MFP wrote: Really enjoy 90125, I've never heard BG.

Two good albums, I still listen to them once in a while and think `Yep, pretty alright'....and then I put them back on the shelf for another two years or so!

I’d been enjoying Yes since 1974, so when 90125 came along I knew this was something different from them but I didn’t consider it a comedown, just a fresh approach.  Leave It, It Can Happen, Cinema and Changes in particular stood up to their classics.  On BG, Shoot High Aim Low, I’m Running, Final Eyes are my faves, and even Love Will Find a Way, despite its poppier sound, found favor with me.

 

I almost saw them on the BG tour, but Trevor Rabin had medical issues and so a few dates were cancelled.

Catcher10 wrote: I like both quite a lot......90125 is a fantastic album. And BG has it's moments, I love Shoot High Aim Low and a few others.   Question, would 90125 been different had they recorded it under the Cinema group name rather than Yes name?

richardh wrote: Catcher10 wrote: I like both quite a lot......90125 is a fantastic album. And BG has it's moments, I love Shoot High Aim Low and a few others.   Question, would 90125 been different had they recorded it under the Cinema group name rather than Yes name? Presumably Cinema being Jobson instead of Kaye and no Anderson? Would have been interesting to hear the songs with Squire or Rabin doing vocals and Jobson is a far superior keyboard player than Kaye imo.

The 90125 Remaster version has bonus tracks which includes 4 of the songs as original recorded in the Cinema sessions (if my memory serves me right).

Dellinger wrote: I like 90125 better, Big Generator has almost nothing for me to enjoy, except for "Shoot High, Aim Low" and "The Lamb" (was it indeed that the name of that song?). However, I feel 90125 was a better album (I particularly like the big hit) and Big Generator just tried to repeat the success.

O.K. I have a confession to make.......
Around the time of the release of the Big G album, I was on holiday in Bali. I would've been 15 years old, tapes were cheap there so I bought up all these albums by curious bands I'd read about in the Encyclopedia Of Rock book which I flogged from the school library. Well, that's not the confession here, what is though, is, the tape of Big Generator came housed in a video cassette-like cover, and instead of the yellow/pink cover, it's printed in green background with a purple Big logo. Anyway, at that stage I loved the album soooo much, I used to plonk the cassette under my pillow when I went to sleep !!! Only my mate Gav, whom I haven't a seen for nearly 20 years, can attest to this. True story

Tom Ozric wrote: O.K. I have a confession to make....... Around the time of the release of the Big G album, I was on holiday in Bali. I would've been 15 years old, tapes were cheap there so I bought up all these albums by curious bands I'd read about in the Encyclopedia Of Rock book which I flogged from the school library. Well, that's not the confession here, what is though, is, the tape of Big Generator came housed in a video cassette-like cover, and instead of the yellow/pink cover, it's printed in green background with a purple Big logo. Anyway, at that stage I loved the album soooo much, I used to plonk the cassette under my pillow when I went to sleep !!! Only my mate Gav, whom I haven't a seen for nearly 20 years, can attest to this. True story

bhikkhu wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: O.K. I have a confession to make....... Around the time of the release of the Big G album, I was on holiday in Bali. I would've been 15 years old, tapes were cheap there so I bought up all these albums by curious bands I'd read about in the Encyclopedia Of Rock book which I flogged from the school library. Well, that's not the confession here, what is though, is, the tape of Big Generator came housed in a video cassette-like cover, and instead of the yellow/pink cover, it's printed in green background with a purple Big logo. Anyway, at that stage I loved the album soooo much, I used to plonk the cassette under my pillow when I went to sleep !!! Only my mate Gav, whom I haven't a seen for nearly 20 years, can attest to this. True story A cassette under you pillow eh? And to think that a year earlier the cassette of Invisible Touch I bought ended being kept in a special place too. The garbage can!  Also a true story. Oh, I still have my Invisible Touch cassette. It serves as a reminder of my unyielding faithfulness at the time to a once great band. I know now how foolish I had been in its purchase (I still like Domino though).