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Underrated.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I like lake's vocals. emerson is where elp falls down for me. and since his name comes first, that's pretty quickly.

― akm (akmonday), Thursday, 15 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

what about the nice? was emerson any good -- or at least tolerable -- in that group?!?

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I have their greatest hits on cassette. I don't think it's anything spectacular but they had some nice tunes. I haven't listened in ages though.

My old pop prof at York loves Yes up through CttE but ranks TfTO amongst the worst albums ever. I don't understand at all, now that I've finally got past my fears and checked out the album. It's different but not that different and in some ways it sums up a lot of what was so great about Yes. I think it holds together really well as an ambient fusion masterpiece. It makes me feel what spiritual hippie psychedelia should feel like.

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

(I still put on the big 3 more often.)

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

spiritual hippie psychedelia

this is jon anderson's world -- you can hear that to some extent in all the other Yes records in the 70s, and a lot of his solo stuff. I actually like it in small doses too (see "Wonderous Stories" on GftO for the smallest dose)

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

moraz is a funny duck
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ionv8iRjyVA

― bliss (blass), Saturday, 17 February 2007 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

you can hear that to some extent in all the other Yes records in the 70s, and a lot of his solo stuff

I've been singing the praises of Olias Of Sunhillow for a long fucking time in the face of equal parts ridicule, blankness and bewilderment. Anderson was always the heart of Yes, while Squire was the gonads, Howe the voice, Wakeman the dick and Bruford the soul.

― Lostandfound (David A.), Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always loved "Wondrous Stories." What else sounds like that? It's a relatively straightforward (at least by Yes standards) pop song but I can't really think of what it would be comparable to. Maybe CSNY for the vocal sound? But they don't have that guitar or keyboard sound and the melody is probably too British or something.

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Sunday, 18 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

you want to hear "Soon" and "To Be Over"

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 19 February 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

that is secretly true of everyone, it's just that they don't know it yet.

i would also add 'Eclipse' from "And You And I" to that list.

― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"Wondrous Stories" is gorgeous, Squire's bass on this is so full and pushes the song along in a way that nobody else did until Peter Hook (let's say.). Plus the vocal harmonies are sweet and Wakeman's lines are bee-yoo-tiful.

Still don't get all the "Relayer"/Moraz love on these Yes threads. If anything, that's the most "let's fill every inch of space" constipated sounding Yes music (before the Rabin years).

― Jay Vee (Jay Vee), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I know those tracks, of course, and I like them. I meant what else that's not by Yes sounds like "Wondrous Stories" (though there's a quality to WS that even those tracks don't have for me.)

xpost Yes, Jay Vee has put his finger on part of it.

I'm beginning to reconsider 90125.

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I said "Rabin years" even though there are things on 90125 that compare to the loveliness of classic Yes (i.e. "Hearts", "Changes"). Though I wish Howe had played/soloed on them rather than Rabin.

― Jay Vee (Jay Vee), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I reckon 'Wondrous Stories' could without too much change have fitted onto one of XTC's later albums. Or maybe an SFA record.

― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

What XTC and SFA albums would be good starting points for this kind of thing?

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

(SFA = Super Furry Animals, right? I'm not sure I've heard an entire song by them. I like Welsh accents, though.)

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW, I've been listening to Relayer and Going for the One all day because of this thread.

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

XTC = get NONSUCH, it's one of the most criminally-underrated albums OF ALL TIME and it's easily XTC's best IMO. SFA is tougher. The comparison was essentially with SFA's gentler, more balladic material, but the two albums reputed to display this the most (Phantom Power and Mwng) are the two I don't have. I'd say the slower stuff on Radiator and Rings Around The World (both fantastic records) bears a certain (albeit far more oblique than XTC's) resemblance.

― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Early Roxy Music as well, obv.

― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i was reading this article in vanity fair last nite about this crazy dude that used to manage steven soderbergh and now is a right wing wacko who made some kind of gonzo jackass agitprop iraq documentary....anyway, in there it mentions that soderbergh made YES documentary before sex lies & videotape...anyone seen it?

― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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