About YES

Okay, so you started 4 threads in Prog Bands, Artists and Genres Appreciation with the title "About (insert classic prog band that has been discussed to death here)" and then one in Prog Music Lounge.
It's hard to tell if you are genuine, or just trying to fill spaces in the forum with clogging them on topics that do not need to be started, since there are probably literally 100s of threads on the topic already.
Don't want to come across as a jerk, just want to know your intentions.

Maybe he should use the search function, cause I garruntee he will find the answers to all of his questions. I dont think there has been anything left unsaid about Yes.

You should stand your ground, you will meet friends here, the posters to your thread have no authority, the one poster replied to your brazilian band post which had 27 replies, he said he knew of one brazilian band and never named it, you will find controversy on the forum, you will find egos, you will find intelligent discussion, if you stay you will be fine

This is a summary of most Yes discussions on this forum

Yesfan1: I love Yes! All of their music is amazing, right up to 90125!

Yesfan2: But I like 90210! It's not a bad pop album!

Yesfan3: STFU n00b! It's 90125 and it sux. That and TFTO

Yesfan4: TFTO rulez n00b! It's their best album ever.

forget yes, you made a new person feel bad, to me this is a NO, now you might want to argue about it, I am 60 years old, I don`t care to argue

Thanks, guys.

Edited by Jaja Macca - December 03 2008 at 00:28

AlexUC wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Just as a note, I tried a search on Yes, and in the last 6 months alone in Prog Bands, Artists and Genres Appreciation, there is like, 10 topics. I think it needs about half a calorie of energy to scroll to the top of the screen and click search function. On the first page of Prog Bands, Artists and Genres alone there is the new Steven Wilson album, there is the PostRock/Math rock/Post Metal thread, the Tech/Extreme. One of which (the Wilson thread) is one about a new album that has barely been discussed yet, and the other 2 are threads that are always about finding the latest bands and discussing them, or bands that at the very least, are only a few years old and haven't been discussed to absolute death like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd etc have. If you're a collab, then you should never refer like that to anybody. This kind of behavior of some people in there just polarizes the site making it unreachable for new people. If you feel uncomfortable with an opened topic, just stay away from it, there's always someone in there that wants to discuss about the classic bands, which is perfectly fair.

Yes, I understand your point, but don't fool yourself.
A topic like this isn't going to really be anything substantial.
There was a thread a while ago, where there was an argument about symphonic sound vs symphonic structure.
One posted talked about Yes not having a great deal to do with Baroque music and it's lack of contrapuntal devices, talking about the harmonic structure.
That was a really cool debate going on there, a really cool topic that actually......well, was substantial and brought something new to progarchives I believe.
I admit, despite being a musician myself, I never really pondered whether Yes was far more influenced by the Romantic period than the Baroque. I learnt something there, even if it was something that I may have been able to learn myself eventually had I thrown on Yes and thought "hmmmm, there is a lack of counterpoint here".

But instead, we have to resort to these shallow, rehashed discussions of "Favorite album, favorite band member, favorite era etc".
That's all cool if the band if say, it's a very recent band that we haven't had much opportunity to discuss.
But in some form or another, whether inside this forum, or elsewhere, Yes, Genesis or whatever, the "favorite album, favorite band member" etc thing has been done to absolute death.

We can still discuss these bands, but how about looking at things like a  more in depth, musical analysis/dissecting the music piece by piece so we get a clearer idea of the music (like some of the interesting posts in the Symphonic Sound Vs Symphonic Structure for example) just as an example perhaps.





Edited by HughesJB4 - December 03 2008 at 00:58

FIrst off, JaJa Macca welcome to PA.  I am glad to see your enthusiasm for participating in the forums here at PA.  It is good to see such enthusiasm from a new member.  However, as Hughes mentioned each of these big bands do have an appreciation thread within this section of the forum.  I definitely recommend that you check these threads out to read members thoughts on these bands, as well as post your thoughts on these bands within those threads.  The fact that you have already started all of these threads falls under "What's done is done", but I would definitely recommend that in the future you use the search function or just browse the threads to find previously created threads that fit the discussion that you would like to have.  I realize that I'm not adding anything different to what Hughes already said, but I just thought it would be good to restate what was said a bit.

Yes! I do like Yes!