Classic Rock (Phil Collins lives, run for the hills)

Bloody hell, there's not enough hours in the day to listen to everybody's Yes tracks.
Not a band whose work I'm familiar with, and some are quite a good listen, but they don't half go on!
 
RobMCFC said:
No. Is that the recommended best album?

Anyway, I'll give it a listen sometime - no chance at the moment trying to wade through these playlists.
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It wouldn't be by a long term Yes fan, but it is shorter stuff and the last good album they did IMO. That said I'm just listening to Yes, to aquaint myself with them, I'd say my top 5 are Fragile, Close to the edge ( long stuff, but lots of parts). Drama, Going for the one,and 90125. Topographic Oceans and Relayer are a bit up their own arses for me.The Album is good but a bit of them finding their way.
 
RobMCFC said:
No. Is that the recommended best album?

Anyway, I'll give it a listen sometime - no chance at the moment trying to wade through these playlists.
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No it's not the best album and it is more AOR than prog; it was produced by Trevor Horn. It's one of my favourite albums but I think The Yes album is best, then Fragile and Close to the Edge but they are full of long tracks. However, they are prog at its finest, IMO.

I tried on of the playlists but I don't subscribe to Spotify and it started playing up. TBF, I have a very high % of the tracks in my collection and don't need to listen to most of them.

I should check out the two on your playlist that I don't know.
 
blueparrot said:
It wouldn't be by a long term Yes fan, but it is shorter stuff and the last good album they did IMO. That said I'm just listening to Yes, to aquaint myself with them, I'd say my top 5 are Fragile, Close to the edge ( long stuff, but lots of parts). Drama, Going for the one,and 90125. Topographic Oceans and Relayer are a bit up their own arses for me.The Album is good but a bit of them finding their way.
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I held Yes sacred when I was 16/17 years old, but I’ve avoided them in the two albums I’ve produced in here.
The way I see it with a lot of the prog rock that I loved/love and spent my youth listening to us that for me to play it now I have to be in a particular nostalgic mood.
With their longer concept stuff, I can’t just take a 12 minute piece out in isolation and have it make sense in a compilation of a load of other bands. I have to listen to Yes in the completeness of the whole album. That’s how it makes sense and sounds great. It’s a whole mood or feeling.
Similarly I avoided Genesis/Floyd and a lot of stuff that would have required a double album to fit in (old vinyl speak).

I’ve listened to the two I’ve done as albums in the order I wanted and am pleased to say, I will play these playlists again. I’m very happy with the two different moods I’ve done in a complication of different bands and people.
That’s what I was going for.

So thanks to @Saddleworth2 for coming up with the idea and @OB1 for starting the thread which has seen me trawling through my old memories of various different styles I’ve touched on through the years.

I’ve listened to all your albums bar those few that arrived late yesterday and am looking forward to getting to them tomorrow.

Busy today. Son’s birthday.
 
RobMCFC said:
No. Is that the recommended best album?

Anyway, I'll give it a listen sometime - no chance at the moment trying to wade through these playlists.
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It was a kind of reform of the band after what I considered a disastrous flirtation with The Buggles and a drop of the prog rock format into something conforming to the MTV generation.
It’s a very accessible album.
 
OB1 said:
No it's not the best album and it is more AOR than prog; it was produced by Trevor Horn. It's one of my favourite albums but I think The Yes album is best, then Fragile and Close to the Edge but they are full of long tracks. However, they are prog at its finest, IMO.

I tried on of the playlists but I don't subscribe to Spotify and it started playing up. TBF, I have a very high % of the tracks in my collection and don't need to listen to most of them.

I should check out the two on your playlist that I don't know.
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Cheers.

Both "Year Zero" and "Under the Sun" are available on YouTube.
 
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