90125: Weakest Link

[kkleinschmidt]

Cinema is in the top two right now, how lame is that? It sounds the most like Yes and was nominated for a Grammy. So much for polls.

Cinema won a Grammy, no? Definitely one of my favorite tracks on 90125...

[Enlighten]

Cinema won a Grammy, no? Definitely one of my favorite tracks on 90125...

Yes, they’ve been nominated 5 times and their only win is for best rock instrumental (for Cinema).

[patrickq]

“Our Song” is fantastic imo. Weakest link? “Changes.”

“Prove me wrong, children. Prove me wrong!!”—Principal Skinner, The Simpsons

[Enlighten]

“Our Song” is fantastic imo. Weakest link? “Changes.”

“Prove me wrong, children. Prove me wrong!!”—Principal Skinner, The Simpsons

I have to agree with this. “Changes” starts off with a bang but the main body of the song is 80’s shlock.

[patrickq]

I have to agree with this. “Changes” starts off with a bang but the main body of the song is 80’s shlock.

Yes! The Steve-Reich-inspired intro is very cool. White claimed the writing credit for that, I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich

[Enlighten]

Yes! The Steve-Reich-inspired intro is very cool. White claimed the writing credit for that, I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich

Yes still trying to be Yes in little bits but being more entranced by dollar signs. Love the 80’s.🙃

[Gtkgasman]

I had to go find one of my old posts about 90125. This is why I can’t find a weak link. Funny, it’s not a top 5 yes desert island lp for me, but it’s top 5 special lp for me. That’s weird, yeah:

From 2021 post:
I loved it. It was fresh new fun. I didn’t compare it at all to Previous “YES”. I took it for what it was at the time. (As I did with Drama). I grew to love it as a yes album as time passed. And I STILL see it as I did at the time as “the new album”.....lol.

Now. As I wrote In other 90125 threads a few
times. The timing had a lot to do with this. College. Freshman. I called record store every day. Walked to town and Got the record the day they got it. Came right back and Played it all, loud, for first time for everyone in the dorm !!! It was a blast. A party. Fun fun fun!

So this record has a different but special place for me.

[brianos]

I'd go with either "Changes" or "City of Love". I like both songs, but those are the two I'm most likely to skip today. Used to play "Changes" with my 1st band back in 1986, and still *love* the intro... not that the rest of the song is bad, just doesn't move me the same way as the rest of the album. I like "City of Love", too, but it is less varied than the rest of the tracks.

I full-on embraced 90125 when it came out. It was the first "new" Yes album for me (already had TYA , Classic Yes, and Drama) and that was the first tour I got to see Yes in concert. A few years later I much preferred the 70s material, but I still think 90125 is a great album.

[Mr. Holland]

What an 80’s boy you are. I remember when I first heard 90125 in college, I thought to myself, what is this crap? It all sounded like crap to me, with the exception of Cinema. When your first exposure to the band was their 70’s era music, 90125 was quite a jolt.

But didn't you recently create a thread about how much you appreciate these Rabin era albums now? So basically it took you 30-40 years to get what us 80s boys and galls recognised instantly.....😉😄

[Enlighten]

But didn't you recently create a thread about how much you appreciate these Rabin era albums now? So basically it took you 30-40 years to get what us 80s boys and galls recognised instantly.....😉😄

Don’t overstate it, Arno.😊

I’ve said those 80’s albums have grown on me and they’ve grown on me, in large part because of the weak music that Yes have created in the last 20 years . I think Pete recently said that Yes music comes in tiers and their 70’s music is first tier. Nothing comes close to it. When the eighties rolled around, it was quite a jolt for some of us to hear such a stripped down version of Yes.

[Yesed]

As a new fresh exciting Yes album, I’d say Leave It. I get the vocal complexity. But it always got on my nerves.
As an album that has aged well over the years, I’d say OOALH is dated and the weakest link. It’s catchy, but overly simplistic, an easy skipper for me.

[patrickq]

I’d say OOALH is dated and the weakest link. It’s catchy, but overly simplistic, an easy skipper for me.

I can definitely smell what you’re stepping in here.

[Bill M]

“Our Song” is fantastic imo. Weakest link? “Changes.”

“Prove me wrong, children. Prove me wrong!!”—Principal Skinner, The Simpsons

I think "Our Song" sounds the closest to the follow up to "Drama". I hear Chris and Alan playing like they did on Drama. Even the guitar feature sounds Steve Howe like.

[Homemade Parachute]

I’d say OOALH is dated and the weakest link. It’s catchy, but overly simplistic, an easy skipper for me.

Overly simplistic tune
(No better than a)
Overly simplistic tune…

[Soundwaveseeker]

I think "Our Song" sounds the closest to the follow up to "Drama". I hear Chris and Alan playing like they did on Drama. Even the guitar feature sounds Steve Howe like.

I've always felt that Our Song was the closest to classic Yes on the 90125 album. The guitar is sorta Steve, the song actually gives me 1977-79 GFTO/Tormato/Paris vibes. It's the one song on there that sounds the least Trevor Rabined.