Matt #2 - you don't like "We Have Heaven"?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:42 (three years ago) link
I have fond memories of singing "Circus Of Heaven" when I went for walks a decade ago.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
I thought We Have Heaven was an OK-ish dry run for Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, which was also part of a "let's all do solo things" project thinking about it. Five Per Cent of Nothing just about beats Ramshackled if we're making comparisons. Squire was the winner both times though, Fish Out of Water is almost the great lost Yes album.
― my shear modulus is weakening (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 February 2021 11:11 (three years ago) link
Fish Out of Water loses me a bit on the last orchestral track, but it is interesting to hear Squire's lead voice and his take on the Yes sound.
5% for Nothing is a perfect 30 second song, but Ramshackled is way way down on my listening list.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 21 February 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
I wish Anderson had done more like "We Have Heaven", I think he might have used more loops on one of his later solo albums but not sure.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 21 February 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
this should come packaged in a vacuum bong
https://www.musicglue.com/yes-union-30/products/yes-union-live-limited-edition-super-deluxe-flight-case-30-year-anniversary-edition
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 26 February 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
Union tour was the only time I saw Yes live, and it was deeply disappointing
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 27 February 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
Utterly baffling that they are releasing this and thinking it's something their fanbase wants. Their fanbase wants tours released, certainly; Progeny was proof of that. But they want good tours of the band in their prime, and Union is not that. I can't imagine listening to 30 discs of shows from that tour. This isn't King Crimson.
― akm, Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
'union' had its own section in the used bin at my local record store circa '92
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link
I don't think any of the Union live albums have had much tracks from the studio album. I've wanted something like that because Wakeman felt the studio album was butchered but was proud of the live performances, but this is too much.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 27 February 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
I saw them twice on the Union tour, lol.
― perhaps I myself was the object of my search (PBKR), Sunday, 28 February 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
Yikes yeah this is just overblown — even for Yes !
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 28 February 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
You know what would’ve been cool for them to have played on this tour? “Machine Messiah”. Howe and Rabin would’ve sounded nice together on that. Because otherwise I hated when they were forced to play together. Oil (Rabin = motor oil) and water.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 28 February 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
coming quickly to terms
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
I just BLASTED "Parallels" at plate-tectonic volume, then followed it with "Hold Out Your Hand" from Squire's Fish Out Of Water. If you're gonna get Yessed out, this is definitely a recommended venture
― Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
for real there's such an inherent joy to the way Wakeman plays on "Parallels"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link
I think it's the ending of "Parallels" on Yesshows where Wakeman sounds like he just went full Keith Moon on everything.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 07:11 (three years ago) link
At the very least, the giant Union box should include the argument of Howe telling Peter Banks to fuck off backstage at the LA Forum.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 07:12 (three years ago) link
Was just thinking how funny it would be if the current line up went out on tour and only played the ABWH album and Union.
― akm, Thursday, 29 April 2021 05:05 (three years ago) link
say what you will about Jon Anderson, but the man knew computers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8ZcY7nXiE
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:22 (three years ago) link
if I took an edible and watched that I would immediately become 10x more high
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:23 (three years ago) link
lmao
― brimstead, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
you would never be as high as Jon Anderson
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/YES52020_CreditGottliebBros.jpg?resize=1800,1200&w=1800
New album, accompanied by a press photo with, uh, a lot going on.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
Crypt Keeper cleans up well.
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
I might actually go to a show if they do all of Relayer...
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
Heart (Attack) of the Sunrise
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
Steve Howe looking like direct sunlight would turn him to dust.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
I'll admit to not recognizing anyone except Howe...is that Jon Anderson's son in the middle? Maybe Trevor someone on the right?
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
Isn’t that Billy Sherwood?
Second guy is Jon Davison, who they poached from Glass Hammer. Though he only got hired there because he sounded like Jon Anderson so fair game I guess
Other two are Horn and White I think??
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
l-r: Steve Howe, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood, Alan White, Geoff Downes
― SPaDs (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
Downes seems to be morphing into Christopher Biggins, Howe into the Ghost of Steve Howe Future
― SPaDs (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
Looks like the only living members of the 1976 staff of TSR.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
I really want these dudes to just finally go all out and do at least one mega-lineup, 18 person album credited to YESSSSS! with all the still alive former members.
vocalists - Jon Anderson, Jon Davison, Benoit David gtrs - Steve Howe, Peter Banks, Trevor Rabin keys - Tony Kaye, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes, Oliver Wakeman, Igor Khoroshevdrums - Bill Bruford, Alan White, Tony O'Reilly, Dylan Howebass - Trevor Horn, Billy Sherwood
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
let's go back to what worked for us on Union
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
Peter Banks is no longer with us unfortunately! Also Bruford retired some years ago. I think Khoroshev got kicked out for sexual harassment, don't quote me on that though. Wakeman would probably only do it if they called it 'Onion' (his oft-quoted joke about what the 'Union' album should have been called). Otherwise I'm all for it!
― catarrh person (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
anyway some more info about this here
http://yesworld.com/2021/07/yes-announce-new-studio-album-the-quest
8 songs, all between 4-8 minutes, with a 3-track bonus CD for some reason. no samples but I assume this is gonna sound a lot like Heaven and Earth
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
I wonder what the odds are, in a group of five men of that age, that two of them would have had children die.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
Swear to god, when I first saw this yesterday, my immediate reaction was "...Soul Asylum?"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
Two boys on a playgroundTryin' to push each other downSee the crowd gather 'roundCall it morning driving thru the sound
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
This has got to be one of the final "all new" records by one of the original big prog bands (although Tull are preparing a new record, The Zealot Gene).
Have any name prog acts put out a Blackstar/You Want It Darker "reckoning with mortality" record? Peter Hammill, probably.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
Isn't that most of his career?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah Hammill's 2006 album Singularity was the first one he made after suffering a heart attack, several tracks on it deal with that.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
Totally blanked on Banks having passed away. And yeah I know Bruford retired, but might as well dream big!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
You have $17 dollars, build your version of Yes
$5 - Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman$4 - Trevor Rabin, Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, Tony Levin, Alan White$3 - Jon Davison, Benoit David, Dylan Howe, Oliver Wakeman$2 - Billy Sherwood, Tony O'Reilly, Igor Khoroshev
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
is it buy 4 get Squire free
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
members must be living and active
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
strawbs keeps popping 'em out.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
ok fine I'll bite
Howe (can't be Yes without him), Moraz (can he still play?), Davison (dude is more Jon than Jon), Sherwood (he's not bad!), and O'Reilly (whoever he is I'm sure he can play better than White at this point), guess I pocket a dollar
Khoroshev is the bargain in this group, alas the man is too horny for Yes
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
Anderson, Howe, White, Oliver Wakeman and no bass I guess?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link