I wish leave it was constructed a little better. Damn a capella
― calstars, Friday, 24 June 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
That’s the best part
― frogbs, Saturday, 25 June 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
When I bought Ultimate Yes (a 3xCD comp) I got a little guilty that “Leave It” was my favorite track
― frogbs, Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 25 June 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
Acapella bit on “Hold On” is my fave on that album
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 25 June 2022 06:20 (one year ago) link
"Fly From Here : Return Trip" sounding so good on a Summer evening.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
the greatest prog album of all time turned 50 today. who's getting yessed out with me
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
beauty begins at the foot review
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
GOAT
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
I LISTENED HARD BUT COULD NOT SEE
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
fragile better
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
ok not really
and you and i is the apex for me
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
Young me liked Fragile because it has the "hits", but I think I might prefer CTTE now.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link
Siberian Khatru is my MVP jam here
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
hell yeah
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
what I love so much about the title track is that it really does feel like one very long song, as opposed to other prog epics like Tarkus, Suppers Ready, Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, etc. which come across more as a bunch of sections stitched together. it goes through all the movements of a traditional 4-minute pop song, it's just....longer. and way more complex & intricate. you can't really separate any of it out.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
That's why I feel just slightly off about hearing them out of sequence live, but that's a bit nitpicky
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 17 September 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
Siberian Kathharrtutruuu
― calstars, Saturday, 17 September 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
― frogbs
in terms of compositional chops CTTE really is next-level, it's like it's got fuckin' thematic development or something. that's one of my favorite prog-rock stories, somebody played _the polite force_ for aaron copland and he was like "this is just a bunch of wibbly bits repeated four times and then there's a solo or something, none of the themes are developed at all", so mont campbell spent the next 18 months figuring out how to develop a theme and then he wrote "enneagram". anyway CTTE to my ears does kinda the same thing, way more argument for "fusion of pop and classical" than taking a pink floyd tune and throwing an orchestra and choir on it (nb i actually like "atom heart mother" better than "close to the edge" so not throwing shade on floyd or ron geesin here)
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 September 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
John Covach's analysis of it ("Progressive Rock, ‘Close to the Edge,’ and the Boundaries of Style" in Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis, edited by John Covach and Graeme M. Boone, Oxford University Press, 1997) was very good. He broke it down as a significantly expanded AABA form. I also did an analysis that I presented at a bunch of conferences in a previous life but it wasn't as good.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 17 September 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
another one i bought because i was excited to be seeing them in a month and i wanted to know the album first. all these 50th anniveresaries are bombarding me with my ancientness.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 18 September 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
oh dear, I do wonder how these yes shows are going to go
― akm, Sunday, 18 September 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
The CTTE 50th show was my first gig post-Covid. Fear not, they perform it superbly well. The earlier pre-CTTE set was fine, if a somewhat inevitably ersatz experience, but the album run through was where they stepped up, fully engaged and properly took off. It was technically immaculate, individually characterful, emotionally true, and performed with love and joy.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 18 September 2022 07:51 (one year ago) link
listening to Fragile now. this was my first Yes album and actually one of the first records I ever bought. that was 20 years ago! I still have the same copy! looks scratched up but it plays great. I haven't listened to it in a while but damned if it still ain't great. you can focus on any individual instrument here and have a blast. "South Side of the Sky" is such a cool epic for them. they're like trying to do heavy, evil-sounding rock but they can't cuz they're Yes. instead they hit on a really different sound that I don't think any other band quite captures. I dig the interludes too. I really disagree with anyone who thinks the album would be better without 'em (ok, maybe "Cans and Brahams"). and does "Long Distance Runaround" have the sickest bassline ever played on FM radio or what? such a classic record
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 04:04 (one year ago) link
South Side is my early morning cold as fuck walk to the bus stop jam
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
The long bridge section of "South Side" with the jazzy piano and wordless vocal harmonies is so gorgeous. For some reason I always forget it exists, so it always hits like the most pleasant surprise when I listen to that song
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
^^ that's what actually convinced me to put it on! I was thinking of getting yessed out and then that "laaaa laaaa la-la-la-la" bit popped in my head so I was like Fragile it is
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uTwOjvy.jpgAlmost
― calstars, Friday, 28 October 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
i once saw nyc graffitti where underneath "Clapton is God" someone had scrawled "Bruford is Good."
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 28 October 2022 09:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHvytBFDEZoI didn’t know how close these two bohemoths came to releasing something. Thank god they didn’t
― calstars, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
why late at night does Lizzo get all yessed out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qRQUNnm3MM
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
Nice, I would've pegged her as more of a Tull fan
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
what percentage of the audience recognized that
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
just took a DNA test and it turns out I am 100% that shining flying purple wolfhound
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
how can the woodwind with its twerks all around me
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
Same part of the same song also interpolated by LCD Soundsystem at their Long Goodbye show
Other Yes songs are available -eg fail-safe party-starter "The Gates of Delirium"
― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
“So cold that we cried” always gets the stadium emotional
― calstars, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpddVVqZyLw
so this is awesome, "Crawdaddy Simone" by the Syndicats, Steve Howe's earliest band. starts out pretty standard UK electric blues but hang on, at about 1:20 the drummer starts going apeshit and there are parts of these (the middle and end) that are wilder than any Yardbirds, up there with the Monks for feral pummeling energy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
A Joe Meek Production!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
oh shit really?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
Yup! Although according to https://www.last.fm/music/The+Syndicats/+wiki Howe had left by the time they cut that track.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
leave it
― ncxkd, Friday, 23 December 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
Pretty interesting interview with Benoît David:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/benoit-david-yes-singer-still-hurts-1234671770/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 February 2023 07:03 (one year ago) link
Wow. Seems like a good dude. I think FFH is tgeir last great (very good?) album. I’m happy to read that he’s doing fine. Thanks for the link, Tarfumes!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 9 February 2023 08:20 (one year ago) link
Yeah, wow indeed. I am not the biggest Yes fan but that interview was amazing from beginning to end.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 February 2023 08:51 (one year ago) link
yea exactly the sort of inside baseball I've always wondered about with this group. curious that him and Anderson both had the same vocal issues...wonder if the fog machines they used had anything to do with it?
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
I suspect it's more to do with the demands on the singers put on them by the instrumentalists. That is, it's far less physically taxing for a bassist or keyboardist to play every single night, but a singer needs rest, especially one singing at the top of their range for three hours a night. It seems like Squire et al were never particularly sensitive to the physical demands singers are subject to.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
More to the point, Squire shit on David because he cracked on the highest note in Yes's oeuvre during one concert, but kept booking tours with 3-4 dates in a row.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
i liked when he said styx were always super-tight but the yes lads were sloppier and then worried he was going to get sued
― mark s, Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
sued by the ghost of chris squire for pointing out he didn't practice enough