What Year Did BIG GENERATOR Come Out?
Chet
Amy Solame
> I sure as hell can't remember
>
>
Big Generator is the twelfth studio album by progressive rock band
Yes. It was released in 1987 on Atlantic Records' Atco subsidiary
label (Yes' last studio album for Atlantic) and was the follow-up to
the massively successful 90125 album.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Generator
Haven't tried listening to it for years (though I'll occasionally
catch "Rhythm of Love" on the radio or somesuch.) My ears might be
too narrow-minded, but in my mind BG is one of the big three least
liked which would be (in descending order) _Open Your Eyes_, _Big
Generator_, and _Union_ at the bottom. Then again, I used to rate
_Tormato_ rather low but came to admire a fair bit of it after giving
it some more open-minded listens...
Peter Anderson
recording a Yes album, which was not the case with 90125. Of the
Yeswest stuff I think it is the most enjoyable to listen to. Shoot
High Aim Low / I'm Running and Final Eyes are all excellent Yes
tracks. I almost crached my car the first time I heard Love Will Find
a Way, but it has grown on me. The Rhythm of Love is a first class AOR
tune. The least said about Almost Like love the better. I do prefer
the demo of I'm Running (with the intro stolen from Sympathy For The
Devil, which is maybe why they dumped it). There is a strong case for
a Remastered and Expanded Big Gen CD.
Peter.
On 29 Dec, 14:58, Amy Solame <amysol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 12:40 pm, TheTimeTrave...@webtv.net (Chet) wrote:
>
> > I sure as hell can't remember
>
> Big Generator is the twelfth studio album by progressive rock band
> Yes. It was released in 1987 on Atlantic Records' Atco subsidiary
> label (Yes' last studio album for Atlantic) and was the follow-up to
> the massively successful 90125 album.
>
> According tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Generator
rob...@aol.com
>The least said about Almost Like love the better.
"Almost Like Love" is a bit of a shift. Chris Squire is said to have
worked painstakingly on this riff, but one might wonder what would
have happened had he thought it through a bit more; as it is, it seems
to be too 'muscled', without enough form. With the exception of a
vacuous solo towards the end, though, Rabin is actually in good form
for this song, and Jon is fairly good as well. Alan White's drumming
is quite notable (as is its mixing). The lyrics, quite frankly, are
poor, and the addition of the horn section was perhaps something of a
mistake. This song encapsulates the best and worst of YesWest within
its four-minute frame, and merits a rating somewhere in the mid-range
as such.
- The Tentative Currie
Personally, I almost like love that song...in fact, I almost like love
that song a lot.
The stinker on the record is "Holy Lamb".
Rob Allen
NP: Yoso, "Walk Away"
Chet
album anymore. I don't know where it went. What was the big generator
suppossed to be anyway? Why did they call it that?
...I don't think it generated too much; but maybe it did
Chet
Must have been a let down to the newbe YES fans, who loved 90125.
I didn't really like 90125 at all. In fact, now that I think about
it....I don't think I ever owned it. I don't have it now anyway. I
didn't really like anything since Tormato.......on up, til, then
released The Keys to Ascension. After **The Keys** this recent stuff is
just goofing around. Drama was kinda OK. I played it lot for
sure....but I could tell the guru was missing.
rob...@aol.com
once again, you COSSHF, you demonstrate how little you know of Yes.
"RoL" was a giant radio hit...Squire bragged on how it was the top-
played FM hit for that year...the video played pretty well too.
"LWFaW" was played big on radio, as well as MTV.
More obscure perhaps was "SHAL" running number 1 on the Top Five at
Five for a record setting (I don't remember how many *weeks*, but it
was fucking *weeks*) on the top FM station in Albuquerque, NM (where I
was living at the time). It may have done well elsewhere, I don't
know.
I've also heard "Holy Lamb" on the radio, but somebody might have
gotten fired behind that mistake.
Rob Allen
NP: Yoso, "Africa"
rob...@aol.com
Manitou
Wow Chet you post more on this group than anyone else. How can you be
so narrow about the catalog? You really need to drop another hit of
the blue acid and listen to the rest of the stuff you have blocked
out.
Chet
Re: What Year Did BIG GENERATOR Come Out?
Group: alt.music.yes Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009, 9:47pm From:
dawo...@gmail.com (Manitou)
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I don't need any acid. I just need to get fucked. only then will life
have meaning; until then it's all for *fucking nothing*
I hope this isn't another year of stuckup women, with shape. .....Alot
of potatoe chip eaters out there. You can't miss em. Salt & water is
their diet. I won't get it up for that! HA