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- Well I thought we would continue with Big Generator and I am so glad I did! This track is so dope. It's a perfect blend of old and new Yes (80s new) with some INSANE bass from Chris as usual. I actually heard some flashes of Steve in Trevor's playing too... but just for a bit. Alan's snare is just a heavenly sound at this point... god this band is so good. Yes!
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• I'm Running
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Trevor Rabin: "You need to consider how Jon came into the band during 90125. It wasn’t like all of us went into the studio, wrote some songs and recorded them. 90125 was a very peculiar kind of creation. When it was time to do Big Generator, suddenly we have these five guys, along with Trevor Horn, who had to figure out how to work together as a band. I think that led to some pulling and pushing. But then I listen to “Shoot High, Aim Low,” “I’m Running” and even “Rhythm of Love” and think it’s all worth it."
Perfect summary 😊
My Late brother played this track on his boom box whilst I was Running a Half Marathon certainly gave me some extra energy 🏃
This is just a 80's Masterpiece!!! I really love this album! I am going to buy it.
Cooool, finally someone noticed this a REAL GEM. Thank you for put tehe attention to such a tour de force. The best song of the album.
This album is one of their finest. It’s amazing start to finish. The title track is also incredible and proggy
Amazing song YES Forever 80s 🎧🎹🎙🎶🎵🎼🎸🇬🇧❤
By far the most Proggy song on this album. Very underrated.
Got this weird image of Yes in their twilight years performing on a cruise ship and there’s this conga line of passengers grooving to the island rhythms of this song, drinks in hand.
YES-Saturdays are the best. Period.
They sure are my friend. Best way to start the weekend 🙌
Good on you L33. Willing to explore this older stuff. Love your dives into Tull and Yes. Your spot on analysis and appreciation of the musicianship is welcome, interesting and delightful to hear. You're switched on mate.
Woot! Good album! Trevor Rabin is amazing!
Still holding out for Mind Drive!!!!❤
Keys to Ascension 2
Footprints
Sign language
Children of light
I totally love this album. I was in college when it was released. Had it cranked in my car stereo for all to share😄
Now THATS a Yes fan. Let the world hear!
@@L33ReactsBig G is my 3rd favorite Yes album, 12th in all music history. Love this album from it's release. You should finish this album.
As for Talk, it's a very good album. Nowhere near as great as Big G, but some great Yes songs on it. I Am Waiting, Real Love, and Endless Dream are the best prog songs. Walls and State Of Play are two of their finest pop songs ever. Both top 20 of all music of that decade. And they aren't even the best Yes pop of that decade. State Of Play is to me top 20 pop in all music history. Goes with "We love when we play." from Ritual. Phenomenal Yes pop song. Love almost the whole album. Better than 90125 by far.
Thanks for diving into this, I think it was my recommendation. I think its one of the coolest tracks on the album.
Thanks - I always ask for it too. A fave Yes song for me ❤
I was gonna do final eyes but once I sat down to record, something told me to do this one instead so I changed 🙃 😅
@@L33Reacts Final Eyes also a good one for me ❤️😎
@@L33ReactsI do hope that you get through Big G before moving on to '90s Yes. Big G is a great Yes album I love as much as all their '70s albums. It closes with a Anderson song titled Holy Lamb and I feel that is the best song in the Yes catalog to finish this particular Yes album. Rabin said that it's the weakest song on Big G, but I know that it's the strongest one looking forward. If not for Holy Lamb, Big G would probably be my 9th favorite Yes album. But because Holy Lamb appears to complete Big G so well, it brings it up to my 3rd favorite Yes album. '80s Yes at their best by far.
Keys to ascension, the studios , MIND DRIVE try that 90's yes, awesome music, YES Saturdays rule👍☝️😎🙏🏻
Keep on truckin Lee you're doing great😅😅
I was in the mood for a rewatch. Good one ❤
Final Eyes on this album is really good IMHO, and Our Song from 90125 is 🎉❤
Great Yes Saturday
This was my favorite YES song of the Rabin era (even Rabin said it was one he was most proud of) I think because it echoed so much of the Classic YES Era. Starting with Chris' opening melodic riff & Alan sounding the most like Bill Bruford that he ever did. Jon's soaring optimistic lyrics. While Trevor didn't exactly imitate Steve's style, he does some shredding at the end that really grabs your attention in a very pleasing way. Quite experimental in its composition, just like the old YES. Quite honestly, nothing they did after this as YES aroused a similar enthusiastic response from me. But it sure was wonderful while it lasted...
YES! 😊
Lee, I applaud you! You get this album (so far) and many die-hard Yes fans hate this and 9O125. I think they are both CRAZY GREAT!
There is actually an instrumental version of this with Steve playing on it, they wrote and rehearsed the riff for this during the 1980 Drama sessions.
That’s interesting. Never heard that before - what’s your source?
@@mattleppard1970 Bootlegs of early 1980 Yes rehearsals after Rick and Jon left but before The Buggles joined, listen here: th-cam.com/video/brz-9aZ778s/w-d-xo.html
@@mattleppard1970I found it amongst Drama demos on TH-cam. It's not very good, but it is way before Squire and Rabin developed it, and Anderson turned it into a great Yes song.
@@charleswagner2984 A lot of good stuff came out of Drama, like Fly From Here, but as far as I know this wasn’t one. I am happy to he proven wrong of course 👍
@@mattleppard1970 I couldn't find it.I searched for a while and came up with this. It might have it, but it would be mixed in with music that wasn't used for I'm Running. I know it's out there somewhere. It's been a long time since I heard it.
th-cam.com/video/xS6bGusY0pQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=utbjyLWCyx_Ly5OA
That was powerful, beautiful, and hot. I loved the calypso/Mexican rhythm opening. The dramatic shifts were radical but smooth. And, I heard a taste of other prog people in there... sort of an homage to the genre. Anyway, I loved it.
I'm glad you enjoyed it too! This was a lot of fun. The late 80s sound fits them well.
Personally YES hasn’t put out to any bad albums, Big Generator is a great album. GOD BLESS Brother!!!
Even Open Your Eyes?
Even _Heaven & Earth?_
Best song this lineup did for me. Thanks, Lee - I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this one as I love it so much. Yes, the album is divisive. Personally, I love the songs and music. That’s it ❤❤
This song definitely among my all-time fave Yes songs. Pow! It’s fire 🎉
IIRC, Chris used a low-tuned 5-string bass on much of the album 😊
Final eyes is a GREAT SONG!!!!! Gotta have serious low frequency capability on it. The bass hits below many speakers. Car stereo fanatics LOVED THIS WHOLE ALBUM for test, tune and competitions
YES YES has always been amazing, what funny you have one hit wonders then YES is a 100 plus wonder, btw Final Eyes is a great song.
Pool side progressive at its finest
Pretty proggy for this period of Yess.
Underrated Album!
So glad you are doing Big Generator. Love this album - can’t wait till you hear Holy Lamb and Final Eyes then dive into Talk. No bad track during the Rabin years, just some experiments in different styles that don’t quite work as well as others for me. Loved Talk during college. Keep up the Yes Saturdays! Still content on 90125, BigG, Talk. And dare I say Union? =O
I love how unashamedly late 80s this album is. From the snare to the keys to the guitar... so late 80s. Amazing. I might pair it with another track from this album too.
@@L33Reacts Yup! It’s like a battle of 80s pop sense with prog experimental. I think it finds a solid, mechanical, production and composition middle ground. Accessible prog-lite to pull you into the deeper yes catalogue. Well done for the times.
@@L33ReactsIf you are going for the next album after Big G, it's Union. But in-between those two Yes albums is Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. Basically an Anderson solo album with leftover material from Asia, Jon and Vangelis, And a couple guys from Toto who worked with Jon on In The City Of Angels album, which is quite good pop songs. To me, ABWH is very far from Yes music, and I'm happy that Squire kept them from using the Yes name. Those four guys were Yes in the '70s. But they are a completely different band on ABWH. It's a good album. But so is Dark Side Of The Moon. It's just nothing close to Yes music.
Definitely the best song on the album. One of my favorite 80’s Yes songs. You need to do City of Love from 90125. One of the heaviest Yes songs ever. Yes, Chris Squire is my #2 bassist right behind John Entwhistle. Geddy is #3 and JPJ is #4.
This track has so many different tones and textures; it's been my favorite from this album. It's very "80's" but it is as you mentioned still very proggy probably because of the many dynamic changes in tempo and mood. And while tony kaye is by no means a shining star in the Yes roster, he does get a chance to shine here as he produces a profusion of sounds (while everyone else is also doing great work). A very underrated song, IMO.
Yes were as you say one of a kind, so many changes, sadly I feel they kind of started to fade by this album, but still to this day I think they really tried to stay true to their roots. Thanks for the review.
(Oh! I overslept! And missed the premieres! Catching them now…)
Nice Jon vocals and harmonies, some of the instrumentals sound like later Genesis…
It’s interesting to hear the artistry of the early Yes…
I’m glad you took it a little bit easier today, Lee, with five instead of six. Have more fun with your girls!
L33, you tried to get some sleep this morning - good!! 👍🏼🙂
Sounds like a cover of a 5th Dimension song. LOL ... they were pretty hit and miss in this era. Thanks for the reaction, Lee.
After Yes initially recorded this song they found the drums sound to be completely unusable. Alan, to his credit and absolute genius re recorded his parts over the track. He was on fire in this album. The reverb on his kit is natural from the castle they did most of the recording in. Apparently the initial mixes of the album were far better than what we ended up with, according to Tony Kaye.
Eighties Yes never did much for me although I enjoyed Talk quite a bit. Most of the material never demanded my attention or called me back for another listen. You commented on That That Is that it seemed cobbled together from sections that didn’t fit well as a whole. This song seems, to my ears, to have that same problem in common with many of their pieces from this time. 90125 featured songs that, for the most part held together well(although the ‘wow that’s heavy for Yes’ thing wore thin) compared to much of what’s here. I do like the song Big Generator because it combines a more melodic approach with the 80s bombast.
I’ll take any Yes up through and including Drama, with the exceptions of Tales and Tormato. If I’m in the right mood I can sit still for sides 1 and 2 from Tales, but it doesn’t happen often, it’s been years. I also love much of their live catalog.
I was waiting for an extended keyboard section, ala Wakemans work. Didn't here anything close
Yes is my favorite band since I discovered relayer in '75. I propose some songs that I think you haven't reacted to. The prophet from the album time and word. Leave it by 90125. Homeworld from the album the ladder and practically the entire magnification, in my opinion the band's last great album. On the other hand, I recommend the group Camel, an extraordinary band with masterpieces such as their album Mirage, Moonmadness, Rain dances and Nude. Thank you and forgive my English which is a translator.
Two five string basses, one with the lower string tuned down to A
I was excited to purchase this album after a bit of a hiatus for YES and I liked it at first though after a few listens I found to me only Shoot High Aim Liw and Love Will Find A Way to be the only lasting appealing songs !
See, now this is how Yes music is so appealing to many different people. I find those two songs to be my least favorite from my 3rd favorite Yes album. And they're both good songs.
@@charleswagner2984 Differebt strokes for different folks so I won’t laugh and I won’t poke fun of you though I would after many listens of so many albums I would put this one probably about number 15 on by best of list!
Lol, this is just the Perpetual Change thing you heard the song about.
"I'm Running" sounds to me mostly like something Jon would have come up with, with help from Chris. It has loads of old Yes DNA in it, with some nods toward where Jon was going in terms of world/Latin music. I could do without the parrot cameo guest appearance, but otherwise it's a pretty great track.
Writing credits for I'm Running are:
Alan White, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Tony Kaye, Trevor Rabin in that order.
Should have done Final Eyes 😂
After the 90125 album this one was over two years later and most tracks were recorded bit by bit in different parts of the world and mixed in different countries too so it wasn’t ideal ; Chris’s bass was also too low in the mix on most of the tracks.
The decision to travel to Italy was made with the intention of bonding together. However, it was not the ideal place so they returned to London. After some disagreement with Horn, they ultimately decided to go back to L.A. Chris said BG would've been completed much earlier had they stayed there from the start.
To me, this is one of their best albums. Definitely in top 5. This song is one of the worst on the album, but it’s still good. Better than shoot high? No way dude.
You can do The Ladder Album. Do "Homeworld". Live: th-cam.com/video/ETmRMPHtcqk/w-d-xo.html