What do you require from Yes or Yes music?
A band with a history and musical adventures as complicated as Yes is bound to have fans of every demeanor and level of taste for this group. We have some who go for every sound and squeak the band makes. We have some who literally only like four albums in their catalogue and dismiss the rest of it as equal to autotuned boy band celebrity dance-pop. People have favorite band members, and less favorite band members they wish were locked out of the studio when it was that member's turn to lay down some tracks. There are albums made by Yes that have touched hearts, some that people loathe and some somewhere in the middle.
So what do you require from Yes, what do you get out of their music? Music is like food, we get different nutrients from it. Everyone's system is different, and requires different musical medicine. Is it the sense of adventure in the music, the lyrical elements that evoke mystical feelings that fuse perfectly with the fantastic Dean landscapes on the cover? The tricky passages and virtuoso playing, the 'muso' angle? Rick Wakeman's glittery cape? The high register vocals? The reassurance that no two albums are ever a carbon copy of the other and perpetual change is woven into the Yes Constitution?
So what do you require from Yes? Not what do you like about Yes, what do you NEED from them? What elements do you require for a healthy balanced music diet of Yes music? I'm not sure if I even know how to ask or word this, and I may not be able to answer it myself, but give it a try if it's not too weird of a thread.
A band with a history and musical adventures as complicated as Yes is bound to have fans of every demeanor and level of taste for this group. We have some who go for every sound and squeak the band makes. We have some who literally only like four albums in their catalogue and dismiss the rest of it as equal to autotuned boy band celebrity dance-pop. People have favorite band members, and less favorite band members they wish were locked out of the studio when it was that member's turn to lay down some tracks. There are albums made by Yes that have touched hearts, some that people loathe and some somewhere in the middle.
So what do you require from Yes, what do you get out of their music? Music is like food, we get different nutrients from it. Everyone's system is different, and requires different musical medicine. Is it the sense of adventure in the music, the lyrical elements that evoke mystical feelings that fuse perfectly with the fantastic Dean landscapes on the cover? The tricky passages and virtuoso playing, the 'muso' angle? Rick Wakeman's glittery cape? The high register vocals? The reassurance that no two albums are ever a carbon copy of the other and perpetual change is woven into the Yes Constitution?
So what do you require from Yes? Not what do you like about Yes, what do you NEED from them? What elements do you require for a healthy balanced music diet of Yes music? I'm not sure if I even know how to ask or word this, and I may not be able to answer it myself, but give it a try if it's not too weird of a thread.
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