― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link
http://yes.iq.pl/images/jade_sea.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human silly human siillllyy huuuuuuman race....
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/cbg.gif
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:41 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:43 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:47 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:51 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:59 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:20 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link
What is NAMM, anyway?
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― ___ (___), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― 6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
I feel like the reviews in the 1983 RS guide were worse than in the 1979 guide but can't find it?Yep, CTTE and The Yes Album got five stars in the 1979 (red) edition, and no Yes album was awarded less than three stars. The entry was written by one Charley Walters who praises their “varied virtuosity,” calls CTTE “technically brilliant, many-hued and free…most importantly, it rocks,” and says of GFTO, “No new ground is broken…Nonetheless, it’s a more than adequate display.”In the 1983 (blue) edition, no Yes record got more than three stars, and Tales, GFTO, Tormato, Drama, and Yesshows all got one star. Wayne King (whom I know little about, other than that he was a Who fanatic) wrote the entry, starting off with “Classical rockers with hearts of cold…” moving on to GFTO being “less an effective reduction of valid ideas than an admission of total artistic bankruptcy,” and ending with, “Who cared if the final product was now a bland assembly-line concoction? Apparently no one.”So it’s a reversal from the red to blue edition similar to the Doors entries. I dunno how those decisions were made, or by whom (Dave Marsh? John Swenson? Both? Neither?). The only instance I can find of a negative-to-positive reappraisal is the Pere Ubu entries (one star in ‘79, four and five stars in ‘83).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 September 2021 12:12 (ten months ago) link
Ah, yeah, thanks. Also found this, which is one I remember reading at the time.
Rating: 2.5 Stars "Pointlessly intricate guitar and bass solos, caterwauling keyboards, quasi-mystical lyrics proclaimed in alien falsetto, acid-dipped album-cover illustrations: this British group wrote the book on art-rock excess...Close to the Edge has its moments, but most of this hotly anticipated follow-up is a monumental snore, a dubious hot-air suite whipped up around a handful of promising song fragments." (Mark Coleman, 1992 RS Album Guide)
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 3 September 2021 12:45 (ten months ago) link
Are there bass solos on that album? On "Siberian Khatru" maybe...?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 3 September 2021 12:46 (ten months ago) link
Pointlessly intricate guitar and bass solos, caterwauling keyboards, quasi-mystical lyrics proclaimed in alien falsetto, acid-dipped album-cover illustrations
This makes it sound even better than it actually is!
― john landis as man being smashed into window (uncredited) (Matt #2), Friday, 3 September 2021 12:49 (ten months ago) link
The Wilson remix of relayer is better than the unpleasant rhino remaster but the original late 80s cd is even better (just turn up the volume)
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 3 September 2021 16:41 (ten months ago) link
had a dream the new album came out and I was reading a review that said "Yes have done it again". I'm still chuckling trying to figure out what that meant
― frogbs, Saturday, 4 September 2021 04:19 (nine months ago) link
It means "they got everybody yessed out again".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 4 September 2021 14:52 (nine months ago) link
man the battle section in "Gates of Delirium" is still the craziest fucking thing this band has ever done
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:03 (nine months ago) link
like even Magma doesn't go that hard
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:06 (nine months ago) link
i don't at all want you to stop, but i feel like you're https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=110651#unread -ing yourself
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:25 (nine months ago) link
dude. i can get yessed out totally sober! this is like yessssssed out
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:27 (nine months ago) link
<3
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:31 (nine months ago) link
From the time that Steve Howe joined Yes to when Bill Bruford left the band is pretty much a couple of years. Basically a year after Howe joined the band (May 70), Tony Kaye left and Rick Wakeman joined the band (July 71) then after finishing recording 'Close to the Edge' Bruford left (July 72) to join King Crimson.
The Yes AlbumFragileClose to the Edge
Pretty impressive amount of work done.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 04:25 (nine months ago) link
I would like to formally apologize. upon some reflection I have come to the conclusion that Magma do indeed go that hard. I think what got me is listening to this with the sub on, there are these explosions during that section that rattled the pictures on the walls. I've never actually noticed them before
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:47 (nine months ago) link
One of my favourite bits in the battle sequence is the emotive sequence that occurs at 9.20, and then again at 10.00; it somehow manages to be tender, grandiose and breakneck simultaneously.
Regarding their productivity, they made another three albums of original music between mid-72 and late 74, as well.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 September 2021 01:13 (nine months ago) link
so I am finally giving Open Your Eyes another listen - it kind of surprises me that this album is universally shit on while Talk is mostly given a pass since they're both quite similar but something about the way the guitars and vocals are produced just irks my brain
it is funny to read some of the reviews complaining about the final track, this kind of "pad out the length of the CD" thing was pretty common in the late 90's, clearly you're not supposed to listen to it every time you play the album. though I suspect most people only listened to it once. I actually dig the surreal vibe, calm nature sounds suddenly punctuated by loud processed vocals, it's like the kind of shit we'd do to pass the time on the N64 when the games had a sound demo mode
by my count this is the 4th Yes album that began life as a different project...does any other band come close?
― frogbs, Monday, 8 November 2021 20:56 (seven months ago) link
catching the swirling wind the sailor sees the rim of the landthe eagle's dancing wings create as weather spins out of handgo closer hold the land feel partly no more than grains of sand
yes. . . . YES
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 December 2021 04:43 (six months ago) link
has anyone here given The Quest a shot? I thought "The Ice Bridge" was a neat lead single, but the rest is uh...pretty boring. not as lethargic as Heaven & Earth but not as hooky either.
― frogbs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 21:13 (six months ago) link
würm imo
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 April 2022 02:23 (two months ago) link
Alan White has passed :(
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/alan-white-yes-and-john-lennon-drummer-dead-at-72/
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:40 (one month ago) link
Sad to hear this, he seemed to get a lot of criticism for basically not being Bill Bruford but his drumming on Topographic Oceans is one of the best things about that mess. He plays like a demon on Relayer too. RIP!
― ARP Odysséas (Matt #2), Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:43 (one month ago) link
yeah his work on “sound chaser” is outstanding
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:48 (one month ago) link
The Yessongs versions of the Fragile/Close to the Edge songs have giant clanging balls compared to the studio versions, and it's because of White. And he had three days to learn the set list before the tour started!
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:48 (one month ago) link
alan white does a pretty good job for a guy who had to learn all these crazy difficult songs with limited-to-zero rehearsals
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Friday, October 16, 2020 10:31 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
what a guy, rip
sound chaser and especially awaken are two of the great prog songs and he played on both
― imago, Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:56 (one month ago) link
played the hell out of them too
yeah I mean I love Bruford too but I thought White's less subtle/more powerful approach worked great
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:59 (one month ago) link
The Yessongs versions of the Fragile/Close to the Edge songs have giant clanging balls compared to the studio versions, and it's because of White.
― but also fuck you (unperson)
wait is this good? i mean, i know having a flaming gong is good, but i'm not sure if giant clanging balls are good or not.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:06 (one month ago) link
Perhaps unperson was thinking of those crashing Chinese cymbals at the beginning of "The Ancient"?
When Bruford departed the group, Yes management gave his royalties from Close to the Edge to White, since Bruford would not be promoting the record. In recent years, White returned Bruford's royalties, which was a generous gesture (since, as people mention above, White had a lot of work to do on the tour).
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:25 (one month ago) link
back when you could actually earn decent money playing progressive rock!
always heard nice things about this guy. even in their later incarnations he seemed to be the one dude who just wanted to play the music.
not even waiting until late night, getting Yessed out right now. Going For The One
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:59 (one month ago) link
Ramshackled is way way down on my listening list.
If not now, when would I ever listen to this? Can it be worse than Story of I?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 26 May 2022 21:41 (one month ago) link
you can blame it on the butthole surfers to parter And all the sailors who were junkies, allThey all went sailing out to seaAnd the white man sold quaaludes to the monkeysAnd they all died high up in the trees
And all the teachers who were flunkies, nowThey all taught you and meAnd the goddamned white men still selling quaaludes to the monkeysAnd they're all, you and me, dying high up in the trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__6zG-equE
― xzanfar, Thursday, 26 May 2022 22:56 (one month ago) link
― frogbs
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 27 May 2022 01:27 (one month ago) link
Yessongs and Relayer are amazing. RIP.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 27 May 2022 03:48 (one month ago) link
okay, Relayer it is. see y'all in space
― frogbs, Friday, 27 May 2022 03:57 (one month ago) link
Gates of Delirium just rips my head off every time I hear it. its like the Sistine Chapel of spacey, slightly homoerotic prog music. Alan White...you can hear the joy in the drums. I love this music so much.
― frogbs, Friday, 27 May 2022 04:19 (one month ago) link
his playing on Sound Chaser is really great too. so he doesn't do those polyrhythms or subtle jazz tapping that Bruford does. he still just rides on the cymbals and grounds the track from flying off into outer space
― frogbs, Friday, 27 May 2022 04:36 (one month ago) link
yeah he does an admirable job of tying that chaos together
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 27 May 2022 13:52 (one month ago) link
I'm not a drum fill expert, but I think of Bruford as subdividing the individual measures into weird offbeats, and White going over the bar lines and doing longer and more flowing fills.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 27 May 2022 15:02 (one month ago) link
His brother Jack is now full of regret he didn't ask Alan to replace sister Meg.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 27 May 2022 16:27 (one month ago) link
l e a v e. I t
― calstars, Sunday, 19 June 2022 02:09 (two weeks ago) link
^
― calstars, Friday, 24 June 2022 02:04 (one week ago) link
you took a break from smoking and suddenly the only Yes record you like is 90125
― frogbs, Friday, 24 June 2022 03:59 (one week ago) link
Uh no
― calstars, Friday, 24 June 2022 04:43 (one week ago) link
I wish leave it was constructed a little better. Damn a capella
― calstars, Friday, 24 June 2022 23:34 (one week ago) link
That’s the best part
― frogbs, Saturday, 25 June 2022 00:18 (one week ago) link
When I bought Ultimate Yes (a 3xCD comp) I got a little guilty that “Leave It” was my favorite track
― frogbs, Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:27 (one week ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 25 June 2022 02:00 (one week ago) link
Acapella bit on “Hold On” is my fave on that album
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 25 June 2022 06:20 (one week ago) link
"Fly From Here : Return Trip" sounding so good on a Summer evening.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 19:01 (four days ago) link