (one week ago) link
I like Fragile a lot too, though!
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:00 (one week ago) link
The three epic tracks are all amazing, "Long Distance Runaround" is delightful, and the short solo excursions are nice diversions.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:02 (one week ago) link
Squire is much more melodic than your average bass player, but he still mostly plays the traditional bass role with Howe and Wakeman often layering in lead squiggles over the top.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:03 (one week ago) link
I thought the shorter tracks on The Yes Album and Fragile broke the flow, although they're not bad in and of themselves (with the exception of "Cans & Brahms", which is the worst track Yes ever put to tape by a long way and I'm including "Circus of Heaven" in that).
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:20 (one week ago) link
This is where it all started going wrong on Topographic Oceans for me, the keys and bass are more like colouring or back-up instruments while Howe and Anderson wank off endlessly on top.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:22 (one week ago) link
was pretty fucking amazing. I've always wanted a copy of Olias, should probably pull the trigger on that some day. judging by my last haul apparently I am in the "get all the 74-76 solo albums" phase now
IMO Fragile is better than TYA but I guess I'll have to confirm this when the sun goes down (4:30 PM)
― frogbs, Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:32 (one week ago) link
I heard the first two albums long after I knew the rest of the catalogue, and I was surprised to find that Time and a Word featured Kaye much more than the Yes Album did. Of course, Peter Banks was a much more retiring guitarist than Howe, so it may be that Kaye stepped up when there was more room to fill, and stepped back as Howe took the reins. I guess it's also worth noting the Kaye only took 1/5 songwriting credit on a single song in his three albums with the band.
One thing that I read awhile ago that might not be apparent from the records or the credits was how much Wakeman had to do with coming up with transitions between musical bits; since he was the only one with a serious musical education, he knew the "proper" way to resolve and combine the parts that the others contributed.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:51 (one week ago) link
I think Eddie Offord's editing skills were a big part of corralling the chaos into coherent musical pieces too, although I suspect that aspect of his contribution was sidelined to some extent by the time they did Topographic Oceans as the egos got out of hand.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:08 (one week ago) link
IN the meantime, the dregs of current Yes have put out an album as Arc of Life
Here's a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_84UCEDeEkc
This album sounds exactly how you'd expect an album featuring Billy Sherwood, Jimmy Haun, Jay Schellen (Alan White's replacement/double) and Jon Davidson to sound: like lukewarm oatmeal. It's better than Heaven and Earth though.
― akm, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:12 (one week ago) link
Speaking of Davison if you really need a Yes fix you might want to check out his former band Glass Hammer
They’ve got a lot of good ones but If and Cor Coridum very much have a “what if Yes stayed the course after Going For the One” vibe to them
― frogbs, Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:00 (one week ago) link
I love "Circus of Heaven". Definitely not near their worst.
I've said it before but those long weird meandering solos on "The Ancient" are really weird and beautiful, I've never heard anything else like that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:36 (one week ago) link
I enjoy "Cans & Brahms" for what it is tbh, a quick Wendy Carlos-style arrangement sketch. I know people hate it.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:12 (one week ago) link
Seems far too short and breezy to be hateable.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:32 (one week ago) link
I dislike it mostly because its prominent placement on the record can give people the idea that Yes is about "playing rock versions of classical music" like ELP, when that wasn't what they did at all.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 20 February 2021 22:43 (one week ago) link
As for the question of "What is the weakest Yes original released between 1969 and 1980", I might pick "Clap" or "Onward".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 20 February 2021 22:53 (one week ago) link
Oh, yeah, it's not the best introduction, especially coming right after the hit.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:11 (one week ago) link
Hating "Clap" is madness, though.
that little bruford drumroll during the applause right before "starship trooper" launches rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:21 (one week ago) link
Howe's guitar sounds unpleasantly trebly on "Clap", and it seems like an exercise. I prefer the warmer classical guitar on "Mood for a Day".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:24 (one week ago) link
i love "a venture". it's jaunty and trippy. it would have been a highlight on either of the first two albums, where anderson's lyrics were more often linear and narrative
god the yes album is just perfect
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:27 (one week ago) link
Okay, I just played "A Venture" and it seems I'd been mixing it up with "We Have Heaven", it's actually a nice little number. So that's a thumbs-up from me too. Steve Howe's Chet Atkins fantasies can still bog off though. I'm tempted to play "Circus of Heaven" now to see if it's less embarrassing than I remember.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 February 2021 00:22 (six days ago) link
It's pretty weak.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 21 February 2021 00:24 (six days ago) link
i love that they got one of the dudes from gnidrolog to play record on the first movement of "i've seen all good people", and they go from that into howe totally vamping in the second movement, into "a venture" and the space lounge of "perpetual change." as great as this record is it still sounds so weird
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 21 February 2021 00:39 (six days ago) link
I think he played a steel-string on both pieces? xps
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Sunday, 21 February 2021 01:04 (six days ago) link
Matt #2 - you don't like "We Have Heaven"?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:42 (six days ago) link
I have fond memories of singing "Circus Of Heaven" when I went for walks a decade ago.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:45 (six days ago) link
I thought We Have Heaven was an OK-ish dry run for Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, which was also part of a "let's all do solo things" project thinking about it. Five Per Cent of Nothing just about beats Ramshackled if we're making comparisons. Squire was the winner both times though, Fish Out of Water is almost the great lost Yes album.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 February 2021 11:11 (six days ago) link
Fish Out of Water loses me a bit on the last orchestral track, but it is interesting to hear Squire's lead voice and his take on the Yes sound.
5% for Nothing is a perfect 30 second song, but Ramshackled is way way down on my listening list.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 21 February 2021 16:34 (six days ago) link
I wish Anderson had done more like "We Have Heaven", I think he might have used more loops on one of his later solo albums but not sure.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 February 2021 18:10 (six days ago) link
this should come packaged in a vacuum bong
https://www.musicglue.com/yes-union-30/products/yes-union-live-limited-edition-super-deluxe-flight-case-30-year-anniversary-edition
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 26 February 2021 22:17 (yesterday) link
Union tour was the only time I saw Yes live, and it was deeply disappointing
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:01 (twenty-four minutes ago) link