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Psychedelic Paul
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It did, Yes, but only about 35 years later after hearing Going for the One for the first time on the Internet around 2012.
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Going for the One didn't reel you back in? |
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AaaaH RELAYER.... My personal favorite.
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Psychedelic Paul
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90125 was the first YES album I ever bought back in 1983, and other than the Classic YES compilation, I didn't buy another YES album for nearly thirty years. Ironically, it was the Relayer album that scared me away from YES in the 1970's, but I love it now.
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richardh
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^ quite honestly I have never understood this view of Yes. I've seen similar views ventured about the Emerson, Lake and Powell album that was also painful to my ears while 90125 is very souless and lacking any real 'feel' IMO. As soon as I heard Fragile (in the 80's because I was also late to the party) I was sold. The problem was that a lot of musicians bought into the idea that the 70's was a dead duck and the 80's was the decade that was going to put everything right. It took a while before the overproduced and under creative nature of that decade was left in the rear view mirror.
Caveat- I am reasoning from a prog perspective. I get that there were excellent artists like Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Talk Talk around at that time but many of the most vaunted prog musicians struggled to do anything meaningful.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Yeah, briefly it did. Today it seems like most hardcore Yes fans are those who first got into them in the 70s though. Those who heard this at the time probably got scared when they heard their earlier material.
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I'm one of those rare weirdos who first got into prog in the 80s. As such this was the first Yes album I bought. My dad had The Yes Album and I heard that first but 90125 was the first I really got into which might have had something to do with the fact that it was sort of arena rock sounding and I was already into stuff like Journey, Styx and Foreigner. Many years later I probably don't think of as highly of it as I used to but it's still a very good album with what it tries to be and I have to give it credit for helping me get into the band Yes. If it wasn't for this release I probably would still think of Yes as just another weird band from my dad's record collection (I think TYA is the only one he had that could be considered prog).
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It definitely brought YES to the Great unwashed masses. Some certifiable "Hits" for good reason.
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I especially like the chorus to "It Can Happen". Kind of a empowered marching sort of beat. I visualize the band with their instruments unplugged and walking forward together in formation on some road while singing. Trickier for drums, but maybe a drum platform that moves! LOL
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Psychedelic Paul
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YES - 90125 Live in Dortmund, Germany 1984
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tony kaye keys on our song are wild.
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anderson vocals are wonderful on changes .
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love the drums on it can happen and sitar sound on that song
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hearts love the drums in that song.
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heaven and earth compared to 90125 has better production values i find love the song subway walls.
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YES - 90125 Live: Access All Areas - A documentary by Steven Soderbergh
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Psychedelic Paul
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I didn't get the joke either until I just Googled "OU812" and it said "Oh, you ate one too." It's a bit like the abbreviation "F.U.N.E.X" which roughly translates as "Have you any eggs?" The Two Ronnies - Swedish Made Simple Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 04 2020 at 01:14 |
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I remember it was funny when Van Halen put out OU812 and many didn't get the joke!
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Psychedelic Paul
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90125 should have been recorded in Beverley Hills. 90125 is the only Yes studio album I ever bought on the original vinyl, although I now have about a dozen Yes albums on CD.
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When this album first came out I wasn't yet into prog nor did I know what it was so I didn't bat an eyelash about it. At the time I was listening to Def Leppard(pyromania), Styx and Journey (things like that) so this didn't really sound too out of place. I think in that context and with those goggles on it's fine but once you go down the prog rabbit hole you tend to get spoiled and think everything in terms of progginess and so that can be a problem. It's something to be aware of because it can potentially prevent you(if you have the prog snob attitude)from enjoying it(same thing with the first Asia album and Genesis "shapes"). I do have it on cd but not the version with bonus tracks(which I should get). Somehow it caught on as 90210 as a joke. Probably because of the tv show. As a result a lot of people call it that. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if there are some prog fans who don't even know Yes very well and think that's the actual name of the album.
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