Feel free to yell at me/ask me questions in the comments below!

1. Trevor Rabin is a better guitarist (and WAY better songwriter) than Steve Howe.
2. "Love Will Find a Way" is the best Yes song.
3. Yes has WAY too many goddamn live and compilation albums.
4. Going For the One is a shitty album.
5. Talk is just as good Close to the Edge (the album).

Rick Beato has interviewed Rick Wakeman. The entire thing isn't up yet, but a preview just went live. And included a fact about Bill Bruford's contribution to Rick's solo on "Roundabout" that may be well known to many, but was news to me.

I've mentioned this before, but this is one of Yes's most beautiful songs, IMHO. I often put it on when I'm exploring in a video game or doing house work and just let it loop. If I want something a little more upbeat I'll play New Language or Tempus Fugit.

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Last night I sang Into the Lens at my college's karaoke night. Not to brag, but I kinda crushed it and the people loved it, even despite the fact that probably only like one or two people there even know who Yes are.

Just thought I'd report in

Absolutely adore prog rock and psychedelic, but lately I’ve run out of stuff to listen to so I’ve decided to dive into Yes! What albums/songs/eras do you think I’ll like the most? For perspective some of my favorite bands from the late 60’s and 70’s are: -Rush

-Pink Floyd

-Jethro Tull

-Black Sabbath

-Coven

-Led Zeppelin

-Grateful Dead

-Deep Purple

-Cream

I’m starting at the beginning with their self titled debut and working my way up to Mirror in the Sky and Yessingles as I love to hear the progression of a band’s sound (PF and the Dead’s transformation in particular are quite interesting to me). So far I’m loving the first album but that’s all I’ve heard (except for their popular stuff which I’m 50/50 on). I’m so excited to dive into them!

Thank you

The upcoming Tom Hanks movie is called Here. Early reviews are not very positive. However, they used Your Move as the soundtrack for the trailer.

https://youtu.be/BenLo81Fet4?si=2kYvEtfp9ny8cdQL

Like seriously!!! Within the Yes fandom we’ve received THREE new albums to please about every faction out there! Mirror for staunch Howe led Yes fans, Trevor Rabin’s Rio and Jon & Band Geeks with True!!!! It’s like we’ve gotten every flavor or alt universe Yes releases, if you will! That’s it! Not a bashing post, this is just a great period to be a fan of about any and all (major) versions of the bans!

Here’s my attempt to graft Steve Howe’s acoustic intro for Onward, Jon Anderson’s Days and Onward together as a single track.

Enjoy! It’s my preparation for re-editing Tales…

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rps6q1xaop0t8nyigqej8/onward2.flac?rlkey=9yjpswtmrj7ht7excxus86w0z&st=ufso2wsn&dl=0

I'm ranting so please forgive me my general lack of focus.

True is such a great album. It's amazing. It's easily way better than anything Yes has released in 20 years. I didn't say 30 years only because I also really liked Magnification and Keys to Ascension.

Magnification was a glorious experiment and I think it captured what my favorite Yes is all about. I saw the tour with Rick Wakeman and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen them do. If they had followed this up with something like True I would have been in heaven.

But, alas! Yes chose to ditch Jon Anderson back in 2008 and doomed themselves to mediocrity.

I couldn't get through The Quest. I've tried many times to listen to the album but by about halfway through I have to stop playing it. It's just tedious. It's boring. It's like someone fed Yes' back catalog into an AI and had it synthesize a new album. Pure, tasteless pablum.

I eventually managed to get my hands on Heaven & Earth and found that it is indeed as terrible as everyone says it is. I was able to get through it all in one listen though, but I don't plan to ever listen to it again.

Fly From Here was only as good as it was because Trevor Horn rode in like Gandalf at Helm's Deem and handed them some of his old work. I'm one of those guys who thinks pretty much anything Trevor Horn touches is great so good on him for showing up for his friends.

Back to True: the music is top notch. The Lyrics are pure Yes. There is no needless wankery or noodling. The melodies are going places and the way the different instruments lock together is right from the playbook that gave us The Yes Album, Fragile, and Close To The Edge.

It's pretty clear to me that Yes needs Jon Anderson way more that Jon Anderson needs Yes. I haven't been this enthusiastic about anything Yes-related in far too long.

TLDR: Mind Drive is one of the best Yes song over 10 minutes.

I haven’t listened all the way through the Keys to Ascension albums as I generally can’t stand live albums, they never sound right even with the best equipment(this is my unpopular opinion).

A coworker yesterday showed me Keystudios a compilation album of the new songs from both Keys to Ascension albums and I. The middle is Mind Drive an almost 19 song. Without a doubt one of my favorite Yes song over 10 minutes by a long shot.

"Critical error" message currently (1:55pm EST 24th Oct) at https://yesworld.com.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLimO9ydEgo

There’s a great surprise in episode 6.

My favorite has to be Long Distance Runaround. It just sounds so unique to me. Everything about that song I adore. A close second is probably Heart of The Sunrise, especially because of Chris Squire's playing. What songs from Fragile do you guys like?