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

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.

I guess the only interesting thing in them was that apparently Eddie Jobson was in the "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" video. They tried to edit him out when he ended up not being in the band, but couldn't do it completely. The edits are one reason why the "plot" is so hard to follow.

and yes, there ARE maggots on the dude's eyes.

BUT! just guess what my classic rock station is playing right now on their so-called DEEP CUT weekedn at this ungodly hour ...

yup, STARSHIP TROOPER!!

good god what a tune.

and i'm out

I found my mint LP copy of Relayer for a dollar in a used bin.

http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/Moraz30.jpg

damn, and i'm not even close to being drunk tonight!!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/be70040c-9265-47c2-ab7b-0dc6abe418a.jpg

I'm yessed out on poppy pod tea and I just played guitar for an hour. Yes!

karaoke, yes-style!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoE9r11a-c

Oh dear...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlgH7Oec__s

Never heard this one. I bet True Yes Fans took one look at the new logo and fainted.
I wonder if this means that Tin Machine II, also a victim of Victory Music, will return sometime soon.

tin machine 2 got a vinyl reissue a few years back somehow.

anyway, reading on wiki again about the recording of Talk is kind of a trip as it was tracked to like, Mac SEs or something, with software that was being written at the time. They needed 27 mics to capture the drums and it wound up taking up 34GB of uncompressed space which is something, considering everything was stored on dynatec hard drives which were like, 8 GB and probably cost a trillion dollars. Early digital recording like this sounds like more hassle than it was worth.

“So the story goes…”

listens to leave it

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71B9r8ZqkbL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

im reading this book and its so weird and nerdy i kind of love it - but album still sucks

Kevin Mulryne's YES podcasts are great, nerdy fun to listen to.

I've come around to a lot of Tormato, but the album sounds fucking awful.

sucks bcz oliver's dad was very reinstated 👎🏽

yes i am still salty abt how moraz was treated lol

Didn’t know about the Mulryne podcast but nearly jumped through the roof seeing that there’s an 8 part episode on Tales From Topographic Oceans which is a top 10 of all time for me — but then whoever starts talking about 15 minutes in about the progression from Close to the Edge to Awaken starts going on and on about how he can’t remember a single note from The Remembering and how awful Steve’s guitar sounds on The Ancient and I barely stopped myself from jumping inside my car stereo and letting him know how wrong he is (close call). For one, I feel like The Remembering is probably the poppiest moment on the album (definitely the most vocal heavy) and Steve’s sliding around on The Ancient is one of the coolest bits on the album (esp in relation to the background music he’s sliding over).

I thought I was about to jump into a bunch of TFTO heads really dissecting the album but they all seem to be of the consensus that sides 1 and 4 are the only necessary parts which makes it surprising that this is the first Yes album they decided to tackle in depth.

interested in the Tormato book though lol @ "You'll never hear the album in the same way again!"...do people actually listen to this album often? the condition of the many, many used copies that come into the local shop suggests they don't. though I admit I actually like the weird-as-shit "Arriving UFO"

yes i am still salty abt how moraz was treated lol

really an all-time weird career, I mean his work on Relayer is great, the Refugee album (which I think he wrote the vast majority of) totally rules, and his first solo album is nice...but idk if anything he did after that is worthwhile, after 1976 he's primarily known as the guy who tried to sue the Moody Blues and probably should've won

"You'll never hear the album in the same way again!"

the bit on "The Remembering" where Howe revs up and Jon starts singing "Relayer, all the dying cried before you" is one of my favorite moments in the entire Yes catalogue

do agree the music is a bit bare though, one of those things where they decided to make a bunch of longform tunes without having a whole lot of ideas for them, as opposed to the best prog epics which sound like they had too many ideas and things just spiraled out of control into these amazing semi-cohesive pieces

To me the “:..and I do feel very well” thing on The Remembering is like the catchiest part of their entire catalog, I don’t even like thinking about it because now I’ll probably be singing it in my head the rest of the day.

I’ve never really understood the prevailing sentiment that the album is padded but I do plan to listen to these other 7 episodes to hopefully at least get a sense of what parts people consider those to be (more specifically than sides 2 & 3 as a whole).

moraz claims he wrote like half of going for the one also (which is trufax why it’s good not bad)

meanwhile wakeman on topographic: " 'I don't want to do this free-form jazz" lol why not back to practicing yr scales, fatfinger boy, then you don't fuck them up so often

free-form jazz, what a fkn useless dullard you are rick

mark s hatred for Wakeman is the fire that keeps this thread alive

Is anyone prepared to mount a defence of Rick Wakeman's solo career? I'm not, but maybe there's someone in here who will.

It was as successful as Yes' and I think even outsold then at one point

I like Six Wives and thought Criminal Record was quite good (plus, it's kind of a successful triple entendre, if you believe Wakeman should've gone to jail for making it), the other solo albums I have of his are pretty boring, though I'm curious what some of the later ones sound like

not really sure how to reconcile Wakeman's reputation as the one beer-drinking, meat-eating member of the band with whom you could actually hang out with and have a good time with the fact that he did all this King Arthur on Ice shit

maybe cuz he hung out and recorded with bowie and sabbath? the only ones out of the 10000 dudes who've played in this band as rock star social as wakeman are buford (it's astonishing the same guy drummed for yes, crimson, and genesis!), alan "plastic one band" white, and trevor horn

I vaguely recall reading an interview with the producer of Union where he was like "They were constantly bickering and couldn't physically be in the same room as each other and it got to the point where I had to write most of the music myself. I was a big Yes fan and now hated their guts. Alan White was cool though."

(it's astonishing the same guy drummed for yes, crimson, and genesis!)

And Gong, though nothing was ever released officially (there might be live boots).

Wakeman is all-time you philistines however most of his solo stuff is dreck. I do love Henry VIII and enjoy Criminal Record but his choice in singers is awful. That Ashley-whatever guy bellowing on those early joints...jeezuz.

I like Moraz and Bruford's "Flags" from '85 or something but someone needed to keep Pat away from the pitch bend controller during the Yes days.

xpost to Slim - there's one guy on that podcast who has cloth ears. I think he's Canadian? Says some really dopey stuff.

Not that being Canadian has anything to do with his listening skills.

Didnwe ever discuss Progeny on here? Can’t remember. Cuz am listening straight through as of a half hour ago and it’s supreeeeme yessing out material.

I love it. Yes as kick-ass rock band. The relative rawness of the recordings — there are sound dropouts, a few flubs here and there — makes the performances all the more impressive.

wait, pat smear is listed "project assistance"!

did he tape one of the shows as a child?

listed in wikipedia i mean, i know he's a steve howe fan but he was like 12 when this was recorded

Since so many vids on the thread are no longer available here's one of my selfish faves. It was the only YES show I ever attended and is still one of theeee greates shows I've ever experienced. Well worth sitting through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez07S8hoE3g

oops sorry looks like it can't be posted here. Search "Yes new york city 2004"

Youtube, that is.

Clicking on the Watch on yt link gets me there.