Talk - Collectors Edition

[Original_Shifty]

From Yesworld

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Spitfire Records has released a "Collector's Edition" of Talk, the 1994 release from Yes that was the last to feature guitarist Trevor Rabin.

The album includes the extended version of "The Calling" and extensive sleeve notes.


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I don't have this cd yet, so I think it will be about time I do so.

[InverYes]

I don't have talk yet either so it would be a good version to buy. There seems to be no shortage of re-releases, compilations and "special editions" of Yes on the market.

[Jackaranda]

It's an automatic buy for me.
I've always (at least since 1994) said it was the most underrated Yes album ever. And the extended version of The Calling would really surprise people who never heard it.

[ANTIOCH]

I've not heard the extended version of "The Calling" and i.m.h.o. 'Talk' is the best Rabin era offering ( and a damn good album regardless ) that I will indeed buy it.

[RobAdams]

But when will the COLLECTORS' EDITION of the COLLECTORS' EDITION of TALK be released?

[Original_Shifty]

Very funny. ha ha :rolleyes:

[groovecake]

Does anyone know if there is a planned remaster of 90125? That thing would SING with new remastering!

M

[spaghetticake]

I actually just picked up "The Calling" single off of eBay and it has not only the extended a.k.a. "Special" version but also a radio edit that differs from the single version included on the 35th Anniversary set. I really enjoyed it!

[Jacaranda]

Wow great to hear the extended version of "The Calling" was finally released; it peaked my interest when Trev mentioned the ambient section of the song that didn't go on the original release in his NFTE interview.

[Jackaranda]

Yeah, Trev says in the new interview that he was very unhappy with the single edit of The Calling, and it's easy to see why. But why couldn't they have put the long version on the 35th anniversary CD? I mean the one on the special edition, that's like 9 minutes long?

Rabin also thinks Talk will be more appreciated with the passage of time. I think he's right. It's one of just a very few albums that I never, ever get tired of.

[Dragonfly]

From the interview in BrianD’s thread “New Trevor Rabin interview”

INNERVIEWS: The one curiosity about Talk is why you edited out the ambient section of the album version of “The Calling.”

TEVOR RABIN: [laughs] That was the band being weak and not standing up and saying no. I primarily blame myself for that. I should have stood up and said “No, I’m not going to do that.” But there was such a push from the record company to cut it down for a single. Instead of saying “Well, alright, let me try and find a way,” I should have cynically said “Oh, what a great idea! What a unique idea to cut it down. It just makes sense!” I can just see the A&R guy sitting in his office thinking “What am I going to do today to justify my job? Oh, here’s the Yes stuff. Let’s cut this down.” It was a butcher job and lacked finesse and a real reason for doing it. One of the things I’m least happy with is how we cut that down

The ambient music added back to "The Calling" is one example of a hallmark sound on TALK. The very dark and ominous keyboards found throughout "Real Love" and the spacey opening guitar sequence in “Endless Dream’s” second movement, “Talk” all share that same quality.

I loved Peter Max’s artwork. It’s the only computer art I’ve ever seen of his. (Appropriate for an album done on a computer :D.) The geometric-patterned, psychedelic borders inside the booklet and the multi-colored flying squares on the booklet’s fold-out poster were cool. The concert shirts on that tour turned out great. A Dean YesLogo might have looked cool, but I liked the Japanese-paintbrush-logo-as-windowpanes-on-a-digital-rainbow thing, too.
:hippy:
I was sorry to see that the re-release didn’t have the same image quality. It looked like they used a color scan of the original artwork and shrunk it down making it all grainy and darkening out the colors’ original brilliance. :nono: Also the booklet’s fold-out poster had been chopped from the original three panels to just the one of the flying squares. The blow up of the Max YesLogo was gone. And then they added “SPITFIRE” distributors logos to the jewel case and disc labels. :rolleyes:

On the plus side, this release did include extensive liner notes by Chris Welch. I though they were well done and really enjoyed reading them.

Dragonfly :fly:

[leqin]

But when will the COLLECTORS' EDITION of the COLLECTORS' EDITION of TALK be released?

when the record company look at their calender and realise suddenly and in a flash of inspiration that it's a good few years since they cynically exploited those damn fool Yes fans who'll buy anything thats got the Yes name on it.