YES - Our Song

[skorb]

talk about a dip into the memory pool.

I've been gradually using iTunes to fill my mp3 collection with old stuff I used to have on tape but don't want necessarily to get the whole cd now, etc, and one of the bands I wanted more of was Yes.

I finally got around to the 90125 album which really made a big impression on me in college (that's where I was when it came out) and found Our Song, which I had completely forgotten has the most amazing off-timing verse sections, so I just had to post this. the intro/chorus is OK, kind of cheesy actually, but the verse parts with the set-up guitar bit and the 4 big piano chords and the syncopated vocal parts are just SICK. talk about musical genius.

this kind of alchemy is what I love about music. (gotta love the intro to the second verse where Rabin solos under the signature guitar riff)

this is the only easy way to hear the song, it's a picture vid only, of the city which the song is about, Toledo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Tet4fcdANg

[Franx]

Funny ... I stumbled over this album, too - just a few weeks ago. My favourite is Changes ! And I remembered, that there was a video back then, so I looked around and ordered the DVD. 9012-Live by Steven Soderbergh - very impressive live performance, great musicians !

[Endrik]

Changes is the best prog tune ever

[Soap]

Great album

[OnlineStageGear]

Changes is the best prog tune ever

I have to agree. They are suck a killer band. "In and around the lake" has the best bass line ever.

Matt

[pjg]

YES was the first band I freaked out over. I thought Steve Howe was the king. Their first album I ever really dug was Tormato of all things. It grew from there.

[fuel0707]

My favourite is Changes !

I always loved that tune, too. I must admit that I have always heard a Rush/Alex Lifeson influence with the rhythm guitar parts, which ain't a bad thing.

[Spivonious]

I have to agree. They are suck a killer band. "In and around the lake" has the best bass line ever.

Matt

It's called "Roundabout"

[pjg]

"Awaken" in the headphones is unbelievable IMO.

This is a pretty cool video from the "Going for the One" sessions.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UXtyNTMILW4&feature=related

And a short one of Rick Wakeman talking. He is pretty hilarious in a Monty Python sort of way:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hgmFmR5o9t4&feature=related

[OnlineStageGear]

It's called "Roundabout"

[dg]

I'm a Yes fan going way back. My best friend's older brother was really into prog and was cool about letting us listen to all of his records and taking us to concerts before we could drive. I saw every Yes lineup at least once, and the best show I remember was 2nd row for one of their tours with the circular revolving stage. In terms of pure talent, I don't think I've ever seen another band that could hang with them or deliver the goods live like they did. As for their best tune, it's totally subjective, but I'm going to say Sound Chaser off the Relayer album. It's fucking sick. Here's a live vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rIj6dt7uc

Sound quality could be better, especially the bass. Chris Squire is amazing, and it's kinda lost.

edit- Found the studio track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozwH...eature=related

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

I spoke with Jon Anderson a few years ago on the phone. it went like this: ring-ring "hello" ... "Hi, is Rod (former bro-in-law) there?" .... me "Nope, he's not" .... "Could you tell him Jon Anderson called?" ... me "Sure".... Jon "thanks". I though Man, that dude sounded like a chick. Did not put 2 and 2 together until I told Rod some Jon called for him. that is my brush with Yes

[skorb]

Heart of the Sunrise has always been my all-time favorite Yes song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_l4-...related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBPzH...eature=related

I got into Yes big in college and did get to see them live in SF once, in the 90's w/Rabin.

yeah their guitar sound has always been a bit thin from Howe I thought, with all the hollow-body stuff, but Rabin fattened things up. the bass and keys lead the band. guitar is sort an afterthought sometimes with them. it's fit in btwn on some songs. it's better with both guitarists like this version.

[Cygnus X1]

Closest I ever got to seeing Yes was Asia, the hardcore Pop Version.
But, that was an incredible concert! Emerson had a wall of keys that made me into a
vintage keyboard wannabe...I ended up with one, an Ensoniq SD-1. Not vintage, but great sounding and versatile.

Funny, being a Rush and a Floyd fan, I had a few Yes albums, and I found them to be unnapproachable, somehow. Like they were so good, they it made it sound like noodling.

I saw them live on public TV a few months back, and enjoyed it...but for as much as I ignored them, I would have loved to catch them live back in the day. Just a couple of years before my time.

[Chasbo]

I listen to alot of prog and Yes is always in my playlist. 90125 was an amazing album. I remember wondering if Trevor Rabin could do them justice, but once I heard his work in It Can Happen and Changes I was an instant convert. He is such a tasty player and makes his stuff sound so easy and natural that you get fooled into thinking it's easier than it really is. A great album man! Our song is one of the gems on it for sure!