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Jonny
06-07-2006, 06:29 PM
I was wondering were the title from some Yes albums came from.
Must of the Yesfans on this forum are aware of the majority of the album titles origins (at least I suppose), such as Fragile, Tormato, 90125, Union...
And there's the obvious repeating of one of the track titles to take the task of headline on others: Close To The Edge, Going For The One, Big Generator,
Magnification...
Some of the names are not so well chosen IMHO: Yes (obvious for a first album, but not so inspirated), The Yes Album (no inspiration at all and therefor só boring, despite the fine music), Keystudio (gasp).

But there are a few album titles that made me wonder: is there a story behind or is this just a name ?
These titles are:
-Relayer
-Drama (some journalist claimed this title was chosen because it perfectly
reflects the music on it, in his opinion at least)
-Keys To Ascension

So if someone could explain me.

Jonny

Scooty
06-08-2006, 02:06 AM
I think Drama as a title is self-evident...

Relayer was a refrain from TFTO (The Remembering)

I remember reading somewhere that the original title for yesshows was Yes Indeed!!

I'll take Yesshows ;)

kirklott
04-29-2008, 05:11 PM
-Keys To Ascension


The words "Keys to Ascension" were in a paragraph on the back of the t-shirts sold at the SLO concerts. The paragraph talked about Yes reuniting to play masterworks into the 21st Century.

kirklott
07-15-2009, 06:35 PM
The words "Big Generator" were mentioned in the 50s archival footage of a man, boy and girl talking at the start of the 9012Live video.

open windows
08-01-2009, 10:21 AM
"Drama" was the name of the band after Yes broke up. So they used it for the album.

90125yes
09-08-2009, 06:17 AM
union is named after the attempt of a union for yeswest and abwh

fragile is named after a photo of stage equipment that brian lane had showing fragile on the equipment

90125 after the catalogue number given to the album