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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 05:44
I rather like my copy of YesYears, it has nice alternative versions of some of my faves and gives me a chance to hear some of the later stuff that's okay, but I wouldn't actually buy in it's original release. And yep, The Virge shouldn't be listed under Yes compilations - it shouldn't be here at all IMHO, but if it must, then it should be under VA:Tribulations.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 07:50
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

And yep, The Virge shouldn't be listed under Yes compilations - it shouldn't be here at all IMHO, but if it must, then it should be under VA:Tribulations.


gotta disagree with you there my friend.... it is a Yes album (greatest hits if you will).. remixed... by The Virge. 

and ONE hell of an album as well LOL. Best 1 star album I've ever bought hahahha
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 08:02
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

And yep, The Virge shouldn't be listed under Yes compilations - it shouldn't be here at all IMHO, but if it must, then it should be under VA:Tribulations.


gotta disagree with you there my friend.... it is a Yes album (greatest hits if you will).. remixed... by The Virge. 

and ONE hell of an album as well LOL. Best 1 star album I've ever bought hahahha


crossover, maybe? Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 08:06
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Now if you want a heavy collaborators voice:
 
1.   Start to work 5 hours a night in the Archives sacrificing the quality time with your family or stealing moments from your paid work, that's how people like Micky and Me gained the status of Special Collaborators, I remember chat sessions at 2 am in the morning (for Micky and Me), 3 am for HT and 5 am for Raffaella (in Italy). While you were probably sleeping, we were checking 519 Symphonic bands one by one, despite all we wanted is going to bed.
 
I already told it, I don't want my voice to be heavy. I only don't like when someone's not well-thought voice is heavier than mine (The Doors reviews example).
 
And Ivan, I have the feeling that you are, not intentionally, lying to yourself. There is almost no sacrifice, we are here only because we love music, because it is interesting for us. We do it because we like to do it, isn't it? Though I agree that when you are working in a team you have some obligations, but I can't call it sacrifice.
 
 
To lower the degree of this discussion, I started kinda "Thank you" thread: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51719
Hope it will be supported by progheads.
 


checking that thread out.....  

as an aside to the quote there

however... I don't think Ivan is...  that is the thing NaPH.  Ivan used the word sacrifice... that conjures up images of leaving the kids crying and hungry while we add bands that no one here has heard or most likely will ever hear hahhah.  Sacrifice is the wrong word perhaps... for those like Ivan... and myself.. and others invest time here not out of sacrifice.. but out of a love of the music.. and the site... and see it as just more than a place to hang 10.  Do we sacrifice.. no... perhaps not.... but Ivan is right in that a LOT of time is invested here for the sake of the site to give everyone here the best place on the net to find and discuss prog.  That is why at times emotions get so carried away at times..... a lot of people have invested a lot of time here... and have strong views and emotions regarding the site.  Something the admins and M@X may or may not realize... we see this site as partly ours...  we have invested so much into it... without tangible reward, we don't ask for it, what we do take from it... for all the labor and time...  is an innate sense of cooperative ownership.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 08:08
Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

And yep, The Virge shouldn't be listed under Yes compilations - it shouldn't be here at all IMHO, but if it must, then it should be under VA:Tribulations.


gotta disagree with you there my friend.... it is a Yes album (greatest hits if you will).. remixed... by The Virge. 

and ONE hell of an album as well LOL. Best 1 star album I've ever bought hahahha


crossover, maybe? Wink


hahhahah..  well...I am one of the few here that thinks Yes is mislabelled in symphonic and should be in Xover.  Strongly believe they merged pop and prog better than anyone.. so much so... they have the prog universe fooled that they were a symphonic prog band LOLLOLLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 08:09
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

 
I agree, it makes me remember:
 
Classic Yes
 
Yesyears
 
Yesstory
 
The Very Best of Yes
 
The Best of Yes
 
Yes Today
 
In A Word
 
The Ultimate Yes
 
Topography - The Yes Anthology
 
The Solid Gold Collection
 
One more for the members to pick up some royalties
 
 
And one for DJ The Verfe (Virgil Howe, Steve's son) to play
 
Yes Re-Mixes
 
 
Tell me if this is not a rip off?
 
Iván
 
 
 
 


Just say no to Yes compilations. LOL
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 08:50
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

And yep, The Virge shouldn't be listed under Yes compilations - it shouldn't be here at all IMHO, but if it must, then it should be under VA:Tribulations.


gotta disagree with you there my friend.... it is a Yes album (greatest hits if you will).. remixed... by The Virge. 

and ONE hell of an album as well LOL. Best 1 star album I've ever bought hahahha
LOL I love the album, but for all the wrong reasons, I'd give it 4 stars as a techno album - I just can't see it as a Yes Greatest Hits album.
 
Crossover? By definition yes, by execution, no.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 09:05
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

And yep, The Virge shouldn't be listed under Yes compilations - it shouldn't be here at all IMHO, but if it must, then it should be under VA:Tribulations.


gotta disagree with you there my friend.... it is a Yes album (greatest hits if you will).. remixed... by The Virge. 

and ONE hell of an album as well LOL. Best 1 star album I've ever bought hahahha
LOL I love the album, but for all the wrong reasons, I'd give it 4 stars as a techno album - I just can't see it as a Yes Greatest Hits album.
 
Crossover? By definition yes, by execution, no.


I'd have given it 5 stars... what techno album has Chris Squires bitchin bass lines LOL.  I need to put that in... haven't listened to it since I reviewed it actually.  No wait...  I did put it in just to hear Soundchaser a couple of months ago.

as far as the album.... it is a Yes album... their performances...  remixed by someone else....  not another artist performing the music. It belongs under Yes.  To simplify...  no different than if one of the group members did a remix of it.... would that album then been moved to Steve Howe's ... or Chris Squire's discography if they had been the one's to do it. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 09:46
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

And yep, The Virge shouldn't be listed under Yes compilations - it shouldn't be here at all IMHO, but if it must, then it should be under VA:Tribulations.


gotta disagree with you there my friend.... it is a Yes album (greatest hits if you will).. remixed... by The Virge. 

and ONE hell of an album as well LOL. Best 1 star album I've ever bought hahahha
LOL I love the album, but for all the wrong reasons, I'd give it 4 stars as a techno album - I just can't see it as a Yes Greatest Hits album.
 
Crossover? By definition yes, by execution, no.


I'd have given it 5 stars... what techno album has Chris Squires bitchin bass lines LOL.  I need to put that in... haven't listened to it since I reviewed it actually.  No wait...  I did put it in just to hear Soundchaser a couple of months ago.

as far as the album.... it is a Yes album... their performances...  remixed by someone else....  not another artist performing the music. It belongs under Yes.  To simplify...  no different than if one of the group members did a remix of it.... would that album then been moved to Steve Howe's ... or Chris Squire's discography if they had been the one's to do it. 


Now you've made me want to hear it. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 09:51
Ah, the power of a 1-star review LOL 
 
every rating has value here
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 09:52
my review of it was a poor review of it.. but I simply couldn't do justice in a review to what I heard the first time I put it in. 

it is truly a listening experience .... love it. LOL  In fact... putting it on now hahha
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 09:57
hahahha..

Yes...... Yes..... Yes..... Yes...... Yes...... Yes


god I love Tempus Fugit... and can shake my ass to it LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 09:59
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hahahha..

Yes...... Yes..... Yes..... Yes...... Yes...... Yes


god I love Tempus Fugit... and can shake my ass to it LOL


That sounds so wrong but so awesome. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 10:26
^ wait till you hear Soundchaser.....on now... and  waiting for the knock on the door telling me to turn that sh*t down....LOL


frickin killer....  who would have thought you could dance to Soundchaser..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 10:42
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Who would have though Micky could dance Tongue


oh man....  I never met a pool table or bar counter I didn't like....  I used to be a dancing fool LOL. Micky's got rhythm brother...  some of you grew up with prog....  I grew up with motown.  My mom was nuts about it.  The reason I picked up the bass as a kid.  James Jamerson is my idol. Heart
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 10:45
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Who would have though Micky could dance Tongue


oh man....  I never met a pool table or bar counter I didn't like....  I used to be a dancing fool LOL. Micky's got rhythm brother...  some of you grew up with prog....  I grew up with motown.  My mom was nuts about it.  The reason I picked up the bass as a kid.  James Jamerson is my idol. Heart


Don't know much about dancin'
That's why I got this song
One of my legs is shorter than the other
And both of my feet's too long

Course now right along with 'em
I've got no natural rhythm
But I go dancing every night
Hoping one day I might get it right

I'm a... dancin' fooooooooooool...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 10:51
turning this into the Yes Remixes appreciation thread.. .and thinking about an edit of my poor review.. not the rating.. but really didn't make a good attempt to describe the music.

No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed...

SMOKES the original album version....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 10:52
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

turning this into the Yes Remixes appreciation thread.. .and thinking about an edit of my poor review.. not the rating.. but really didn't make a good attempt to describe the music.

No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed...

SMOKES the original album version....


Haha, from the sounds of it, you should give it like 5 stars. LOL

You've never made me want to hear an album so badly before, yet it's a 1 star rating. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2008 at 10:57
the best thing about my review..... rereading it.. .it does suck..LOL

Anyway.. 1 star...

for eccentric Yes fans and those who are supremely open-minded. Those who are, might actually enjoy pulling this out occasionally. I do. Probably the most enjoyable 1 star album I'll ever review

Michael (aka micky)




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