Yes
John Stone
not even their hit "Roundabout". I think they did a reunion tour a few years ago,
don't know how well it was received.
LRossi3940
I do !
>Don't hear them much on the radio, not even their hit "Roundabout".
It's a shame really.
>I think they did a reunion tour a few years ago,
don't know how well it was received.
They have been putting out cds and touring consistantly over the last 12 years
or so. Their newer material has been fair. It is hard to compare it to their
70's output which was stellar.
As for the live shows, they have been excellent. Having seen them recently
with an orchestra was a treat. Rick Wakeman rejoined a few years ago. The line
up is the classic one with Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Wakeman and
Alan White.
Peace
Lou Pecora
sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu (John Stone) wrote:
> Does anyone listen to Yes anymore?
No.
Well, I don't and I have three of their albums.
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-- Lou Pecora
My views are my own.
Steven Sullivan
"Your Move' is the featured song on the trailer for Tim Burton's
new movie 'Big Fish'. And they had an anthology CD in the top 10
in England this year. A documentary DVD 'Yesspeak' is already
out in the UK and is due out here in January. And
now that Wakeman's back they
are reportedly looking in to doing an arena tour.
seee www.yesworld.com for more.
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-S.
"They've got God on their side. All we've got is science and reason."
-- Dawn Hulsey, Talent Director
Greg Ioannou
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I listen to them frequently, and hear them on radio quite often. the Yes
album I'm likeliest to listen to is Tales of Topographic Oceans -- it seemed
wildly ambitious at the time it came out, but really holds up well to
repeated listenings. There's really nothing else in rock that matches its
scope.
Greg
Greg Ioannou
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> >
> > I listen to them frequently, and hear them on radio quite often. the Yes
> > album I'm likeliest to listen to is Tales of Topographic Oceans -- it
> seemed
> > wildly ambitious at the time it came out, but really holds up well to
> > repeated listenings.
> >
>
> consistently, over the years, been derided and vilified by rock critics.
One
> is Dylan's "Self Portrait", the other is Yes's "Tales From Topographic
> Oceans"
>
> Because they were so roundly condemned I never even *heard* either album
> until about a year ago. And guess what? I love them both!
>
> Given that the critics slated the Stones' "Exile On Main Street" at the
> time, but now seem to be unanimous that it's their best album ever,
perhaps
> these two are due for a reappraisal?
In the case of Topographic Oceans, my answer would be an emphatic
"absolutely"! Of course, I haven't listened to Self-Portrait in many years,
and may well never have listened to it all the way through. And I hated
Exile on first listening, the week it came out -- gave up on it before I'd
even read reviews on it. Probably should give it another listen, although I
doubt I'll be impressed.
Greg
Yusaku Jon III
> Does anyone listen to Yes anymore?
I still do, on occasion. Even though I'm of the generation that
would've been listening to Motley Crue, Judas Priest or U2, my tastes
actually migrated over to early '70s prog-rock early on. Yes was one of
my favorites.
Their latest work doesn't really match up with the "Classic" period,
but they can occasionally put out a gem. "Homeworld" is actually the
only album of the later period that I could actually listen to, though.
Nothing could compare with the material put out for "The Yes Album"
and "Fragile".
Yusaku Jon III
http://members.dca.net/yusaku-jon-3/
mel
> Does anyone listen to Yes anymore?
I have several Yes CDs and LPs that I listen to every now and then. I
also just saw Yes in concert this past September when they came through
Honolulu. They were in top form and played a lot of their famous 70s
album tracks as well as a handful of newer songs. They were in concert
with the Honolulu Symphony.
The Man From Mars
> not even their hit "Roundabout"
the local classic rock radio station plays this all the time...
thisplace
came out and I sent my review to the local paper the Georgia Straight, which
they printed in full, with some mocking reply. That album was ahead of its
time by miles; nowadays many artists love "covering" old standards and it's
considered cool, but back then people expected Dylan because he was a
prophet/poet to write all his own songs and each new album was supposed to
top the last. True fans loved this album and it blew us away with its
message.
GBlueOwl
G." <mikeg...@aol.com> writes:
>I don't think it was so much an issue of Dylan covering old standards,
>but doing it so half-heartedly. Even the covers of his own tunes ("Like
>a Rolling Stone," etc.) sounded half-hearted. Also, the songs *weren't*
>all "old standards" -- he made incongruous choices in contemporary
>material which served little purpose.
Maybe it's because I was too young to be really listening in 1970, when people
had whatever specific set of expectations they had of what a Dylan album should
be, or what sort of material would serve whatever "purpose" they thought there
should be, but this album has never really seemed like any big mystery to me.
It's Dylan slumming in the studio, mostly just trying to amuse himself. I've
always thought of it as Dylan just showing up in the studio each day and
recording whatever song he'd found himself idly humming to himself in the
shower that morning. There's certainly a casualness about it that could at
times be called halfhearted, or at least doesn't show Dylan particularly
interested in breaking a sweat over any of this, but if you're in the right
frame of mind that in itself can be sort of appealing.
>
>After all, you never hear anyone trash Dylan's debut album, do you? And
>that one has an even higher percentage of covers than Self Portrait. And
>years later, his covers-based World Gone Wrong also earned great reviews.
But Dylan's first album was pretty much exactly what was expected of a young
Greenwich Village Folkie's debut in 1961, some accounts even suggest John
Hammond deliberately avoided putting more original material on the record
because it wasn't deemed "acceptable" by the militantly traditionalist Village
Folk Scene of the day to do so. And of course, by the time of World Gone Wrong
it was a well established tradition for Rock Artists to at some point put out a
"covers" album, whose choice of material might range from a predictable rundown
of an artist's early influences, to a more esoteric, unlikely list of songs
designed let the artist "stretch out" and showcase a more diverse range of
musical interests than they generally get to do on their major, high-profile
releasees, and everything in between. But Self-Portriat seems to be about the
first album of largely covers since most Rock Artists were suddenly expected to
write all their own material in the late 60s'
Brian
Stephen Douglas
I just bought the remastered Close To The Edge, mostly because I
listened to it a lot when it first came out and the remastered CD
version was on sale dirt cheap.
I only saw them once, when they were touring for The Yes Album, and I
had no idea who they were. It was a pretty good show, and I bought
The Yes Album later that week. Yes was the first act of the night,
followed by Alice Cooper touring in support of Love It To Death. They
were another band that was not known to me at that time. The
headliner was Black Sabbath, touring in support of, IIRC, Masters Of
Reality.
I have no idea how long the three bands toured together, but doubt
that it was for very long. Black Sabbath had no stage show to speak
of (best effect was the plexiglass body on the bass guitar) and, based
on the show here in Ottawa, would have been repeatedly upstaged by
both opening acts.
Regards,
Steve
mel
sdwell...@hotmail.com (Stephen Douglas) wrote:
> > I have several Yes CDs and LPs that I listen to every now and then. I
> > also just saw Yes in concert this past September when they came through
> > Honolulu. They were in top form and played a lot of their famous 70s
> > album tracks as well as a handful of newer songs. They were in concert
> > with the Honolulu Symphony.
>
> I just bought the remastered Close To The Edge, mostly because I
> listened to it a lot when it first came out and the remastered CD
> version was on sale dirt cheap.
Ha! I recently bought the "Close the The Edge" CD myself because it had
extra tracks, the packaging was nice, and it was on sale for only $9.
It's a great album. Perhaps I should buy the expanded version of
"Fragile," get a CD version of "Topographic Oceans" and "Tormato."
I also should upgrade my LP of Rick Wakeman's "Journey to the Center of
the Earth"... that is a good album.
FiLL
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"John Stone" <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote in message
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> Does anyone listen to Yes anymore?
Absolutley. Try alt.music.yes . Yes discussions forever.
Don't hear them much on the radio,
> not even their hit "Roundabout". I think they did a reunion tour a few
years ago,
> don't know how well it was received.
A real "reunion" in my book would be with Bruford, but that won't happen.
They are not a reunion band, they are an ongoing project. Live shows are hit
and miss. I caught them last year, it was the first show on the leg of that
tour and it was mediocre - however later reviews were great.
FiLL
Daniel J. Wright
yes
Zaragon
> > not even their hit "Roundabout"
>
> the local classic rock radio station plays this all the time...
What a timely topic to mark my return, for I heard "Changes" blaring
from a truck at a stoplight as I stood outside my new apartment
building, waiting for the cable guy to arrive and hook me back up
online! And I know it wasn't from the radio because the classic rock
station down here takes the most dull and conservative approach, only
playing "Roundabout", "You're Move/All Good People", "Long Distance
Runaround" and "Owner".
Back up in Portland, the CR station (KGON) was a bit more
"adventurous", and would slip on stuff like "Leave It" and "Changes"
from time to time, but that's all another life and time to me now.
TS (who's awaiting for the repair of my portable MP3 player,
containing EVERY Yes album!)