The Ladder?

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Lemur

I like the song for its emotional content.. as far as raw complexity goes, I'm pretty sure that Yes has some trickier pieces. I say this as a guitarist myself, though not nearly so talented! It's just that my ears tell me that Heart of the Sunrise, while stirring and at times fast paced example of Yes music, is not the creme de la creme of Yes creme.

Like I always say, it rocks and I like it. Take a song like "Land's End" by Bruford. Not the most comlicated of his band's pieces (actually a Dave Stewart tune that rips off his own "Bryden Two-Step for Amphibians") but a great song.

I couldn't care less about raw complexity. Sometimes I like it - using the same band as an example, I love "Beelzebub" and "Five G". But most stuff by Liquid Tension Experiment, for example, I can't groove to.

Now if the point is that HOTS (lol) is not the most complicated Yes piece, agreed. But whether you LIKE it or not is an entirely different matter.

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by Thor

•• 1971 March 19 THE YES ALBUM
• 1987 September 17 BIG GENERATOR
••• 1994 March 21 TALK
•• 1997 November 25 OPEN YOUR EYES
• 1999 September 28 THE LADDER
••••• 2001 December 4 MAGNIFICATION

Ok, taste is relative I know. But I have to express shock at giving Mag 5 stars and Ladder 1. Only 2 for Yes album? Giving OYE more than Ladder and Big G? The Yes Album and OYE identical ratings? Interesting ratings...

Originally Posted by Kirk

RE: Man in the Moon- I don't care who wrote it. It sucketh verily. I could assemble a band from this site that could write a better tune.

Heh. sucketh verily. I still think it's one of the three best from that album (with Somehow, Someday and the title track). Admittedly, that's not saying much.

[kirk]

Yeah...this "system" has a few bugs to be worked out...

Btw- I like Chris's writing. He's matured beyond his "Fish..." days IMO.
"The more we Live/Let go" was probably one of the better
tunes from this past 15 years, certainly a highlight of Union.

There's not much that changed from Chris/Billy's original version on the
2nd Conspiracy CD, except Jon's vocs and even more over-applied reverb.

Imo- We're all suffering from Yes withdrawl.

K

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by kirk

Imo- We're all suffering from Yes withdrawl. K

FuhReal! We're currently in the longest drought ever between Yes studio releases

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

FuhReal! We're currently in the longest drought ever between Yes studio releases

More to the point we're suffering from a Yes gig drought. They toured a lot between 2002-2004 and we were spoilt (I saw them at least 5 times in that period) and I want more.

I saw Jon's solo tour earlier this year and Pam, Jam, Laxmi and myself will be seeing Jon and Rick later in the year but I WANT MY YES LIVE FIX!!!!!

[Lemur]

I love it, it's one of my favorite songs.