odour of a lonely fart...yes

[platinumray]

i'm interested in buying a yes album but i don't know where to start. all i've heard is the stuff on the buffalo 66 soundtrack and the fantastic ‘owner of a lonely heart’.

does anyone have any suggestions?

[feline1]

buy "yessongs", it is a double live album from 1973, with the clawwsick lineups playing the clawwsick material.
It is brown.

[platinumray]

thanks, but is a live album a really good place to start? it sounds good tho. what is a good studio album to get?

[feline1]

do as you're told and stop quibbling, young man! :-O
Yes, (ahem - ewe see what I did there?), this live album IS the best place to start.
Cos it sounds clawws. Indeed better than the studio versions.
And it's all remawstered these days.
Once ewe've got that one, then ewe can buy RELAYER,
when Patrick Moraz's phase swirl invents Duran Duran in one fell swoop and everything (and it was only 1975!)

[platinumray]

o.k.

but it better be for beginers and not for die hard freaks.

[Lady E]

bloody hell has this turned into a yes fan-board in my absence

deccard and invisible planet you are entirely responsible

[feline1]

I am sorry, I know Yes are highly egregious on many many levels :-

Feline2 dragged me along to see them in the Hammersmith Odeon last month........... Jon Anderson behaved like a complete loon! Like a fat version of Keith Chegwin. At one point, he bounded on to the "Loony Tunes" theme music and tried to gargle into the mic..... but managed to choke himself and was rendered incapacitated for about 3 minutes. Then he told us about how he wrote a letter to God, to say thank ewe for all the wonderful things that had happened to him.
His voice is quite unique and wonderful though.

"Yesssongs" has all their old clawwsick "hits" like "Siberian Khatru" (a BLISTERING performance), Roundabout, Heart of the Sunrise,
a full 23-minute "Close to the Edge", sublime "And Ewe ANd I" and
that bit where Chris Squire uses his unique fish-like abilities to do "THE FISH" and invent the entire backcatalogue of The Police in passing (?!) and they even do the luvvly singalong "all good people " and let's not forget the bit where Rick Wakeman does extracts from "The Six Wives of Henry VIII [on *ICE*!?!?] and his miniMoagues go Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrm!!! and then he does the Halleljuah chorus on his mellotron and everyone cheers "hooray!" or sthg (or sthg)

Sadly at the Hammersmith Odeon last week mr Wakeman didn't have a mellotron and instead sounded like he was using a Casio keyboard out of the argos catalogue :-( he is very bold.

[deccard]

yessongs isn´t a live album. anyway a brilliant compilation of their work.
but dunno if you gonna like it if you want more of "owner of a lonely heart" cause most of their end-70ies popstuff sucked and yessongs contains the good ol prog rock songs....

[platinumray]

no no, i want their rocky 70's stuff. owner is great but in a different way.

[feline1]

yessongs is a live album ewe mentalist!
And it's brown.
With strange Roger Dean mushroomy things.
Basically, it has them doing ALL of the 'Close to the Edge' album,
plus the best stuff from "Fragile" and "The YEs Album",
PLUS Mr Wakeman doing his wee solo turn "on ice". With a Cape.

[deccard]

mental error confirmed>:!
memory is my enemy. so
mixed it up with the yesyears compilation. i never owned that one. just copied the best tracks to tape.
i think i heard that live cd once in a record shop but the sound is crap and alan white can´t play drums.

platinumray: go for the yesyears....

[feline1]

Alan White can't play drums?!?!?
Yeah, that's why they replaced Bill Bruford with him!!
Bill's on about 20% of the tracks anyways, he even does a bloody drum solo (YAWN)
The sound isn't "crap", it's "raw" ;-) and has way more rawk-ass bollocks that the prissy neat versions on the studio albums.

[deccard]

mr. white wasn´t able to reproduce mr. brufords licks life. his drumming is much more simple than mr. brufords and still not tighter. that bruford left yes was the beginning of the end. anyway you must be a singer i guess ;-)

[tsr_tomas]

i stink off fart right now.