All YES Appreciation Thread

American Khatru wrote: My favorite live Yes record would have been any record with Bruford on the drums doing Close to the Edge and/or And You.  Since that doesn't exist...I have a special place in my heart for Yessongs, even though it doesn't have the greatest sound.  They kill on so many songs, especially Heart of the Sunrise, Perpetual Change.  Yesshows was very important to me back when it rolled out.  The update of Time and a Word adds to the song I think.  I like the live Parallels and Going better than the studio sometimes.  Gates is fantastic, out of this world, at a loss for words when I think of how great Howe and Moraz do on it.  Believe it or not, I don't have or know Symphonic Live (that's the one that just came out, right).  Who has it?  When are the performances from?  Is this legitimately good, or does it make one cringe inwardly, secretly wishing for older days?

An Evening of Yes Music, by ABWH has, as stated before, CttE, and it also has And You And I (but it doesn't feature Chris Squire). But as I already said, my favourite here is Heart to the Sunrise, and this recording exists on CD and DVD. As I already said too, Yes Symphonic is very very good as far as I'm concerned, very good playing, very good sound and video quality, and very good orchestrations, even if they don't invade absolutly every sound space available, but I guess that's what makes it so great, the orchestra comes in where it's needed. I particularly love the I Get Up, I Get Down high part with the orchestra, as well as the high parts from And You And I, and in general all the orchestra work on Gates of Delirium. Besides, in the video you can see the orchestra really having fun in the concert, not all serious playing the music as if they didn't care what they're playing. Yes, as far as I'm concerned, Yes Symphonic is really worth getting.

Bitterblogger wrote: American Khatru wrote: My favorite live Yes record would have been any record with Bruford on the drums doing Close to the Edge and/or And You.  Since that doesn't exist... Well, you can hear Bruford doing CTTE on the ABWH video. ...   For my money, I prefer the And You And I version on YesYears to the studio one, although it's great too. You won't believe that it's Kaye, not Wakeman.

I guess I really meant that I want that ol' Bruford, back before going to KC, that Bruford playing those green album wonders.

About 15 years ago I decided to go on a diet and also to stop drinking alcohol.

As a treat I purchased several albums, and one of them was a compilation album called 'Classic Yes'. Before then I had only heard a few tracks, the main one being Owner of a Lonely Heart which I found a little too commercial. However, I thought I would give it a go.

I spent three very happy sober months playing this album over and over again, never once even becoming remotely bored with it.

My favourite tracks from that album were Heart of the Sunrise (and still my overall favourite), Long Distance Runaround and Roundabout.

Fantastic band

Dellinger wrote: Oh, and the update for Time and a Word found on Keys to Ascension is really quiet different than the one on Yessongs. As a matter of fact I first heard the one on Keys, and when I heard the one on Yessongs was really dissapointed.

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ghost_of_morphy wrote: Glad you brought that up.  Classic Yes had an absolutely amazing live version of I've Seen All Good People.

Indeed


Edited by Gillywibble - November 09 2009 at 12:04

Dellinger wrote: Oh, and the update for Time and a Word found on Keys to Ascension is really quiet different than the one on Yessongs. As a matter of fact I first heard the one on Keys, and when I heard the one on Yessongs was really dissapointed.

I must agree. I find that Keys to Ascension is my favorite Yes live recording (although admittedly, I haven't yet heard Yessongs ... which is odd, considering I have Yesshows, Lilve at Montreux, Beyond and Before, both KTA, and Symphonic Live). The updated versions of their old songs were great. And the band had such an energy ... like they were playing the music that they really loved. Like they were glad to return home.

Which confuses me about how "Open Your Eyes" could have been their next record.

TheGazzardian wrote: Dellinger wrote: Oh, and the update for Time and a Word found on Keys to Ascension is really quiet different than the one on Yessongs. As a matter of fact I first heard the one on Keys, and when I heard the one on Yessongs was really dissapointed. I must agree. I find that Keys to Ascension is my favorite Yes live recording (although admittedly, I haven't yet heard Yessongs ... which is odd, considering I have Yesshows, Lilve at Montreux, Beyond and Before, both KTA, and Symphonic Live). The updated versions of their old songs were great. And the band had such an energy ... like they were playing the music that they really loved. Like they were glad to return home.Which confuses me about how "Open Your Eyes" could have been their next record.

By the way, I'm sorry, but I made a mistake and I meant to say the version of Time and a Word on YESSHOWS (as I was already corrected by another poster on this thread). As a matter of fact (many should already know this) there is no Time and a Word on Yessongs. And I guess you should really try to get Yessongs, for it is one of the classic album from Yes (though as a matter of fact, I do like better Keys to Ascenssion and Symphonic Live).

I'm sure many of us noticed the Yessongs>Yesshows thing, didn't feel the need to be that guy...

Yesshows is purty important, a must have for many reasons.

What do you think that Yes also Start out an Archives Live  Releases, like Nektar and others are doing

Dellinger wrote: I don't really know what you're talking about: I don't know who or what Nektar are, nor what their Archives Live Releases is (though the name is somewhat self-explanatory), nor what the White album by Yes might be. But it still sounds interesting.