― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:24 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:25 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:26 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
http://yes.iq.pl/images/jade_sea.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:30 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human silly human siillllyy huuuuuuman race....
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/cbg.gif
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:33 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:39 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:45 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:47 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:49 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:50 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:51 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:59 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
Wobbly, if you're out there, tell your Jon Anderson at NAMM story . . .
best
Drew
― Drew Daniel, Friday, 27 August 2004 05:04 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:20 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:54 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
What is NAMM, anyway?
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:57 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― ___ (___), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:25 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― 6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
lj you need to spend way more time with 90125 my god
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:23 (one year ago) Permalink
nothing on big generator is as good as "leave it" or its several remixes
I'm listening to 90125 again now haha. I only heard it for the first time the other day! It is a Powerful Mood
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:24 (one year ago) Permalink
When "Leave It" was released as a single, MTV played like 10 different variations on the video in a row.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:25 (one year ago) Permalink
who would believe you, LJ? wise men do
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:25 (one year ago) Permalink
imago, don't sleep on "Changes" or "It Can Happen"
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:26 (one year ago) Permalink
I certainly won't sleep on them - I just heard them again. They're great. Leave It just began
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:27 (one year ago) Permalink
Yeah, v good. But as I say, it feels like they wrote I'm Running just for me. It's something I don't expect anyone else to go for as hard as I do. It's imagocore
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:32 (one year ago) Permalink
It's interesting to hear some of the 90125 demos to see just how much these are Chris Squire songs that got spliced with Trevor Rabin songs.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:39 (one year ago) Permalink
IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOUIT CAN HAPPEN TO MEIT CAN HAPPEN TO EVERYONE EEE VENT YOU ALL EEE
― frogbs, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:41 (one year ago) Permalink
btw how the hell did Hold On get 0 votes in the 90125 poll, it sounds like the closing-credits music to an 80s eco-cop hero movie. The Emerald Weapon
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:58 (one year ago) Permalink
imago check out the "hello/goodbye" 12" mix of "leave it", it rules
― brimstead, Friday, 27 April 2018 19:08 (one year ago) Permalink
lol that was the one i was gonna post
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 27 April 2018 19:10 (one year ago) Permalink
Let us agree that songs that feature Chris Squire prominently on vocals are inherently works of startling genius.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, April 27, 2018 1:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(An answer to all of your answers to)...YEEESSSSSS!!!!!
― Prefecture, Sunday, 29 April 2018 03:56 (one year ago) Permalink
Is there a better "just got home from a party on Saturday night and feel like grabbing a beer and blasting some tunes for the remaining people in the house who i might have awaken(ed)" than "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom"?
― Prefecture, Sunday, 29 April 2018 04:13 (one year ago) Permalink
Jamming 90125 right now that's my word
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 April 2018 05:52 (one year ago) Permalink
Yeah I've been playing the hell out of 90125
― imago, Sunday, 29 April 2018 08:57 (one year ago) Permalink
I think frogbs linked to this ages ago on another Yes thread.
Icelandic band Todmobile's cover of Awaken w/ Anderson guesting, a great arrangement, augmented by a choir, some brass and strings, they really know how to effectively pile on the layers for the very end section, best version I've heard so far (other than nitpicky issues with the bass player).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwspoyRdeV0
― MaresNest, Sunday, 29 April 2018 09:56 (one year ago) Permalink
I've taken the wild decision that BG is even better― imago, Friday, April 27, 2018 1:00 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Friday, April 27, 2018 1:00 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you can feel no sense of measure
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 29 April 2018 12:00 (one year ago) Permalink
holy shit, this version of Awaken
― imago, Sunday, 29 April 2018 16:23 (one year ago) Permalink
that's one of the greatest things ever recorded, surely
also, at the end of the video is the first time i've heard Roundabout and thought 'ah NOW i get it'
― imago, Sunday, 29 April 2018 22:37 (one year ago) Permalink
ya, this is terrific, even when it's not late at night
― doug watson, Monday, 30 April 2018 13:43 (one year ago) Permalink
So, there wasn't really this spirit of this magical, wonderful, open-hearted feeling of the word Yes that I expected, which sort of devastated me at first. It took me a couple of weeks to really understand that. I had just worked with Duran Duran and we'd had several number one songs.
http://zenponies.com/yitp/2001/mar/mar_01.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 21:57 (one year ago) Permalink
lmao
JE: There was no material. Basically, what there was was Steve (Howe) was working on a solo album (later released as Turbulence) and he brought in some things. Jon (Anderson) brought in one or two faint ideas. The problem is they hated each other so much at that point. I couldn't get Jon and Steve to sit down in a room together without me and the only way that Steve would do anything is to wake up and get very stoned and he was no good for the whole day after that. So we would sit down and try to write a few chords and here are my sort of kid pop idols and they couldn't string three chords together without fighting about what they were. And that was just putting Jon and Steve together, and constantly Steve would be badgering me about how he hated Jon's lyrics and how Jon had no good ideas. And Jon would say to me, 'Oh, Steve's just so washed out and Asia was such a horrible thing—look what it did to him.' You had Rick Wakeman who… all he wanted to do was get out there in the mix. And Rick had three or four parts that he would play, the same thing on everything. I would bring a Hammond organ in—he wouldn't touch the Hammond. He said, 'That's old-fashioned.' Not realising… well, he's so out of touch—what good would it have done had he played? I couldn't get these guys to sit down and write material without other people being in the room because of the social reasons. They had just been on the road for so many years and they probably had so many episodes with each other. Half of them couldn't really play any more. I mean, it was really sad. They were just sloppy and tired and old.
I guess that confirms everything I suspected about Union
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 22:14 (one year ago) Permalink
Just listened to Yessongs recently. Love how heavy the bit is after "I Get Up I Get Down".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 May 2018 19:58 (one year ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_yXaZYZGDo
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:35 (eleven months ago) Permalink
https://www.facebook.com/yesmusicpodcast/photos/a.1240630969322023.1073741829.1120877741297347/1983610341690745/?type=3&theater
― timellison, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:02 (nine months ago) Permalink
Cool. Where is that?
― calstars, Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:48 (nine months ago) Permalink
reach out as 'forward taste' begin to enter "you" "oo" "moo"
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:01 (eight months ago) Permalink
Got p Yessed out listening to the title track of "Close to the Edge" on the drive home last night, marvelling at how well something so busy hangs together as a large composition.
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 14:54 (seven months ago) Permalink
steve howe's best guest bit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N0TkfrQhY
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:16 (six months ago) Permalink
That's great, didn't know about it. Don't know about any of his guest appearances.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 10 November 2018 14:17 (six months ago) Permalink
i was watching that "other side of the wind" documentary when all of a sudden out of nowhere fucking heart of the sunrise showed up
what the hell does yes have to do with orson welles
for my money steve howe's best guitar solo is in tomorrow's version of "why", not strictly a guest bit i don't think
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Saturday, 10 November 2018 23:23 (six months ago) Permalink
When Yessearches Go Wrong (Yet Oh So Right), or Watch, look over your shoulder, this one is strictly for you:
I was looking for the demos record called "90124", which led to a Trevor Rabin Spotify deep-dive. While said album wasn't there, I looked up/down/out/all around and located "Something to Hold On To" (it's a shame the band didn't add this track to "Big Generator", as it would be a total blast to hear between "Almost Like Love" and "Love will find a way"), and cranked the stereo to "middle drum section of 'The Gates of Delirium'-level" volume. As I scrolled through Trevor's oeuvre, I noticed that he scored a Jacaranda-esque number of soundtracks, including the epochal "Snakes on a Plane".
(Samuelljacksonsayingmotherfuckingplane.gif)!
The track titles are almost as hilarious as the movie:-"Snakes on Crack"-"Snake Chaos"-"Serpent Situation"-"Snakes Kill"-"Snake Kabab" (perhaps that's how it's spelled in Johannesburg?)-"Reptile Wrecker"
Next time you enter the (wait for it) cinema - especially anything directed or produced by Jerry Bruckheimer - check the credits, as our Trevor may have been responsible for that additional emotional gut-punch.
― Prefecture, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 02:39 (six months ago) Permalink
I'm guessing that for many of you, Yes has a heavy influence on your musical taste, to the point where you a song with a hint of their influence will quickly become one of your faves.
that recently happened to me, after discovering the song "Refugees" by South Australia-based Atlas Genius. If you ever wondered what it would sound like if a band said "What if The 1975 decided to base their sound on 'Big Generator'..."
In addition to 4 great chord progressions (verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge), "Refugees" has these awesome scream-along harmonies in the "Rhythm of Love" counter-melodic style that could lead a morning daydream through the fire to the water!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75dj5EGdxL4
― Prefecture, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 03:30 (six months ago) Permalink
they stand there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST97kob06Ss
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:23 (six months ago) Permalink
That's a pretty good version, interesting how Todd handles it vocally.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 November 2018 19:15 (five months ago) Permalink
good cover, the still-image video cracks me up tho
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 November 2018 19:40 (five months ago) Permalink
Lack of Wakeman organ riffs really leaves some holes in that tune.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 30 November 2018 22:07 (five months ago) Permalink
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-songs-ranked/
nice to see respect for "survival"
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 December 2018 00:24 (five months ago) Permalink
Howe as guest star? Hmmm -- I know he played on this album (along with David Sylvian among others!) and always felt the little Wes Montgomeryish guitar moment at 3:25 sounds pretty Howeish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzt2iSNyN8Q
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:28 (five months ago) Permalink
wtf there is no way "Man in the Moon" is worse than "It Was All We Knew"
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 14:19 (five months ago) Permalink
lots of rankings on that list are straight up bullshit (i particularly don't get all the challopsy stanning for open your eyes) but it's refreshing to read an overview of their stuff that goes past 90215
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 December 2018 17:36 (five months ago) Permalink
https://www.facebook.com/motherearth1000/posts/646902405764619
tried hard to refrain from making the drive-thru joke but I couldn't help it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 15:10 (two months ago) Permalink
god i am so yessed out rn
― j., Friday, 29 March 2019 00:56 (one month ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSak3PG-tjg
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 March 2019 03:07 (one month ago) Permalink
wondrous rainy day album: tales from topographic oceans
man.
there was never any doubt since the first time i heard it; it's easily my favorite thing any of those people ever did. steve howe is just in another galaxy the entire time.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 20:53 (three weeks ago) Permalink
that bit on Side 2 (where Jon sings "relayer…") has one of the best guitar riffs ever
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:35 (three weeks ago) Permalink
Korekojinn does an amazing "Yes medley" (all their best stuff in like 5 minutes) and when that part came on I was frustrated because I couldn't remember what it was from. but it got me listening to Tales again, because honestly where else would it be
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 21:36 (three weeks ago) Permalink
I dunno, to me, Yes is nighttime music, 'cos like, when a lot of us first heard it, we were curled up in bed and the parents were asleep we were sneaking in a listen to the rock radio, so it's like a good memory. The radio stations were better at night, they'd play more obscure songs or albums and stuff.
― Have you tried Night of Olay? (I M Losted), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 01:01 (three weeks ago) Permalink