I have a downer on the recent output having invested an unhealthy amount of emotion into one band.I like Big Generator plenty enough but that doesn't mean it isn't a some way of the peak that 90125 was. Shoot High is up there though.
Then again, I dont' have the downer on Yes' more recent output that most do. Naturally it is a long way off their glory days but it doesn't offend my years. I'm unlikely to go and see them live though without Mr Anderson. Shame ARW didn't make a studio album. I've been a fan of Rabin's since his first solo album.
That quiver in his voice seems a lot more pronounced now. Just going back over some of the early Hogarth era - because I've probably only ever listened to it once or twice - and his voice is quite good, it reminds me of someone else at times, Lou Gramm (Foreigner) I think but with less power. The album Brave from 1994 is quite good, they got their act together a bit by then and that was really the start of the new Marillion, but I'm risking Season's End for the first time in 33 years at the moment. Still feels wrong.Your first sentence sums up my ‘problem’ with them exactly. It’s just something about the whiny, quivering timbre of it that grates quite quickly for me.
I’ve really really wanted to like them post Fish, and boy have I tried, not least because I love Rothery’s guitar playing. I’ve learnt to enjoy certain individual tracks, or parts of them, but still really struggle to manage a full album.
By contrast, their first 4 albums I love to bits in their totality.
My thoughts exactly when I saw him in Liverpool last year.Went to see Steve Hackett in Berlin on Sunday, brilliant as usual. Forty five quid for a ticket compared to a small fortune for the decrepit three.
Agree and Holy Lambs not a bad track either.I like Big Generator plenty enough but that doesn't mean it isn't a some way of the peak that 90125 was. Shoot High is up there though.
Then again, I dont' have the downer on Yes' more recent output that most do. Naturally it is a long way off their glory days but it doesn't offend my years. I'm unlikely to go and see them live though without Mr Anderson. Shame ARW didn't make a studio album. I've been a fan of Rabin's since his first solo album.
Likewise, I tried but it just wasn't there. So middle of the road......Your first sentence sums up my ‘problem’ with them exactly. It’s just something about the whiny, quivering timbre of it that grates quite quickly for me.
I’ve really really wanted to like them post Fish, and boy have I tried, not least because I love Rothery’s guitar playing. I’ve learnt to enjoy certain individual tracks, or parts of them, but still really struggle to manage a full album.
By contrast, their first 4 albums I love to bits in their totality.
I think he wanted to turn them into Radiohead or such like …Likewise, I tried but it just wasn't there. So middle of the road......