My wife and I put on Fragile and Close to the Edge last night, and that made me wonder how ILM has treated Yes over the years. Unfortunately, "yes" is one of the MySQL full-text stopwords that break ILM's search function.
Is there some secret I can apply to find the entertaining Yes abuse I know must be buried in the database? Perhaps some kind soul remembers actual thread titles? Searching on the names of albums and band members hasn't gotten me anywhere.
― Brad C., Monday, 25 June 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-fine-tuning.html
But I believe "Yessed out" should give you some hits.
― neustile, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)
Anderson, Walkman, Buttholes and How! (Dead Milkmen)
We've got to get together And we've got to save the snails Let's board the purple spaceships Before they set sail I want a Yes reunion And you know I want one now No more Anderson, Walkman, Buttholes and How! Listening to the opera And smoking angels' dust You can't get more fucking Progressive than us...
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)
Not that much abuse! Lots of us love them. CTTE is one of my all-time favourite albums.
― Sundar, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)
quotes would be helpful in the search function. searching for something like "the yes album" is impossible without them.
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)
I found this thread, but I swear there have been a lot more over the years (and they have always been surprisingly kind to the band for the most part).
― Lostandfound, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)
Oh, Sundar already said that. On second thoughts, perhaps it's not surprising, anyway, as ILM has always been both iconoclastic and contrarian!
― Lostandfound, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)
It's weird how in high school I was mercilessly teased for liking Yes and I shoved it all into the closet and now that I'm 26 and play in bands and stuff people are all like "oh man, Yes is the best, I've always loved them" and then we jam out on the bendy bass riff to Close To The Edge and shit.
― Davey D, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)
ILM is pretty Yes-positive.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)