― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:24 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link
http://yes.iq.pl/images/jade_sea.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human silly human siillllyy huuuuuuman race....
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/cbg.gif
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:47 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:51 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:59 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:20 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago) link
What is NAMM, anyway?
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (twenty years ago) link
― ___ (___), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― 6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
otm
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 09:50 (seven months ago) link
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
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:13 (seven months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:19 (seven months ago) link
now i wanna hear moraz play six wives, see if it's salvageable as music
― mark s, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:40 (seven months ago) link
I was wondering if Jon was ever going to do an autobiography and he talked about writing it recently
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 20:40 (six months ago) link
A Jon Anderson memoir sure to be a model of lucidity
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 August 2024 02:13 (six months ago) link
found a pretty clean copy of Yessongs recently for $7, now if you'll excuse me
― frogbs, Friday, 9 August 2024 00:12 (six months ago) link
god they pull off some wild shit at the end of Perpetual Change
― frogbs, Friday, 9 August 2024 00:40 (six months ago) link
hell yes
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 August 2024 00:54 (six months ago) link
no wonder the jacket's always beat to shit, the gatefold works pretty much the opposite way you think it will
― frogbs, Friday, 9 August 2024 03:08 (six months ago) link
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+
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 9 August 2024 03:10 (six months ago) link
guys i said hell yes
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 August 2024 03:12 (six months ago) link
https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-29-2015/xYEZ80.mp4
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 9 August 2024 03:20 (six months ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Friday, 9 August 2024 03:22 (six months ago) link
the pressings are notoriously bad iirc, length per side issues probably
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 9 August 2024 03:25 (six months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 9 August 2024 03:33 (six months ago) link
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.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 9 August 2024 04:09 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrgCUBAHcg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 18 August 2024 20:30 (five months ago) link
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
― brimstead, Sunday, 18 August 2024 21:49 (five months ago) link
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
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 18 August 2024 23:19 (five months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 19 August 2024 01:52 (five months ago) link
this new jon anderson album is amazing. go band geeks \m/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 August 2024 15:23 (five months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 26 August 2024 03:07 (five months ago) link
YES on the studio tracks on Keys!
― timellison, Monday, 26 August 2024 03:19 (five months ago) link
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.
― timellison, Monday, 26 August 2024 03:26 (five months ago) link
"9 copies from $31.42" - Boo
― timellison, Monday, 26 August 2024 03:27 (five months ago) link
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? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 26 August 2024 04:33 (five months ago) link
i just want to make sure going forward that this is the official jon anderson thread.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 26 August 2024 05:19 (five months ago) link
well...now is the time. lets see what you got Jon
― frogbs, Monday, 2 September 2024 03:04 (five months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 2 September 2024 04:01 (five months ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 8 September 2024 01:37 (five months ago) link
did trevor horn really start this thread though
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 8 September 2024 02:00 (five months ago) link
Add me to the True Is Good Not Bad list, although you wouldn’t guess it from his daughter’s artwork!
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 8 September 2024 17:14 (five months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 9 September 2024 02:25 (five months ago) link
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.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 September 2024 15:03 (five months ago) link
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.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 9 September 2024 15:16 (five months ago) link
feel like jon is in (probably very friendly) competition with trevor rabin these days. jacaranda, rio and now this band geeks thing hit so much harder than anything steve howe's yes has released since fly from here
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 9 September 2024 18:06 (five months ago) link
had a fun moment with this during prog night, played "Once Upon a Dream" until that bit like 4 minutes in where he goes "till we go to the heart of the sunrise" and then bam hard cut into that very song
― frogbs, Monday, 9 September 2024 18:11 (five months ago) link
it's too bad ARW or AWR or whatever turned out such a wet fart of a live album and didn't finish any of their studio album, it might have turned out good though I suspect Wakeman was no help
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 9 September 2024 20:00 (five months ago) link
Holy shit this Jon Anderson record, damn. It really is the best Yes album in years. Shame about that My First Pen & Pixel ass album cover though. Imagine this shit with a fine Roger Dean on it.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 20:41 (three months ago) link
must admit I get Yessed the fuck out when that riff enters around 3:00 in on "Counties and Countries"
this album is so legit. apparently he's touring more in 2025, would love to see them come nearby
― frogbs, Monday, 11 November 2024 20:13 (three months ago) link
Howe must have Dean under some kind of non-compete contract
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 11 November 2024 20:46 (three months ago) link
That might account for why Dean's always there at Howe's Yes shows, hawking his prints in the lobby.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 11 November 2024 23:39 (three months ago) link
his stuff is kind of terrible clip art at this point
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 11 November 2024 23:51 (three months ago) link
Could be, or else Jon just wanted to toss his daughter some work:
Artwork – Deborah Anderson
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 November 2024 23:53 (three months ago) link
Great 90 minute Rick Wakeman autobio interview on Rick Beato’s YT channel. Lots of amazing session and recording anecdotes, cool n’ nerdy technical talk and a minimum of rehashed stuff. One of the best !
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 18 November 2024 03:27 (two months ago) link
Yeah I liked it, apparently Bruford wants on the show, so I'm looking forward to that.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 18 November 2024 18:04 (two months ago) link
happy 50th to relayer
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 November 2024 02:53 (two months ago) link
oh shit gotta put it on before the day is through
― frogbs, Friday, 29 November 2024 05:28 (two months ago) link