"Lift Me Up"

[kithara]

This song should have been called "Lift Me Up (Superglue)" because it gets stuck in my head and won't go away. Not that that's a horrid thing, but still. There's vocal bits that hit some pathway in my brain and just get wedged. I hear them over and over. Particularly the bits around 1:45, 2:13 and 2:23.

Freaking Trevor and Chris do this to me. Jon sometimes kinda. But Trev and Chris are the worst offenders. For me, Trevor might be the worst offender in my history of being a music fan. "Changes" vocal bits are still stuck in my brain 25 years after the blasted album came out. He managed to strike some auditory pleasure-node-motherload back in the day and now I couldn't scrub him out of my brain with Clorox and steel wool if I tried. Not that I'd want to, mind you.

Just sayin'.

Saw the video for this song for the first time today. Too bad I missed out on Yes's Union tour. *sigh*

[marklovesyes]

I think YES are guilty of the best ever vocal harmonies and choruses.

[luvyesmusic]

It's funny, I was reading this post and suddenly I started hearing music. First I thought it was in my mind, however I realized the music was coming from the bathroom. I hadn't emptied out my daughter's musical potty and after resetting itself, it started playing again. That's always a beautiful sound too me :-).

[kithara]

I think YES are guilty of the best ever vocal harmonies and choruses.
I can get on board with that. If not the best then pretty darn close.


It's funny, I was reading this post and suddenly I started hearing music. First I thought it was in my mind, however I realized the music was coming from the bathroom. I hadn't emptied out my daughter's musical potty and after resetting itself, it started playing again. That's always a beautiful sound too me :-).
LOL!

[luvyesmusic]

Hey, Kithara
If I haven't already done it, Welcome to Yesfans.:wave:

[kithara]

Hey, Kithara
If I haven't already done it, Welcome to Yesfans.:wave:
Well, thank you. :D Nice to meet you.

[marklovesyes]

I can get on board with that. If not the best then pretty darn close.

A great example is the song 'Magnification'. Put that on and listen with some headphones, paying attention to the backing vocals. I mean, where do they get that stuff? Just brilliant.

[nitrus]

OYE, as much as you may dislike the album, has the best vocal harmonies ever. I mean ever. :)

[allpurechance]

A great example is the song 'Magnification'. Put that on and listen with some headphones, paying attention to the backing vocals. I mean, where do they get that stuff? Just brilliant.

Agreed, but that whole album! Long ago I said I thought Mag was Yes' finest vocal album since, well, maybe ever! Is that Alan on the tenor harmonies? They've got to do more of that...

As for Lift Me Up, I always thought that here were Yes, taking a formula already established by other, less able bands, and doing what it is that they do with it: taken to another level. From the synth drum, almost unbelievable Trevor guitar intro right on out to the end, here were Yeswest out Power Ballading any who had ever tried the form before. And, as usual, without much hoopla, pretty much slipping under the radar again, even though Lift Me Up was released as a single.

Has any single band in the history of modern amplified music been overlooked more often for their innovation, inventiveness, collective technical prowess, and sheer chutzpah, moxie and impetuousity than Yes? I think not...

[True Believer]

It's funny, I was reading this post and suddenly I started hearing music. First I thought it was in my mind, however I realized the music was coming from the bathroom. I hadn't emptied out my daughter's musical potty and after resetting itself, it started playing again. That's always a beautiful sound too me :-).
There are such things????

[Malcolm Birkett]

I love this...not least for Trevor's solo...I remember reading a quote from Steve that he himself felt that it was, in his view, Trevor's best moment....

[kithara]

As for Lift Me Up, I always thought that here were Yes, taking a formula already established by other, less able bands, and doing what it is that they do with it: taken to another level. From the synth drum, almost unbelievable Trevor guitar intro right on out to the end, here were Yeswest out Power Ballading any who had ever tried the form before. And, as usual, without much hoopla, pretty much slipping under the radar again, even though Lift Me Up was released as a single.

Has any single band in the history of modern amplified music been overlooked more often for their innovation, inventiveness, collective technical prowess, and sheer chutzpah, moxie and impetuousity than Yes? I think not...
For some reason I don't recall hearing "Lift Me Up" out and about much back when it was released...or maybe at all. Maybe I just didn't have access to or wasn't in the line of the media outlets where it was played.

I have to agree that the band is quite overlooked and have been for some time. Each guy's talent alone can stand head and shoulders above most of the collective drivel-noise that gets stocked on shelves these days. The band together is a juggernaut of talent, whatever its lineup configuration is at any given time...seldom noticed anymore outside diehard fans, it seems. It's a real shame.

[allpurechance]

Kithara:

Ahhh, but that's what we're (well, most/some of us anyway :lmao:) here for...