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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: "YES" or great concerts.
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 11:29:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 11:29:51 1985
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>    Just for the record, I feel that the current album sounds very fresh,
> yet still very much Yes.

I will agree with this regarding the sound, but I feel the current lyrics
are considerably more shallow than formerly.  Consider their briefly-popular
song from _90125_, "Owner of a Lonely Heart," compared to some of the other
songs on the same or similar subject, e.g., "To Be Over".  The latter is
a very sensitive, encouraging sort of song; on the other hand, the former
is simply trite repetition of popular self-help advice.

Musically, though, I think having a second, stronger voice helped that album
a lot.  Jon Anderson's voice has always seemed a weak point of Yes to me
(although his lyrics are very good).

I suspect the music on 90125 was in a sense a reaction to Asia, inasmuch as
Howe left the group out of dissatisfaction with the type of music Yes had
been producing.  It seems stylistically very strongly influenced by
Asia (although, fortunately, again the lyrics are much better than the very
mundane ones Asia uses), almost a demonstration of "see, we can make this
kind of music too if we really have to."

A strange thing about 90125 is that it has two of the most traditionally
melodic themes on it of any Yes album; in "Hearts," and "City of Love".
It will be interesting to see what they do next.
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