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

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')

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

Shoot High, Aim Low is kind of a cool track

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

I've taken the wild decision that BG is even better

Yo lj you wildin

Hold On comes close but there's nothing quite as good as BG's highlights on 90125

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

lj you need to spend way more time with 90125 my god

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

When "Leave It" was released as a single, MTV played like 10 different variations on the video in a row.

who would believe you, LJ? wise men do

imago, don't sleep on "Changes" or "It Can Happen"

I certainly won't sleep on them - I just heard them again. They're great. Leave It just began

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

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.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU
IT CAN HAPPEN TO ME
IT CAN HAPPEN TO EVERYONE EEE VENT YOU ALL EEE

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 check out the "hello/goodbye" 12" mix of "leave it", it rules

lol that was the one i was gonna post

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!!!!!

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"?

Jamming 90125 right now that's my word

Yeah I've been playing the hell out of 90125

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

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

you can feel no sense of measure

holy shit, this version of Awaken

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'

ya, this is terrific, even when it's not late at night

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

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

Just listened to Yessongs recently. Love how heavy the bit is after "I Get Up I Get Down".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_yXaZYZGDo

https://www.facebook.com/yesmusicpodcast/photos/a.1240630969322023.1073741829.1120877741297347/1983610341690745/?type=3&theater

Cool. Where is that?

reach out as 'forward taste' begin to enter "you" "oo" "moo"

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.

steve howe's best guest bit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N0TkfrQhY

That's great, didn't know about it. Don't know about any of his guest appearances.

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

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.

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

they stand there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST97kob06Ss

That's a pretty good version, interesting how Todd handles it vocally.

good cover, the still-image video cracks me up tho

Lack of Wakeman organ riffs really leaves some holes in that tune.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-songs-ranked/

nice to see respect for "survival"

Howe as guest star? Hmmm -- I know he played on this album (along with David Sylvian among others!) and always felt the little Wes Montgomeryish guitar moment at 3:25 sounds pretty Howeish:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzt2iSNyN8Q

wtf there is no way "Man in the Moon" is worse than "It Was All We Knew"