YES 1996-2001 Versus YES 2011-2023

[Frumious B]

I prefer 96-2001, but don’t even get me started on that Change They Must editorial because it still kinda makes me mad just thinking about it.

[Sam I Am]

Sorry but I’ll take subpar albums that feature Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White and a more spry Steve Howe over any of the tripe that this current lot are churning out.

This 100%

[Mr. Holland]

You’re taking a surface view of what “standard” and “popularity” mean, we’re talking about Yes here, not Bon Jovi or New Kids on the Block. The standard for Yes was that each album they created in the seventies was not a “recreation” of a previous album. They actually did make it a point to create something new and different and they tried to push the envelope and create a new musical horizon in a different way with each album. You don’t have successive cookie cutter albums that all sound the same, with similar ideas and themes. That’s what made them “popular”. I used Rabin’s Jacaranda as a template of what a modern sounding Yes album could have sounded like. Something like that wouldn’t have been a recreation of the seventies, it would have been fresh, new, weird, quirky and musically complex and interesting.

Just to clarify the bolded part above, you know Doug and Glenn Gottleib wrote that editorial, yes?

No I didn't. And it matters not 😁

[JMKUSA]

Both periods had two mediocre albums: OYE and H&E

I really like The Ladder and most of KTA (1&2) and Mag. But the same goes for FFH, From a Page, The Quest and Mirror.

It would be easy to go with the earlier period but I’m actually going with the more recent period.

[patrickq]

Even being the JA fan I am, I love FFH Suite, and would put that as high as any single tune off any of the above albums for me. 👍👍. Of all those albums I put original FFH on the most often.

Well put! Anderson is awesome and I’d love to see him back. But “Fly From Here” is great music, and dare I say it, great Yes music. interestingly, I believe it was written with an Anderson-fronted Yes in mind.

[Mr. Holland]

Well put! Anderson is awesome and I’d love to see him back. But “Fly From Here” is great music, and dare I say it, great Yes music. interestingly, I believe it was written with an Anderson-fronted Yes in mind.

I find that hard to believe. The whole suite and Life on a Filmset came from Trevor Horn (and Downes, who was brought in at Horn's insistence) and replaced some of the stuff that ended up on From a Page, stuff that was originally intended for what became the FFH album, before Horn got involved. I don't know of any intentions, not before and certainly not after Horn got involved, to bring Anderson back into the Yes fold.

[Gilly Goodness]

Well put! Anderson is awesome and I’d love to see him back. But “Fly From Here” is great music, and dare I say it, great Yes music. interestingly, I believe it was written with an Anderson-fronted Yes in mind.

Are you referrin' to We Can Fly From Here, as a song The Buggles presented to Squire at his house, thinkin' they were only offerin' it to the Tormato lineup?

Never really jived with that story as YES had written their own songs for a very long time. Believe Jill Sinclair and Brian Lane had already read the tea leaves. Could be wrong.

Horn does repeat in his memoir, he was always thinkin' when is Jon comin' back? No one said anythin' until suddenly after a few weeks elapsed, the penny dropped. Jon and Rick were gone and not comin' back. 😯


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[patrickq]

^yes, I meant the song. And I meant to say that this is my understanding of what happened, not to claim that I knew for sure.