FIRST TIME HEARING Yes- "Machine Messiah" (Reaction)
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- FIRST TIME HEARING Yes- "Machine Messiah" (Reaction) | More showers of powerful music- a guitar frenzy! Ah, but when we cascade down into those gentle mysterious moments...sublime to the nth degree!... Trevor and Geoff a most perfect fit for Yes!
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More showers of powerful music- a guitar frenzy! Ah, but when we cascade down into those gentle mysterious moments...sublime to the nth degree!... Trevor and Geoff a most perfect fit for Yes! Thanks for watching! 🥰
Banger of a song! One of my favorites! Chris Squire is a beast on this album!
Drama is an excellent album, though a little different from their previous offerings. The whole record is worth your attention.
It's off to a great start, so I believe you 100% 🙂 Thanks for dropping by and being first here today! 🥇
Drama is a unique album..but totally YES.
Thanks for stopping by!
Drama has become one of my top 5 favorite Yes albums. It's SO relistenable, over and over. Every listen seems to yield some new subtlety. We didn't know how good we had it then. My favorite from the album is "Does it Really Happen?" but every song is excellent.
@@patrickmcevoy5080 ...and why does White Car mean so damn much?
WOW!!! Magical performance by GEOFF DOWNES and STEVE HOWE. In a DREAM THEATER concert in London in 1995, HOWE was invited to come on stage to play a medley of some YES songs (including, among others, an extract from "Machine Messiah") with the American band... and you guess it, to the great delight of the audience present. Thanks.
great song, bought the LP on day of release in 1980, expected rubbish as the buggles had joined Yes, however I was proven so very wrong , WOW what an LP
I love all the lineups of Yes! This album blows your hair back.... great! ❤️
Agreed! I wish this lineup had done another couple albums!
Alan was such a powerhouse but always with creativity, sensitivity and musicianship. He and Chris shared a brain.
Someone should write a script for a movie using this as a template ✨️👑✨️
I'd be there on opening night!
I adore this song. I didn't at first. But, I DO NOW!! 💙💙🎵🎶🎶🎶
Awesome, such a strong and epic one!
I LOVE this album, it has a special and unique vibe.
Brandon, please keep going foward with this album, song 2 and 3 together.
@@bigjapi1 Agreed! 👍 "White Car" is less than a minute and a half long and sets up the energy of "Does It Really Happen" well!
Drama is a fantastic album, all cuts a great IMHO! Definitely at least react to "Does It Really Happen?", "Into the Lens", and "Tempus Fugit" (and make sure to watch the official music video for "Tempus Fugit"!) I'd say the Drama is in my top 5 favorite Yes albums along with Fragile, Close To The Edge, Relayer, and Going For The One. 💖
Many Yes fans do not like this album but I think it's great...all of it.
I'm with you on that! 😊👍
I'm 50 years old. I've been a Yes fan since my teens and always loved this album.
Thanks for reaction Brandon! This is a great track.
You're welcome! I agree wholeheartedly... 😊
An excellent track on an underrated album! I also love 90125 (yeah, I'm one of those fans of 70s Yes who loves both phases of the band). 🙃
Me too. And proud of it! 😊❤
Hey Brandon! Drama!! Took most fans years to accept this album. It's a great album. Chris and Alan are PHENOMENAL!!👍😎
Excuse me, all 5 were.
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I've been a Yes fan since 1972, But my favorite album is Drama. Go figure. SO HEAVY! Like they took a page from Rush's songbook...😁
Howe said that he loved the process of producing Drama without constraint so him and Squire could rock out and free form to get to ideas.
I love how Steve and Chris and Allan really open up. So powerful and underrated is this album.
YES! 😊
Drama is a great album. Squire singing in harmony with Trevor throughout. Also the seeds of ASIA were sewn here.
YESSSS!! I knew you’d love this song my friend 😊. Brings back memories when I listen to this. Although I had listened to Yes for a number of years, this tour was my first live show of theirs in 1980. They performed in the round, and I had third row!! I could even see the set list on Alan’s drum kit as he rotated past me!! To think that this album wasn’t that well received! I think it’s a banger, so many great songs. Yesterday when I knew you’d be reacting to Yes, I actually gave MM a thought, and here we are! Lol Have yourself a great weekend buddy! 😊
Wow, third row for Yes?! Perfect... I'm sure the setlist was amazing too! I'm still SO excited for my 80s/90s Yes journey. Glad I finally got around to this one. Hopefully Shoot High Aim Low will happen fairly soon. Helene requested that a long time ago...
I agree with Helene, “Shoot High, Aim Low” is an awesome song, probably my favorite from the Big Generator album. Another great album is 90125, with more amazing ‘80s Yes!! Can’t wait for CAS later today!! Happy Sunday! 😊
Good choice Brandon. I bought this album in 1980 and still listen to it at least every couple months. Every song on it is a masterpiece. You'll love Tempus Fugit, and Chris' solo in Does It Really Happen? is one of the best ever. This, and The Yes Album are my two favorites. Keep the great songs coming. Rock on.
A masterpiece of an album! YES' best without Jon Anderson.🤩
Best song on this album, IMHO. Another Chris(RIP) Squire clinic on bass, the rest of the band is excellent too
Yes with lunch?! Yes(the pun had to be made)...
Drama and Permanent Waves were composed and recorded and released within a few months of each other. I personally was ecstatic at this release in 1980, As well as Permanent Waves!
This album is by far better than its predecessor. As I never could get into Tormato, this one made it at the very first listen.
Always loved this Album, Brandon.
The Boys from The Buggles are in Town.
Really good little Album.
The NEW Yes Album, Mirror TO The Sky, is so good 👍
Keep Rocking 😊
Ronnie
SCOTLAND 😊
Rick: It all worked very well up until about 1979... Jon and I had formed a partnership of playing and writing and a way of working. We just felt we weren't getting any input at all from any other areas. Everything became a struggle. We ended up recording an album which we never finished... Jon and I met one day in Paris in a little café and just said, "We've both had enough." I mean the band's just run out of...we were digging into a gold mine that just had a few nuggets left.
Geoff Downes: The Yes thing had been enormous for quite some time and when I joined it had really gone full circle... [Drama] showed that Yes were prepared to access and push new boundaries. It was put together with a lot of rehearsing and care ... I think ["Machine Messiah"] was probably the most integrated composition on the Drama album from myself and Trevor's side and the old Yes side, if you like. That seemed to encapsulate the mixture of what the Buggles were about and what Yes were about as well... [Drama] was sort of a cross-breed, which is quite difficult to do in a group situation, but particularly a group so ethnic-sounding as Yes. There has always been the technological edge on it as well.
Video killed the radio star. I just had to say it. 🤣 LoL
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Poor misunderstood "Drama!" I remember when this came out, there was immense disappointment that Jon and Rick were gone, so our ears didn't hear the album. 20 years later we were all saying, "This album is brilliant! Why did we fans kick it to the curb?"
A lesson for all music fans: Don't be such a jerk. Give things a chance.
Glad it hit me quite well on first listen. I'd say I'm pretty open to changes in band personnel...this was a welcome change!
I wasn't really fan of the old Yes when I came to this, but knew the Buggles so I found the gathering captivating, using the great craft musicianship of several great Yes members added to brand new ideas from Trevor Horn (who became a power producer even for Yes on the next move ) it was really an exciting period. And Geoffrey Downes, a keyboard you can't ignore when it came to the Asia story as well. It sound fresh for me, a lot of musical surprises. I remember I was very curious to this Drama album, this song must be one of the highlights. Listening to this again with you were doing me good, like some old wine getting richer. Double epic platinum, I agree, "Yes"! 🙏 Well, finally Jon Anderson took some time to experiment other music approaches with Vangelis then, that became another ear goodness, Rick Wakeman back to his solo works that he never really stopped, everyone were busy and happy it seems... 😎
I listened to it many times but never really got into it. Bough thr LP but never bothered to get the CD later as I did with my other albums. I would have preferred they renamed the band to "Drama" or something during this period, but of course that would not do well for marketing. It's not Yes to me. Never will be. Jon is to inportant a piece of Yes to leave out, period.
Call them MOCK YES.
Thanks for the mini history lesson! It must have been such an exciting time to be a (well-known) musician...
Great album! Highlights are Does it Really Happen? Into the Lens and the banging finale, Tempus Fugit.
Wow. Been a bit sick. This is a tonic. One of my favorite Yes songs ❤
Trevor does sound like Jon, as does Chris. It’s amazing how they blended them here 😊
Hope you are all recovered by now! 🙏
@@retroreactions.... Sort of. So many coughs and colds here right now 🙄
Drama is a great album. I liked it from the beginning when bought on vinyl in 1980
i've always loved this album even though jon anderson wasn't the vocalist. "into the lens" is another great song from this album.
Hi there! I'm adoring 80s Yes. I will add ITL to my list. Thanks Danny and Felix!!
Next to Shoot High Aim Low! ❤
Great opener to a great album! 🤩👍
There's a song on it called 'Into The Lens' which also appeared in a more synth-poppy version on The Buggles' second (and last) album in '82, after Horn and Downes had left Yes again and the band broke up temporarily; Might be interesting for you to check out _both_ versions too, Brandon! 😀 I like them equally 😊 The Buggles' version is called 'I Am A Camera' 🙂
Have a great weekend, and maybe you'll be able to watch the current Northern Lights also from _your_ 'hood?!
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Yes are simply sublime and this is a fresh album to ring in the 80's! I know it's not entirely on topic, but since you're dealing with legendary prog bands that came to prowess in the early 70's, I'm going to segue to that. You've yet to discover the legendary Caravan! Give them a listen. It'll be one of the most pleasant prog discoveries that you'll ever have! Their backstory also is a truly interesting one on how they narrowly missed being famous world wide. Have a terrific day, and keep up the great selections!
I will look then up....you have a fave from them?
@@retroreactions.... Oh certainly. Their album "In The Land Of Grey And Pink" is a great place to start. The song 'Winter Wine' is a terrific place to start, moving on to Memory Lain/Headloss (a 'banger/concert opener', with flute solo and all!) and 'Nine Feet Underground', which is widely regarded as one of the greatest prog 'epics' ever written. These guys are quality through and through. Them and the group The Soft Machine were widely known as the two bands that spearheaded the Canterbury Scene sub-genre of prog. This birthed groups like Camel, Gong, National Health, Hatfield & The North amd many other legendary british bands.
Thanks!
I found it very difficult to find room for 80's era Yes, particularly when the hooked up with Buggles. Still don't get it. I'm glad they got back to the familiar lineup years later.
What a mix of sounds and effects! YES was a great influence in my teenage years especially in the early 70’s . Thanks Brandon for bring It back
Chris' help on the vocals on this album, always seems a tad more prominent. Same with the bass. Just a strong showing all around. Think we get actual chords from Howe. 😊
Interesting tidbit: Trevor plays fretless bass on 'Run Through the Light' while Chris plays piano on that track.
Lyrically, a totally different approach. Missing is Jon's angelic lyrics, and replaced by more mundane storytelling. Chris and Steve were trying something new with the master of the new wave - Trevor Horn. Trevor would go on to produce many great 80s albums. Yes, would further develop their new 80s sound with Jon over the next decade. It's not bad, but it's not the level of music Yes had achieved. Yes must have seen Rush in concert and said something like, "we need to be more like that!" It was a time of change for sure.
My favorite "non-Anderson" Yes song (counting the recent Yes releases). The rest of the songs, to me, just okay to meh.
I am a Camera
There's yes "fans" that don't like this... what weirdos HAHA
Yep. BIG Yes fan here. Good song, heard it many times, but not true YES as far as I am concerned. Likewise I prefer the pre-Steve Perry JOURNEY when founder Gregg Rollie sang vocal. I know where the best music is. Catch up!
if that make me a weirdo then so be it. It also proves you are NOT a real yes fan. Stop fooling yourself. No Jon, no Yes. 'Nuf sed. Class dismissed.
@@user-dq5xx9hi4qI also prefer Journey pre-Perry, but I really like Drama.
@@cybore213 I did listen to it for a year, but grew bored of the tracks relatively quickly. Songs from the 1970s, I never seem to get tired of hearing.
Even though I liked some of the songs I was always disappointed when this came out. As far as I am concerned, No Jon, no YES.