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

Squire on "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KQIaHFma4

The world of Yes tribute bands on YouTube is very strange, but I gotta give them points for trying...

The packs of Marlboros in the foreground totally makes this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvjkG5EgFxA

OOooooh the band Yes... I thought you meant high.

-- trashthumb, Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:29 AM

OMG I AM YESSED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A COON'S AGE

A raccoon killed my pet rabbit. It grabbed the thing through the cage, and smashed it again and again through the rails, and a lot of its body that the raccoon couldn't get dropped down into the plastic tub that captured its feces. So be careful what you say BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, or you might totally ruin my yes sesh..

Utterly ridiculous, but Howe really kills it here.

OMFG. "Awaken" sounding transcendent right now really LOUD after a night of bourbon & Guiness. On headphones, mind.

interesting that they covered "america" -- the beginning of "el condor pasa" sounds a lot like the beginning of "roundabout"

my wife and I were playing Yessongs after we got home from a show last night around 2 A.M. and I was telling her about this thread.

I come to revive this and look who posted last.

Really feeling CTTE this last week, listening to "And You And I" atm.

to answer the question way up above, yes, tormato is as bad as everyone says, and I can be captain save a yes. but really I think pretty much everything after 90125 (which I love) is awful, except for some things on Magnification, and drama is my third favorite Yes album after the Yes Album and Fragile.

Can never decide between Relayer and The Yes Album as my favourite. Going For The One and CTTE round out my top 4. Have never really liked Fragile; honestly I'd much rather listen to TFTO.

Gotta love Jon!

guy is saintly

a samurai sword

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qKboHKPEA

Yes, Arcade Fire are working with with James Murphy" -anybody else get unnecessarily excited by this pitchfork headline?

yestival quadrophronic prog festival

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-yestival/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sEOK0En6Pk

yes i said i will. yes

"beyond and before" is one of the all-time debut album opening songs. like an overture to everything that would be awesome (and lame) about them as they keep on stargazing along

http://www.list.co.uk/article/59949-yes-bassist-chris-squire-writing-autobiography/

second response hall of fame

gonna listen to some Yes right now in honor of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96d5spC3tQg

Is there a specific thread about post-Bruford Yes records? I don't feel like wading through pages of threads with the word "yes" in the title

it is a thread called no

this is a post called hmm

I'm listening to Relayer for p much the first time right now and it's honestly much better than I expected in spite of seeming to miss something that the older records had. I guess I'm just one step further into old dude lameness now.

i've been pretty yessed out the past few years, got into other parts of the bruford era i had been cool to before, but once i hit relayer it's just like, cmon, this is not the same band

yeah but there's only a pretty small amount of bruford era, and an even smaller amount of anderson-bruford-wakeman-howe.

it's a good thing them some long-ass songs then

These days, post-Yes Bruford records get more of my attention than post-Bruford Yes records. Well, up until that Earthworks stuff.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/MICP-30060

Relayer is actually my second-favourite after Close to the Edge. They went further 'out' than usual on it and I think Howe might have been at his peak there.

Yeah, Relayer is great.

The last time I listened, I actually wondered whether it could be my favourite.

Yes without Anderson or Howe definitely doesn't seem like the same 'classic' band to me but tbh I guess I'm a little surprised that the drummer would make so much of a difference to some listeners. I never really feel like there's a rhythmic weakness on Relayer. The ensemble playing on Relayer seems dazzlingly tight to me. I like Bruford but I mostly just appreciate the way he worked as part of the ensemble. If anything, I notice his playing much more in King Crimson. I never really thought of him as a star drummer like Bonham or Peart or Moon, though.

The ensemble playing on Relayer seems dazzlingly tight to me

"... [O]n 'Sound Chaser'" was what I meant.

Hm, now I'm thinking about the drums on side 2 of Fragile and reconsidering that...

side 1 of the yes album too ("clap" excepted obv.)

I think there's a certain swing to brufords playing that made them a little, idk, funkier or something and counterbalanced the more technical aspect of their prog. White is a lithe and strong drummer and I think he works about as well as anyone other than bruford coukd have. But there's still a missing ingredient for me. I mean white can hold his own on pretty much anything but I can't imagine him coming up with the unforgettable fills bruford did on heart of the sunrise.

absolutely agree

Bruford was like a little jazz drummer, close-mic'ed, playing in the corner, while symphonic yes played in the center of room with reverb and space to infinity. The balance / counterpoint is dramatic and awesome.

I walked through midtown manhattan today around 3pm air-drumming to "heart of the sunrise."

The melodic parts of Silently Falling are so nice

fitting development (even if wayne has turned into a grade-a toolbag), since legend has it admitting to each other in the tourvan that they were separately listening to yes led to 'the soft bulletin'

http://www.spin.com/articles/flaming-lips-electric-wurms-heart-of-the-sunrise-video/

10:36-13:30 of Awaken is the best bit of Yes y/n

Absolutely.

This is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SszeZhF9Xq4

14 cd set of live shows from '72.

http://www.amazon.com/Progeny-Seven-Shows-Seventy-Two-Deluxe/dp/B00U2MZU9C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425052178&sr=8-1&keywords=Progeny%3A+Seven+Shows+from+Seventy+Two

favorite thread title

it's like the let's get drunk and listen to waka flocka flame for prog dudes