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

Anyway I'm playing the new Yes live album now - it's not all bad, Sherwood fills in quite nicely for Squire, Davison sounds alright, the version of "Ritual" is good and it's kind of neat to hear all of Drama on a live album

but man, it's depressing to hear them so out of sync at spots, especially when the quick tunes like "Tempus Fugit", "Heart of the Sunrise", and "Roundabout" are only played at 75% speed. IDK maybe they come off better in person.

nice to have a discrete "leaves of green" on an *official* release

ahaha so apparently they're re-releasing Fly From Here with Trevor Horn on vocals, effectively erasing Benoit David's brief tenure with the band

never fear there's always like the four live albums they released from tours with him

a clearer future -- morning, evening -- nights with you

ooo-ooou!

Listening to live at Wembley show,1978, from a BBC broadcast. Jaw droppingly awesooooome. Prob some of my fave live versions of their stuff here. Even the "Tormato" tunes were on fire.

yousendit?

Last thing at the bottom of thispage will get you Yessed Out.

woooowww my mind is being blown by the "give peace a chance" quote in "i've seen all good people" that i never noticed before !!!

y'all wanna do this er wut

The apple doesn't fall far. My son spent the evening geeking out on our vinyl copies of Fragile and Close to the Edge with his buddy.

I dove back into "Tormato" because I'm fascinated by the ways established prog/prog-leaning bands reacted to punk. "Release, Release" is my favorite of such response songs, after Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack". I also love the raw sound of "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" - it's like a rehearsal that accidentally made it to final mastering. (Hell, you can almost smell the cigarette burns on the shag carpet in the wood-paneled basement beneath the "Ummagumma" poster with the thumbtack missing from the upper-left corner). And there's the whole "Was Rick Wakeman openly trying to sabotage the album?" solos that echo Viv Savage from "This Is Spinal Tap" (near the end of the track, Rick just goes up and down the first 5 notes of the Lydian mode for like 6 measures). Damn, I love that song!

When my Spotify shuffle setting played "Onward" after James Blake's "Unluck" and "Wilhelm's Scream", it finally hit me that Yes might have accidentally invented Dubstep (or, at least, the chill side of it). The sub-70bpm tempo, the underlying subtle-yet-propulsive keyboard rhythm that appears and disappears, the soaring chorus - all that's missing is a massive bass drop before "...OF MYYYY LIIIIFE!"

(Apologies for going Full Ronald Thomas Clontle if I swapped Yes for Madness and Dubstep for Ska)

good post brah
Are any of the b-sides notable?

I'm not aware of the B-sides (my copy of "Parallels" has "Wonderous Stories" on the blue vinyl), but there are bonus tracks on the remastered edition of the LP. They're all really folky - hell, "You Can Be Saved" might be the best song Band of Horses never recorded.

I picked up used vinyl copies of The Yes Album and Relayer today.

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

not that there's an answer for this, or anyone would try to take a stab at one, but still
― trevor horn, Friday, August 27, 2004 12:24 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"yessed out"?
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, August 27, 2004 12:25 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think about this thread title and these two posts very often

it's like a joke between me and me

why has nobody made a pair of socks with the Yes logo on them? I would happily sport a pair of Yessocks.

i love that uncut did an ultimate music guide, and i get that they were boring to interview, but holy shit do they underrate major jams ~

"survival" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"then" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"astral traveller" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"starship trooper" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"siberian khatru" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"the gates of delirium" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"to be over" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"wonderous stories" -- 3 out of 5 stars?

"tempus fugit" -- 2 out of 5 stars? 2 out of 5 stars??

go choke on velvet underground vinyl uncut MAGA. and to think that rick wakeman tickled the ivories on "life of mars?" and "get it on (bang a gong)" and was pretty much a member of black sabbath, bruford drummed for king fucking crimson, and the god damned buggles. imagine living your life graded on the curve yes is by rock critics

It's an outrage, is what it is

case in point

critical update:

the game Knights of the Crystallion was inspired by the cover of Relayer.

Ages ago, a colossal sea monster called an Orodrid died in a canyon passage. Millions of years later, after the valley was eroded, a nomadic people found its hulking skeleton, “incomprehensible” in size, and declared it their new home. “Orodrid, the city of bones” became more than a shelter. It was the new center of their world, their source of spiritual energy.

In Knights of the Crystallion, you live within this society. That’s the game. It combines a group of confusing, seemingly random activities – like a Nine Men’s Morris-style board game and an action sequence set in twisting cave – to depict the many sides of the communal, religious life of the Orodrim.

https://obscuritory.com/other/knights-of-the-crystallion/

oh hshit

Hey Reggie how much didja have to pay for that Uncut UMG? Amazon has it for $30 US which is, like, outrageous for a magazine. Trying to pay less than $15 for it.

$40. i'm a sucker for these guys; it felt like a huge bargain given how many other magazines i've bought over the years, and how little attention any pay to YES. unfortunately it's nowhere near the quality of other UMGs though -- pink floyd, bowie, zeppelin, etc -- so i would for sure say stick to cover price or thereabouts

the Genesis one is siqq!

feel like "astral traveler" is what the doors were always trying to pull off

the only one i know is 4/20 is best when it's on a friday, everyone who's been in love before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rggxNnZQMQ4

in the wake of the Fragile poll I'm listening to the B-side tracks of CTTE and Relayer

turns out once again And You And I is one of the most monumental things ever recorded, when Apocalypse kicks in it is more than heaven

and now Sound Chaser, sweet lord

I can't help but throw comparative shade at Fragile but really I'd like to celebrate these songs

I just wish the actual verse of Sound Chaser was repeated a bit more, it's the best bit of the song

you wanna hear something nuts, check out this dude playing Sound Chaser on solo piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqR0AP7A_l4

this is like those dudes who get perfect scores on the really difficult Guitar Hero songs

Thanks for the reply upthread , Reggie. Yeah it's a shame these things are nearly impossible to get in a cheap pdf version! Once in a while one pops up on a t0rr3nt but very rarely. I love their Zep and Pink Floyd ones.

Despite being oddly compiled (what with Relayer/GFTO/Tormato songs and different eras all jammed in) and not really a patch on the immortal Yessongs, I have a bit of a soft spot for Yesshows. It was my introduction to a bunch of those records (certainly Topographic Oceans, which I never owned) and Moraz, whose interplay with Howe blew me away. And the performances are uniformly quite good. For a dogs breakfast, it’s pretty likable.

Small moment: when they take like three minutes to introduce the band and crew, Jon gets momentarily lost in the groovy windup to “Ritual” and sings “Don’t put that funk in my face.”

It reminds me that for all their maximalist indulgence, long history and lineup permutations, there are still times when I actually think this band never reached its potential.

i just realized this thread is about the band Yes

Somebody buy flappy a beer

I suspect there is some yesshame in preferring “soon” to TGoD but hey whatever

The HBO show "Divorce" featuring Thomas Haden Church and Sarah Jessica Parker, is all Yessed out. A recent episode involved the daughter expressing frustration with the music at a roller rink, leading to her dad (Paul Giamatti's merlot-drinking buddy in "Sideways") arranging for "The Gates of Delirium" to be blasted from the rink's PA. there are other great Yes references, too.
http://www.yesfans.com/showthread.php?85143-Yes-featured-on-HBO-s-Divorce

folks

I am enjoying 90125

leading to her dad (Paul Giamatti's merlot-drinking buddy in "Sideways")

that's the dude from Wings show some respect

this is the first time I wanted to watch that show

now for big generator

let's attack bad-era yes head-on

that album's always been my answer to "what if The Police hadn't broken up?"

yknow this is bad, but it isn't bad

title track is a dreadful monstrosity but the rest is kind of nice

I'm Running is practically Cardiacs-inspired!

you wish :)

I had a comp a long time ago that had the title track and it put me off the album for a long time. If you removed that track I think the album would have a better reputation

always liked "Almost Like Love", as goofy as that one is

i have a hard time with big generator. they fell so hard after 90125, but it was a classic run -- 1969 - 1983 -- 14 years like the ideal number of songs on a perfect pop album

my short list of post-rabin studio jams: "without hope you cannot start the day"; "holding on"; "take the water to the mountain"; "real love"; "homeworld"; "lightning strikes / can i? / face to face"; "to be alive"; "new language"; "nine voices"; "madman at the screens"; "life on a film set"; and "into the storm"

I'm Running is maybe top-ten Yes, fuck all y'all

Which album has Love Will Find a Way? That's some solid AOR.