The best sounding live album from that period ...love itĄ Its probably the most unique live album ever released . No re-recorded in studio on this one. The playing is stellar so no need to!
The best sounding live album from that period ...love itĄ Its probably the most unique live album ever released . No re-recorded in studio on this one. The playing is stellar so no need to!
Interesting. I'd always thought Woodstock was the first triple.Originally Posted by Big Ears
When I bought Yessongs on CD I thought I'd been cheated, because it was a double-CD - had to check the track list. LOL
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YesShows is better. Deal with it.
This album is a solid desert-island classic. The fact this band was recorded during their firey assent to Prog glory is a gift that we should not dismiss as it will be available for all future generations to enjoy. The definitive versions of each of these songs. CttE, YinD, SK, AYaI, HotS are near-perfect...Yeah, the recording is a bit murky but it doesn't matter to me. I hope to be listening to this album on the day that I die.
Once upon a time (I think it was 10th grade) I was riding my bike on a Saturday morning when I came upon a yard sale. I stopped to look at what they had and there was a box of records for sale. Looking through it, I saw that they had Yessongs for $1.00. I remembered liking some of this album when my older brother would check it out from the library, and I had a dollar in my pocket, so I bought it. Riding home on my bike with a record under one arm was a challenge, but I made it.
And then my life was changed. New synapses formed in my brain and nothing was ever the same. It was that powerful.
Best album ever. End of story.
I heard the studio albums first so this one was a bit of a shock when I first heard it. I put on Roundabout and expected that usual intro and got a piano solo instead. I ordered this through Columbia House record club, it counted as three boxes on the little card. I doubt I could have sprung for it at the time. I was surprised by the rawness but eventually grew to love most all of it. Best live Siberian K EVER!!!!!!!! I think it got slower from that day forward, but here it totally SMOKES. YIND, PC and HOTS are great too. The rest I can take or leave.
No one has mentioned that it had such cool art work! And a book full of great photos that covered my wall in my bedroom. I too fondly recall purchasing this after hearing it at Boy Scout Camp one summer (a friend had it on cassette). It was a milestone at the time.
I agree,Roger Dean's most ambitious effort for an album package-4 sep. paintings.
Well yeah,TGD was released in 1994. I am listening to it while I drive to/fro work this week. It sounds great and of course way better than Yessongs because the remixing/remastering tech stuff is so much more advanced. That's why I said it wasn't a fair comparison because of the advances in sound tech 22 years in the future. I have never,since buying the lp/8-trak in 1973 complained about the sound. The first time I did that was the ELP triple disc. Horrible production. Anyway Polmico,you have your view and I have mine and enjoy what you do like.
Really? Aren’t there enough of these money-grab remasters trying to con us into buying the same records again and again? You’re saying we need more of them?
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
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It was remastered in 1999 by Pacific Microsonics/Japan and virtually everyone hates it. It's the only one I own on cd,but I kept my mint- vinyl just in case. I use to have the Gastwirt but I seem to have misplaced for over 3 years one of the 2 discs.
There is also a recent remaster in SHM Japan that is a fortune,but said by some in here to sound fantastic. I don't understand the loathing for the PM Rm's myself. It was never a pristine recording anyway,so what exactly is so wrong with those 1999's? I'm not asking to stir up shit I just want to learn....you all know that about me by now right? n.p. Unlabeled Jazz on Sirious Real Jazz. These birdbrains can't figure out that it says "Music artist/title info not available."
I listened to it a lot back when it came out, haven't heard it for decades now so I'm just now checking a few moments from it on Youtube. It's like I remembered: great energy, messy sound but I think that messy sound actually adds to the energetic feel. Never cared for the "extended solos" like the middle of Yours is no Disgrace (saw them live many times in the 70's and felt the same then) but the overall energy is really good and rockin.
I didn't like it at first because of the recording quality but the first thing that really impressed me was Perpetual Change with its very clever ending. I just wish they could have recreated the original stereo effects in the live version. But that was what got me hooked on Yessongs.. I still like the original versions better but The Fish alone is worth the price of the album. Not to mention the only live performances with Bruford up to then.
wonderful raw powerful live YES when they were a rock band first and a prog band second lol.
Last edited by yogibear; 01-13-2013 at 01:49 PM.
squire fanboy!YesShows is better. Deal with it.
Anyone ever clean a 1/4lb on it?
Not said by me. I think it is horrible, and no better than the crappy HDCD version from Japan.
My digital remaster by Joe Gastwirt sounds just fine !
This is well put but I'd go even further. I usually refer to Yes as "better than prog". All the other prog bands were nerdy. Yes was hip.
God. God and Baby Jesus. No. A thousand times no. I love Rick, but his little no-Leslie-wet-fart of an organ can not begin to approach the mighty all encompassing awesomeness of Tony Kay's sound. The organ on the studio recording of YinD is basically the best rock organ sound ever committed to tape.
*lol* That and a Moraz fanboy too!
Several years ago, on a three hour drive to go skiing, a friend suggested we play Led Zeppelin's "new" CD "How the West was Won", which as most PE'ers know features recordings of the band playing live at the LA Forum and Long Beach Arena in 1972. It was great to hear the old concerts, and on the way home I suggested we listed to another album recorded in 1972.
Of course my selection was Yessongs. My friend, an excellent guitar player, but not a Yes fan, was blown away by the album. He knew that Yes was technically sophisticated, but unaware that they could sound so heavy and rocking (his words)--especially SK, ST, CTTE and YIND. Though he stills prefers Zeppelin, he went so far as to say that on many levels Yessongs is superior to How the West was Won.
It was many years ago that I received my original three album version of Yessongs as a gift, and despite the numerous production problems noted by others, I still find it to be the best live rock album ever.
we always used CTTE- the bonging national anthem
Fripp also knew he owed the record company another album, so he should brought a good quality two track tape machine (at the very least) on tour to record the album. Instead, he wimped out, and used a cassette deck! That's why Earthbound sounds the way it does! If it had been recorded on a Studer or a Nagra, with the proper mixing gear, it would have sound much MUCH nicer.
As far as Welcome Back My Friends goes, my understanding is that Lake added a lot of reverb during the mixing session. I think I've read that the King Biscuit radio broadcast, which had material from the same show, used a different mix with less reverb.
They don't do it on the 90125 tour either. Or at least, it's not on 9012Live. Trevor plays guitar fills where the Lennon quote would go on that version. I've got one or two bootlegs from that tour, I'd have to listen to them again to see if that's the way it was done every night, or if they just mixed it out for publishing reasons.
I'm pretty sure they do the Yessongs style arrangement on every tour during the 70's. I think the earliest version I've heard where Steve does the acoustic intro as per the album is on the Drama tour. They definitely do the Yessongs style arrangement on the bootlegs I've heard from the 90125 and Big Generator.
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