 | Yes Drama
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| Ranking: #28 for 1980 | |
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| 4.0 excellent | Onirium | July 14th 15 |
"Video Killed the Radio Star" certainly stands among the most unpleasant and unbearable hits of
the 1970s; however, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes - The Buggles - were at the time experiencing
huge worldwide success. Yes, on their side, were still trying to recover from the first misstep in
their career, but the situation was made all the more discouraging as they were abandoned by two
of their key members, Anderson and Wakeman. An unusual collaboration imposed itself, while Downes
and Horn joined Yes in 1980. Unusual, yet very surprising, this collaboration appeared as
fruitful; new-wave, applied reasonably to the band's music proved to be tolerable. And even more:
enjoyable. This new hard rock edge doubled by a fondness for synthpop, although frightening in
perspective, seemed to bring a newfound freshness to the band that, barely two years earlier, had
sounded so tired and lifeless on Tormato. And with Drama yet again, it is virtually impossible to
defend the record as successful on the compositional aspect; this new sonic exploration and this
unprecedented field of experimentation is in fact what saved Drama from falling into
insignificance. And it did make quite a nice record.
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| 4.0 excellent | Fernando Alves STAFF | August 21st 11 |
Drama is one of Yes most easy listening records. Chris Squire performance here is top level.
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| 3.5 great | GamamJ | November 2nd 20 |
In my top 3 Yes albums. With the departure of Wakeman and Anderson, Yes put out a more song-focused heavier album, and it is actually really good. Less atmospheric meandering, but still a lot of in-you-face wank and heavier riffs.
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| 0.0 | altertide0 | August 25th 15 |
The last of Yes' 1977-1980 trilogy doesn't abandon the formula: it's still "prog rock, but not quite". "Machine Messiah" should appeal to their original fans, while the last two songs should please the ones that prefer the shorter format of Tormato. Oh, and the vocalist has been changed, but no reason to worry - somehow they found someone whose voice is almost an exact copy of Anderson.
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| 0.0 | mandan | March 4th 13 |
I may need to listen more to this band before I pick a fave album; all the same, this is easily one of their best.
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| 5.0 classic | exbusfish | July 30th 09 |
The BEST Yes album. Why? The lyrics and execution of the music is flawless. Also, they rocked their butts off! Tempus Fugit is the best Yes song ever! Machine Messiah is a close second.
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| 3.0 good | Jalapeno CONTRIBUTOR | May 19th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Verdr | March 6th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lani | February 24th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodrigo | August 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Surtur | October 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bren80 | July 7th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Trebor. EMERITUS | May 26th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | April 2nd 22 |
| 4.5 superb | TommyG | January 4th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Oobaloo | December 7th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Baehr52 | November 18th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Jerrad | August 16th 21 |
| 3.5 great | eirinn | March 18th 21 |
| 3.5 great | IlNotta | November 10th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | fenman | June 5th 20 |
| 3.5 great | tellah | March 31st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | sweepr | December 15th 19 |
| 3.0 good | wg98 | November 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Majkl | May 1st 19 |
| 2.5 average | Thomm | April 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Djang0 | April 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | sam1oq | March 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | wrax | March 10th 19 |
| 3.5 great | dgropp | March 8th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bulgaro | October 30th 18 |
| 3.0 good | evolve9 | September 15th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lakes | July 14th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ElSomni | February 6th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | CRX | August 30th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Rmazer | June 9th 17 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | June 7th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | igi78 | April 17th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jpjpablo | December 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | December 15th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Scoob | December 14th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | solrage | December 9th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | leopm | November 9th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Divaman | September 3rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | GMBass | August 7th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Xinlo | July 21st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Obesz | June 26th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Robbit | April 30th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | ckssr1 | April 30th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Skrymir | November 30th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | orlock | November 13th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Potesin | September 5th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | e210013 | September 2nd 15 |
| 3.5 great | BoJean | August 24th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Smolko7 | March 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Superb | March 17th 15 |
| 2.5 average | SuzyC | December 25th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | hamer | December 21st 14 |
| 3.5 great | MoF | December 18th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Beats59 | November 6th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jeejee | November 4th 14 |
| 3.5 great | DrDom | October 24th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Titan | October 15th 14 |
| 3.0 good | ariich | October 7th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vaakum | September 29th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | pragpro | July 23rd 14 |
| 3.0 good | adr | July 6th 14 |
| 3.5 great | facupm | June 24th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Snuron | June 19th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | uzen | May 19th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Lilt98 | April 20th 14 |
| 3.5 great | slackr | April 5th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | kaca | April 3rd 14 |
| 4.5 superb | RAM89 | April 1st 14 |
| 4.5 superb | powrnap | February 6th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | eboph | January 1st 14 |
| 4.5 superb | W3bsurf | December 29th 13 |
| 3.0 good | tarkus | December 19th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mootgut | December 12th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | WEC | December 6th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Nadin3 | November 30th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ire | September 25th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | dosia | September 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Grimsby | September 16th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | jrschaef | September 10th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | SmersH | September 9th 13 |
| 3.5 great | alvahe | August 15th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Kalhur | August 11th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Zamora | July 29th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kinch | June 15th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Hsur | May 31st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | atob | May 27th 13 |
| 3.5 great | ramon | May 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | igorvt | December 21st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Caelum | December 6th 12 |
| 3.0 good | DRZ | October 17th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | salnak | October 11th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Bozo39 | October 8th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | floyd62 | September 22nd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | mew151 | June 24th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Weed | December 6th 11 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | November 28th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Totes | July 20th 11 |
| 3.0 good | true | July 13th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | ast | March 6th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | adsha38 | February 21st 11 |
| 3.5 great | joejjc | January 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | quint | January 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nagrarok | November 14th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Matski | October 7th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | froghawk | September 6th 10 |
| 2.5 average | Zoso4 | July 31st 10 |
| 3.5 great | mirok | January 3rd 10 |
| 5.0 classic | derekkp | December 20th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | ferrum | November 5th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Maz | November 29th 07 |
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