why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

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Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human silly human siillllyy huuuuuuman race....

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I fucking love "Yours Is No Disgrace" so damn much. What a beautiful, beautiful song. Howe's playing on the whole Yes Album just blows me away.

I grew listening to WIOT out of Toledo, Ohio, and when 90120 came out they used to play "Our Song" all the time because it had that line "Toledo is just another stop along the good king's highway". Like, they actually thought it was about Toledo, Ohio!!

Yes fans jonesing for more YESSOUNDS should totally check out those two latter-day Os Mutantes LPs, by the way. When they got all progged-out. Total Yes homages.

I thought "yessed out" was some sort of cockney slang for "sucking it's own dick" or somethin'.

Your mention of the "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" video reminded me there was one version that had a guy with maggots crawling around on top of his closed eyelids. Did "Fear Factor" rip off this idea? I think MTV stopped showing that version.

i love yes. sometimes i'll be walking around and suddenly a bass line from some yes song will pop into my head and i'll be all excited.

would that ilm actually were a bit more yessed out.

One of my (many) large gaps of musical knowledge is rock of any variety from 1970-1985 or so.

Wobbly, if you're out there, tell your Jon Anderson at NAMM story . . .

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Drew

at a booth that sells vocoder software there is a man earnestly saying in a silvery, elven speaking voice reminiscent of Glinda the Good Witch "no, no, NO, you don't understand. I want to make my computer-" and here he erupts into a shivery high melodious flutter "s-i-i-iing!" and it's HIM and he's singing the word "sing" in THAT Yes voice.

What is NAMM, anyway?

I just watched some of that DVD "The Future Is Wild", the cheezy computer animated forecast of what freakish species will dominate this planet in 200 million years. It was very Yessed out too, CGI supercontinent-formation footage and giant global oceans (topographic tales of .. .)

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Olias of Sunhillow Critical Edition, with commentary track guest starring the 'scientists' from The Future Is Wild

maybe a little like the trevor horn yes (or maybe i just wish it sounded more like trevor horn yes).

it's basically arp-heavy metronomic 1978 eurosynth cheese.

I always see a Dean landscape, or some Art Nouveau P. Craig Russell planet landscape whenever I listen to Yes. Except for Yes mach-90125 and onward.

Holy shit this Jon Anderson record, damn. It really is the best Yes album in years. Shame about that My First Pen & Pixel ass album cover though. Imagine this shit with a fine Roger Dean on it.

must admit I get Yessed the fuck out when that riff enters around 3:00 in on "Counties and Countries"

this album is so legit. apparently he's touring more in 2025, would love to see them come nearby

Howe must have Dean under some kind of non-compete contract

That might account for why Dean's always there at Howe's Yes shows, hawking his prints in the lobby.

his stuff is kind of terrible clip art at this point

Could be, or else Jon just wanted to toss his daughter some work:

Artwork – Deborah Anderson

Great 90 minute Rick Wakeman autobio interview on Rick Beato’s YT channel. Lots of amazing session and recording anecdotes, cool n’ nerdy technical talk and a minimum of rehashed stuff. One of the best !

Yeah I liked it, apparently Bruford wants on the show, so I'm looking forward to that.

happy 50th to relayer

oh shit gotta put it on before the day is through

I declare my intention to get more Yessed out tonight than ever before (Jon & his band geeks are coming to Milwaukee)

Nice, have fun. Share your thoughts after.

Intermission. To get properly yessed out I took an edible 5mg stronger than I’m used to and all I can say is hell yes. Not gonna spoil it but holy fuck at what the first song is

Jon still has it man. He still wants to be there. Not always the case with these aging acts even if they can still play and out on a good show. The band isn’t Yes but they can really play.

My biggest complaint about their Union tour was that they all seemed completely checked out. Just no enthusiasm. Good to hear Jon is enjoying himself again.

more livefrogbsblog imo

Not gonna spoil it but holy fuck at what the first song is

I'm guessing "Holy Lamb (Song for Harmonic Convergence)"

more livefrogbsblog imo

Agreed. Not enough liveblog (but, good man for only posting before the show, during intermission, and after the show)

Good concert attendee, at least. Bad ILM liveblogger.

I'll be honest I probably wouldn't have much more to say than ...hell yeah. it was awesome. they did the material justice, which I don't think current Yes does. anyway I'm not sure if anyone here plans on attending so I'll spoiler this.

first song was "Close to the Edge". really ballsy starting with that I think. pretty emotional moment for me, I've heard the Yessongs version a ton and always thought, how cool would it have been to be there? well, this was about as good. felt like I was floating during the middle section. after that, "Perpetual Change". also awesome. the new material I thought worked really well. probably the best compliment I can pay it is, it sounded like it belonged. also they whipped out "Owner of a Lonely Heart" which made some people in the crowd groan. whatever. those people are no fun. that and "True Messenger" (which was way more complex and strange than I remembered) were the only songs under ten minutes. oh and they did "Awaken", that was insane as well. Jon played a harp. he also played tambourine during a lot of it and you could see him get lost a few times, lmao. but his voice is still great!! anyway, "Starship Trooper" went nuts at the end with all the soloing. again, these guys can really play. was kind of bummed they didn't do "Gates of Delirium" because I've seen them do it on YouTube and it's killer. oh well. can't complain when they were just whipping out one incredible epic after another. go see it if you can!!

Nice! Sounds awesome, glad you enjoyed it. Not sure I'll get a chance to catch this tour, but now I'm thinking I need to get the live album from their 2023 tour.

got really yessed the fuck out on Time And A Word the other night, love the bass sound on that album

yeah Squire doing some Sonic 3 bonus level shit on the first track is awesome, maybe their ability isn't *quite* there but they really go for it on that album. I listened to a couple weeks ago and remember thinking it was better than I remembered. funny how the title track is the only song they ever whip out from this one, since it doesn't really fit into the album that well.

just finished the recent Jon & the Band Geeks live album, I didn't realize it's from before True, so it's all Yes epics. pretty much the dream setlist too, isn't it? anyway it's great.

lol I just remembered during intermission I told someone I only knew of this band because I bought the True album on sight due to the cool cover. I was like "what's all this other stuff they're playing?? when are they gonna do Shine On??" then I felt bad because he actually believed me!!

Hahahaha! THAT cover?!

I think he looks cool on it

I came to see geeks, who is this cool guy in front of the band?!?

I did play Shine On after reading that post and... loved it straight off? Was I even supposed to? But now I'm apparently going to become that guy who gets into Yes by starting with True.

"what's all this other stuff they're playing?? when are they gonna do Shine On??"

lmao I gotta try this sometime

Acquainting oneself with the Yes discography in reverse chronological order is a sure path to attaining the virtues of patience and faith in future rewards.

No live albums included!

it's a legitimately good album! prog fans are a tough bunch to please, especially when it comes to anything Yes related, so all the positive reviews are actually pretty meaningful I think. in the context of the show I thought "Counties and Countries" was particularly good, for the most part it sounds like it could be on The Yes Album.

getting into Yes is a pretty big project if you dont wanna just skip to the good stuff but I'd at least wanna know what you think of Jon's Olias of Sunhillow. its a really remarkable achievement, the one time where it really does feel like Jon was able to capture everything that was going on in his head. and he plays everything on it despite not being much of a musician himself. if it helps sell you on it, it seems massively obvious to me that Susumu Hirasawa was influenced heavily by this album, in fact the sudden shift he takes with Aurora feels like it might've just been him getting really into it at the time

What!!!

Why oh why is music filled with endless wonderful link-ups like that

Acquainting oneself with the Yes discography in reverse chronological order is a sure path to attaining the virtues of patience and faith in future rewards.

My chronological explorer days are mostly behind me but this sounds like a fun and unusual challenge! I'm also doing Hirasawa in regular chronological order so it'll be cool to see how they intertwine / meet.

So what would I do, Jon Anderson solo stuff in reverse until he unquits Yes? (I know nothing about the band other than what I've read on here and Critter Jams, and don't know the first thing about the line-up changes)

oh god no. his catalogue is spotty and ridiculously all-over-the-place. Olias is really special though, based on the stories I've heard he worked himself into a state of delirium making it and doesn't remember finishing certain parts. it really is the best solo album he could've made

if you really wanna go in reverse chronological order with a band I don't think Yes is a particularly interesting band to do it with. because of all the lineup changes there's no real throughline to their stuff after 1980. you probably know they were a successful pop band for a short time but after that things just kind of get weird, at one point there were two competing factions of Yes, actually come to think of it that's kind of what's happening now

Genesis would be a fun band to do that with though. though I'm guessing a lot of people really did get into the band in reverse order - I think they had something like 11 albums straight that each sold more than the last?

Alright, so I'll save myself the masochism and try a True > Olias of Sunhillow > Animation (Robert Adam Gilmour sells it in the Olias thread) > Yes's imperial period path. That'll still get me the perversity props, right?

Time to yes in.

No! Corrections!

True > The Invention of Knowledge (I just found out it has Daniel Gildenlöw on back-up vocals, and I adore Daniel; plus the Critter Jams write-up is great, if not encouraing) > Animation (I'm okay skipping decades but I do want to keep traveling in reverse) > Olias of Sunhillow > imperial Yes

Logical reverse chronological review is start with Union and go back from there.

Via ABWH, or skip straight to Big Generator then 9012Live: The Solos?

Maybe this will help: Yes Albums From Worst To Best

I wrote it in 2015 so it's not totally complete, but I don't remember anything about The Quest or Mirror To The Sky anyway.

My slightly facetious suggestion was that you'd have to have a lot of acuity to listen to the most recent Yes records and perceive what was good about their earlier work from those, and then as you listened backwards in time you'd have to keep the faith as you experienced an extremely slow motion perception of rising quality.

I did get the gist of that, Halfway, but you put it so beautifully...! And I'm contrarian enough by nature to at least ponder odd avenues of approach.

Unperson's list makes me want to add Magnification to my travels.

Plus my experience with Tull means I now have an immense store of good will for legacy prog acts. Tull don't have any unredeemable albums and getting to know them backwards from Homo Erraticus, which came out the autumn I became a full-on fan, would probably have been really fun.

Plus my experience with Tull means I now have an immense store of good will for legacy prog acts. Tull don't have any unredeemable albums and getting to know them backwards from Homo Erraticus, which came out the autumn I became a full-on fan, would probably have been really fun.

On first full listen: parts of True feel anodyne in the way modern prog tends to, but on the whole, there's a distinctive color to things (not unlike the album cover) and lots of interesting sections -- my first-listen favorites typically the ones in minor key, but I like the brightness of the album's major key backdrop. Feels uplifting. I'll listen more.

On second listen, I seem to be entering a state of cautious and yet genuine awe.

I kind of had the same experience, on first listen I did notice it having that 'modern' prog sound, where you can tell the bandmembers aren't in the same room as each other - you hear some compression artifacts in the vocals (Invention of Knowledge had this too), every instrument seems produced a little differently, also I do notice a bit of autotune on Jon's voice. I still thought it was one of the best Yes-related releases of the last 40 years, though admittedly that's damning with faint praise. Over a few more listens I realized...it really is legit. The live show confirmed that; if you didn't know any of their music at all you'd probably figure out that "True Messenger" was a newer track, but not the two epics.

must admit I get Yessed the fuck out when that riff enters around 3:00 in on "Counties and Countries"

otm, that is quite the riff.

I've played True another three times since yesterday, loving it more with each play!

What a beautiful song Realization Part Two is.

The organ jam toward the end of Once upon a Dream is exquisite.

Thank God is cheesy but also really sweet.

We love to sing
It's the nature of things