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Psychedelic Paul
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90125: The Yes Album that's famously named after its catalogue number, and there's also an asteroid named 90125, in honour of the memory of YES bassist Chris Squire, who sadly ascended to prog heaven in 2015 at the age of 67. Following the Drama of recording and touring the previous YES album with Trevor Horn on vocal duties, Jon Anderson returned for 90125 with Trevor Horn now in the role of producer. 90125 was a more commercial and pop-orientated album than previous YES albums, and caused almost as much controversy amongst fans as the legendary Tales from Topographic Oceans album, but 90125 was also a Big Generator of album sales and climbed The Ladder of success to become their best-selling album, with over 3 million copies sold in the USA alone. Time and a Word has it that YES had been Close to the Edge of breaking up after the Drama tour, with several Fragile egos at stake and a Magnification of tensions within the band. In the revolving door Relayer race of YES line-ups, bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White formed Cinema with South African guitarist Trevor Rabin and original YES keyboardist Tony Kaye. When Jon Anderson accepted the invitation to return to the YES line-up, Cinema became YES, and 90125 became something of a re-Union album. Heaven & Earth would have to be moved though to persuade Rick Wakeman to return to the YES fold in 1991. The first single from the 90125 album, Owner of a Lonely Heart, had great commercial potential and was clearly aimed at Going for the One spot at the top of the charts. It made it too, reaching No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and became the best-selling Yessong of all time, just like the album itself. There's been much Talk amongst YES fans that 90125 was a sell-out album that was too pop-orientated, but if you Open Your Eyes and ears, you'll gain the Keys to Ascension and realise that this album is pretty good by YES standards and far from being a rotten Tormato. The 90125 album features nine Yessongs and I'll post the YouTube videos from the album below before I Fly from Here.
1983: YES - 90125 - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nW0C1j_RpvQypX6RHJzN_zSxeDZ7ilOQA YES line-up:- Jon Anderson; Tony Kaye; Trevor Rabin; Chris Squire; & Alan White Track Listing 1. Owner of a Lonely Heart (4:27) 2. Hold On (5:15) 3. It Can Happen (5:39) 4. Changes (6:16) 5. Cinema (2:09) 6. Leave It (4:10) 7. Our Song (4:16) 8. City of Love (4:48) 9. Hearts (7:34) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - January 16 2024 at 14:42 |
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Nicely done! "... far from being a rotten Tormato" Ha!
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Thanks! YES, 90125 is a much better album than TORMATO, which probably IS a bit of a rotten TORMATO by YES standards, although maybe not quite as bad as BIG GENERATOR, which will be THE YES ALBUM I'm planning to feature next, by unpopular demand.
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Tormato and 90125, albums that I both own (and I've owned the latter on multiple formats), don't merit comparison. They sound nothing like each other!
Let's be honest...is there anything on 90125 like "On the Silent Wings of Freedom"? Nope. On the flipside, there's nothing on Tormato like "It Can Happen"! |
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Side One
1. Owner of a Lonely Heart 2. Hold On 3. It Can Happen 4. Changes |
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Side Two
5. Cinema 6. Leave It 7. Our Song 8. City of Love 9. Hearts |
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You could see it as the perfect marriage of the sleek Eighties production and seventies prog. Yes to their credit were still trying to evolve but I've never really warmed much to it if I'm honest. However Cinema is one of the most kick ass instrumental tracks and makes you wonder what might have been if that prog supergroup line up with Eddie Jobson had ever come to fruition. I would really have liked more like that.
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Does It Really Happen?
2 years later: It Can Happen Lmao I love Yes.
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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A like all of the songs on the 90125 album, but when it comes to "Leave It", it's a case of, nice song, a shame about the video.
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Yes, they could have followed that up with the song, "It Shouldn't Have Happened", on the Big Generator album.
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Ah, 90125 was the first vinyl that I bought. I think Tormato was the second one. And I love them both.
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I really remember when "Owner of a Lonely Heart"-vid came from Finnish television. I liked both the song and vid, it was kind of scary. Anyway at that moment I just listened really just kind of rootsmusic, so I didn´t borrowed the whole album anywhere then. Few years later, maybe little earlier than my progperiod started borrowed the whole album and really loved it since then!
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That's quite a coincidence because 90125 was the first Yes album that I bought on vinyl too, if you don't count the Classic Yes compilation. I have the Big Generator album - unfortunately - as part of a 5-CD Yes box set.
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Before Big Generator came out I probably had all the previous albums added to my collection. Big Generator was a big deception to me, only two or three songs that appealed to me and the rest quite rubbish. That'll teach when you buy an album without listening to it first (but I did it again with Heaven and Earth - someone wants to buy it ?)
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I used to do that too: I'd buy an album by an artist on the strength of their previous albums without listening to it first, but I'd then be left feeling disappointed if it didn't live up to expectations. That's what happened when I bought Renaissance' 1981 Camera Camera album, so I took it back to the record store and asked for a refund. I would have been equally disappointed if I'd bought the Big Generator album by Yes without hearing it first.
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I prefer Heaven and Earth to 90125. Seriously.
And 90125 is a good, solid 80’s Prog album, done the correct way. A re-invention of the Yes’ sound. But I really like Heaven and Earth. And I can’t explain why. |
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I'm looking forward to listening to the Heaven & Earth album for the first time if it's preferable to 90125.
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I enjoy "Heaven and Earth", too! It is a beautiful album. If you are expecting songs like "Roundabout" or "Siberian Khatru", of course you are going to be disappointed.
But, I don't see any point in comparing it to "90125" (which, by the way, is one of my top 10 favorite albums of all time). Likewise, there is no point in comparing either of these to the earlier classic Yes sound of the 1970s. It was a different time, and some of the band members weren't the same. I consider "Heaven and Earth" to be more of a meditative album, which is what I would expect from a group of seasoned prog rockers. I mean, seriously. Are you the same person you were 40 years ago? "90125" was a reinvention of Yes that was trying to stay relevant amidst the wider music community but, at the same time, still managed to stay true to themselves with great prog rock. And, Trevor Rabin didn't try to mimic Steve Howe. I know that a lot of people disagree with this assessment. Good! Best to think independently. I do try to fair. |
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