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I voted for Machine Messiah (it's so haunting!) but would have liked to have voted for White Car, seeing as how it has no votes yet. Though only a minute long, its symphonic opening is great and the melody superb. It sounds very distant from you when you hear it.
All the old familiar choruses come crowding in a different key: Melodies decaying in sweet dissonance.
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I bought this one some month ago and i like it very much, sweet mix of 80 pop and prog, well anywayz i love all songs but i voted for "Does It Really Happen?" very catchy stuff with nice melody. Alltough "Machine messiah" is proboby the best for pure prog.
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I must admit I do like this album. I got it earlier this year, and wasn't sure about it at first. But the more I played it, the more it grew on me. Although Trevor Horn's voice isn't very strong, and he sounds quite flat at times, he does do a passable imitation of Anderson at times. No more so than on 'Machine Messiah', which I voted for here.

Ironically, I like all the bonus tracks, with the exception of those that Anderson sings! He is very weak on those.

So, not the best album vocally, but musically superb. Squire and Howe shine here. Great cover too! Smile 
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Havn't heard enough of that albums, but Tempus Fugit is Great.
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Tempus Fugit. This album could have been up with the best Yes albums if it had Jon Anderson on it IMO.
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I enjoy the album as much as the bonus tracks.
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but since they're not up there i voted for the underdog white car. i like the beginning of the first white car track that is on the album, however i enjoy the remake with the extended lyrics as well.
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Run down a street
Where the glass shows
That summer has gone
Age in the doorways
Resenting the pace of the dawn
All of them standing in line
All of them waiting for time
From time the great healer
The Machine Messiah
Is born

Great song! Thumbs%20UpSmile
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E além disso se via da janela
Um cantinho de céu e o Redentor

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You know what funny the first time I heard Drama ( which I think was the very first YES album) I could believe that jon wasn't there until I bought the album years later and I really saw with my own eyes that Jon really wasn't singing. 

YES: Drama was fantastic album specially songs like Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit. A more superior (in my opinion ) album than their 2 first ones, Tomato. It was the last their last best album.
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Originally posted by darksideof darksideof wrote:

You know what funny the first time I heard Drama ( which I think was the very first YES album) I could believe that jon wasn't there until I bought the album years later and I really saw with my own eyes that Jon really wasn't singing. 

YES: Drama was fantastic album specially songs like Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit. A more superior (in my opinion ) album than their 2 first ones, Tomato. It was the last their last best album.
 
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Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Originally posted by darksideof darksideof wrote:

You know what funny the first time I heard Drama ( which I think was the very first YES album) I could believe that jon wasn't there until I bought the album years later and I really saw with my own eyes that Jon really wasn't singing. 

YES: Drama was fantastic album specially songs like Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit. A more superior (in my opinion ) album than their 2 first ones, Tomato. It was the last their last best album.
 
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I meant to say that Drama was the first YES album I heard at the age of 14. Embarrassed I didn't mean that Drama literally was the  first YES album.


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I don't know if DRAMA is the MOST underrated album in prog history cos there are a lot of albums that some prog fans despite and I really don't know why. I love DRAMA since the first time I heard it (on vinyl many years ago) and my favourite is TEMPUS FUGIT even when I love the entire album...

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One of my favourite Yes records, voted Into the Lens, followed closely by Tempus Fugit. I guess it inspired Jon to rejoin the band just like Relayer did to Rick years earlier.
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Originally posted by dedokras dedokras wrote:

I guess it inspired Jon to rejoin the band just like Relayer did to Rick years earlier.
 
either that, or they needed to pay their accountants and income tax bills.....Wink
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Drama was released shortly after I had really started to get into Yes. I heard it on Tommy Vance's "Friday Rock Show" and loved it immediately, despite the jibes and sniggers from Buggles decriers. 
Machine Messiah for me. Love the riff.
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Drama is one of my favorite Yes albums, precisely because of its position as the conduit from 70's prog Yes to 80's pop Yes. No Anderson or Wakeman, but Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes make great contributions. I voted for "Into the Lens".

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Originally posted by emdiar emdiar wrote:

Drama was released shortly after I had really started to get into Yes. I heard it on Tommy Vance's "Friday Rock Show" and loved it immediately, despite the jibes and sniggers from Buggles decriers. 
Machine Messiah for me. Love the riff.
 
wow   - that is like one of those "where were you/JFK /Princess Diana things.!
 
I soooooooo remember that being played on that show!
 
I love Drama. i wish there had been a 'Drama II'  - though I guess there wouldn't have been a 90125 if there had.
 
But I think SH bottled it re-Trevor Horn. Everyone else seemed to have confidence in him except Howe. Squier definitely did.
 
I just think that while I appreciate what Jon Anderson did for Yes in the 70s, he's been at the epicentre of what is wrong with them from then on...
 
 
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Love several songs on this...


but 'Does It Really Happen' is the one I always go to first...Clap
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Points: 24392 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2007 at 08:33
One of the best Yes albums bar none, and the most underappreciated. I voted for "Machine Messiah", but I could have easily chosen "Into the Lens" or "Does It Really Happen?".
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