Ultimate YES: 18th Album
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Topic: Ultimate YES: 18th Album
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Ultimate YES: 18th Album
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 01:37
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I suspect this will be the only poll where YES goes home with "Nil Pois" in the Eurovision Prog Contest.   1997: Yes - Open Your Eyes - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n4oob2hlIarWDXwrHwfaaicTmkPv4syY0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n4oob2hlIarWDXwrHwfaaicTmkPv4syY0  2024: Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks - True - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoyQ7DBMF8BHoQVK31kzzHVAzsp9Ge9eJ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoyQ7DBMF8BHoQVK31kzzHVAzsp9Ge9eJ  2004: Bruford & Borstlap - Every Step a Dance, Every Word a Song - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuMBc4r5AKxU0HtXZKKdZiTBMku9QyEEo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nuMBc4r5AKxU0HtXZKKdZiTBMku9QyEEo 2005: Steve Howe - Spectrum - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCjLGgbfOxrzp2f-0In4Sgb5bZGj15HSA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCjLGgbfOxrzp2f-0In4Sgb5bZGj15HSA 1987: Rick Wakeman - The Family Album - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltne4s3R0KyIcxhRbHmX6Jw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltne4s3R0KyIcxhRbHmX6Jw |
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 01:38
Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks  |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 01:41
My choice as well.
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A Crimson Mellotron wrote:Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 01:41
And mine too.
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 01:43
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Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks Yes - Open Your Eyes Rick Wakeman - The Family Album |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 04:02
| ''Hobson's choice''? Yep it's got to be Anderson ( and I don't need a Wakeman track about a pet rabbit thank you) |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 04:33
| Anderson |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 11:13
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 13:01
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Have to go with the Band Geeks here. I like mayonnaise on my databases. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 13:52
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Anderson and Band of Geeks. Open Your Eyes was not meant to be a Yes album. It was a Squire and Sherwood project for their band Conspiracy. New management for Yes pushed for it to be a Yes album. Howe was opposed to the album being Yes, but lost out on that decision. As he stated, the band had already recorded a Yes album the soon to be released Keys to Ascension 2, which he believed had some strong material. Howe and Anderson only came in toward the end to record their parts for Open Your Eyes. In fact, both Keys 2 and Open Your Eyes were released in November, 1997, with Keys being released at the beginning of the month and Open Your Eyes 3 weeks later. Open Your Eyes is Yes's worst studio release. In their defense, or at least in Howe and to a lesser extent Anderson, it was not meant to be a Yes album. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 14:33
So true. Open Your Eyes is much less worthy of being a Yes album than Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, which looks and sounds like a Yes album in all but name. It's a pity the way Open Your Eyes turned out though, because the three Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood Conspiracy albums sound pretty good, at least to my ears anyway. 2000: Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood - Conspiracy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nrDIeGSdSWPF7UN5ESd292B4ZIYujkbZk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nrDIeGSdSWPF7UN5ESd292B4ZIYujkbZk 2003: Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood - The Unknown - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hwp0Md6S4sMoW5me2P2OR99_TbjLKT_" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7hwp0Md6S4sMoW5me2P2OR99_TbjLKT_ 2013: Chris Squire & Billy Sherwood - Conspiracy Live - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n8NkZq6P3Y7RTcsGlY1VusNjHS4xDErRE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n8NkZq6P3Y7RTcsGlY1VusNjHS4xDErRE |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 17:34
| I'm going with Steve Howe's Spectrum, it's a reasonably good album and the notable Band Geeks have enough votes already. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: January 11 2025 at 20:24
Paul, Agreed. I see the Keys albums as somewhat missed opportunity. Instead of two albums of a mix of live and studio material, I wish Yes would have focused on just new studio album. Wakeman felt the tracks particularly on Keys 2 was very strong and that it should have been released as just a studio recording. Anderson believed that management let the band down, especially in regards of supporting the Key albums which he felt should have done better on the charts. Had the focus been on just a studio album, I think Yes would have been better served. Two of the tracks that found their way on to Keys 2 could have easily been put on the first Keys album had the focus been on a studio recording. Mind Drive goes back to the XYZ rehearsals in the early 80s with the arrangement somewhat worked out by the time of the first Key studio sessions. Children of the Light had been written by Anderson and Vangelis in the mid 80s. A demo version of that track was recorded with ABWH. So the band had material when they went into the studio for the first Keys album. Futhermore, it appears a number of the tracks that appeared on Keys 2 had been worked on during the sessions for the first Keys album. But, the focus seemed to be on releasing a live album with a couple new studio tracks included. The studio tracks that were recorded for Keys 2 was recorded and mixed by November, 1996. The first Keys album was released in October, 1996, just one month prior. The recorded material for Keys 2 sat on the shelf for a year before it was released. Management during this period of Yes was poor in my opinion. |