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

yea at best a lot of these albums are guilty pleasures, I have a lot of goodwill towards Yes so I probably overrate a lot of it as "really not that bad". if it wasn't Yes I'd probably only listen to Fly From Here and "The Ladder"

"That, That Is" from KTA has a pretty gnarly riff on it though, sucks that it's buried in a 20 minute epic. Tales-esque really

Thanks folks!

So it seems like a general paucity of good music considering the amount of records they'e made since '83, kinda amazing really.

the degree to which these guys fucking hated each other after 1977 is not to be understated

I'm quite a fan of Magnification and there's at least 2 or 3 songs I really liked on Big Generator.

i really want to like magnification -- yes with an orchestra for the first time since time and a word! but i don't know, maybe they slowed the tempos a bit too much to accommodate that orchestra? maybe they were missing igor, who'd brought so much energy to the ladder? i've never found a way in; if you have any song suggestions, i'd appreciate it!

I wrote a big ranking of their albums for Stereogum almost exactly 5 years ago. I liked Talk and Magnification better than some others above.

it’s a safe bet that the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame will burn to the ground before they’ll be inducted.

Hope you didn't put too much money on this!

I was really into Union when it came out, and even went to see them on that tour, which was an incredibly dull concert despite being the first time the classic lineup had been together since CttE.

I always though this thread was a euphemism for something more interesting.

I was wrong.

But what could be more interesting than getting all yessed out on a Thursday night?

I forgot about Magnification. The songs on it are really good but something about the presence of the orchestra makes it very bleh. There's nothing objectionable about it, it's just missing some spark.

http://wmmr.com/2020/06/12/this-day-in-philly-rock-history-yes-played-to-130l-at-jfk-stadium/

no doubt they were all celebrating dock ellis

happy ye(l)s(d) day!

12:30am and I'm Yessing out to these clips just posted by Beat Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_GIji9EGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gaZRACHMSk

Bruford's drum faces always pretty funny.

for some reason probably because i hate yes it was only yesterday that i heard "parallels" for the first time and it was one of those surprising "wait hold on i actually like this song" experiences

i'm sure as hell not going to listen to every yes song just on the off chance that i might like one of them but it's nice when it happens

I've never considered clicking on the thread of a band I don't like but I can't think of a single band I hate.

INSTEAD OF WATCHING THE VP DEBATE I AM LISTENING TO RELAYER GOD this record is fucking insane

its like....Evil Yes

listen

should we fight forever

knowing as we do know

fear destroys?

exactly!! when does Good Jon ever write lyrics like that?

<3

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3362163313902980

gentle masks dont touch

I mean you expect us to log in to a Facebook post📘😊? Just not going to happen

Just post a link to south side lmfao

Go Jon!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKqEMQACepSftCYRGR-Au1HF3LBusS-ioH_nO2Vf8ffGXuzccIb4Ap7wee3WmmoSbbDWaoNXorZMtXmUNXtyF57OHr7dlg&feature=emb_title&time_continue=258&v=04xaMR9pzDk

wtf WOW

never thought I'd see the day Jon Anderson used the phrase "soulless motherfucker" in a song

Holy shit, amazing!

TS: "Go Screw Yourself" vs "With All Due Respect"

"If I may"

wow... one for the This Must Be A Tim & Eric Sketch thread?

I'm unclear on the message here. I thought the unflattering images of Trump in the first chorus meant this was anti-Trump but he's not really a sweet-talker and there are images of Democrats as well, and we see both "gun rights" and "gun control", for instance. So then I thought it might be just general 'both-sides' fatigue like the deYoung song but there are also lots of reminders to vote.

lol yeah "all politicians are crooks but you should get out and vote for them anyway" is kind of a weird message

This video is unlisted apparently? This suggests an additional layer of, uh, ambivalence.

Eating an edible in preparation for getting all Yessed out tonight with the 3xLP of Yessongs

i hope the edible starts kicking in once howe starts vamping right before the opening riff of "yours is no disgrace"

#jelly

i should say, i hope the second edible kicks in at that point

I just hope the thing plays alright, it was three dollars and it looks like its survived multiple hurricanes

more like multiple tormatoes amirite

xpost I misread that as three LP copies of Yessongs. Like, analog Zaireeka.

alright here we go

every copy of yessongs i’ve ever seen looks like it was used for many joint rollings and/or warhammer matches

oh damn there's a little book in here

lmao @ the audience hootin and hollerin for "Excerpts from 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII'"

man how the fuck do you play Close to the Edge