Heaven and Earth "Most Popular Album"?

Sorry for going off topic. 

Back to YES!!! 

^^ I bought Love Beach cos I liked the single All I Want is You (go figure)

Edited by ExittheLemming - July 12 2014 at 18:50

ExittheLemming wrote: Finnforest wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: I wonder how popular it will be when people have to actually buy it? Funny you should mention it.  This is the first Yes album in a generation I'm actually looking forward to owning.  That will make a nice change from having to subsequently buy albums that suck hugely

I hope my instincts are right.  Believe me Iain, I've bought plenty of albums I enjoyed during my online curiosity preview stage, only to wonder why later   

Michael I tried Fly a few times but never gave it a fair chance I don't think.  From what I can say i like Heaven and Earth better than Fly (or anything else they've done in recent memory). 

You like Bronson?  I have a life size cutout display of the dude pointing a .357 at you....from my days at the theater.  Still have it in the back of a closet at my folks house.     

ExittheLemming wrote: I wonder how popular it will be when people have to actually buy it?

Funny you should mention it.  This is the first Yes album in a generation I'm actually looking forward to owning. 

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Finnforest wrote: I found the album much more enjoyable than reviews would have led me to believe.  And I generally don't like the post-peak albums from the dinosaurs, with but a few exceptions.   I'd say this sounds more enthusiastic and more interesting than the last two Floyd albums, which always struck me as guys "going through the motions" with little spark.  Yes may sound lighter here but they sound engaged.   Sure it's not 1973 Yes, but who can expect senior citizens to rock like young guys.  Adjust your expectations if you're going to try it.  Your comments about the album have made me smile, Jim! Thanks for having a fair and level head when approaching it. I'll be posting a pretty fair and mostly positive review in the next week or so. I think most of the reviews so far are by smart-ass younger listeners who can't wait to stick the boot into the `old guard', or those under the delusion hoping that Yes, over 45 years in their career, are going to release some game-changing, reinventing proggy blowout! Never going to happen!

One thing I've learned is to pretty much ignore early reviews.  Some people just want to be be one of the first to review high profile albums and as such, I think they are closing up shop too soon.  From what I hear this is an album that will benefit with a little time....

Finnforest wrote: I found the album much more enjoyable than reviews would have led me to believe.  And I generally don't like the post-peak albums from the dinosaurs, with but a few exceptions.   I'd say this sounds more enthusiastic and more interesting than the last two Floyd albums, which always struck me as guys "going through the motions" with little spark.  Yes may sound lighter here but they sound engaged.   Sure it's not 1973 Yes, but who can expect senior citizens to rock like young guys.  Adjust your expectations if you're going to try it.

Your comments about the album have made me smile, Jim! Thanks for having a fair and level head when approaching it. I'll be posting a pretty fair and mostly positive review in the next week or so. I think most of the reviews so far are by smart-ass younger listeners who can't wait to stick the boot into the `old guard', or those under the delusion hoping that Yes, over 45 years in their career, are going to release some game-changing, reinventing proggy blowout! Never going to happen!

Gerinski wrote: Michael678 wrote: twosteves wrote: This is a really strong album---it is Yes today---there are a few Beatle-esque songs that are just okay--but it flows nicely and deserves some love-it grows on you, it's not an instant winner--it's a grower not a shower---there are at least 4 prog songs on the album and while some of the lyrics are a bit insipid --what else is new with Yes? This album has some great playing on it--especially from Howe---and it is not OYE---this is a unmistakable Yes album. cool, im gonna try it out myself and i might like it just as much as you do (its very likely btw lol). this goes along with my previous comment because idk how to quote two separate posts. how do you do that, exactly? just curious. Do "quote" on 2 separate tabs and then copy-paste from one to the other. When you have realised the simple syntax of the quote marks you don't even need to do that.

I found the album much more enjoyable than reviews would have led me to believe.  And I generally don't like the post-peak albums from the dinosaurs, with but a few exceptions.   I'd say this sounds more enthusiastic and more interesting than the last two Floyd albums, which always struck me as guys "going through the motions" with little spark.  Yes may sound lighter here but they sound engaged. 

 Sure it's not 1973 Yes, but who can expect senior citizens to rock like young guys.  Adjust your expectations if you're going to try it. 

and i forgot one thing: i was NOT attacking the guy that posted this or any other; it was the bunch of people who are bashing at it BEFORE its release (which kinda doesn't make sense unless they got it early somehow for some reason). some of them probably keep on wishing on Jon Anderson to rejoin (which don't get me wrong, it would be very cool!!) but if that's the case, they don't buy any of their albums that don't have him on vocals. Canadian Studmuffin did it, so why can't you?? also, for a previous post, arguably pretty much everyone in the whole world has some sort of obsession over money, whether they need or want it (the latter of which is a bitch lol). this band is no exception. they pretty much tour all the time nowadays, and they need the cash to continue to do so, even while Jon A was in the band (i think). nobody's perfect, that's all.