Yes is the BEST band to ever exist

and steve howe is the best guitar player, just so you all know.

 

Damn straight! One of the best at least.

 

I like Yes a lot. i love art rock.

 

sweet. i got to see em twice last year, and twice the year before. it sucks though because my mom got to see them when theyre shit was brand new. damn.

 

It floors me to see all the kids on this message board who love all those old hippie bands more than the old timers that originally saw them back in the day...All these kids don't even like today's music... That just trips me out...

Personally, I hate Yes... In fact, most of that old hippie music doesn't "translate" (for lack of a better word) into today's universe...

So, I'm playing newish stuff from bands that have existed around a decade or less...

Radiohead
Wilco
Ben Harper

Stuff like this... The stuff you kids SHOULD be listening to...

Old timer / Weirdo signing off...

 

pppfffffffffffffffffff, yes is beyond time and age you dumbass. and who cares what you think anyway, your 36, you werent even old enough to understand them when they played the GOOD tours anyway(steve howe) so fuck you, music is fake nowadays (for the most part) and the music you play is mad gay too. oh yea, and dont let me forget, you are so dumb, i can probably jam better than you, too.

 

gwdukes said:

"pppfffffffffffffffffff, yes is beyond time and age you dumbass. and who cares what you think anyway, your 36, you werent even old enough to understand them when they played the GOOD tours anyway(steve howe) so fuck you, music is fake nowadays (for the most part) and the music you play is mad gay too. oh yea, and dont let me forget, you are so dumb, i can probably jam better than you, too."

Jeez... someone has some "social adjustment" issues...

I was just saying that I, who is only 32 thank you very much, didn't like YES, and that I was listening to music that was currently being made...

And you, the troll, took this to altogether different level of stupidity...You showed your age and your immaturity... Having a different opinion doesn't make me a dumbass... And I'm wasting my time trying to correct a thoughtless child anyway...

You think you can jam? Great for you... But when did I ever claim to "jam..."

But, guess what... I've had TONS more fun than you, been on far more tours, have been seeing live music since you were a 5 year old, and have a long history in the scene... I also am "successful" in the world, with two beautiful children, an over the top hottie for a wife, and a beautiful house... And I still have fun, I still see tons of live music, and I'm still (OBVIOUSLY) much more well-adjusted than you...

And as a music LOVER for 24 years (I got my first album in 1980, BITCH, and you weren't even born yet), I am very well equipped to discuss the merits of YES... And to disagree with your statement...

So, take your little vulgar, schoolboy language back to wherever the hell you came from...

I'm not impressed...

And YES still sucks...

And you obviously haven't LISTENED to any of the bands that I mentioned, and don't know what you're talking about...

If you like Ashlee Simpson, YES, TODAY'S MUSIC SUCKS...

But if you listen to the stuff that I am, then you know that music is more vibrant today than it has been since the early 90s...

 

first of all, if you want to talk about being well adjusted, i have a beautiful girlfriend and daughter, am the operations manager for a carrier/brokerage company, worked my way up from being a bum to where i am now in 2 years, have my own place with my family, and am very well adjusted. now, i DID misunderstand you when you said you PLAY new music, i took it as you played in a band or something, and i have listened Radiohead and Ben, and they both are pathetic whinners. so, how successful are you now? dont reply if you dont want to, its not about that, just wondering! and calm down man, i just go crazy when someone can actually KNOW YES and say they hate them, wasnt trying to piss you off too much.

 

Nice to see so much concord here!


Yes went through several changes of line-up over the years. The band who made 'Close to the Edge' and 'Topographic Oceans' were great, but the later line up really didn't work IMHO.
Only saw them once, in the late 80's at a gig featuring both line-ups!
Best bits were Steve and Rick's solos.
I thought they were better on record than live - perhaps though I saw them on an off night.

 

yea its true they sold out when steve left, but they are much better live when i see them, just like the record only longer and more solos.

 

TarHead stands on his soapbox:

If you are a father, do your children a favor, and teach them to not be such a complete "hot head" when someone mildly disagrees with them. I say this to you as a father myself...I just disagreed with you, and you busted out this vulgar tirade that was classless and ill-suited to my disagreement with you. Totally classless, and lacking manners...This is a free message board in a free country... I can disagree if I want to...

TarHead steps off of soapbox:

Yes, I'm a "rags to riches" story myself... I have a college degree, but I worked as a cook in a restaurant for seven years while getting it... I work as the Assistant to the Dean of The Graduate School at the University that I graduated from. I don't have a glorious job, or a high paying one, but I have a GOOD job, and good benefits, and a great environment to work in.
GWDUKES, I'm willing to shut up now... But you went over the line with that little blast of yours...

Peace treaty? This is a "hippie" board, after all...

 

yea, peace man, and i would never teach my daughter to act like that, nor do i act like that, only on the forums! and sounds like your doing good for yourself, congrats to that. and you said busted out, so now i like you! but, my daughter and my girl passionatley love yes, so, i dont know, they might bust out theyre own shit without influence, if you know what i mean.

 

My favorite Yes song is probably "Time and a Word". I got the album too. I got into Yes in the 90's after reading about the 70's music genre called "art rock". Most of the music is melancholic and reflective.

 

yea thats a chill little song

 

its funny to hear someone say ben harper and radiohead are pathetic whiners, and then praise yes in the same breath. Arent they all the same?? even Yes more so?? yes had two halfway decent albums and the rest was pure crap.

 

I agree with you choice of music in this era... Harper is awesome, Jack Johnson and Big Wu and Wookie Foot and such bands are the more updated version of your Grateful Dead, Marley, Dylan, Doors, and whatever.... but one thing i didnt agree with was the quote i posted, just becuase some of us didnt live in the 60s and 70s doesnt mean we cant help ourselfs to the wonderful music that was created then. People SHOULDN'T have to listen to anything if they dont feel like it.... If you like older music, more power to ya, if ya like newer hip music, more power to you too, but just becuase you grow out of somethin, or the music dont mean as much as it use to, doesnt mean it dont have still have meaning.

Also, most music today is starting to suck.... drugs arent as big of an influence on alot of music anymore, which i believe has put a damper on the musical creativeness, that was made after the early 90s, everything is "i look good, i got money and i got women" Nothin of substance anymore, 100 rappers will recycle the same beat and you'll hear 30min of music all with the same beat, dont get me wrong, i like some rap, but i look at lyrical content, not beats, but i was sayin as an example. but what my point is is that the music biz is too damn sobered up now.... somethin has to happen

 

Yes is easily my all-time favorite band, but only when Steve Howe plays with them. I have seen them 4 times in the past two years. Sheer freakin' genius.

At least once in your life, you owe it to yourself to own copies of Close To The Edge, Fragile, Going For The One and The Yes Album, at the very least. Once you have gotten these transcendant masterpieces home, then consume a little visionary flora, if you are so inclined, and then take the time to really listen to And You And I, Awaken, Close To The Edge, South Side Of The Sky, Heart Of The Sunrise, Roundabout, Yours Is No Disgrace and Perpetual Change.

When you've gotten the hang of those, check out Relayer and Tales From Topographic Oceans, I promise, these will one day reward you generously when you have learned to love them.

And for the hardcore fan who wants more, be sure to check out their new stuff - Magnification (good), The Ladder, (patchy, with moments of brilliance) and Keys To Ascencion II (for the song Mind Drive, if nothing else).

I never know if I've said too much or too little.

 

Finally, another Wilco fan

 

varuna, i couldnt have put it better myself. yes is the most accuired taste to gain besides straight classical, but i think theyre better composers anyway, personally. realyer, tales, going for the one, and close to the edge are the best musical masterpiesces ever written, and it took me about 2 years to fully understand what yes was trying to do. and no, they NEVER have complained or wrote a song that was full of sorrow, EVER, theyre songs are about listening and learning from masters and gurus, (wonderous storied) and complete enlightenment(awaken, tales) but not one song is biased toward any one religion or philosophy, or what to enlighten. it is the magic of steve and chris and john, (and, i guess rick....grrrrr) and vibration and harmony that surpasses andything ever writtenm, im sorry, its true!
(genesis kicks major ass too!)