Late-period Yes fan comes out of the closet

[miamiscot]

I absolutely adore The Keystudio material, The Ladder and Magnification but can really do without Fly From Here and Heaven & Earth. Maybe the next one will be better. (If there is a next one.)

[3RDegree_Robert]

Somehow I missed MAGNIFICATION until recently and think it their best since 90125 or DRAMA

[at least 100 dead]

And, indeed, I stand and celebrate the late period solo and other non-Yes work by the band members: Jacaranda

Henry

Jacaranda is the best thing to emerge from the Yes camp since Drama. The first four tracks alone are just unreal.

[bondegezou]

I absolutely adore The Keystudio material, The Ladder and Magnification but can really do without Fly From Here and Heaven & Earth. Maybe the next one will be better. (If there is a next one.)

They're working towards a next one, have some material in development, but we're looking at 2016 or later for a release.

Henry

[viukkis]

We almost forgot one post-Drama album that most ultra-conservative Yesheads hate: The Remixes by Virgil Howe. Standouts: Tempus Fugit, Arriving MOFO, Awaken and Ritual. Thoughts?

I like a lot of 90s techno and trance. I loved Marillion's Tales from the Engine Room. On the other hand, I find Yes Remixes completely unlistenable from start to finish because it is exceptionally pedestrian and uninspired.

[bondegezou]

I like a lot of 90s techno and trance. I loved Marillion's Tales from the Engine Room. On the other hand, I find Yes Remixes completely unlistenable from start to finish because it is exceptionally pedestrian and uninspired.

I disagree: I think there's a lot of nice ideas on Remixes. Virgil took an interesting approach of only using the sounds on the original albums, which produces a rather different end result than many remixes.

Henry

[miamiscot]

I like a lot of 90s techno and trance. I loved Marillion's Tales from the Engine Room. On the other hand, I find Yes Remixes completely unlistenable from start to finish because it is exceptionally pedestrian and uninspired.

I too must disagree. I think the remix album is weird and wonderful (although I admit to not reaching for it all too often.)

[trurl]

I also dig the remix album

[yamishogun]

Jacaranda is the best thing to emerge from the Yes camp since Drama. The first four tracks alone are just unreal.

I don't quite agree but know where you are coming from. Something like Jacaranada is the direction I hoped Yes would go after 90125. Funny how naïve I was.

[3LockBox]

The only thing I liked off the Remix album was Ritual. The rest I found to be kinda pedestrian.

[rojon]

i'm all for creativity, so like it or don't, a remix is a nice idea - as a stand alone album, allowed by Yes even. but the thing that gets me is that yesworld has remix listed with the "official" discography, which in effect says that virgil is a composer of a Yes album.

[bondegezou]

i'm all for creativity, so like it or don't, a remix is a nice idea - as a stand alone album, allowed by Yes even. but the thing that gets me is that yesworld has remix listed with the "official" discography, which in effect says that virgil is a composer of a Yes album.

I believe the sounds that my CD player makes on playing the Remixes album are exactly the same whether it's listed in the YesWorld discography or not...

Henry

[Frumious B]

i don't like Remixes as much as I like The Beatles Love, but I think it's pretty decent.

[trurl]

Yeah, but on Love they had access to all the multitracks and could grab any individual phrase or melody they wanted to. On the Yes remixes Virgil was just grabbing sound bytes from the albums and looping them- far far more limiting. So all in all I'd say he had some cool ideas. Parts of it work better than others... I don't think the dude should ever be let near a keyboard *lol*

[bondegezou]

A more recent piece written by Virgil Howe...



Henry

[Reginod]

I found the remix album to be an interesting diversion with limited appeal.

[revporl]

What is Jacaranda? cant find reference to it on the google

[Plasmatopia]

What is Jacaranda? cant find reference to it on the google

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=45217

[bondegezou]

http://www.relayer35.com/Yescography/Jacaranda.htm

http://bondegezou.blogspot.co.uk/201...vor-rabin.html

http://bondegezou.blogspot.co.uk/201...jacaranda.html

Henry

[ItalProgRules]

I love just about all the Keystudio material except the dodgy lyrics to "That, That Is."

Love the title track to OYE. I can stomach some of the rest of it. Love "From the Balcony" just because anytime Anderson is singing over Howe's acoustic, I'm sold.

The Ladder...love almost everything on this one except the wretched "Lightning Strikes."

Magnification leaves me kind of cold. It's not BAD, it's all just too NICE. Still, not a BAD album. But Yes Symphonic Live freakin' rocks.

FFH...Love side 1, can do without side 2

H & H...love the melody to "To Ascend." "Subway Walls" just plain kills. Classic Yessong there.

[webbcity]

Maybe someone has already said this but how could 80s Yes considered "late period"? This is 2015, right? And seeing as the band has been around for 47 years at this point I would say late period couldn't go back any further than The Ladder.

Having gotten that minor complaint out of the way... there is tons of late period Yes I love. Homeworld, Lightning Strikes, Dreamtime, In The Presence Of, Don't Go, The Game, Fly From Here, Into The Storm, Face To Face, Believe Again are some of the highlights for me, just off the top of my head. And believe it or not I'm a giant fan of Open Your Eyes but not sure if that can be considered "late period" at this point.