eh, it can happen
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 November 2019 05:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhbfyP578oc
― budo jeru, Friday, 29 November 2019 06:58 (four years ago) link
Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at onceThat is exactly what dentists always doNow, go on! Tell me the whole thing
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 29 November 2019 12:33 (four years ago) link
OP otm “Leave It”
― calstars, Sunday, 24 April 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
This was one of the first LPs I ever bought, but I only heard the CD bonus tracks a few weeks ago. They're mostly outtakes from the early, Rabin-heavy stages of the record. I can't imagine that this record could have had much more than modest success without Anderson's voice and Horn's unusual touches.From this and Big Generator, Trevor Rabin's whole aesthetic seems to be steeped in AOR, in the way someone else might have all their ideas filtered through blues, country or folk music. I feel like you could give him any musical input and he would automatically reinterpret it via pinch-harmonic-heavy squealing lead guitar and fist-pumping choruses. Don't know if there's anything on Union or Talk to change my mind.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 24 April 2022 03:12 (one year ago) link
the part in Leave It where the scat singing goes into overdrive is so fucking funny
― frogbs, Sunday, 24 April 2022 03:14 (one year ago) link
I was surprised how much I liked the Rabin bonus tracks, they're good. I wouldn't mind giving his own stuff a go, but it's one of these things I can't imagine getting around to for a long time
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 24 April 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
I am shamefully late at getting to this album 25 years after buying my first Yes album, but 'City of Love' strikes me as the exact kind of stomper that Zep would have made if they were still around when this album came out
― calstars, Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
"Owner" is good and all but 15 years later I'm still mad people obviously don't know the album tracks on this
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 12 May 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
So much talk of justice and liberty and freedom on this album!
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 16 May 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
the last Yes album to not have a single shitty track on it.
― akm, Monday, 16 May 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
God, that a cappella breakdown in "Hold On" has been stuck in my head for the past week. You think that's all there is, and then it goes into that "round and round and round / we living in gravity" part.
Also, especially from a pop-songwriting angle, it's interesting to hear this earlier version of "It Can Happen" made by Squire/White/Rabin but without Trevor Horn, Tony Kaye, or Jon Anderson. Much weaker verse lyrics, keebs instead of sitar, first draft of a pop hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe2VlpOBmY0
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Friday, 3 June 2022 04:52 (one year ago) link
The poll results gave me a mistaken impression of how strong the lesser-known tracks are before I'd ever heard them. I only finally listened last year and it's a really consistent album!
― Vinnie, Friday, 3 June 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
HEARINGTALKING
― calstars, Sunday, 12 June 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
The Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz thread now has this pair stuck in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_VDj8Eh_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftHyM_KSgE0
― birdistheword, Sunday, 12 June 2022 04:48 (one year ago) link
I worked in a record store when this came out, it was in heavy rotation then. I haven't listened to the whole album in probably more than 30 years. I almost always gravitate to their earlier stuff. Maybe it's time for a spin.
Also, I would have picked "Leave It."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 13 June 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link