I heard the song for the first time on Sunday and I think I've already played the song 20 times. Are there any similar pieces of music from any band that have similar qualities? Thank you.
I think steve howe released some backing tracks with his guitar only in it so maybe itd be possible to remix the album to remove all the guitars that werent played by steve or trevor?
Rick Wakeman's stories are just so much fun.
Around 46 minutes, he speaks more about Yes.
I think this one is a Japan-only release. But the contents are available on YouTube and other sites, so you should be able to find it if you search for it.
This is a concert from Phoenix, Arizona on March 22, 1984.
I like Trevor Rabin, so I'm happy to be able to listen to recordings from this period.
Chris Squire’s Silently Falling on his Fish Out of Water solo album
Bruford, Moraz and KC Mel Collins play on it
I put all the CDs on my iPod and for some reason disc 4 and disc number six were both coming up at the same disc and it really screwed up everything and I had to redo it. However, its done. I have been listening to it on Spotify up until this point and I really like it. I'm also happy with the big liner notes book as I can finally read the lyrics for once as the CD version I first got the lyrics were so small I had to use a magnifying glass to read it. I got into this album when I was in college I was listening to it on a website called Grooveshark and that would be about 15 years ago and I've loved it ever since. I saw a yes perform this with the another album they did I believe was Drama and was topographic oceans in 2016 at the St George theater in Staten Island. It was great.
I don't think there is any other band whose first 10 studio albums surpasses the depth and creativity of Yes. And yet, we all know that the personnel that made up Yes across those albums gradually changed, resulting in new flavors and variations giving distinctive qualities to each album. Eventually, the "ship of Theseus" replacement of parts (and the changing of the times, instrumentally and stylistically) created an ensemble with little resemblance to the "classic" Yes. Which got me wondering... what if there were Star Trek style "alternate universes" with different realities where earlier Yes line-ups stayed together?
What if Banks stayed with the band to record Album #3 and Steve Howe went off to another project without ever joining musical forces with Anderson and Squire? I love TaaW but could not imagine a world without TYA, Fragile, or CttE. I vote "NO" to that timeline.
What if Kaye was more willing to experiment sonically and stayed with the band for Album #4 and Rick Wakeman went on doing his own thing? The Yes Album is really where I start hearing the musical genius and exploration of Yes' iconic long form composition. Would it be great to hear how Anderson, Howe, Squire, Kaye, and Bruford followed up TYA? Absolutely. But would the band have ever given us CttE? Maybe not. In that case, I would reluctantly have to vote "no" to that timeline as well.
The lineup for Fragile and CttE is probably the most iconic "Yes" for me: Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, and Bruford. Given the manifested genius of CttE, it's fascinating to read the descriptions of the recording environment and some of the disagreements that came out of it, especially between Squire and Bruford. What if those two could have mended things and continued for Album #4? Given the direction Anderson and Howe were taking, I suspect Tales (or something like it) was inevitable. What would Bruford's touch have added? As much as I love some of the later albums, I'm sort of ambivalent to the timeline in which Yes continued with the CttE line-up for a while.
Now it gets really interesting. Fans who don't particularly like Tales might agree with Wakeman's take, and they probably would have preferred for a different shake-up after CttE. I actually don't mind that Wakeman left after Tales due to creative differences. Otherwise, what would Relayer have been like? I personally think Moraz added a huge amount to the sound and texture that makes Relayer sublime, and it probably revived the band to some extent after the creative exhaustion of putting together Tales. The 2-year gap after Relayer feels like a huge loss to me. It's hard to know how long the chemistry would have lasted with Anderson, Howe, Squire, Moraz, and White (if it could have at all) but the time apart certainly didn't help. That being said, I would vote "YES" to hearing what could have been if the Relayer version of Yes continued to produce albums in 1975 and 1976. It might be my favorite of all the line-ups, and in that timeline we would still have all of the albums before it. I suppose that the solo albums probably wouldn't have been made, but if that's the cost of more Relayer, so be it.
Instead, Wakeman returned for GftO and Tormato. Ok, there's some good stuff in both of those albums but A) they ditched Roger Dean and B) the quality really is a mixed bag. I didn't vote for that timeline. I will listen to it from time to time in my rotation, but definitely would vote "NO" for more of it.
And then there's Drama. I don't know if it can really be called "Yes" without Anderson. But damn is it awesome. A complete anomaly. Perhaps Horn, Howe, Squire, Downes, and White should just have rebranded as something Bugglesque and gone in that direction for a while. I would vote "yes" to that timeline, even if that meant 90125 never happened.
By the 1980s, the line-up had already changed 6 times, and maybe the drastic shift of Drama made the concept of Yes so fluid that grafting its remains together with Trevor Rabin made sense. Still, they problably should have just stuck with calling it "Cinema" and committed to it. The only downside of that timeline is that the generation of Yes fans who first found the band because of Owner of a Lonely Heart might never have reached back into the catalog to discover the classics. Cinema could have still made Big Generator. But maybe the subsequent amalgamations (ABWH, Union, Talk, etc.) would have gone differently. By the time we get to Keys, Open Your Eyes and the Ladder it's just a shadow of Yes despite the cover art. Give Squire credit for holding things together, but sometimes the creative juice runs dry. Magnification is kind of the last hurrah for me. Post 2001 it just becomes unrecognizable.
So, which alternate Yes universe are you voting for?
CttE lineup (possibly Tales but no Relayer)
Relayer lineup (no solo albums, no GftO or Tormato)
Drama lineup (no 90125 etc.)
Something else
I recently picked up the standalone vinyl release of this concert from the Progeny box set. Great as it is, it kind of makes me wish I'd acquired the full vinyl box set when it was new.
Anyone else have it (Knoxville OR the entire Progeny vinyl set)?
This only works while the baseball game is being played and those who can watch the game. However, during play this very melodic synth has been playing and it sounds like the music interludes from topographic oceans. Guess the DJ said yes to YES.
We're diving deep into the new album "AURORA" by the legendary "YES band" in this insightful "music talk". Join us as we explore the nuances of this "progressive rock" masterpiece, a true "classic rock" staple.
Hoping this type of content is allowed! My dad has been playing guitar for more than 50 years. I thought his cover of "Mood for a Day" might be appreciated here.
https://www.marquee.co.jp/erp/index_erp.html
Can you see it? I hope it's helpful.
That album gets more fantastic every time I play it. Yesterday and today and survival are beautiful songs. I absolutely love and can’t get over every little thing that song is fantastic. Their debut album and close to the edge just does something to my ears, And without a doubt their other albums are remarkable.
Let me lay out the Tony Kaye karmic jackpot. This is not opinion. This is just what happened.
Basically: Tony: "I don't like synths" and the Universe went: "Cool. Here's 90125".
Somewhere along, Trevor Horn is somewhere screaming: "Tony, We could have done this earlier!"
Meanwhile:
The man who was fired for being "too simple," who quit because he didn't want to learn synths, who needed a hidden backup player, who didn't even show up to the Hall of Fame... has the exact same accolades as everyone else. And in some cases, more.
That's not just a comeback. That's incredible ROI.
The title basically, in my opinion*. I'm from a classical background myself but just couldn't bring myself to enjoy anything on the record. (Though, in truth, I don't quite get Sound Chaser yet still...)
Recently I had a total awakening. What the hell? This is one of the most magnificent pieces of music ever! I mean obviously the epic and the gentle final song. I feel like I've been deaf for years.
What's y'alls journey with this album? Maybe something specific or specific moments? I just wanna talk about it >_<
My local charity shop has the 2003(roughly?) cardboard-cased re-issues. How do these stack up sonically?
This is an amazing one. Take a look at it.
Nujabes - Modal soul.
Nujabes feat. Shing02 - Luv(sic) Hexalogy (CD).
Yes - Looking around. A collection of rare live tracks 1969-1970.
Kim Gordon - Play me.
Earth - Primitive and deadly.
Gong - Flying teapot. Radio gnome invisible part 1.
Blur - 13.
Herbie Hancock - Speak like a child.
Avishai Cohen - Studio live sessions. Little big beat Studios.
Yo La Tengo - I can hear the heart beating as one.
Yo La Tengo - And then nothing turned itself inside-out.
Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass.
Yo La Tengo - This stupid world.
As I find myself trudging through the cringey bits of TFTO to get to the amazing parts, with my thumb constantly hovering over the fast forward button, I’m yet again wondering - wouldn’t it have been better to have a single album? Revealing Science of God plus Ritual, with part 5 of the Ancient as a one-off single, backed by part 5 of the Remembering.
Would this miss anything essential in Yes history (unless you count the album concept itself as essential)? Thoughts?
