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grantman 
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Posted: December 04 2015 at 07:20 |
Something that i found in the album talk, was a sense of power, like all the instruments were tuned up to 10 any other albums, yes fans found this type of sound ?
Edited by grantman - December 04 2015 at 08:34
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Posted: December 04 2015 at 08:05 |
Any chance you could put some punctuation in your posts, I had to read this one twice to make sense of it?
I seem to remember something on the CD cover about the way it was recorded, I'll have to check when I get home.
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Posted: December 04 2015 at 09:55 |
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I thought it was the 'heaviest' sounding Yes album.
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Posted: December 04 2015 at 10:14 |
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Too bad the music itself wasn't any good, save a song or two...
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Posted: December 04 2015 at 10:40 |
 grantman wrote:
Something that i found in the album talk, was a sense of power, like all the instruments were tuned up to 10 any other albums, yes fans found this type of sound ?
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Otherwise, just awful.
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Posted: December 04 2015 at 22:16 |
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Endless Dream is one of my favourite Yes songs, and definitley my favourite one from the West Line-up. The rest of the album is just more of what this line-up had done before.
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Posted: December 05 2015 at 11:54 |
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If I remember correctly the album was the first Yes album to be recorded all digitally and was recorded/mixed on Trevor Rabin's own personal computer. And it was really an underrated album in my opinion; it's probably the best thing Yes did post-70's.
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Posted: December 05 2015 at 23:02 |
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As an album, I would say Magnification is the best thing they did since the 70's... as a song, Endless Dream is very close, perhaps even the very best song they have done since, IMO.
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Posted: December 06 2015 at 04:38 |
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I think I read somewhere that Anderson considered 'Endless Dream' as a return to form - certainly betters anything they did in the 80s. However, the urge to commercialise their sound was still apparent and after 'Union' I had already stopped buying their albums routinely on release.
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Posted: December 06 2015 at 08:40 |
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"Talk" was one of the first albums to be recorded using computers. If I remember well, Trevor Rabin and Tony Kaye said in interviews that four Apple computers were used to record the album to Hard Discs using a recording software called Digital Performer. That sofware still was in its early versions, so it was a complicated time for Rabin mainly. The album also has a note in the booklet which says: "P.S. "Caution" Extreme Digital Dynamic Range. DDD Format". The album was mainly recorded in Trevor Rabin's own studio ("The Jacaranda Room") and Alan White's drums were recorded at A&M Studios. There is a lot of programming in the keyboards and also it originally had programmed drum tracks, which were programmed by Rabin, who also produced the album and recorded it (with some help from Michael Jay). Tony Kaye said that he also helped Rabin to record the album. I like the album, but maybe it doesn't sound very "natural" due to the fact that the band really didn't play together in the studio and due to all the keyboards programming involved. Each member of the band recorded their parts separately. Kaye said that the "Talk" album was mainly "Rabin's baby", so he had almost total control. It seems that Rabin even recorded some bass guitar parts in the album. The songs of the album sounded much better when they played them on tour.
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Posted: December 06 2015 at 09:34 |
Guillermo wrote:
The album also has a note in the booklet which says: "P.S. "Caution" Extreme Digital Dynamic Range. DDD Format". |
Yes, that's the bit I was trying to remember. It's a good album, personally I think "I Am Waiting" is the best song of the Rabin era.
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Posted: December 06 2015 at 11:50 |
I really like the production on Talk. The drums in particular have a real punch to them. Endless Dream is my fave tune! 
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Posted: December 06 2015 at 20:08 |
Flight123 wrote:
I think I read somewhere that Anderson considered 'Endless Dream' as a return to form - certainly betters anything they did in the 80s. However, the urge to commercialise their sound was still apparent and after 'Union' I had already stopped buying their albums routinely on release.
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Well, the commercial sounds, or at least what I would understand as such, is perhaps part of what makes Endless Dream so great for me. It is still 100% prog, but it would seem to me that it's a perfect example of how to do a modern (for the day) prog song, without lingering in the 70's. The sound is totally 90's, but it's also totally prog.
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Posted: December 07 2015 at 06:36 |
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I would agree that 'lingering in the 70s' does not equate as 'a return to form'. I recall hearing the remix of Jon Anderson's 'Deep Floresta' that came out in 1995 - to me; that was a hint of where contemporary prog should have been heading - a year after 'Talk' came out. I was blown away by that track.
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Posted: December 07 2015 at 20:58 |
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So I guess I need to hear that Deep Floresta song.
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Posted: December 08 2015 at 07:14 |
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The liner notes on the recording of the album were the best part of the album.....Tormato was the last Yes album; I really wish they had stuck with the Cinema name. The Yes legacy reminds me of Willie Mays....so smooth in its prime but limping out for one last payday in the end with no semblance of that thing of beauty that once was.
Edited by Intruder - December 08 2015 at 07:28
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Posted: December 08 2015 at 11:29 |
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Endless Dream is a decent track......hadn't heard it in many years but after playing it again I kind of like it.
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