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Points: 1455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2009 at 04:08
Nov has the best advice:  just listen to the classic albums before Tormato.  The same goes for listening to only Gabriel-era Genesis and Fish-era Marillion...
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Points: 7053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2009 at 04:45
Probably just the age thing, but to me the holy trinity will always be The Yes Album, CTTE and Fragile.
 
I gave up after Relayer, and among my contempories I sure wasn't the only one.
It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2009 at 09:28
I stuck it through to 90210 and then started to lose interest.  The last tour I saw was the Union one.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 1303 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2009 at 18:37
God the lyrics for Magnification are soooooooooo bad. That's just one of the reasons why I like it so much less than their old work.


Teach me to teach me
How the key unlocks the door
As we open we surrender, holding hands with many more
There’s a feeling that’s coming
There’s a feeling so real
To justify, to magnify, to realize that
Everything is love

Now, after all the love you have
You can always get it back
Knowing how you really see
Knowing it will come to you
Knowing it can really be

Magnificate, magnification
Magnificate, magnification
First you’re smaller being alive
Growing taller learn to survive
Magnificate, magnification
Magnificate, magnification
First you’re smaller being alive
Growing taller learn to survive

Perception of living
I realize I’m not alone
The rings that divide
Break again upon the stone
I will show you a necklace
Where the pearls would all be lost
Without the thread between together
This would be the golden thread of trust


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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2009 at 21:23
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I stuck it through to 90210 and then started to lose interest.  The last tour I saw was the Union one.


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I think El Bothy's analysis is very fine. I think Yes has come to a stage where they are not as hungry anymore as they were. Chris Squire once said it in an interview: a young dog (he means 70's Yes) is restless, but there will be a day when he is mature ('90's Yes) and gets rest in his body after all.

So, the Yes members, although they still like to make something that goes beyond the average pop song, have lost the restless artistical hunger. Which is not nice for a lot of us Yes admirers, but one can understand this: they have given a lot of adrenaline in the '70's, and they walk an easier path now that they are older.

For me, I'm happy with any unexpected moment that they show something of their brilliance of earlier days. I went to the Open Your Eyes tour and was very disappointed, but then I went to the Magnification tour and once again they shone, and I don't expect any more from them anymore.


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Points: 1455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2009 at 03:04
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

..."Yes - Or how I stop worrying about new music and love the band"...

Like your reference to the Dr. Strangelove movie, one of my favorite Peter Sellers comedies (and directed by Stanley Kubrick).  Agree that Yes has really been all over the musical spectrum with different band members coming and going over the years.  Trying to put them all together in the 1992 album "Union" was a mistake, but an interesting venture.  I would have to say that my favorite Yes is from The Yes Album (1970) to Going for the One (1977) - but I am an old guy, after all.  I think that Jon Anderson and Chris Squire will always be exploring new ways to explore their craft and, sometimes, it seems that they have "betrayed" their prog roots.  Maybe they will have - only time will tell...

(Sorry, already posted on this thread a couple of days ago.  Like I said:  "old guy"...)


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Points: 19643 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 23:05
Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:




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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 21:18
I can't agree with the consensus of this thread.  The KTA II tracks were wonderful.  They showed a band back at the top of their game in every way.  The Ladder suffered a bit from a lighter, poppier sound but still compared well against everything but the classics (The Yes Album, Fragile, CTTE, and GFTO.)  On the other hand, I felt that Magnification, for the most part, belonged down in the dregs with Drama and Tormato.
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