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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― trevor horn, Friday, 27 August 2004 04:47 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:51 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:59 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:20 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
What is NAMM, anyway?
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― ___ (___), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:15 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
http://stat.discogs.com/R/262506-1103102672.jpg
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:43 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― 6335, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 19:15 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
and yes, there ARE maggots on the dude's eyes.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 27 December 2004 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 13 March 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I found my mint LP copy of Relayer for a dollar in a used bin.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.drjazz.ch/album/bilder/Moraz30.jpg
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link
damn, and i'm not even close to being drunk tonight!!
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/be70040c-9265-47c2-ab7b-0dc6abe418a.jpg
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm yessed out on poppy pod tea and I just played guitar for an hour. Yes!
― trashthumb, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
karaoke, yes-style!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwoE9r11a-c
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh dear...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlgH7Oec__s
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Nothing succeeds like excess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMF1-OEZYBE
Watching Bruford in that clip makes me think of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of the Genesis tour he was on when he'd get bored and start playing different beats just to screw things up.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
DIG IT! (the "it" being really bad stock footage, apparently)
as much shit as tormato gets, i do like squire's bass sound on that and wtf with wakeman's synths? the birotron - cheesy to the max xpost
― gershy, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:23 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL cheesy late 70s video effects -- also, it reminds me of the "i want candy" video.
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 21 October 2007 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link
what part of I get up I get down do you not understand
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 December 2023 04:18 (three months ago) link
Even Siberia goes through the motionsHold out and hold up and flip and place down again (bluetail, tailfly)
The midnight special youtube channel has uploaded some clips of Flash recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz_yMb1YKco
Very interesting, I really like the first minute or so and clearly Peter Banks brought something to the table that was...no longer at the table afterwards, would have been neat if he had rejoined the fold at some point
― Florin Cuchares, Thursday, 7 December 2023 05:37 (three months ago) link
I've never been inspired to listen to a Flash album, but I don't hear Banks doing anything in the video that Howe couldn't have done just as well. The YouTube comments seems to be divided as to who was emulating whom.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 7 December 2023 19:54 (three months ago) link
yeah I think on balance Howe is the stronger player/writer for sure, don't remember him ever doing Banks' weird volume swell thing but I'm sure he was fully capable
still I like a lot of what he got up to on stuff like Survival and Astral Traveller, wikipedia says he attempted to recruit Kaye and Wakeman and Moraz and ended up just skipping keys altogether lol, the rest of the band seems very competent but the writing just isn't there, also not sold on the vocalist, is no Jon Anderson but who is
― Florin Cuchares, Friday, 8 December 2023 06:00 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzrPnMGM-_o
― MaresNest, Monday, 1 January 2024 12:18 (two months ago) link
Nice!
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 1 January 2024 14:12 (two months ago) link
I have come around on Mirror to the Sky and most of the Quest; I do not want to like these albums but when I listen to them I can't help myself, they are pretty good, definitely a huge step up from Heaven and Earth and also better in general than those Keys to Ascension albums or the Ladder.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:49 (two months ago) link
touching of the healing heart
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:49 (two months ago) link
oops i bumped the RONG thread - i must make things right
this lineup was called No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HWo-YB94LQ
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 18 January 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
music is a shout of foregone conclusions
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 January 2024 23:08 (two months ago) link
I love Steve Howe, but it's hard to understand what he was thinking with this
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 18 January 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
if we were flowers we would worship the sun, so why not now?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:09 (one month ago) link
some weird trivia I just found out, Jon Davison is married to Emily Lodge, who is the daughter of John Lodge - "Emily's Song" by the Moody Blues is about her. could this be progressive rock's new power couple?
― frogbs, Monday, 12 February 2024 14:41 (one month ago) link
I am heartened by the few reaction Youtubes of grown-ups silently blubbing to the Todmobile/Jon Anderson live version of Awaken, I thought it was just me.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 24 February 2024 12:44 (one month ago) link
given how beyond judgmental music appreciation has gotten it's hard to imagine something like "awaken" getting recorded in the first place
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:32 (one month ago) link
"Going For The One" totally rules, why did I ever sell this? I remember an old old friend trying to get me into this record when we were kids in 1977, I was ten and had no idea what to make of it. he called it "hard rock" lol.
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 3 March 2024 22:09 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0dS7JYurPY
had never seen this before, pretty cool, but please skip to 2:20 to witness Jon Anderson as a chess piece asking to be moved to any black square
― Florin Cuchares, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 09:28 (three weeks ago) link
of all the guys you'd think would know the rules of chess
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:50 (three weeks ago) link
This is awesome!
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 21:32 (three weeks ago) link
lol so apparently jon anderson is a white bishop, except there's already a white bishop on a black square. and then after jon moves, black gets skipped and has its knight taken. the white queen should now be taken by the black bishop, but gets yet another turn to scoot
oh wait, that black knight wasn't taken, just like . . . sent away for a bit. now it's back, and moving like a bishop
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 March 2024 01:50 (three weeks ago) link
very unorthodox strategy, especially the rare Hammond Rush Attack
yessed out and chessed out #onethread
also tony kaye should have kept the beard
― Florin Cuchares, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:55 (three weeks ago) link
It's all a travesty, the song's about a game of checkers!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:01 (three weeks ago) link
here's a fun prog DJ moment - there's a bit in Fermented Hours by Wobbler which imitates the big church organ middle section in Close to the Edge. I stitched em together and some old guy at the bar said "oh NOW we're talkin"
― frogbs, Saturday, 23 March 2024 03:33 (six days ago) link
Old guy at the bar otm
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 23 March 2024 03:56 (six days ago) link
The 1994 album Talk, out of print forever because it was on an indie label that went out of business basically the week the record was released, is being reissued soon, both on its own and as a 4CD box also containing a disc of outtakes and a complete live concert from 1994.
I ranked it pretty high (#12 out of 33) when I reviewed all their albums for Stereogum in 2015; here's what I said:
The final album by the version of Yes that made 90125, Big Generator, and contributed to Union, Talk is actually a better-than-decent melodic rock record for much of its running time. Guitarist Trevor Rabin unplugs some of his pedals and sounds more like Steve Howe than he ever has; the songs are straightforward, but don't seem as cravenly aimed at the radio as they were on Union. Indeed, this was the record on which Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin finally started to work well together, each man's vision for the group fitting together with the other's. In some ways, the album recalls Rush's Counterparts -- a veteran band exploring modern ideas, in a somewhat stripped-down way, without losing their grip on their own identities. The final track, "The Endless Dream," is where Talk becomes essential listening for serious Yes fans, though. It runs nearly 16 minutes, and perfectly bridges the gap between their 1970s glory years and their poppier work of the '80s and '90s. It's got the epic sweep and meditative beauty of Close To The Edge, with occasional outbursts of high-tech energy and some atmospheric yet aggressive guitar from Rabin.This was the first Yes album not to appear on a major label -- after two decades with Atco, they shifted to Arista for Union, but Talk was released on the comparatively tiny Victory Music imprint, which went bankrupt soon after, sending it out of print. So it's kind of the "forgotten" Yes album. Too bad, since it's their best 1990s release.
This was the first Yes album not to appear on a major label -- after two decades with Atco, they shifted to Arista for Union, but Talk was released on the comparatively tiny Victory Music imprint, which went bankrupt soon after, sending it out of print. So it's kind of the "forgotten" Yes album. Too bad, since it's their best 1990s release.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:58 (four days ago) link
that's cool, definitely one I think I need to revisit - my recollection is that it sounds like Yes with Trevor Rabin, as opposed to 90125 and Big Generator which are more like Trevor Rabin with Yes. I do remember the songs being good but mostly too long. But I still listen to "Where Will You Be?" a lot, its such a pretty song, exactly what I hoped Jon's solo records would sound like (and maybe they do, I only really know Olias). interested in the live stuff as well, I actually have no clue what this version of the band sounded like live
also nice it's coming out on vinyl, for some reason copies of this are very expensive, must not have been a lot pressed. original edition was a single LP which is pretty ambitious for a 55 minute album. might actually be the only Yes studio album that's difficult to get on wax. I thought Union might be too but it's not really. though it was also originally pressed as a single LP and this one's 60 minutes. that's getting into Todd Rundgren territory. maybe they didn't think anyone would actually listen to it.
― frogbs, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:07 (four days ago) link
this is a bewildering release to me, I can't imagine there is much if any demand for it beyond the vinyl. But I hate this album, I think this and Open Your Eyes are their absolute nadir (until Heaven and Earth); some of this is circumstantial, as I first heard it while working a contract job for 3 months for these two guys who were absolute assholes with shit music taste, and one of them would play this album first thing in the morning in our basically empty office at ear-splitting volume.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:15 (three days ago) link
I don't know if there's demand for anything anymore, but considering how long it's been out of print, I'm sure there's a subset of Yes fans who'll be thrilled to own a copy. I listened to it again yesterday and my original opinion holds up — I'm into it. Had it been force-fed to me at the time, I could easily see turning against it, though.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:21 (three days ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:33 (three days ago) link
tin machine 2 got a vinyl reissue a few years back somehow.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:50 (three days ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:57 (three days ago) link