This week, Mark and I considered the Yes music of the new Millennium – 25 years after it began. In this time, the band have produced just 5 studio albums and 1 EP:
Magnification
Fly From Here
From a Page (EP)
Heaven and Earth
The Quest
Mirror to the Sky
However, there are plenty of examples of great Yes music to enjoy and Mark and I chose 3 examples each.
What did we choose?
Anything from Heaven and Earth?
Did we get it ‘right’?
See if you agree with us and let us know by leaving a comment below.
This week Mark and I enjoyed thinking about what Billy Sherwood has contributed on bass to the last two Yes albums, The Quest and Mirror to the Sky. We each chose three examples of songs from those two records to talk about and shared our thoughts on whether Billy has continued the tradition of Chris Squire bass playing or gone his own way – or a combination of the two.
Is Billy channelling Chris?
What do we want from a ‘new’ bass player?
How does Billy’s multi-instrumentalist pedigree affect his bass playing with Yes?
Produced by Ken Fuller, Wayne Halland Jeffrey Crecelius
This week, Mark and I consider the question of what would happen if Yes were restricted to only playing music from Open Your Eyes to The Quest in a concert. Imagine that. Well, we did. Listen out for our ideas and add your own to the show notes for this week.
What would you choose?
Can a sensible setlist be constructed?
How would it fit together?
Take a listen to the episode and then let us know what you think below!
Here are all the albums we had to work with!
Facebook has just changed how pages work which means that I’ve had to establish a new place for us to post and discuss Yes-related happenings. It’s a new group entitled, rather creatively, YMP Discussion Group. For the moment it’s open to anyone to join but I’ll be adding rules and joining requirements when I have time. One of the advantages of the new format is that all members of the group have the same ability to post content, so it’s a bit more egalitarian, or somesuch. Please do search for the group and join in.
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Theme music
The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert – I put it together from: archive.org
The album has also been hitting charts worldwide, find a selection of them below:
#7 German Album Charts
#20 UK Album Charts
#1 UK Rock Album Charts
#5 Swiss Album Charts
#8 Japanese International Weekly Charts
#23 French Physical Album Charts
#37 Belgian National Album Charts
#54 Dutch Album Charts
#60 Italian Album Charts
This week:
It was a great pleasure to speak to another dedicated Yes fan this week and one who has had the privilege to be involved with the new album, The Quest. Paul K Joyce provided the orchestrations for a number of the songs on the record and worked closely with Steve Howe as producer.
Paul takes us through the story of how this all came about as well as his Yes story and some of the remarkable and unexpected turns his career has taken. Prepare yourself to hear about Tangerine Dream, Noddy, Bob the Builder, Time by Steve Howe and more in a delightful interview.
It’s another deeply hidden part of the Yesstory and one which Mark and I enjoyed finding out about enormously. I hope you also find it an interesting diversion.
What was Paul’s million-selling single?
How did a biology student end up composing orchestral arrangements for The Quest?
Is Paul a Yes fan?
Listen to the episode and let us know what you think!
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The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert – I put it together from: archive.org
Produced by Wayne Hall, Jeffrey Crecelius and Preston Frazier
Mark and I had
The time is finally here for Mark and me to present our in-depth review of the new Yes studio album, The Quest. We are also delighted to be joined by Henry Potts, the man behind the essential Yes online source, http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/ which has been cataloguing the crazy world of Yes and its former members since 1998 – and we thought we were doing well with 10 years!
So listen out for that conversation.
First of all, Mark and I give our impressions of The Quest, then there’s a surprise contributor and finally a round-table with Henry.
What is The Quest like?
Is it an instant classic?
What is a Yes album with Anderson or Squire like?
Listen to the episode and let us know what you think!
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The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert – I put it together from: archive.org
