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AFlowerKingCrimson
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It's ok. Someone has to final eyes it.
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Mortte
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tdfloyd
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If you asked me 20 years ago I would have said Drama. But after that I all in on 90125. Both a quite good but I still will play 90125 but Drama never enters my mind when I want to listen to Yes anymore.
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iluvmarillion
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I rank 90125 about as highly as Invisible Touch, which is not very high. Drama on the other hand is one of their better albums.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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I would tend to agree. 90125 is middle of the pack Yes in my book. The Ladder, Magnification, Talk, Big Generator and ABWH are all more interesting albums with much of the depth of old Yes that 90125 lacks.
Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - July 13 2020 at 23:59 |
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Frenetic Zetetic
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How is 90125 also not "fake" YES? Lol.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Crazy, I feel the same way! There's some hella catchy tunes on 90125, but outside of Owner of A Lonely Heart, not much sticks with me (Ok, ok, Leave It rules too!). Cinema is a great little instrumental, but that could've been anyone! Drama is like Chris Squire unchained.
This is exactly how my mind sees it as well. I enjoy it miles ahead of Invisible Touch, though; it just marks the end of what I'd call traditional Yes music. Drama is like Yes reinventing themselves in all the right ways IMHO! |
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Mortte
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M27Barney
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How can anybody deny that 90125 is AOR? Like feckin flat earthers.. or knobs, like young earth creationists...
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M27Barney
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And Drama has a stench of cheesy eighties pop that cannot be denied, obviously the bass comes to the fore as a lot of it sounds like level 42....with buggles cheesiness bolted on....
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Cactus Choir
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I like Drama a lot and think it was a successful attempt to update the established Yes style. Does it Really Happen? sounds like old-style Prog mixed with New Wave synth pop/rock and it actually works. 90125 is an enjoyable album with some good songs, but it's still basically Yes going AOR and I don't play it as much as Drama.
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Blacksword
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90125 is leagues ahead of Invisible Touch. IT is a pop album. I struggle to even recognise it as Genesis at times. 90125 is a groundbreaking album; brilliantly played melodic hard rock with Trevor Horn/Art of Noise style production, is arguably more progressive and refreshing than anything on Drama, which basically sounds like the Buggles jamming with Chris Squire. Invisible Touch is measurably mostly rubbish. That said I do love Drama, I'm just fighting the corner for the unloved masterpiece that is 90125. It would be in my top 5 Yes albums.. and to be fair Drama would probably there too. I like the Buggles, what can I say.. |
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Tom Ozric
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I’d love to hear the Invisible Touch album songs, played with the Selling England instrumentation and production. It would be an interesting result methinks. Edited by Tom Ozric - July 14 2020 at 03:44 |
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M27Barney
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^ can SEBTP be mentioned in the same thread as IT? Completely non overlapping magesteria musically speaking...
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Tom Ozric
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P.S. sorry for derailing the topic..... Edited by Tom Ozric - July 14 2020 at 05:23 |
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Blacksword
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It's the sound of IT that lets it down the most. There's probably three strong songs on that album, but the whole thing sounds like it's being played by a bog standard 80's sequencer. When you consider the rich drum sound Collins used to produce from Trick through to Duke, to be reduced to that generic 80's tuppaware sound is depressing.
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b_olariu
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Drama is an excellent album, both for Yes catalogue and for 1980 prog, why some peoples complain about, is beyond me.
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M27Barney
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Is this poll symptomatic of the a switch of the demographic? I'd much rather rate supposedly derivative copy symphonic prog than the eighties sh*te that seems to have an uncomfortably large fanbase in the new demograph....
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My views exactly.
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