#191
November 1983
Yes
90125
4.25
Highlights:
It Can Happen
Changes
Leave It
City of Love
It Can Happen
Changes
Leave It
City of Love
This is a hard one for me. I've never really loved Yes, but I'm not much of a prog-rock guy.
That said, this veers further from "prog" than any other Yes albums that it actually held my attention and I found myself really enjoying.
Now, that said...
How is “Hold On” anything less than a Jefferson Starship tune? Until it gets to the strange time signature breakdown it was as uninteresting it gets. But then we get to mystically elegiac “It Can Happen” and I’m back on solid ground.
At times this album sounds less like Yes and more like...Van Halen (Changes) or some space opera band (Cinema) or dystopian future anthem (City of Love)
None of that is to be pejorative, the album is good. It’s just not...Yes. Is it?
I keep looking for musical similes because a lot of it is foreign. The funk of “Leave It” is excellent.
I guess a lot should be said for the band pushing itself into the future. It’s easily the most I’ve ever enjoyed Yes.
That said, this veers further from "prog" than any other Yes albums that it actually held my attention and I found myself really enjoying.
Now, that said...
How is “Hold On” anything less than a Jefferson Starship tune? Until it gets to the strange time signature breakdown it was as uninteresting it gets. But then we get to mystically elegiac “It Can Happen” and I’m back on solid ground.
At times this album sounds less like Yes and more like...Van Halen (Changes) or some space opera band (Cinema) or dystopian future anthem (City of Love)
None of that is to be pejorative, the album is good. It’s just not...Yes. Is it?
I keep looking for musical similes because a lot of it is foreign. The funk of “Leave It” is excellent.
I guess a lot should be said for the band pushing itself into the future. It’s easily the most I’ve ever enjoyed Yes.
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