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From: folta@yale-com.UUCP (Stephen Folta)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Re: The Return of Yes - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 15:23:31 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  4 15:23:31 1984
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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)