Album Rating: 5.0

"Tormato" is, for me the weaker of all Yes' albums from the 70's. It has some nice moments but but is very disappointing in relation to its previous and following album. But we can discuss it when I review that album, too. Actually my next three reviews will be about those three albums.

Album Rating: 4.5

I had Tormato at a 2.5 for a long time. Will relisten to definitely decide.

Will you cover Keystudio? I'm looking forward to Drama ;)

Album Rating: 4.5

Drama p//////

Album Rating: 4.5

MrSirMachineMessiah p//////

Album Rating: 5.0

@ Jethro

I've no intention to cover "Keystudio" during this year. I intend to spend all the 2018 with "Yes and Friends". My intention is to cover all their 70's stuff and some albums that are somehoe related with the band. I mean Yes' albums, some solo works of their members and ex-members and albums that somehow are connected with their members and ex-members. I'm talking about almost 40 albums, which is, in my point of view, a very extensive and exhausted cover for a band. But, I think the undenible quality of their musicians deserve that.

Album Rating: 4.0

This is a serious plan, e, looking forward to reading about the solo stuff, as I'm not at all familiar with that. Good luck with pulling it off.

Album Rating: 4.5

Six Wives is best solo Yes

Album Rating: 4.0

Who's album is it exactly, LordGentleman?

Album Rating: 4.5

Six Wives of Henry VIII is a Rick Wakeman' solo album, dude. Agreed it's up there with the best solo Yes. Another pleasant album is Two Sides of Peter Banks. It doesn't prog all the time (it can be jazzy) but when it does, it hits hard.

@e21, oh I see. 40 albums seems a lot...Needless to say that Yes has lots of friends lol...Does it include bands that sound like Yes, such as Starcastle, England or Wobbler (Rites at Dawn particularly)?

Album Rating: 5.0

No, no, not at all. I mean bands where their members worked, before or after of they became members of Yes and some solo works. You'll see. First, Yes' albums, second, some solo albums and finally, some albums very important to their career and some collaboration albums with other very known prog musicians. You'll see. My intention is to cover some important marks linked with a so amazing handfull os musicians as we can see on a so exclusive and amazing band as Yes are.

Album Rating: 4.5

Why do I find out just now that there's a live album in which they play Relayer



I even had to add it to the database

Album Rating: 4.5

I've already heard Gates from Yesshows couple years ago. It was quite faithful to the original...Maybe even better. SirLord, try Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends (vocals are so-so, but album slays), and the instrumental Criminal Record if you will.

Album Rating: 5.0

@ Batareziz

Yeah, this is a serious and huge plan. Thanks and you'll see. I hope can satisfy your appetite.

Album Rating: 5.0

@ SirLord

Yeah, Jethro is right. "Yesshows" has a great version of "Gates Of Delirium". It's even better because we have Moraz performing on that album, which is a rarity. Besides, we can talk about those albums in the next future. I intend to review many of them, in its time.

Meanwhile, in the next week, I'm going to publish another review of a Yes' album, continuing my prog journey into what I called the wonderful world of Yes.

Album Rating: 4.5

I was getting ready to read a review of "Tales of Topographic Oceans" next. I forgot you wrote that one a while ago. I'll have to go back and read it again after this.

Album Rating: 4.5

This album continues to grow on me slowly--so very slowly, haha . . . You are right; this album is darker and less melodic. "Soon" is the anomaly here. It's light melody is like the sun piercing through the darkness. I am not a huge Patrick Moraz fan, but there's no denying that he has helped create something unique and special here.





@Jethroe: haha, yes, I could live without the ''tcha tcha tcha'' too!

Album Rating: 4.5

I agree with you Twig about Patrick Moraz. He lacks of flexibility and sounds quite harsh and rigid, and I usually don't like his choice of keys for a given piece of music. He also takes too much room or not enough lol. However, he did a great job for Relayer, agreed. I guess it's well done because he fully collaborated in the compositions process.

Take a look here, he managed to destroy Close to the Edge during a show. Wakeman is missing badly in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4p8n-P9_b0

Album Rating: 5.0

"I was getting ready to read a review of "Tales From Topographic Oceans" next. I forgot you wrote that one a while ago."

Yeah, Twig. It was really long time ago. Tell me something about it if you want. It was reviewd a bit different, track by track. But even now and despite be one of my first reviews, with some modesty I still think that it's a good review.

About "Relayer", I'm very glad that it continues growing on you. For me, it's a perfect album and is my number 2 in my Ye's top. Moraz made a terrible job here, undoubtedly. Still, it has a completelly different style from Wakeman which isn't for every tastes.

Album Rating: 5.0

@ Jethro

Unlike you, I love the style of Moraz. I think he is a very gifted keyboardist with a unique and special style. Despite he is a classically trained musician, like Wakeman, his style is less classic and more jazzier. I think he is a very creative musician too, perhaps even more than Wakeman. But, probably, he doesn't felt very comfortable with the music of Yes because I think he always preferred a more free style. So, this was the main reason why Bruford and he recorded three albums. As you know, Bruford always had the same feeling of him, to prefer a more jazzier free style. It was the reason why Bruford changed of Yes to King Crimson, where he can have more creative freedom.

About the live performance on Youtube, you're right. It's really very bad. But I think all is bad on it. The sound is bad and all the other musicians weren't brilliant too. But above all, I think it's not a good thing for a musician play a piece originally composed and performed by other musicians because, he will be inevitably compared with him. For instance, if Wakeman played one "The Gates Of Delirium" or especially "Sound Chaser" he would have the same problem. I think Wakeman never played any piece composed by Moraz. Even so, Moraz made an excellent live performance of Wakeman on "Ritual" of "Yesshows".

I hope I wasn't too boring. The great artists are humans and can have bad days too, my friend.

Cheers.

Album Rating: 4.5

You nailed some good points here, e21. Pos'd hahah... It's true, Moraz is more jazzy than anything, and it's not a coincidence if he collaborated with Bruford. My impressions about Moraz remain the same. Of what I know about him, I think he tends to play nervously. His playing is not enough refined, and I would appreciate more volatile, or ethereal touches. Would be good if he used more of the organ or mellotron. And I don't think he's more creative than Wakeman even if he approaches more styles.

Jazz is Moraz' predilection. He's not more versatile for all that.

And you're very right; Wakeman would probably have hard times to play excerpts from Relayer, just the same as Moraz vs Close to the Edge.