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ghost_of_morphy 
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 Topic: About YES
Posted: April 12 2009 at 20:00 |
 cacho wrote:
ghost_of_morphy wrote:
bassman4 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I have all the Yes cd's. When a band has so many excellent tunes , I just accept and enjoy everything they offer . actually ,I can't name a single yes tune that bugs me.
other bands with a single tune that bugs me :
Led Zep - Tangerine
S B - June
Karmakanic - Losers game
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Yes -- Circus of Heaven. Awful, indeed...
Yes -- Sweetness I find it pretty sweet
Yes -- Run Through the Light yeah, the only bad tune on Drama...
Yes -- It Can Happen decent..
Yes -- Holy Lamb decent...
Yes -- Evensong don't remember this one...
Yes -- Take the Water to the Mountain either this one...
Yes -- Where Will You Be either this one...
Yes -- Man in the Moon either this one..
Yes -- No Way We Can Lose either this one...lol
Yes -- Can You Imagine I quite like it, good Pop/AOR... |
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Not even being able to remember half of my suggestions kind of proves my point.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: April 12 2009 at 19:53 |
weetabix wrote:
One of the better memories I have in life is seeing and hearing YES live, twice, the first w/ them as the original members, then the other time when they got Wakeman and the guitarist from Pink Fairies .Does anyone remember Star Castle? What was that all about?
Is that YES or Memorex? |
I really dislike the comparison of Yes to Starcastle. Yes, there are similarities. But there are one heck of a lot of differences as well. Personally, I think Druid is probably the band that compares best to Yes, and even there I dislike making the comparison.
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progkidjoel
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Posted: April 12 2009 at 19:25 |
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YES, In my opinion, are the best band. EVER.
Jon Anderson is my favourite vocalist, and his song "Song Of Seven" From his album of the same name is my all time favourite song.
Steve Howe is a 1 in 6 billion guitarist. Awesome sound, hardly any fret noise, great speed never over the top, great compositional skills and never any fret noise.
Rick Wakeman is one of the best pianists who ever lived, and he hits ever note perfectly in a way that can be easily heard, no matter how fast he gets.... And believe me, he gets damn fast.
Chris Squire gets the cleanest noise of any bassist I have ever heard. Yes its because he uses a pick, but he is still so damn clean and so fast you can't pass him up. I loved his solo album Fish Out Of Water, and I also love his voice.
Alan White is a great drummer. Whilst not as technically good as Bill Bruford or Carl Palmer, he still writes and plays brilliantly and is exactly what YES needs in a drummer.
Yes were the first prog band I ever heard, and I had the honor... Nay, The PRIVILEGE to see them live and it was the best thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Yes write absolutely brilliant songs and I seriously have never been able to find another band who are as technically, compositionally or lyrically, or Just ALIVE as YES.
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himtroy
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Posted: April 12 2009 at 11:49 |
I've never been a huge fan nor do I see why they are so popular. I think they get carried away at times, and that they most certainly place techniciality over anything else. I listen to a lot of music that is technically inclined, but Yes seem to get more satisfaction out of switching into 9/8 then 5/4 then some crazy polyrhythm than they do out of putting feel into a song.
Don't take that the wrong way, I like them and occasionally listen to them, but after hearing about them so much I've grown spiteful. I just don't see why people think they're so good.
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weetabix
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 18:44 |
One of the better memories I have in life is seeing and hearing YES live, twice, the first w/ them as the original members, then the other time when they got Wakeman and the guitarist from Pink Fairies .Does anyone remember Star Castle? What was that all about?
Is that YES or Memorex?
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 17:10 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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The Quiet One
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Posted: April 11 2009 at 16:48 |
ghost_of_morphy wrote:
bassman4 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I have all the Yes cd's. When a band has so many excellent tunes , I just accept and enjoy everything they offer . actually ,I can't name a single yes tune that bugs me.
other bands with a single tune that bugs me :
Led Zep - Tangerine
S B - June
Karmakanic - Losers game
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Yes -- Circus of Heaven. Awful, indeed...
Yes -- Sweetness I find it pretty sweet
Yes -- Run Through the Light yeah, the only bad tune on Drama...
Yes -- It Can Happen decent..
Yes -- Holy Lamb decent...
Yes -- Evensong don't remember this one...
Yes -- Take the Water to the Mountain either this one...
Yes -- Where Will You Be either this one...
Yes -- Man in the Moon either this one..
Yes -- No Way We Can Lose either this one...lol
Yes -- Can You Imagine I quite like it, good Pop/AOR...
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: April 10 2009 at 16:56 |
bassman4 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I have all the Yes cd's. When a band has so many excellent tunes , I just accept and enjoy everything they offer . actually ,I can't name a single yes tune that bugs me.
other bands with a single tune that bugs me :
Led Zep - Tangerine
S B - June
Karmakanic - Losers game
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Yes -- Circus of Heaven.
Yes -- Sweetness
Yes -- Run Through the Light
Yes -- It Can Happen
Yes -- Holy Lamb
Yes -- Evensong
Yes -- Take the Water to the Mountain
Yes -- Where Will You Be
Yes -- Man in the Moon
Yes -- No Way We Can Lose
Yes -- Can You Imagine
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: April 10 2009 at 16:47 |
peskypesky wrote:
cacho wrote:
peskypesky wrote:
Well, I love "Tormato" and I do consider it a great prog album. Definitely. There's not a song on it that I don't like and there are several that I absolutely love.
I understand that a lot of people don't like Squire's bass sound, Rick's keyboard sound and some of the overly-fey songs ("Circus Of Heaven", "Arriving UFO"), but those things have never bothered me. I love the mix of delicate beauty ("Onward", "Madrigal") with hard-rocking riffage ("Don't Kill the Whale", "On The Silent Wings of Freedom").
I also love "Topographic Oceans", so I guess that makes me a true Yesfreak. |
Not actually, a Yesfreak must love Union and Open your Eyes, oh and Big Generator. TFTO love isn't any new news, I love it.
I love all their albums from Yes(debut) to Relayer. Then Drama, The Ladder, Keystudio and Magnification are all very good ones. And 90125 is a very good pop album. There you have it.
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Well, believe it or not, I recently got both "Union" and "Open Your Eyes", and I actually like them both!! lol
Seriously! I mean, I don't put them up there with their work from the 70s, but I still find a lot of really cool music happening on both those albums. Sure, they're uneven, and lyrically vapid at times....but I still find stuff to like.
I even like chunks of "Big Generator" and "Talk"! I'm insane!!! |
LOL. You aren't a Yes Freak! You just have good taste.
Edited by ghost_of_morphy - April 10 2009 at 16:47
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: April 10 2009 at 16:44 |
cacho wrote:
I can't think of anybody saying Tormato is a "good prog album", that doesn't mean people don't like it. But in general the keys from Rick are terrible, Jon's voice isn't at his best, Steve's guitar is quite sloppy and Chris's bass is nothing more than weak, except On the Silent Wings of Freedom and the first track.
BTW, I love Drama. Chris' bass is awesome as well as Steve's guitar.
Tales from Topographic Oceans is a love/hate album. I love it.
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So right and yet so wrong. There is a small but vocal minority of people out there who are convinced that Tormato is a great prog album. Good luck in trying to convert them, as I haven't made any progress.
Rick, however, is not the problem. He's using a new keyboard that doesn't really support his style well on a couple of the tracks, but his contributions are about the only ones that drag this thing down.
Jon's voice is not at it's peak yet, but it's nearly there. The true tragedy of Yes is that Jon's vocal talents peaked during the Yes West years.
You are right about Steve being sloppy and Chris being weak, though. And the quality of song writing for this album is way down.
As for Drama it's a mixed bag. Machine Messiah is a great song that showcases the chops of the non-Buggle members. The two Buggle-penned tunes are very very good as well. Downes's White Car shows him off at the top of the game and is competent, even though it makes us all miss Rick, Patrick, or even Tony. The other two songs do nothing for me.
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lazland
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Posted: March 30 2009 at 12:57 |
antivoid wrote:
Talk is a funny album, but i love it to bits. Every song has it's own thing, jons vocals (maybe not his actual lyrics, even though it's better than most recent stuff) are astonishing, and the 3 part epic at the end is one of my favourite prog experiences from any band.
Talk was that little bit different and as much as i love classic Yes, Talk is right up there with em.
Why is it that so few people actually like this album? |
I was very happy to give this album four stars in my recent review. It is criminally underrated and most definitely stands up well alongside other more established classics by the band. The Endless Dream tracks, as you say, is an epic and thoroughly enjoyable, whilst I Am Waiting is also a fantastic track. The fact is that the Rabin era Yes divides opinion probably more than any other 70s prog band on this site, and I do understand why. It really is very much up to personal taste and also being able to open up and give it a chance.
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antivoid
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Posted: March 30 2009 at 05:54 |
Talk is a funny album, but i love it to bits. Every song has it's own thing, jons vocals (maybe not his actual lyrics, even though it's better than most recent stuff) are astonishing, and the 3 part epic at the end is one of my favourite prog experiences from any band.
Talk was that little bit different and as much as i love classic Yes, Talk is right up there with em.
Why is it that so few people actually like this album?
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Borris
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Posted: February 14 2009 at 19:49 |
There will never be a time when everything has been said about a good artist/group. There are always new personal takes and the music will keep interacting in new ways with new times and new listeners.
Yes are an excellent group, Close to the edge was a culmination point. With that album something new had appeared, Yes was a strange hodge podge of things that came together and gelled perfectly. It was uplifting involved bizarre and beautiful.
But I'm glad they didn't stop there, they didn't really repeat themselves. I personally prefer Tormato to Drama, Tormato was weird but I like weird. I love Circus of Heaven and Arriving UFO they are both wonderfully crazy and full of jon Anderson enthusiasm. The record isn't very well produced but I'm happy with it the way it is.
Tales from Topographic Oceans has really grown on me, mainly from reading some glowing appreciations of it. There are amazing paarls to be found if you dive deep into that album.
Drama I think is alright, but they were trying to recapture old glories and I think Anderson is just to central to what Yes is.
I like 90125 OK, I don't listen to it and bliss out like I do with a lot of the others though. I haven't got Big Generator, i got Talk a short while ago and I haven't been able to work up any enthusiasm for it.
Of the later albums I love Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, it is a really fresh and vital album. Keystudio, The Ladder & Magnification are all albums I can put on and they fill me with light, These albums may not be breakthrough albums but they are very warm and human, they are also still very idiosyncratic and unique.
I hope Jon recovers and gets back with the others to realise the new long suites he had been working on.
I say a big Yes to Yes,
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Jaja Macca
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Posted: December 19 2008 at 13:26 |
As I said in other post, I love the Rabin's albuns, but I think they are not YES.
It's a great band! I still call them CINEMA, and I like all the albuns too much...
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The Quiet One
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Posted: December 17 2008 at 22:01 |
peskypesky wrote:
cacho wrote:
peskypesky wrote:
Well, I love "Tormato" and I do consider it a great prog album. Definitely. There's not a song on it that I don't like and there are several that I absolutely love.
I understand that a lot of people don't like Squire's bass sound, Rick's keyboard sound and some of the overly-fey songs ("Circus Of Heaven", "Arriving UFO"), but those things have never bothered me. I love the mix of delicate beauty ("Onward", "Madrigal") with hard-rocking riffage ("Don't Kill the Whale", "On The Silent Wings of Freedom").
I also love "Topographic Oceans", so I guess that makes me a true Yesfreak. |
Not actually, a Yesfreak must love Union and Open your Eyes, oh and Big Generator. TFTO love isn't any new news, I love it.
I love all their albums from Yes(debut) to Relayer. Then Drama, The Ladder, Keystudio and Magnification are all very good ones. And 90125 is a very good pop album. There you have it.
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Well, believe it or not, I recently got both "Union" and "Open Your Eyes", and I actually like them both!! lol
Seriously! I mean, I don't put them up there with their work from the 70s, but I still find a lot of really cool music happening on both those albums. Sure, they're uneven, and lyrically vapid at times....but I still find stuff to like.
I even like chunks of "Big Generator" and "Talk"! I'm insane!!! |
Talk is a quite fine album for 90125 lovers. I like quite a lot of it. From Big Generator I enjoy the title track and Rythm of Love which I remember.
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bassman4
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Posted: December 17 2008 at 21:56 |
SgtPepper67 wrote:
What's wrong with Tangerine? |
I guess I heard it too many times being performed by cheezy cover bands. they wrecked it for my listening. Now I wont listen to it . It bugs me 
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SgtPepper67
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Posted: December 17 2008 at 15:03 |
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What's wrong with Tangerine?
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In the end the love you take is equal to the love you made...
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bassman4
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Posted: December 15 2008 at 21:43 |
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I'm pretty sure I have all the Yes cd's. When a band has so many excellent tunes , I just accept and enjoy everything they offer . actually ,I can't name a single yes tune that bugs me.
other bands with a single tune that bugs me :
Led Zep - Tangerine
S B - June
Karmakanic - Losers game
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peskypesky
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Posted: December 15 2008 at 20:43 |
cacho wrote:
peskypesky wrote:
Well, I love "Tormato" and I do consider it a great prog album. Definitely. There's not a song on it that I don't like and there are several that I absolutely love.
I understand that a lot of people don't like Squire's bass sound, Rick's keyboard sound and some of the overly-fey songs ("Circus Of Heaven", "Arriving UFO"), but those things have never bothered me. I love the mix of delicate beauty ("Onward", "Madrigal") with hard-rocking riffage ("Don't Kill the Whale", "On The Silent Wings of Freedom").
I also love "Topographic Oceans", so I guess that makes me a true Yesfreak. |
Not actually, a Yesfreak must love Union and Open your Eyes, oh and Big Generator. TFTO love isn't any new news, I love it.
I love all their albums from Yes(debut) to Relayer. Then Drama, The Ladder, Keystudio and Magnification are all very good ones. And 90125 is a very good pop album. There you have it.
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Well, believe it or not, I recently got both "Union" and "Open Your Eyes", and I actually like them both!! lol
Seriously! I mean, I don't put them up there with their work from the 70s, but I still find a lot of really cool music happening on both those albums. Sure, they're uneven, and lyrically vapid at times....but I still find stuff to like.
I even like chunks of "Big Generator" and "Talk"! I'm insane!!!
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The Quiet One
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 17:50 |
peskypesky wrote:
Well, I love "Tormato" and I do consider it a great prog album. Definitely. There's not a song on it that I don't like and there are several that I absolutely love.
I understand that a lot of people don't like Squire's bass sound, Rick's keyboard sound and some of the overly-fey songs ("Circus Of Heaven", "Arriving UFO"), but those things have never bothered me. I love the mix of delicate beauty ("Onward", "Madrigal") with hard-rocking riffage ("Don't Kill the Whale", "On The Silent Wings of Freedom").
I also love "Topographic Oceans", so I guess that makes me a true Yesfreak. |
Not actually, a Yesfreak must love Union and Open your Eyes, oh and Big Generator. TFTO love isn't any new news, I love it. I love all their albums from Yes(debut) to Relayer. Then Drama, The Ladder, Keystudio and Magnification are all very good ones. And 90125 is a very good pop album. There you have it.
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