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Poll Question: Fave Track-Yes-Open Your Eyes (1997)?
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    Posted: March 17 2019 at 02:12


1997 Yes? Really? GO!!!

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This album is pretty awful.
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The one I’ve never heard......
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Originally posted by TerLJack TerLJack wrote:

This album is pretty awful.

yeah its what happens when you turn the project over to a mediocre talent like billy Sherwood ---Yes was getting lazy and letting people in the band for their songwriting or whatever---big mistake.
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This, and Heaven an Earth, are the only Yes albums I don't like. Drama doesn't do it for me, but at least has a few tunes I enjoy if I hear them, which is not the case with Open Your Eyes or Heaven and Earth.
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I enjoy this as a pop album and is definitely atypical Yes. While I applaud them for trying something different, I would have preferred they did something different in a different way. But hey, a pop approach worked for them in the 80s so why not try it in the 90s? The last time I saw Yes was for this tour, not because they played much of this album (only two tracks) but because I had seen them several times before and it was the same music over and over again every time. I love that music but like to see something a little different in concert. I like to see bands stand up and be proud of their new music and perform it, even in this case. My vote went to Wonderlove, an absurdly upbeat tune, because it reminds me of my marriage.
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

I enjoy this as a pop album and is definitely atypical Yes. While I applaud them for trying something different, I would have preferred they did something different in a different way. But hey, a pop approach worked for them in the 80s so why not try it in the 90s? The last time I saw Yes was for this tour, not because they played much of this album (only two tracks) but because I had seen them several times before and it was the same music over and over again every time. I love that music but like to see something a little different in concert. I like to see bands stand up and be proud of their new music and perform it, even in this case. My vote went to Wonderlove, an absurdly upbeat tune, because it reminds me of my marriage.

Yep, it's very pop but I agree they should have done it in a different way. This is sort of their "giant for a day" but I would have preferred a "civilian." I hope that analogy makes sense to you. Anyway, I've heard people say it should have been released as a Sherwood solo album or even a Conspiracy album and I have to agree. I'm not sure yet which track I will vote for but I have a rough idea. I saw this tour too but don't remember much about it other than they played "america." I don't remember which OYE tunes. I just remember while walking down the stairs some guy seeing my union shirt and asking who Bruford was. I said more like "where is Bruford." That and the fact that much of the audience was talking over the opening act the Alan Parson's live project. 
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Yes decided it could indeed do worse after Talk and created this one. 
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

I enjoy this as a pop album and is definitely atypical Yes. While I applaud them for trying something different, I would have preferred they did something different in a different way. But hey, a pop approach worked for them in the 80s so why not try it in the 90s? The last time I saw Yes was for this tour, not because they played much of this album (only two tracks) but because I had seen them several times before and it was the same music over and over again every time. I love that music but like to see something a little different in concert. I like to see bands stand up and be proud of their new music and perform it, even in this case. My vote went to Wonderlove, an absurdly upbeat tune, because it reminds me of my marriage.

Yep, it's very pop but I agree they should have done it in a different way. This is sort of their "giant for a day" but I would have preferred a "civilian." I hope that analogy makes sense to you. Anyway, I've heard people say it should have been released as a Sherwood solo album or even a Conspiracy album and I have to agree. I'm not sure yet which track I will vote for but I have a rough idea. I saw this tour too but don't remember much about it other than they played "america." I don't remember which OYE tunes. I just remember while walking down the stairs some guy seeing my union shirt and asking who Bruford was. I said more like "where is Bruford." That and the fact that much of the audience was talking over the opening act the Alan Parson's live project. 
 
I get the analogy even though I have never heard either of those GG albums. Their reputation precede them. I have never actually heard any Conspiracy either. I was thinking of this as an Anderson/Sherwood album that just happened to have a bunch of members of Yes on it, enough to call it Yes. I remember in concert they performed OYE but not the other tune. I missed half of the Alan Parsons set due to a misunderstanding of the schedule - along with many others.
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Originally posted by twosteves twosteves wrote:

Originally posted by TerLJack TerLJack wrote:

This album is pretty awful.


yeah its what happens when you turn the project over to a mediocre talent like billy Sherwood ---Yes was getting lazy and letting people in the band for their songwriting or whatever---big mistake.


Indeed. And that's exactly what bothers me about having Sherwood back in the band. Not so much the capability playing bass (still, as good as Sherwood may be, he is not at the same level of Squire... for that they would need to have Tony Levin or Geddy Lee... or for a newer one, I just keep thinking about is Nick Beggs (who played with Steven Wilson on The Raven that Refused to Sing... and just those initial bass notes often make me think I'm listening to Yes when I hear it before I realize my mistake).
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