Rabin’s second release from Rio - “Push”

[Enlighten]

The video will premiere at 10 am today (EST). Curious to hear how everyone reacts to this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udpVPB223O0

[Enlighten]

And if you can’t wait 30 more minutes for the video, here is the audio. Killer tune and if Anderson were singing, it would be that much more killer. This is what I personally feel a modern, 2023 Yes could sound like. So energetic, so alive, so nuanced and still killing it with a modern sound. Fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RgesQFMC7o

[pianozach]

Listening to the "audio only" version.

Fabulous. Still lovin' Rabin's vocals. Extraordinary guitar work. Some nice surprises in the long outro.

[Grey Wolf]

Trevor getting political, I'd like to see the lyrics. Love the music.

[Enlighten]

Just listened again with the video accompaniment. What a phenomenal tune. Love the edgy lyrics and the music is top notch.

[luna65]

Trevor getting political, I'd like to see the lyrics. Love the music.

He has been, over the course of his career, just not usually obviously so. But also, he's very much into politics and history as personal interests.

[luna65]

Here are the lyrics:

You wake me up, you want me to know
You take me to blue waters
You shake me down, you move the ground
You call me I’m inspired
Corruption lives with the leaders
Confounding hands, fulmination
All the dreams of truth they prevaricate
In the darkest night they’ll eviscerate
Epic land decays, fulmination
Fallen lands delay, devaluation
Stand up tall, before you fall

Hey! Gotta liar Yeah!
Don’t you feel a fool (would you take me down)
Hey! Gotta fire

You hold the sound, it’s all around
You mesmerize my power
Epic land decays with our leaders
Broken plans explain
All the feelers
Stand up tall,
You gonna watch him now, when you gonna watch him now
Before you fall
When you gonna watch him now

Yeah! Gotta liar
Yeah! Don’t you cry
I’ve got a flier…you know…
Will it stop, blast off! Blast off!
Will it stop, blast off! Blast off!
Blast off!

Who’s gonna watch him now, when you gonna watch him now
When you gonna watch him now.

[Yesjim]

I'll borrow my reaction to the first single for this one as well - Wish Howe and Co. could sound this fresh and lively. Got more out of the first listen to this than my repeated attempts at MTTS. Lovely.

[TerryTT]

Interesting. Sounds like a song that should have been on a follow up to the TALK album.

[Enlighten]

I'll borrow my reaction to the first single for this one as well - Wish Howe and Co. could sound this fresh and lively. Got more out of the first listen to this than my repeated attempts at MTTS. Lovely.

Amen. “Push” sounds better with each listen. It’s exactly what I would want from Yes and it’s so great that a former Yes man can deliver the goods.

[Ash Armstrong]

Bit twiddly. Too much going on at once, lots of multiple lines doing the same thing. No air in it, no space to breathe.

[Enlighten]

I don’t know if anyone has noticed but the main strummy riff in “Push” is strikingly similar to the strummy rhythm guitar track in Machine Messiah that accompanies the first vocal line, “run down a street where the glass shows that summer is gone.”

[TerryTT]

Bit twiddly. Too much going on at once, lots of multiple lines doing the same thing. No air in it, no space to breathe.

I agree.

[Enlighten]

Guys, I love you but we’ve been so twiddly deficient with the retirement home version of Yes that it’s nirvana, to my ears, to hear as much crammed into the sonic space as there is here in Push. To be honest, I don’t get the criticism. Yes used to be all about the twiddle factor. Steve even used the term “twiddly bits” in his description of what made Yes music, Yes music.

[Ceasar’s Palace]

Guys, I love you but we’ve been so twiddly deficient with the retirement home version of Yes that it’s nirvana, to my ears, to hear as much crammed into the sonic space as there is here in Push. To be honest, I don’t get the criticism. Yes used to be all about the twiddle factor. Steve even used the term “twiddly bits” in his description of what made Yes music, Yes music.

Ah, but Yes was often 'multiple lines doing different things'.
But I'll give it some more listens, which it deserves.
Don't know what to make of it yet.

After all, it took actually seeing Trevor play bass on Big Mistakes to 'get' just how good his bass work is on that song.