Now Classic?

[Original_Shifty]

I just realized that it's been 20 years since 90125 was released (1983). Can we now, not only refer to the album, but to the era, as classic? Has the Rabin era become Classic Yes? If so, what do we call the era before that, Classic classic Yes?

And, how in the h&ll has so much time passed. :crybby:

[RobAdams]

Let's make it easy! (heh heh 'make it easy')

CLASSIC 80's YES

[Original_Shifty]

Ah, but the Rabin era went into the 90's. :gok:

[RobAdams]

Only a little bit!

[Silent_wings]

Originally posted by Original_Shifty
And, how in the h&ll has so much time passed. :crybby:

Time flies when you are having fun.

That and were getting old. ;)

[gunsfornuns]

here's a harsh opinion.

rabin's, um, tour is not classic. it's finally old. enough to be left alone.

nuthin personal, y'all.

[ycantibu]

It went halfway in, that's gotta count for something (insert dirty joke here)!



Originally posted by RobAdams
Only a little bit!

[upbgirl]

man-there is not much more disheartening than hearing a song on the radio that came out when you were in high school and having them call it 'classic'..
where DID the time go??

i always thought 60's music was the 'classic' period!!

geeze..
let me get my maalox and hairnet and my hormone replacement therapy..where's my geritol and my metamucil??
hell-find my glasses..

boxers? briefs?? 'depends'!! lol!! [for our foreign friends, 'depends' are adult diapers]

is there a 'set time period' for these peole to call it 'classic'??
like they divided up the past into 'cretacious'
and 'jurassic'??;)

i think the same guy who did that '100 greatest guitar players of all time' did THIS list, too?? [btw-was trevor on that list?? i'd better go see]

[SonicDeath10]

that list annoyed me. jack white number 17?!?!?! come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the 17th best guitar player OF ALL TIME? i'm not saying he's bad but be realistic. i mean he was voted before some really really good guitar players. of course, obscure jazz guitarists who could blow him out of the water weren't included becasue you know that's not "hip". i hate rolling stone.

[Dances w/PURPLE]

Originally posted by SonicDeath10
that list annoyed me. jack white number 17?!?!?! come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the 17th best guitar player OF ALL TIME? i'm not saying he's bad but be realistic. i mean he was voted before some really really good guitar players. of course, obscure jazz guitarists who could blow him out of the water weren't included becasue you know that's not "hip". i hate rolling stone.

Read my thoughts! I said the same thing to myself...JACK WHITE? and where was he two years ago but playing the clubs around the city, not that it's bad. Detroit is a tough cracker to break and they did well playing some tough clubs but to put him above icons...unthinkable. Rolling Stones is a corporate kiss up.

[SonicDeath10]

i mean. christ. above steve howe? above steve hackett, if he even was on the list? it doesn't make sense.

i do like the white stripes though.

[Dale Cleary]

20 years ? Hard to imagine, it seems like just the other day.

[Jackaranda]

It's classic to me.......

Tempus Fugit, folks......it's going faster all the time.

[ycantibu]

As if my kids don't make me feel old enough already, along comes this thread.

:D

[JudysTrevor]

Originally posted by ycantibu
As if my kids don't make me feel old enough already, along comes this thread.

:D

This is scary!! 20 years ago, I was 16 and in high school!! It is so hard to believe it has been that long. Scary I say!! ;)

Judy

[leqin]

In the particular order you asked them shifty

Yes

Yes

Probably

Yes and the older you get the faster time flys

[R'tanys]

Well, I do hear Owner and Changes on the classic rock stations...

[RobAdams]

I was 15 when I first started listening to YES. I was 22 when 90125 came out. I'm 42 years old now swiftly approaching 43. It seems only TALK, UNION, KEYS 1 & 2, KEYSTUDIO, OPEN YOUR EYES, THE LADDER, HOUSE OF YES and MAGNIFICATION remain outside of the group of "Classic Yes Albums".

WE IZ GETTING OLD. I've calculated that I've probably listened to the CLOSE TO THE EDGE album around 1500 times. Somehow I think my calculation is a bit low. Feels like I've heard it about 2000 times.

[Mr. Holland]

Well, only thing that I have to add to all the things being said here, is that in my opinion 90125 is not only a classic Yes album, but a classic album in rock history to!

Oh and about the age thing........I haven't got a clue what everbody is talking about......just 30 years of age.....feeling young, feeling strong!!!!...lol...

[upbgirl]

this living is a gift i should know..
[by now]

[SonicDeath10]

Originally posted by Mr. Holland
Well, only thing that I have to add to all the things being said here, is that in my opinion 90125 is not only a classic Yes album, but a classic album in rock history to!

Oh and about the age thing........I haven't got a clue what everbody is talking about......just 30 years of age.....feeling young, feeling strong!!!!...lol... i'm only 21. a baby. :bncy:

[Leopardsocks]

I'm with Gunsfornuns.....the Rabin era in particular was a perversion of the heart and soul of Yes. There were a couple of good songs, but they were more commercial pop ditties than the soaring, spiritual opus' of the Fragile, CTTE era. Methinks only the lineup we all know and love - Anderson, Squire, Howe, Wakeman and White (or Bruford) could lay claim as the fabricators of classic Yes songs. Comparing 90125 to Starship Trooper, for example, is like comparing McDonalds with steak. They have some similarities in their constituents, but all beef ain't steak. Lets face it, we all know who constitutes the real Yes, and only the real Yes can lay claim to "classics". And I know this logic excludes Relayer, which was no bad album, and Drama (which was nothing special) but to qualify as a classic Yes song, in my view it can only include the classic Yes lineup. :yesbird:

[BrianD]

Hear is what Jon recently said about that 80s era from an interview he did in Australia during the past week.



It was great for a few reasons. I was in London and Trevor played me this music and I loved it. I was into The Art of Noise. That was Trevor Horn. I was really knocked out by the whole stylistic way of recording. He asked me to sing on it and gave me some money and I was back in the band. The week we were going to start touring, I was driving with a young film guy to Boston. I went to see Spinal Tap and from that moment I was in Spinal Tap. I didn't see anything but Spinal Tap for the next two years. We saw Tap and my life changed. I didn't take anything seriously for that period until when I got back together with Rick and Steve and Bill and we did an album called Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe. I wanted in a way to reinvent who we were and we did. 10 years on here we are. The potential has returned and we do create this certain sound. The breakup and whatever you go through are part of life.