wow... one for the This Must Be A Tim & Eric Sketch thread?
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
lol yeah "all politicians are crooks but you should get out and vote for them anyway" is kind of a weird message
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
This video is unlisted apparently? This suggests an additional layer of, uh, ambivalence.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
Eating an edible in preparation for getting all Yessed out tonight with the 3xLP of Yessongs
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
i hope the edible starts kicking in once howe starts vamping right before the opening riff of "yours is no disgrace"
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 16 October 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
#jelly
― calstars, Friday, 16 October 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
i should say, i hope the second edible kicks in at that point
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 16 October 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
I just hope the thing plays alright, it was three dollars and it looks like its survived multiple hurricanes
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
more like multiple tormatoes amirite
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 16 October 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
xpost I misread that as three LP copies of Yessongs. Like, analog Zaireeka.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 October 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
alright here we go
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
every copy of yessongs i’ve ever seen looks like it was used for many joint rollings and/or warhammer matches
― brimstead, Friday, 16 October 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
oh damn there's a little book in here
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
lmao @ the audience hootin and hollerin for "Excerpts from 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII'"
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
man how the fuck do you play Close to the Edge
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
Just plow right through it
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 16 October 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link
wow this is really kickin' in
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
HA HA YES THIS IS VERY GOOD
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
my god this Yours Is No Disgrace is the best thing I've ever heard
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
ok i looked it up and it really is 14 minutes long. thats not just the gummy bear talkin
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
this is great i am getting yessed out vicariously
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 16 October 2020 07:11 (three years ago) link
The Yes equivalent of Zaireeka is simultaneously playing all five mid-70s solo albums.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 16 October 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
Hah, totally had a mental picture of frogbs having some sort of R Crumb/Zap Comix freakout, astral rabbit-hole moment whilst balancing his copy of YesSongs on his knee.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 16 October 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
yessongs is probably their single best recording, and yeah the "total mass retain" section of "close to the edge" has a totally impossible groove, no idea how they pull it off
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 October 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Only a seasoned witch could pull off such a groove.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
I actually don't think I've listened to Yessongs since the early 90s, maybe I should give it a spin. Lack of Bill Bruford always ticked me off.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
Oooh whatta ride! Jealous!!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
alan white does a pretty good job for a guy who had to learn all these crazy difficult songs with limited-to-zero rehearsals
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
It was definitely a tough situation to be thrown into
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
Yessongs was the first Yes album I bought; I wasn't sure where to start with their catalog so I figured "Live album? Sure, OK." Definitely the right choice. When I went back for the studio albums, I knew what I was looking for. (I was still totally unprpeared for Relayer, of course.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 16 October 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
Bruford does actually play drums on bits of Yessongs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yessongs#Personnel
― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
the version of "The Fish" on here is also quite insane
have a new level of respect for these guys now, even stuff like Howe having to play that same twisting riff for like six minutes straight on "Siberian Khatru" just seems incredibly difficult
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
Oh wow, I have these LPs. I haven't spun them in a little while but I remember really liking them, esp the version of "Close to the Edge". I'm excited to listen again.
― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
I guess tonight I'll have to put on its companion, Welcome Back My Friends, To the Show That Never Ends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
― frogbs, Friday, 16 October 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Friday, October 16, 2020 11:05 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
true, but that still leaves wild drum parts like "siberian khatru," "heart of the sunrise," and the aforementioned "total mass retain" for alan white
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
Yeah the lad did a good job at short notice, he gets unfairly maligned imo.
― logout option: disabled (Matt #2), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
Finally got them out. Man, that version of "Perpetual Change" is everything I love about these guys.
― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Sunday, 25 October 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
“Sharp!”
― calstars, Sunday, 25 October 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
It’s a boring pick for best live prog album (I usually go with GGs Playing the Fool) but it’s the right choice
― frogbs, Sunday, 25 October 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
for sheer listening pleasure i'll take the three record run from the yes album - close to the edge over just about anything. to have been in the audience for that close to the edge tour on mushrooms must have been a peak aesthetic experience, like hanging out in bach's church back in the day drunk on communion wine. just imagine! the motherlode they released in progeny of all the shows that went into yessongs is a sweet consolation though
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 25 October 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
I'll say it again: their debut is painfully underrated. Probably in my top 5.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 October 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
My choice for best live prog album might be USA by King Crimson or Concerts by Henry Cow. I love Yes but the live albums don't tell me anything I didn't already know about their music. The Yessongs movie is worthwhile though.
I only heard the debut years after I'd heard most of the other albums - it was a lot heavier than I had been led to expect, but Peter Banks doesn't particularly distinguish himself and the covers on it and Time and a Word are pretty weak and ill-conceived. I remember reading somewhere that, in this era, they would play a version of the Young Rascals' Good Lovin' with a 20 minute bass solo in the middle.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 25 October 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
Listened to Vol. III this morning. I'd forgotten how great that version of "Close to the Edge" is, jeez. It's actually the first I ever heard. The live version of "Yours Is No Disgrace" really grooves too
― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
holy shit i heard Mr Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow for the first time this week and it is SO good. bits of it hit the same pleasure centres for me that tangerine dream / early animal collective do. big recommend for those haven't heard it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRHC-nTufaQ
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
to have been in the audience for that close to the edge tour on mushrooms
<<raises hand>>well, except for the mushrooms part. my second ever concert. late '72, nassau coliseum, sadly not w/bruford.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
damn! lucky you. the first time i ever got to see them was way later, when i was really young, the ABWH tour, then the second time, in the round on the union tour. they ruled as much as i was hoping. can't begin to imagine what those songs sounded like fresh
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
the first yes binge is always a gratifying relief after months of OCD musical exploration
all i remember (i was 14, i guess?) was how cool they looked with the hair and that cape and the super high boots, all seen through the scary smoky adult haze that was the nassau coliseum in 1972.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 2 November 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/10/archives/coliseum-in-nassau-scene-of-53-arrests-in-2-days-for-drugs.html
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 2 November 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link