Author Topic: The Official Yes Thread (Read 265028 times)

lonestar · « **Reply #595 on:** November 20, 2010, 02:41:53 PM »

"Awaken easily makes my to ten. The middle part of the song is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces I know of.

Seventh Son · « **Reply #596 on:** November 20, 2010, 05:44:44 PM »

Quote from: lonestar on November 20, 2010, 02:41:53 PM

"Awaken easily makes my to ten. The middle part of the song is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces I know of.

This. Its so very odd, but so beautiful and haunting. I wish Yes had another song like it.

lonestar · « **Reply #597 on:** November 20, 2010, 10:09:03 PM »

Quote from: Seventh Son on November 20, 2010, 05:44:44 PM

Quote from: lonestar on November 20, 2010, 02:41:53 PM
"Awaken easily makes my to ten. The middle part of the song is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces I know of.
This. Its so very odd, but so beautiful and haunting. I wish Yes had another song like it.

Agreed. It is a one of a kind. Saw them do it live with the backing of a fifty piece orchestra, brought me to tears.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #598 on:** November 21, 2010, 05:43:35 AM »

Yes it is great. Saw them play it on the Onion, er.. I mean Union tour. Steve Howe looked liked he hated every minute being on stage with Trevor Rabin.

Mechanix1911 · « **Reply #599 on:** November 21, 2010, 05:49:37 AM »

STARŠIP TROOPER IS GOOD

Basekick · « **Reply #600 on:** November 21, 2010, 07:11:48 AM »

Quote from: Mechanix1911 on November 21, 2010, 05:49:37 AM

STARŠIP TROOPER IS GOOD

Good? I think you mean FUCKING AMAZING.

Sigz · « **Reply #601 on:** November 21, 2010, 07:58:08 AM »

Quote from: Basekick on November 21, 2010, 07:11:48 AM

Quote from: Mechanix1911 on November 21, 2010, 05:49:37 AM
STARŠIP TROOPER IS GOOD

Good? I think you mean FUCKING AMAZING.

glaurung · « **Reply #602 on:** November 21, 2010, 09:10:33 AM »

Sigz, you like Yes? I thought you hated classic prog.

MetalManiac666 · « **Reply #603 on:** November 21, 2010, 09:20:42 AM »

Quote from: glaurung on November 21, 2010, 09:10:33 AM

Sigz, you like Yes? I thought you hated classic prog.

I think I remember him saying that it used to be one of his favorite bands.

lonestar · « **Reply #604 on:** November 21, 2010, 02:53:00 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on November 21, 2010, 05:43:35 AM

Yes it is great. Saw them play it on the Onion, er.. I mean Union tour. Steve Howe looked liked he hated every minute being on stage with Trevor Rabin.

How would you feel being on stage with your retarded little brother?

skydivingninja · « **Reply #605 on:** November 21, 2010, 04:05:27 PM »

Quote from: glaurung on November 21, 2010, 09:10:33 AM

Sigz, you like Yes? I thought you hated classic prog.

First thought.

Second thought was that Starship Trooper is my favorite Yes song.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #606 on:** November 21, 2010, 08:10:02 PM »

Quote from: lonestar on November 21, 2010, 02:53:00 PM

Quote from: kingshmegland on November 21, 2010, 05:43:35 AM
Yes it is great. Saw them play it on the Onion, er.. I mean Union tour. Steve Howe looked liked he hated every minute being on stage with Trevor Rabin.
How would you feel being on stage with your retarded little brother?

Howe has always been like that. It killed GTR. Man I loved that CD.

ZBomber · « **Reply #607 on:** December 04, 2010, 11:59:25 PM »

Listening to Magnification. I'm only on the first track but I really like it so far. I listened to it once before but I dont remember what it was like.

ZBomber · « **Reply #608 on:** December 05, 2010, 01:13:45 AM »

I loved it.

Can You Imagine is just... brilliant. Chris is great on that. I love his voice.

Quadrochosis · « **Reply #609 on:** December 05, 2010, 04:52:53 PM »

YES!! Magnification is by far their best album since Drama in my opinion. It's soo good.

ytserush · « **Reply #610 on:** December 13, 2010, 08:26:02 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on November 21, 2010, 08:10:02 PM

Quote from: lonestar on November 21, 2010, 02:53:00 PM
Quote from: kingshmegland on November 21, 2010, 05:43:35 AM
Yes it is great. Saw them play it on the Onion, er.. I mean Union tour. Steve Howe looked liked he hated every minute being on stage with Trevor Rabin.
How would you feel being on stage with your retarded little brother?

Howe has always been like that. It killed GTR. Man I loved that CD.

Ever hear Howe's contributuion to "When The Heart Rules The Mind" on his Homebrew 2 album?

Diifferent, but cool.

Orbert · « **Reply #611 on:** December 13, 2010, 09:17:52 PM »

Quote from: Quadrochosis on December 05, 2010, 04:52:53 PM

YES!! Magnification is by far their best album since Drama in my opinion. It's soo good.

It's their most consistent anyway. I like a lot of the Keys stuff, but not all. I can listen to Magnification all the way through.

KevShmev · « **Reply #612 on:** December 16, 2010, 10:52:16 PM »

I owned both Keys double CDs when they first came out, but at some point, I had sold them back to a used CD store after ripping the stuff I liked from them. However, I had ripped them at crappy 128 mp3 quality, so I bought the studio tracks from amazon downloads recently. Listening to them again, the two studio songs from the first one have their moments (like the intro to "That, That Is"), but overall, but sound rather clunky and unfocused. And they feature some unusual, even awkward, melodies, especially for Yes. From the second one, I still like "Mind Drive," "Foot Prints" and "Bring Me to the Power" all quite a bit, but I wouldn't call any of them great songs by any stretch of the imagination. The gem from those CDs is still the live version of "Onward." And "America" is pretty smoking, too.

Quadrochosis · « **Reply #613 on:** December 17, 2010, 07:10:15 PM »

Yea, the live version of "Onward" on Keys is phenomenal. It's one of the best tracks in my entire Yes catalog.

The Dark Master · « **Reply #614 on:** January 14, 2011, 04:47:39 PM »

Just listened to Topographic Oceans in it's entirety the other day for the first time in a long time. Wow, what a musical trip. My train of thought kept vacillating between "This is pure musical genius!" and "Wow, how good was their acid? Oh, wait, it was 1973. Well, that explains it....."

lonestar · « **Reply #615 on:** January 14, 2011, 07:07:49 PM »

Quote from: KevShmev on December 16, 2010, 10:52:16 PM

And "America" is pretty smoking, too.

Steve's solo in America is one of my all time favorites.

ZBomber · « **Reply #616 on:** January 14, 2011, 11:37:36 PM »

Just appreciating 90125. Not a wicked prog album but beautiful vocal work all throughout. And man.. the raw take of Hold On in the bonus tracks... that song was already pretty well polished even in first run throughs!

Orbert · « **Reply #617 on:** January 14, 2011, 11:57:25 PM »

Ever listen to 90124? Rabin had most of that album worked out in demos. The band which became Yes in the 80's didn't start out as Yes; it started as Cinema and it was the band Rabin was putting together to play what would become 90125, and it was definitely Rabin's project.

I agree that it's not a bad album at all, and really has some very good music on it. It gets slagged by a lot of diehard Yes fans and other diehard prog fans, but not all.

ZBomber · « **Reply #618 on:** January 16, 2011, 11:35:38 PM »

I haven't heard the demos. Although I would if I could find them.

Also, anyone know what happened to that Yes fansite with their extensive tourography? I think it was called Yesterdays? I can't find it anywhere.

Quadrochosis · « **Reply #619 on:** January 17, 2011, 12:07:23 AM »

Quote from: ZBomber on January 16, 2011, 11:35:38 PM

I haven't heard the demos. Although I would if I could find them.

Also, anyone know what happened to that Yes fansite with their extensive tourography? I think it was called Yesterdays? I can't find it anywhere.

I think their bandwidth expired or something.

Perpetual Change · « **Reply #620 on:** January 17, 2011, 12:13:09 AM »

In a total Yes mood lately.

ytserush · « **Reply #621 on:** January 21, 2011, 10:52:59 PM »

Quote from: Orbert on January 14, 2011, 11:57:25 PM

Ever listen to 90124? Rabin had most of that album worked out in demos. The band which became Yes in the 80's didn't start out as Yes; it started as Cinema and it was the band Rabin was putting together to play what would become 90125, and it was definitely Rabin's project.

I agree that it's not a bad album at all, and really has some very good music on it. It gets slagged by a lot of diehard Yes fans and other diehard prog fans, but not all.

90124 has been on my imaginary list of things to get for like 10 years or something.

Coincidently, I just read a few days ago that Rabin had turned down the chance to be in Asia. I never knew that before.

ZBomber · « **Reply #622 on:** January 25, 2011, 11:08:13 AM »

Bumping to say Close to the Edge is so amazing. Every time I listen to it, its like I'm hearing the song for the first time.

jonny108 · « **Reply #623 on:** January 25, 2011, 12:32:43 PM »

Yeah Close to the Edge is their best. Love that disc, in my top 10 of all time for sure. What does everyone think of The Ladder? Personally I love that too.

Nekov · « **Reply #624 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:17:07 PM »

The era between The Yes Album and TFTO y definitely their best. I want to appreciate Talk, I think it is a great album speacially at the end with the three part Endless Dream. I love that song.

Also a lot of appreciation for Anderson Brufford Wakeman Howe record. I think that was the best Yes formation even though they couldn't get the name. I think Tony Levin is soooooooo much better than Chris Squire.

lonestar · « **Reply #625 on:** January 25, 2011, 01:41:28 PM »

Spent the morning listening to Yessongs while doing housework. That album is in a tough three way battle with The Kink's One for the Road and The Who's Live at the Isle of Wight for my best live album ever. The version of Your's is No Disgrace on it is so fucking killer.

Orbert · « **Reply #626 on:** January 25, 2011, 02:03:32 PM »

Quote from: jonny108 on January 25, 2011, 12:32:43 PM

Yeah Close to the Edge is their best. Love that disc, in my top 10 of all time for sure. What does everyone think of The Ladder? Personally I love that too.

I think The Ladder has moments that sound like classic (70's) Yes, and moments that sound more like Jon Anderson's dabblings with world music or whatever it is ("Hep Yadda") which really bug me. I've tried listened to it a few times, and always find that partway through, I'm not actually listening to it anymore. I'm daydreaming or thinking about something else. It just doesn't grab me the way the older stuff does, and then I'll hit a track I genuinely don't like and think "Hmmm, well I tried... again."

King Postwhore · « **Reply #627 on:** January 25, 2011, 02:26:53 PM »

Quote from: Orbert on January 14, 2011, 11:57:25 PM

Ever listen to 90124? Rabin had most of that album worked out in demos. The band which became Yes in the 80's didn't start out as Yes; it started as Cinema and it was the band Rabin was putting together to play what would become 90125, and it was definitely Rabin's project.

I agree that it's not a bad album at all, and really has some very good music on it. It gets slagged by a lot of diehard Yes fans and other diehard prog fans, but not all.

Wasn't, Make It Easy from that session?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-PIui68n0E

Orbert · « **Reply #628 on:** January 25, 2011, 02:53:18 PM »

"Make It Easy" wasn't on 90124, but it would make sense that it was from the same sessions. I don't have 90124, and only heard it once a long time ago. As the name implies, the idea of 90124 was to provide a glimpse of the songs that eventually became 90125, and "Make It Easy" wasn't on that album.

LieLowTheWantedMan · « **Reply #629 on:** January 25, 2011, 07:34:03 PM »

The Revealing Science of God = one of the best intros ever.

News: Track-by-track video for Fall Into the Light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ezfzdMpRc0

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