I have listened to Yes: Close to the Edge again.

[coloradodem2005]

I love this album. It feels like musical perfection. It feels serene and all of them are working well in tandem with each other. This is a true gem of progressive rock. It feels vibrant and yet relaxing at the same time. It seems to have a spiritual component to it. Everything just flows together so well. It is very addictive.

[MissMillie]

1. Much of what Yes does has a spiritual component

Jon Anderson is a pretty spiritual guy.

I really enjoy Close to the Edge. It is a work of art.

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Hang on - you're young, aren't you?

How then, could you have contracted such a heinous disease?

[Total Mass Retain]

3. Re:"I have listened to Yes: Close to the Edge again."

My dad had bypass surgery before the holidays and died about
two weeks ago from complications. For some reason,I've
listened to that CD over and over,including during the two
months of his illness when I had to drive over 300 miles and
back again about every 4-5 days to deal with things at home
and still be with him. I don't know why,but in this time all
I've wanted to listen to is
"YES"-"Fragile",  "Close To The
Edge", and "Tales From Topographic Oceans". I
couldn't bear any other music,including Christmas music. I
don't know what,if anything,this means. I hadn't listened to
"YES" in ages before this.I had them on my mind when
I chose my username</blinding glimpse of obvious>

[MissMillie]

8. Tales from Topographic Oceans

GREAT STUFF!!!

[Elidor]

28. There is something deeply soothing about certain Yes songs

When I was young, I sometimes prescribed Wondrous Stories for bad acid trips. Yes songs (at least the old ones) have a way of grounding you in what's real. Some of them are healing songs, just like some of the best music by Robbie Robertson.

[Liberal_Andy]

4. I get up...................I get down.............

:smoke:great LP!

[steely]

5. omg, I think I'm having a flashback.

I was so into these guys that I painted portions of the album covers on my BR walls (them and zep) a buncha years ago - it's nice to know I was enjoying the classics - I think I know what I'll be listening to in the car tomorrow morning.

[Total Mass Retain]

15. Album Covers

I love the Roger Dean album covers. I just found a tee shirt with the Dean cover from "Tales From Topographic Oceans" on it and got it. I think I'm in a "YES" obsession right now:)

[brentspeak]

17. Didn't comedian Phil Hartman also do Yes covers?

I remember him on Letterman showing the rock cover art he did before his comedy career.

[KittyWampus]

6. Beautiful Music. And Some Are Intimidated By That. Ignore Them.

[Wat_Tyler]

19. Intimidated?

Most hilarious post of the day.

[Pepperbelly]

7. Yes is good ...

Was Close to the Edge live?

I seem to remember that it was. If it was, it had Siberian Katru opening side 1. THAT was a good song. The little guitar lick that he does in that stays with the soul. Excellent album, excellent band.

[Total Mass Retain]

9. Forgive Me If You Didn't Want To Know That Badly...

...but here's the line-up from "Close To The Edge"(a studio album)

1)Close To The Edge

I)The Solid Change of Time
II)Total Mass Retain
III)I Get Up I Get Down
IV)Seasons Of Man


2)And You And I

I)Cord Of Life
II)Eclipse
III)The Preacher The Teacher
IV)Apocalypse


3)Siberian Khatru


(edited for punctuation)

[Pepperbelly]

10. Very glad to know ...

Siberian Khatru is, to me, one of the best rock songs every. I am also glad to get the correct spelling. :D

Was it live or am I thinking about something else altogether, as I am wont to do.

[Total Mass Retain]

11. It was studio, not live

I believe,IIRC, that "YESSONGS" is a live album. To be truthful, I haven't heard a live "YES" album,but I've heard the live version of "Awaken" and it makes my spirit soar every time.

[Pepperbelly]

12. It must have been Yessongs I was thinking about.

Yes is the cat's pajamas.

[Total Mass Retain]

14. I love listening to them,

they take me to another place. I've been into Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" too,they also take me to another place-but a completely different one than "YES" does:)

[Total Mass Retain]

21. ELP's lyrics from "Karn Evil 9 Third Impression"

were prophetic, I think,if you remember that this was the Seventies before computers were a common personal technology tool, like the telephone was then. Computers were still those big IBM things.

These are the lyrics I mean,it's man and the computer having it out,because the computers have taken over and subjugated its creator-

>No man yields who flies in my ship
>Danger!
>Let the bridge computer speak
>Stranger!
>Load your program. I am yourself.

>No computer stands in my way
>Only blood can cancel my pain
>Guardians of a new clear dawn
>Let the maps of war be drawn.

>Rejoice! glory is ours!
>Our young men have not died in vain,
>Their graves need no flowers
>The tapes have recorded their names.

>I am all there is
>Negative! primitive! limited! i let you live!
>But I gave you life
>What else could you do?
>To do what was right
>I'm perfect! are you?

[Total Mass Retain]

22. And ELP has the only love song I ever knew of to a corpse-

"Still You Turn Me On"-strangely enough,it's a really pretty ballad except for some weird wah-wah sounds in the refrain that sound like what everyone considers stereotypical Seventies porn music now,LOL-everyone used to make fun of Greg Lake's lyric about "someone get me a ladder",but if since it's a love song to a corpse,I guess he could asking for a ladder to climb out of the grave!

>Do you want to be an angel,
>Do you want to be a star,
>Do you want to play some magic on my guitar?
>Do you want to be a poet,
>Do you want to be my string?
>You could be anything.
>Do you want to be the lover of another
>Undercover? you could even be the man on the moon.

>Do you want to be the player,
>Do you want to be the string?
>Let me just tell you something,
>It just don't mean a thing.
>You see it really doesn't matter
>When you're buried in disguise
>By the dark glass on your eyes,
>Though your flesh has crystalised;
>Still .... you turn me on.

>Do you want to be the pillow where I lay my head,
>Do you want to be the feathers lying in my bed?
>Do you want to be a colour cover magazine;
>Create a scene.
>Every day a little sadder,
>A little madder,
>Someone get me a ladder.

>Do you want to be the singer,
>Do you want to be the song?
>Let me tell you something
>You just couldn't be more wrong.
>You see I really have to tell you
>That it all gets so intense.
>from my experience
>It just doesn't seem to make sense,
>Still .... you turn me on.

[brentspeak]

18. Yessongs vinyl album

I purchased Yessongs on vinyl when I was thirteen. It was a triple album, and seemed to cost a million bucks. All my paperboy money from an entire month was needed to get it.

[Pepperbelly]

13. and Siberian Khatru was the 1st cut after an excerpt fm firebird suite. nt

[brentspeak]

20. They used to perform it live in its entirety

straight through. Now they might play the whole thing, but they'll split the songs up throughout the concert.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. There Is A Live Version On Yessongs

But, the album is studio.
The Professor

[IcyPeas]

16. Did Yes ever do a christmas song?

just wondering. always loved ELP's chrsitmas song "I believe in Father Christmas" and for some reason it makes me wonder about Yes.

[BrewerJohn]

30. They had one called "Run With the Fox"

One of those more obscure tunes; it was a single release at Christmastime in 1981. It's on the "Yesyears" box set also.

But for Yes-type Christmas music, the real gold is Jon Anderson's album "3 Ships", from 1985. This one has Anderson's pan-spiritual feeling all over it, with a Christian edge. About half Christmas originals and half nice arrangements of Christmas standards. Out of print as far as I know, but it probably can be found for download.

[IcyPeas]

31. thank you brewerjohn

I will try and find these!!

[Floogeldy]

23. You have good taste

CTTE is in my top five albums of all time.

[wovenpaint]

24. Oohh, I wish I had this one (again).....

You do indeed have good musical taste!!

:yourock:

[Total Mass Retain]

26. Amazon carries all of their music,

even the solo stuff,and I just got a DVD-audio of clips of ELP in concert,and music tracks from Brain Salad Surgery,Fanfare for The Common Man,Pirates,and some other stuff. You can play it on your computer,but oddly enough,it'll only play the music tracks in a regular DVD player-you have to have some special DVD player to see the video-but my computer will play all of it,audio tracks and video clips.

[LifeDuringWartime]

25. FANTASTIC ALBUM

i got the "Fragile" and "Close To The Edge" reissues for christmas. just today, i bought the "Relayer" reissue. even though i have it on my computer, i dont have the "Tales from Topographic Oceans" reissue (yet).

CTTE is probably my favorite out of all of them, with maybe Relayer coming up second. i was disappointed after i bought the album today to learn that rick wakeman had left after the TTO tours...the new guy is good too, though.

what does yes sound like pre-Fragile and post-Relayer?


i've also been on a King Crimson binge lately! good stuff

[Total Mass Retain]

27. I just found a re-issue in a Be-Bop record store in the hickest of towns,

of one of Yes' releases pre-Fragile,before they had Steve Howe and Bill Bruford and Rick Wakeman(the classic Yes line-up,IMO),called "Time and A Word". It has little glimpses of where they going,but they still had then a psychedelic sound,with a little "Association" and Simon and Garfunkel harmony thrown in.

[Total Mass Retain]

29. Wakeman came back for the

"Going For The One" album,the one with the song "Parallels", where he plays a rocking opening fanfare on a huge church organ in Switzerland. I love that song just for that organ sound(the lyrics aren't bad either,Jon Anderson's lyrics were always so deep that even HE said that he didn't always know what they meant,LOL)

Wakeman has been back for a couple of tours,in fact YES just finished an American tour in Septemeber and darn it all, I didn't even know till too late that they WERE still touring! If they do another one,I'm there-Wakeman is even wearing his old capes again:) That is,if he's with them for another tour-he seems to come and go.

[Beaverhausen]

32. They are still around you know- I saw them in September

I think they are comtemplating recording a new album.

They are a bit - ok a lot older- but they still play like motherfuckers.

Their music really is amazing.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Ever Heard The Live Version?

The one from Yessongs. Outstanding. It is just as precise and atmospheric as the original, but in the more rocking segments, there is just so much more energy.

It's my favorite song off that live album.
The Professor