I'm an American, I'm yessed out, it's late at night, and I vote
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 14 October 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
Which Yes transmission are you picking up?
― calstars, Saturday, 14 October 2017 04:00 (six years ago) link
All I want to do is live inside the bass line from "Roundabout" for the rest of my days
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 14 October 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
take sides: eclipse vs. apocalypse
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 October 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hmHSaZMdlk
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
nice! I didn't know that band but am checking them out now
― niels, Thursday, 19 October 2017 05:45 (six years ago) link
we hear you, eephus
― j., Thursday, 19 October 2017 06:33 (six years ago) link
Is there a better Yes song than "Going for the One?" I don't think so.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 2 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Is there as a good a Yes song as "Going for the One?" I haven't heard it.
Yessongs (the live movie) is on Amazon Prime streaming right now and it is fucking great
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
Now I know what I'm doing this afternoon
― Moodles, Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
What year was that recorded ?
― calstars, Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
‘72, I used this thing called google
― calstars, Thursday, 2 November 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
"wonderous stories" is the best song on going for the one
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 3 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, November 2, 2017 1:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nice, thanks for the tip!!
― brimstead, Friday, 3 November 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne317y_eOYs
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 November 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
"Awaken" is the best song on GFTO
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 17 November 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
awaken is the best song ever written
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
I had a few beers last night and jammed 3 Starcastle albums, it was awesome
― frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
Which would you recommend ? Never heard ‘em
― calstars, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/veCCsO3.jpg
― calstars, Friday, 24 November 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofNvr-xuwE
Original lineup v underrated, Peter Banks!
― salthigh, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link
as armoured movers took approach to overlook the sea
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 December 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
as song and chance develop time, lost social temperance rules above
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 December 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
I'd say go for the first one, the first side of which is some of the best music Yes never put out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLcQ4LIRyU
Second album Fountains of Light is probably slightly better overall though
On Citadel they'd gone into more of a Kansas/Styx type direction, I still love it though
Haven't heard anything after that
― frogbs, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
Anyway I'm playing the new Yes live album now - it's not all bad, Sherwood fills in quite nicely for Squire, Davison sounds alright, the version of "Ritual" is good and it's kind of neat to hear all of Drama on a live album
but man, it's depressing to hear them so out of sync at spots, especially when the quick tunes like "Tempus Fugit", "Heart of the Sunrise", and "Roundabout" are only played at 75% speed. IDK maybe they come off better in person.
― frogbs, Monday, 4 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
nice to have a discrete "leaves of green" on an *official* release
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 4 December 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
ahaha so apparently they're re-releasing Fly From Here with Trevor Horn on vocals, effectively erasing Benoit David's brief tenure with the band
― frogbs, Monday, 11 December 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
never fear there's always like the four live albums they released from tours with him
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 11 December 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
a clearer future -- morning, evening -- nights with you
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
ooo-ooou!
― calstars, Sunday, 17 December 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
Listening to live at Wembley show,1978, from a BBC broadcast. Jaw droppingly awesooooome. Prob some of my fave live versions of their stuff here. Even the "Tormato" tunes were on fire.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 11 January 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
yousendit?
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Thursday, 11 January 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
Last thing at the bottom of thispage will get you Yessed Out.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
woooowww my mind is being blown by the "give peace a chance" quote in "i've seen all good people" that i never noticed before !!!
y'all wanna do this er wut
― budo jeru, Friday, 16 February 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
The apple doesn't fall far. My son spent the evening geeking out on our vinyl copies of Fragile and Close to the Edge with his buddy.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 7 April 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
I dove back into "Tormato" because I'm fascinated by the ways established prog/prog-leaning bands reacted to punk. "Release, Release" is my favorite of such response songs, after Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack". I also love the raw sound of "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom" - it's like a rehearsal that accidentally made it to final mastering. (Hell, you can almost smell the cigarette burns on the shag carpet in the wood-paneled basement beneath the "Ummagumma" poster with the thumbtack missing from the upper-left corner). And there's the whole "Was Rick Wakeman openly trying to sabotage the album?" solos that echo Viv Savage from "This Is Spinal Tap" (near the end of the track, Rick just goes up and down the first 5 notes of the Lydian mode for like 6 measures). Damn, I love that song!
When my Spotify shuffle setting played "Onward" after James Blake's "Unluck" and "Wilhelm's Scream", it finally hit me that Yes might have accidentally invented Dubstep (or, at least, the chill side of it). The sub-70bpm tempo, the underlying subtle-yet-propulsive keyboard rhythm that appears and disappears, the soaring chorus - all that's missing is a massive bass drop before "...OF MYYYY LIIIIFE!"
― Prefecture, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
(Apologies for going Full Ronald Thomas Clontle if I swapped Yes for Madness and Dubstep for Ska)
― Prefecture, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link
good post brahAre any of the b-sides notable?
― calstars, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:05 (six years ago) link
I'm not aware of the B-sides (my copy of "Parallels" has "Wonderous Stories" on the blue vinyl), but there are bonus tracks on the remastered edition of the LP. They're all really folky - hell, "You Can Be Saved" might be the best song Band of Horses never recorded.
― Prefecture, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
I picked up used vinyl copies of The Yes Album and Relayer today.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 8 April 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed outnot that there's an answer for this, or anyone would try to take a stab at one, but still― trevor horn, Friday, August 27, 2004 12:24 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"yessed out"?― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, August 27, 2004 12:25 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not that there's an answer for this, or anyone would try to take a stab at one, but still― trevor horn, Friday, August 27, 2004 12:24 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"yessed out"?― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, August 27, 2004 12:25 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think about this thread title and these two posts very often
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link
it's like a joke between me and me
why has nobody made a pair of socks with the Yes logo on them? I would happily sport a pair of Yessocks.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 8 April 2018 06:56 (six years ago) link
i love that uncut did an ultimate music guide, and i get that they were boring to interview, but holy shit do they underrate major jams ~
"survival" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"then" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"astral traveller" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"starship trooper" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"siberian khatru" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"the gates of delirium" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"to be over" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"wonderous stories" -- 3 out of 5 stars?
"tempus fugit" -- 2 out of 5 stars? 2 out of 5 stars??
go choke on velvet underground vinyl uncut MAGA. and to think that rick wakeman tickled the ivories on "life of mars?" and "get it on (bang a gong)" and was pretty much a member of black sabbath, bruford drummed for king fucking crimson, and the god damned buggles. imagine living your life graded on the curve yes is by rock critics
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
It's an outrage, is what it is
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
case in point
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 12 April 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
critical update:
the game Knights of the Crystallion was inspired by the cover of Relayer.
Ages ago, a colossal sea monster called an Orodrid died in a canyon passage. Millions of years later, after the valley was eroded, a nomadic people found its hulking skeleton, “incomprehensible” in size, and declared it their new home. “Orodrid, the city of bones” became more than a shelter. It was the new center of their world, their source of spiritual energy.In Knights of the Crystallion, you live within this society. That’s the game. It combines a group of confusing, seemingly random activities – like a Nine Men’s Morris-style board game and an action sequence set in twisting cave – to depict the many sides of the communal, religious life of the Orodrim.
In Knights of the Crystallion, you live within this society. That’s the game. It combines a group of confusing, seemingly random activities – like a Nine Men’s Morris-style board game and an action sequence set in twisting cave – to depict the many sides of the communal, religious life of the Orodrim.
https://obscuritory.com/other/knights-of-the-crystallion/
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 April 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
oh hshit
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 16 April 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
Hey Reggie how much didja have to pay for that Uncut UMG? Amazon has it for $30 US which is, like, outrageous for a magazine. Trying to pay less than $15 for it.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 16 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link