All YES Appreciation Thread

Jozef wrote: I really enjoyed Yes's debut album. I'm impressed with how they put their own spin on the cover songs on there. I think I may go back and give it another listen soon.

I might give that a 5 star review once I get to it. It's safe to say IMO that it is the best debut album ever.

Anyone been to a GIG with the Yes setup on tour :

I much prefer The Ladder to Relayer, but Relayer is probably the Yes album that I like the least, so that probably has something to do with it.  Relayer is Yes' heavy metal album.    I have actually liked Relayer a little more with my most recent listens to it, but I still can't get past the low quality sound (IMO) on the guitar/keyboards. 

Edited by rushfan4 - September 04 2009 at 10:23

^^

Same here!

I really enjoyed Yes's debut album. I'm impressed with how they put their own spin on the cover songs on there. I think I may go back and give it another listen soon. 

yes!!!                      ofcours one of the biggest  band man!if u know that frank borneman(member of ELOY band)listen to yes and king crimson!                ian anderson  cooperated with kitaro  thats one of the best soft prog rock albums:)tnx

American Khatru wrote: ghost_of_morphy wrote: American Khatru wrote: I came here with a very good knowledge of prog, or so I thought.  Now I can say I know prog much better, because I have seen the light.  Rock Progressivo Italiano!!! Nice job everyone. Agrees that RPI is quite enlighterning.  But Yes is still the standard by which all else is compared. I am helpless but to agree.  I tuned into Yes at such a very young age, it's as if they formed much of my musical thinking.  They made my mind available to the better musics in the world - not just other great prog bands but the interesting ones in "regular" rock and in jazz, the demanding composers of classical/romantic, the heights of opera, the loamy but mind-opening musics of the eastern classical traditions, even the more "expensive" of the cumbias of the Americas.  I didn't know it as a little kid, but by taking a steady diet of especially The Yes Album through Tales, I was training myself to handle long forms, and to demand interest from my music.  Three cheers for Yes!

progkidjoel wrote: ^^ Same here - I'm 15, and I've been listening to YES for longer than I can remember. They're still the only Prog Band I've seen live, and as you said, they've also formed a majority of my musical thinking! THREE CHEERS FOR YES!

Joel, your a young man after my heart (old expression).  It gives me a nice feeling to see someone your age in here, perhaps not so different from myself in your excitement over music.

Thinking about you, and about ghost_of_morphy saying "Yes is still the standard by which all else is compared"...  Lately I'm reading Mann's The Magic Mountain (the Woods translation).  I hit on a little passage.  I'm not saying it bears entirely or directly, but nearly.  It turned me to think of my own young self (formative years, younger even than 15), and to connect right to the taking in of standards-making artworks; to reflecting and remembering what it was like to be alive and young, awareness just flowering, and to have, luckily and perhaps even wisely, surrounded myself as best I could with beautiful sound.

"[T]he perceptions gained by his own calm, alert child's eye were much the same -- unspoken and therefore uncritical perceptions, though enthusiastic for all that, which when they later became conscious memories retained their exclusively positive stamp, immune to all discussion or analysis."

ghost_of_morphy wrote: American Khatru wrote: I came here with a very good knowledge of prog, or so I thought.  Now I can say I know prog much better, because I have seen the light.  Rock Progressivo Italiano!!! Nice job everyone. Agrees that RPI is quite enlighterning.  But Yes is still the standard by which all else is compared.

I am helpless but to agree.  I tuned into Yes at such a very young age, it's as if they formed much of my musical thinking.  They made my mind available to the better musics in the world - not just other great prog bands but the interesting ones in "regular" rock and in jazz, the demanding composers of classical/romantic, the heights of opera, the loamy but mind-opening musics of the eastern classical traditions, even the more "expensive" of the cumbias of the Americas.  I didn't know it as a little kid, but by taking a steady diet of especially The Yes Album through Tales, I was training myself to handle long forms, and to demand interest from my music.  Three cheers for Yes!

Sigh, let's get back from claiming that we are all newbs and discuss the greatest band of all time, Yes!  I'll just throw this out there to get things going. 

How much you know isn't important. Not at all. I know a ton about music and about prog but who cares? What does that matter? It's just because I listen to music and love so many kinds. People all love different kinds of music. Prog is NOT my preferred genre though I, strangely, listen to a lot of it. I listen to indie rock, classic rock, some rap, punk, funk, soul, jazz, and classical. But who cares? That doesn't make me any better of a person. I'd rather know a kind hearted musically ignorant person than I would an a****le who knew everything.