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

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

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 . . .

best

Drew

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 .. .)

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

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.

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

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

Lol

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

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.

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.

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.

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

https://youtube.com/@progessiverockstories

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Dance on a Volcano lmao this rules

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

https://youtube.com/@progessiverockstories

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

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.

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??"

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

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.

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

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

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

^^^this, i often watch it

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.

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

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'

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

Everso...

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

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)

It appears he did, yeah

All of this is very...naff.

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

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

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?

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

Looks like someone hipped Doug to the Todmobile version of Awaken

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

This might be the worst Dean cover

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Asia_-_Omega_%282010%29_front_cover.jpg

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

Relayer is my favorite and Dean's favorite too

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

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

hipignosis! xpost

Topographic oceans cover is my favorite

my favorite yes cover

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

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

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.

I CAN FEEL NO SENZS OF MEASURE

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