I'm Running is maybe top-ten Yes, fuck all y'all
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
Which album has Love Will Find a Way? That's some solid AOR.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 April 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
yeah that's on this one
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
But yeah, wow! If I like a deep cut from Big Bad Generator this much, what will I discover on their later, even badder albums? (I'm braced for 'nothing')
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
Talk is a pretty neat album. Always felt it was a bit underrated. It's definitely not as entertaining as 90125 or Big Generator though
a lot of Yes fans like the Keystudio stuff. I dug "That, That Is" a lot but it really doesn't need to be a 20 minute epic
lots of cool stuff on The Ladder (especially the title track which really is "classic Yes" in all its glory), but as an album it's very uneven
I remember liking Magnification a good amount but I don't really recall a single thing from it
― frogbs, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
Shoot High, Aim Low is kind of a cool track
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 April 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
it's one of my favorite yes songs! there's a dropoff from 90125 to big generator but i don't think it's all that dramatic
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 27 April 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
I've taken the wild decision that BG is even better
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Yo lj you wildin
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
Hold On comes close but there's nothing quite as good as BG's highlights on 90125
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
lj you need to spend way more time with 90125 my god
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
who would believe you, LJ? wise men do
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
imago, don't sleep on "Changes" or "It Can Happen"
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 27 April 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 27 April 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
imago check out the "hello/goodbye" 12" mix of "leave it", it rules
― brimstead, Friday, 27 April 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
lol that was the one i was gonna post
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 27 April 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Jamming 90125 right now that's my word
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 April 2018 05:52 (five years ago) link
Yeah I've been playing the hell out of 90125
― imago, Sunday, 29 April 2018 08:57 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
holy shit, this version of Awaken
― imago, Sunday, 29 April 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
ya, this is terrific, even when it's not late at night
― doug watson, Monday, 30 April 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_yXaZYZGDo
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/yesmusicpodcast/photos/a.1240630969322023.1073741829.1120877741297347/1983610341690745/?type=3&theater
― timellison, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
Cool. Where is that?
― calstars, Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:48 (five years ago) link
reach out as 'forward taste' begin to enter "you" "oo" "moo"
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 13 September 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
steve howe's best guest bit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N0TkfrQhY
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
they stand there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST97kob06Ss
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 24 November 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
That's a pretty good version, interesting how Todd handles it vocally.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 November 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
good cover, the still-image video cracks me up tho
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 November 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Lack of Wakeman organ riffs really leaves some holes in that tune.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 30 November 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link