The Ladder?

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Originally Posted by kirk

which should go over like a dental floss booth at a
Willie Nelson concert.

Funniest post ever...

[Lemur]

Well, I should make a not about my generation:

When I was a child, I was musically lost. My parents never listened to popular music around me, so I was oblivious to everything. I grew up hearing a collection of children's songs and rare snippets of Eric Johnson.

Sometime in elementary school, music courses began exposing me to "oldies"--hits from the 50's. I was oblivious to most music, really, and I was lost in and endless sea of genres and stuff. One day I was channel surfing on a wooden handmade radio that my dad gave to me as a toy (we're not talking a fancy radio or anything like that...just a circuit pinned on a plain old board), I happened across an oldies station. I recognized one of the songs and kept listening. I was then mesmerized by Simon and Garfunkel, and then after having a taste of that I began to devote a lot more time listening to music.

I'd sit and listen to the radio for hours, I guess (I don't remember). I stayed with oldies for several years until I had heard most of the genre. One day I heard my dad listening to a classic rock station, and I was ready for something new, so I made the switch. Now I was enveloped in the 60's and 70's--it was all I knew. I also got exposed to a select few 80's and 90's bands that way.

Slowly I worked my way up through the decades, and by the time I made my journey to contemporary music, prog was the only clear choice here. While I listen to much popular and recent prog, you must understand that my roots go way back.

However, it is true that I've had to go back and rediscover certain bands like Yes. While I was exposed to quite a few Yes songs back in the classic rock days, I only got to hear the neatest tunes that were radio friendly. It wasn't until much later that I discovered the beauty and depth of artists like Yes. Before you get all up against radio, though, it was thanks to a classic rock station that I truly grew to love Yes, because I heard one of their albums played in entirety during a special program. I can even remember writing an e-mail to my uncle (a long time Yes fan) telling him that I just realized how great they were.

[PFD]

The Ladder is OK, I find there's a fair bit of filler on it, though. I prefer Magnification actually.

I really like the studio stuff they did on KTA and am disappointed they never seem to attempt something like That, That Is live...a modern day Yes classic.

Talk, IMO, is the best of the Rabin period Yes. Endless Dream is great, although some of the noisy parts in the beginning annoy me.

We won't talk about Open Your Eyes. I listened to it once, i think. Wasn't their a song on that, IIRC, that was ripped off one of Jon Anderson's solo albums?

I love Heart of the Sunrise. I agree it may be time to ditch it from the live set, cause they've been doing it all the time, it seems, since 1972. However, to me, Heart of the Sunrise is the quintessential progressive rock song. Just the way it is structured, and how perfect it all comes together; whenever somebody asks me to define progressive rock, I make them play that song. And You and I is almost the same.

Relayer is one of my least favourite Yes albums. Everynow and then I try to listen to Gates, which is OK, but the other two songs drive me insane. Something about them I just can't put my finger on..sort of like Yes' G-spot.

Tales From Topagraphic Oceans is hit or miss. I can never listen to the whole thing anymore, but from time to time I get in the mood for Revealing Science or Rituals.

If I had to rate my top Yes albums....in no particular order I would pick:
Fragile, Close To The Edge; Going For The One; KTA 1; Drama.