Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!decvax!yale-com!folta From: folta@yale-com.UUCP (Stephen Folta) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: The Return of Yes - (nf) Message-ID: <3053@yale-com.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 15:23:31 EST Article-I.D.: yale-com.3053 Posted: Sun Mar 4 15:23:31 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 01:05:43 EST References: uiucdcs.5528 Lines: 20 Tall spires and castles? FLAME ON!!! I'm sick and tired of people criticizing progressive rock groups, especially Yes, without knowing what they're talking about! Henthorn obviously has formed his opinions by looking at album covers, rather than listening to the music. A similar mistake is the one made by many critics, which is judging Yes by Tales from Topographic Oceans, as if it were the only album they ever did. No, their music (at its best) is NOT concerned with fantasy worlds or mysticism. Their best work reached basic emotions through MUSIC, without the use of lyrics. Their best lyrics are musical, not literary. They don't make sense because their not SUPPOSED to make sense. I'll agree that Yes made (and continues to make) music that's not very good, but why do people continue to judge them by their worst work and ignore the really great music they made in the past? I hope I have made it clear that it is the knee-jerk Yes-haters, and not the Yes fans, who have their heads up their a--es. Flame off. Oh well, I guess I wandered off the subject a little. Anyway, I'll leave it to someone else to defend early Genesis. I've run out of flame fuel. Stephen Folta (folta@yale-comix)