Yes
4-4-08 Yes
As odd as it sounds to say, I do not think Yes has had a dedicated blog from me yet!
CD 90125 ATCO US 90125.2
LP 90125 ATCO US 90125.1
CD 90125 re RHINO
LP 9012LIVE - THE SOLOS (Live) ATCO US 90474.1
CD BIG GENERATOR ATCO US 90522.2
LP BIG GENERATOR ATCO US 90522.1
LP CLOSE TO THE EDGE ATLANTIC
CD CLOSE TO THE EDGE re
7" DON'T KILL THE WHALE / ABELINE ATLANTIC
LP DRAMA ATLANTIC
CD DRAMA re RHINO
LP FRAGILE ATLANTIC
CD FRAGILE re
LP GOING FOR THE ONE ATLANTIC
7" INTO THE LENS / DOES IT REALLY HAPPEN? ATLANTIC
12" LEAVE IT ATCO
12"
12" OWNER OF A LONELY HEART ATCO DE 79-6976-0
7" OWNER OF A LONELY HEART / OUR SONG ATCO
LPx2 PRIMERAS GRABACIONES (1st 2 albums) ATLANTIC ES 50051/2
12" RHYTHM OF LOVE ATCO
LP TIME AND A WORD, A ATLANTIC
LP TORMATO ATLANTIC AUS SD 19202
LP YES ATLANTIC
LP YES ALBUM, THE ATLANTIC
CD YES ALBUM, THE re ATLANTIC US 82665.2
I think I first heard Yes around the time that “All Good People” would’ve been played on the FM radio – because I almost certainly bought “Fragile” as soon as it came out. I would have had no idea that Rick Wakeman came from the band Strawbs.
At the time, I liked “Close To The Edge” just fine (I think I had a cassette of it), and I definitely rushed to buy an inexpensive copy of the triple live album “Yessongs” (no, I didn’t keep it). And I never made it to “Tales of Topographic Oceans” – never. Despite the nice cover art. A shout out to Roger Dean – for all of his lovely commercial art that graces the covers and inner-sleeves and booklets of Yes albums!
I’ve since filled in a few gaps between “Close…” and “Drama” (what were they thinking when they made “Tormato”?), but…Yes really comes alive for me when they were joined by The Buggles for the LP “Drama”. And I absolutely love the next two studio Yes albums, “90125” and “Big Generator”. Anything after “Big Generator” – forget it.
Recently, I even bought the DVD of all of the Yes music videos – nice to see the “Drama” and “90125” stuff again. And, I kept a ‘paint-face’ German Atco “90125” CD – it was such an early CD! And wasn’t it supposed to be called “80183” – but the title of it changed when the list price went up?
So, should I go see Jon Anderson at the Canyon Club? I sure wish I’d seen his show up in
posted by Ron Kane @ 6:29 AM
3 Comments:
Re: Jon Anderson
I wouldn't do it! Although I did like the first Jon & Vangelis album and in fact re-bought it on CD in the late 80s! But I'm with you on the primacy of Drama. I really liked the videos/singles from 90125 but wasn't motivated to make any purchases apart from the 12" dance remix (!) of OOABH - which I wish I'd kept. I don't think I heard anything from Big Generator at all. I remember seeing the very basic Tempus Fugit video when it came out on Rockworld or Hollywood Heartbeat! Nice to know it hasn't been swept under the rug, metaphorically speaking. Does the DVD have all 10 versions of the "Leave It" video? I remember watching [but not taping] when they played them back to back on MTV in a stunt programming hour that probably cost WEA a pretty penny.
And hey, I hear those "paint face" or "target" initial German CDs from PDO in Hanover are fetching collectors prices as the loudness wars continue to destroy recorded music in out rime.
Back in the late 90s I was working in an office with a "prog guy" whom I discovered when he walked by and heard my CD of FM's superb Black Noise. We got in an animated conversation re: prog and he was still deep in it. He loaned me a then current Yes 2xCD called, I believe, Keys To Ascension. It didn't greatly offend, nor did it excite.
DVD does not have all 10 x Leave Its - unless they're hidden.
I forgot to mention that I think if I had to have any pre-Drama Yes album, it would be Going For The One. That was a pretty decent one [I have good memories of liking "Parallels" especially, thought I can't remember a note of it] for one that wasn't considered a "classic." But it IS hard to imagine that they squirted out the dreadful Tormato the next year!
And that would be...
And hey, I hear those "paint face" or "target" initial German CDs from PDO in Hanover are fetching collectors prices as the loudness wars continue to destroy recorded music in OUR TIME.
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