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Points: 2771 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2005 at 05:39

Originally posted by BiGi BiGi wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:


Most Yes fans see Rabin as the anti Christ, in a similar way that Phil Collins was deemed to be the creative downfall of Genesis ( a bit unfair really)

Ahem...actually my favourite Genesis albums are A trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering, although I love them all (they are my favourite band of all times)...

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Out of interest, have you heard many other Yes albums? If not I would reccomend that you check out 'Close to the Edge' - their best IMO, and also 'Going for the One' the beginning of the modernisation of their sound, but still very progressive. I've never heard anyone say they think Drama is their best work.

I have all their LPs from Yes to Magnification...and my favourite "long" track is Gates of Delirium!
(my preferences usually leave other prog lovers a little bit "astonished"... )

I even think that Open your eyes is a very interesting album!

Heh heh that's cool Bigi ... diversity is great ... I can't quite imagine a hardcore Yes fan who thinks Drama's the best album and Gates Of Delirium is the best epic ... and I've never met anybody who digs Open Your Eyes ... 

I'm afraid I have "common" tastes ie I think The Yes Album, Fragile and Close To The Edge are the three best Yes albums and I don't like Big Generator or Open Your Eyes at all ... but then again I liked many moments in Union

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“Big Generator” ain’t bad but still is my least favorite from Yes (West).

My order of preference:

 

1 – “Talk”;

2 – “90125”;

3 – “Big Generator”.
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Horn 12mins 

White 16 mins

Howe 44 mins

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The frame will be so built to challenge the universe
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Points: 848 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2005 at 06:01
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:


It sounds like you have a healthy appreciation of both old and new prog.



You got it!
I know many classic-prog and some new-prog very well.
These are the ones of which I know the whole production:

  • Genesis (Best Album: A Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering; Best Tracks: Mad Man Moon, The Knife, In the Cage, The Return of the Gian Hogweed, Watcher of the Skies, Robbery Assault and Battery)

  • Yes (BA: Drama, Fragile, Close to the Edge; BT: Gates of Delirium, Machine Messiah, Changes, Southside of the Sky, Release Release, Leave it, I get up I get down)

  • King Crimson (BA: Red, Lark's Tongues in Aspic; BT: Starless, The Great Deceiver, Fallen Angel, Three of a Perfect Pair, Happy with what you have to be happy with)

  • Rush (BA: A farewell to Kings, Counterparts, Moving Pictures; BT: Xanadu, Jacob's Ladder, Afterimage, Subdivisions, Animate

  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer (BA: Trilogy; BT: The Endless Enigma, Karn Evil 9, Tarkus, Take a pebble

  • Pink Floyd (BA: Animals, Wish you were here; BT: Sheep, Summer '68, Shine on you crazy diamond, Echoes, A great day for freedom

  • Spock's Beard (BA: V, Beware of Darkness; BT: At the end of the day, Thoughts, Harm's Way, Flow, Ghosts of Autumn)

  • The Flower Kings (BA: Space Revolver, Stardust we are; BT: Chicken Farmer Song, In the eyes of the world, Circus Brimstone, Compassion, A Vampire's View, The Truth Will Set You Free)

  • Dream Theater (BA: Metropolis part II; BT: Beyond this life, Space-dye Vest, Pull me under, Home)

As I said in another topic, I'm not one for seeking after virtuosisms...I fall in love with a song when its mood strikes me (for instance...I like Steve Hackett's compositions for the "aura" more than for his technique - although it's excellent!) or when its chord sequence surprises me...

(Mmm...I fear I'm going off-topic! )
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2005 at 06:08
Originally posted by BiGi BiGi wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:


It sounds like you have a healthy appreciation of both old and new prog.



You got it!
I know many classic-prog and some new-prog very well.
These are the ones of which I know the whole production:

  • Genesis (Best Album: A Trick of the Tail, Wind and Wuthering; Best Tracks: Mad Man Moon, The Knife, In the Cage, The Return of the Gian Hogweed, Watcher of the Skies, Robbery Assault and Battery)
  • Yes (BA: Drama, Fragile, Close to the Edge; BT: Gates of Delirium, Machine Messiah, Changes, Southside of the Sky, Release Release, Leave it, I get up I get down)
  • King Crimson (BA: Red, Lark's Tongues in Aspic; BT: Starless, The Great Deceiver, Fallen Angel, Three of a Perfect Pair, Happy with what you have to be happy with)
  • Rush (BA: A farewell to Kings, Counterparts, Moving Pictures; BT: Xanadu, Jacob's Ladder, Afterimage, Subdivisions, Animate
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer (BA: Trilogy; BT: The Endless Enigma, Karn Evil 9, Tarkus, Take a pebble
  • Pink Floyd (BA: Animals, Wish you were here; BT: Sheep, Summer '68, Shine on you crazy diamond, Echoes, A great day for freedom
  • Spock's Beard (BA: V, Beware of Darkness; BT: At the end of the day, Thoughts, Harm's Way, Flow, Ghosts of Autumn)
  • The Flower Kings (BA: Space Revolver, Stardust we are; BT: Chicken Farmer Song, In the eyes of the world, Circus Brimstone, Compassion, A Vampire's View, The Truth Will Set You Free)
  • Dream Theater (BA: Metropolis part II; BT: Beyond this life, Space-dye Vest, Pull me under, Home)


As I said in another topic, I'm not one for seeking after virtuosisms...I fall in love with a song when its mood strikes me (for instance...I like Steve Hackett's compositions for the "aura" more than for his technique - although it's excellent!) or when its chord sequence surprises me...

(Mmm...I fear I'm going off-topic! )

Hackett is a superb melodic guitarist!

Well, we're both off topic now.  So I shall not continue to post on a Yes thread about Genesis, who I could babble on about all day!! Welcome to the forum BiGi.
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Points: 848 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2005 at 06:18
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:


Well, we're both off topic now.  So I shall not continue to post on a Yes thread about Genesis, who I could babble on about all day!! Welcome to the forum BiGi.


Ok...to get back to the main point: the Drama and 90125 line-ups are equivalent to me...with one great remark.
Trevor Horn as a lead vocalist has not been such a good idea, IMHO!
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2005 at 06:44
Originally posted by BiGi BiGi wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:


Well, we're both off topic now.  So I shall not continue to post on a Yes thread about Genesis, who I could babble on about all day!! Welcome to the forum BiGi.


Ok...to get back to the main point: the Drama and 90125 line-ups are equivalent to me...with one great remark.
Trevor Horn as a lead vocalist has not been such a good idea, IMHO!

Agreed, he's better off in the producers chair IMO. 90125 has superb production. Although I generally prefer that classic organic 70's production, it was 1984 when I first heard 90125. I was young then and I had never heard anything produced that way in rock before. I had heard the Buggles and the job Trevor Horn had done on Fankie Goes to Hollywood (both production triumphs) but they were just pop. It was quite eye opening. It was the first Yes I ever really paid attention to. Thats why I can accept it these days more so than many older fans who grew up with the band.

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