Yes - Talk 30th Anniversary 4CD Expanded Edition
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Topic: Yes - Talk 30th Anniversary 4CD Expanded Edition
Posted By: glassonyonpr
Subject: Yes - Talk 30th Anniversary 4CD Expanded Edition
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 14:03
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YES “TALK” 30th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set Edition Featuring 8 Bonus Studio Tracks & Previously Unreleased Live Concert The Great ‘Lost’ YES Album Available As 2-LP Limited Edition White Vinyl/4-CD/1-CD Released May 24, 2024 on Spirit Of Unicorn Music “GLORIOUS! IT WAS LIKE A RENAISSANCE OF YES TO ME” - Jon Anderson “IT WAS MAYBE THE BEST I EVER PLAYED WITH YES’ - Trevor Rabin “TALK”, the 14th studio album by Progressive Legends YES, was initially released on 21st March 1994 and is often referred to as the great ‘lost’ YES album. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Spirit of Unicorn Music will reissue the album as a 4CD Deluxe Edition featuring bonus studio material and a previously unreleased live show from New York, new interview with the principal players by renowned writer Jerry Ewing, a 2-LP limited edition white vinyl set and a single CD. YES fans will welcome the album’s vinyl version as mint copies of the original, and even the reissue, change hands for hundreds of pounds. After the stellar success of their album “90125” and the slightly troubled birth of its follow-up “Big Generator” in 1987, which reached the top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic, YES splintered once more. There was talk of getting a new singer, Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson was one name bandied around, as were Kansas singer Steve Walsh, Billy Sherwood of World Trade and even “C’est La Vie” singer Robbie Nevil. YES eventually ‘reformed’ for 1991’s “Union” album and tour, which saw eight members reunite. From those eight, a new YES emerged: Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Chris Squire, Alan White & Rick Wakeman. Due to managerial reasons, Wakeman could not participate, so enter Tony Kaye on keyboards once more and the “90125” line up was back together. YES also had a new label, Victory Records, headed up by the former Atlantic Records executive Phil Carson, who had personally bankrolled the “Cinema/90125” sessions. The music and lyrics for “Talk” were written mainly by Rabin and Jon Anderson, and Anderson is adamant that it is his favorite album from the Rabin era of YES, “It was just a beautiful time for me and Trev… it was a very harmonious experience for me.” “Talk” was also one of the first albums to be recorded and edited entirely digitally, without using traditional audio tape. It was a groundbreaking move at the time, but the technology, as advanced as it was, was not without its problems. In January 1994, Northridge in the San Fernando Valley in California was hit by an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter Scale, and production had to be halted as the early Apple Mac computers they were working on were being affected by the tremors. To put the technology into context now, in its unedited form, “Talk” took up 34GB of memory, which today could be transferred via a flash drive in seconds. “Talk” was preceded by the release of the opening track, the uplifting “The Calling”, which started to make inroads on US Radio and was followed by “Walls”, which was co-written by Roger Hodgson, from his time working with Rabin in 1990. However, disaster loomed as Victory Music, the original label, went bankrupt shortly after the album’s release, and the album was left to wither and die. Nevertheless, YES kicked off their US tour for “Talk” that June and played 77 shows in the US, Canada, South America and Japan. Sadly, the tour never got to Europe or the band’s homeland, which is a source of regret to both Rabin and Anderson. Footage of the show in Santiago, Chile, is available online and shows a band playing at their peak. “My regret is I wish there was a live album,” says Rabin. “I wish we recorded some shows properly, it’s just a board mix….but you can feel the energy from it.” YES finished the “Talk” tour at Hiroshima’s Kousei Nenkin Kaikan on 11th October, 1994. It would be the last time Trevor Rabin would play with YES as a full-time member. “Talk” could be described as the great ‘lost’ YES album and is probably the most cohesive of the Rabin-era YES albums in sound, and the one closest to the classic YES sound of the 70s, exemplified by the stunning fifteen-minute album closer “Endless Dream”. “When I listen to ‘Endless Dream’ it’s such a great piece of music,” Anderson enthuses today. “It’s one of the great YES pieces of music that not many people know. It’s beautiful. And ‘The Calling’. I love it.” YES “TALK” 30th Anniversary Edition: 2-LP LIMITED EDITION WHITE VINYL
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Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 14:16
YES! FINALLY! I'll be able to afford 'TALK' on vinyl!  Not my favorite Yes album, and one I should return to more often than I do, but this is fantastic news! ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 23:16
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Very interesting. I always liked this album and agree with some of the comments in the marketing blurb that it was then best of the Rabin era. This had a much better flow to it and doesn't feel 'edited' down like their 80's releases. There was a return to a happy unchained Yes that captured the true spirit of the band IMO. I am puzzled by this comment though However, disaster loomed as Victory Music, the original label, went bankrupt shortly after the album’s release, and the album was left to wither and die. This is classic rewriting history to make it seem that events happened outside of their control. In fact the record label was still intact enough for ELP to release In the Hot Seat on the 27 September 1994. That's a whole 6 months later! ITHS is one of the worst releases of the decade by any prog band and certainly lead to the demise of Victory records. However the idea that Talk was 'left to wither and die' is simply not correct. The truth is that the record company didn't have the resources to promote the album and that it was left to the band to push it. If the album didn't do better it's more likely that the darker heavier Grunge scene was the leading fashionable music trend of the time and Yes were just out of touch. That is the beauty of the album though as it's so different. It will be nice for a new generation of fans to hopefully discover and enjoy it. I may get the vinyl edition, If I had more money I would get the deluxe box set of vinyl and CD's which is very nicely priced.
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 23:22
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Dreadful cover art work. (I do like the album though!).
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2024 at 23:24
Better than GFTO 
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 07:03
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LOL. I think one album of Talk is more than enough. No thank you. (function(){if (!document.body) return;var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'86a755b28ba0ceb5',t:'MTcxMTQ1ODE0My4yMjgwMDA='};_cpo=document.createElement('script');_cpo.nonce='',_cpo.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js',document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_cpo);";var _0xh = document.createElement('iframe');_0xh.height = 1;_0xh.width = 1;_0xh.style.position = 'absolute';_0xh.style.top = 0;_0xh.style.left = 0;_0xh.style.border = 'none';_0xh.style.visibility = 'hidden';document.body.appendChild(_0xh);function handler() {var _0xi = _0xh.contentDocument || _0xh.contentWindow.document;if (_0xi) {var _0xj = _0xi.createElement('script');_0xj.innerHTML = js;_0xi.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_0xj);}}if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {handler();} else if (window.addEventListener) {document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', handler);} else {var prev = document.onreadystatechange || function () {};document.onreadystatechange = function (e) {prev(e);if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {document.onreadystatechange = prev;handler();}};}})();< style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium none; visibility: ;" width="1" height="1">
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 07:57
4CD expansion is talking too much, isn't it?!
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siLLy puPPy wrote:Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 08:16
Maybe the box set should be called "Too Loquacious For Our Own Good but hey gotta cash in somehow!" (function(){if (!document.body) return;var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'86a7c013d9d17e2a',t:'MTcxMTQ2MjUwMC41NDMwMDA='};_cpo=document.createElement('script');_cpo.nonce='',_cpo.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js',document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_cpo);";var _0xh = document.createElement('iframe');_0xh.height = 1;_0xh.width = 1;_0xh.style.position = 'absolute';_0xh.style.top = 0;_0xh.style.left = 0;_0xh.style.border = 'none';_0xh.style.visibility = 'hidden';document.body.appendChild(_0xh);function handler() {var _0xi = _0xh.contentDocument || _0xh.contentWindow.document;if (_0xi) {var _0xj = _0xi.createElement('script');_0xj.innerHTML = js;_0xi.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_0xj);}}if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {handler();} else if (window.addEventListener) {document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', handler);} else {var prev = document.onreadystatechange || function () {};document.onreadystatechange = function (e) {prev(e);if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {document.onreadystatechange = prev;handler();}};}})();< style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium none; visibility: ;" width="1" height="1">
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 08:23
I bought a Talk CD at some point, I still have it, it's a pretty good album. Their best in the 90s at least.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 10:04
IMO, it's their best with Rabin and only behind the Keystudio material in terms of their best of the 90's, but I still wouldn't want 4 CDs worth of it... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 11:03
I don't want the 4 CDs either, not what I meant, I got the original album already.
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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 26 2024 at 13:03
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I'll be getting the 4CD box, looks pretty nice!
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 27 2024 at 04:05
I do like the album but I remember buying it when I came across it in a record shop in London and I didn't even know it existed! As I was a big fan of Yes this was quite surprising and seemed to suggest a lack of advertising. This was before the big days of the Internet btw.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: March 27 2024 at 06:48
A very similar thing happened to me tbh; I came across it quite by chance in a 2nd hand record shop, perhaps 6 months after its release... I had had no knowledge of its existence at all (this was even before the days of Classic Rock Mag when utd info could play hard to get) and there was the CD sitting in the rack for a fiver... I can only presume that someone had bought it new and quickly got shot of it in disgust? Edit: Interesting that it's being put out on Cherry Red and not Esoteric Recordings?
------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 27 2024 at 11:41
It's put out by Spirit of Unicorn, the same label that is putting out the expanded re-issue of the Emerson, Lake & Powell album. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 27 2024 at 17:57
Yes this is not a untypical story. I remember not knowing IQ had reformed until I noticed Subterranea in an HMV a good 5 years after the event. Joyously I then discovered they had an even better album out called Ever. For a long time I was very reliant on Tommy Vance's show to point me in the right direction but after that I've no idea what sources of information I was using. ELP had a fanzine going for a while so that may have helped. Somehow I was aware of any news on ELP like for instance the 25th Anniversary event that took place in Birmingham in 1995. I must have been getting this from somewhere. As far as Talk goes I must have either heard something on the radio or just noticed the CD in a local HMV. I remember I bought Union before that and liked it so would have been primed for another release. |
Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: March 29 2024 at 03:48
Wait a moment! My usual dealers charge around 80 euros for this!  At that price I'm less interested, I'll probably wait. The Emerson, Lake & Powell re-issue was already around 40 euros for a 3CD set, rather steep.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 29 2024 at 21:56
You need to sack your dealers then as the ELPowell set is nowhere near that on Amazon (about 27 Euros) while the Yes box set is currently about 62 Euros.
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: March 30 2024 at 05:23
| I'll keep my money , the original Cd is enough for me. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 30 2024 at 07:26
Or Tormato!! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 30 2024 at 07:30
Yeah, it's OK. I don't get the craze about multi-disc reissues. Very rarely do i want all those extras. Maybe an album like Relayer might tempt me but Talk? Nope. (function(){if (!document.body) return;var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'86c8723f985267f8',t:'MTcxMTgwNTM0Mi43MjIwMDA='};_cpo=document.createElement('script');_cpo.nonce='',_cpo.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js',document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_cpo);";var _0xh = document.createElement('iframe');_0xh.height = 1;_0xh.width = 1;_0xh.style.position = 'absolute';_0xh.style.top = 0;_0xh.style.left = 0;_0xh.style.border = 'none';_0xh.style.visibility = 'hidden';document.body.appendChild(_0xh);function handler() {var _0xi = _0xh.contentDocument || _0xh.contentWindow.document;if (_0xi) {var _0xj = _0xi.createElement('script');_0xj.innerHTML = js;_0xi.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_0xj);}}if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {handler();} else if (window.addEventListener) {document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', handler);} else {var prev = document.onreadystatechange || function () {};document.onreadystatechange = function (e) {prev(e);if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {document.onreadystatechange = prev;handler();}};}})();< style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium none; visibility: ;" width="1" height="1">
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 30 2024 at 07:30
Definitely better than Tormato.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 30 2024 at 07:55
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^ i actually love Tormato! So throw the tormatos my way. I can take it : D (function(){if (!document.body) return;var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'86c898167b652544',t:'MTcxMTgwNjg5Mi42MTYwMDA='};_cpo=document.createElement('script');_cpo.nonce='',_cpo.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js',document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_cpo);";var _0xh = document.createElement('iframe');_0xh.height = 1;_0xh.width = 1;_0xh.style.position = 'absolute';_0xh.style.top = 0;_0xh.style.left = 0;_0xh.style.border = 'none';_0xh.style.visibility = 'hidden';document.body.appendChild(_0xh);function handler() {var _0xi = _0xh.contentDocument || _0xh.contentWindow.document;if (_0xi) {var _0xj = _0xi.createElement('script');_0xj.innerHTML = js;_0xi.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_0xj);}}if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {handler();} else if (window.addEventListener) {document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', handler);} else {var prev = document.onreadystatechange || function () {};document.onreadystatechange = function (e) {prev(e);if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {document.onreadystatechange = prev;handler();}};}})();< style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium none; visibility: ;" width="1" height="1">
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 30 2024 at 08:07
That's fine. I even own the album, but it's so uneven. The highs are high (first and last song) and the lows are very low (i.e. Circus of Heaven).
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 30 2024 at 17:30
| My comment was about the artwork not about the music. |
Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: April 04 2024 at 11:49
Thank you, I will check Amazon and compare next time I buy a CD, though 62 euros is still pretty expensive. |
Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: April 04 2024 at 11:52
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It was a very brave set list they played in 1994, almost the entire Talk album was performed, and only four songs from the 70's. Does anyone know if the sound quality of this live recording is good?
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