They never were that good. One hit wonder.

And Howe!

scalpod: And Howe!

LOL ;)

This wipes the smile right from my face.

aiiee: They never were that good. One hit wonder.

They were at least a two-hit wonder. Maybe three.

/and now you find yourself in 08.

scalpod: And Howe!

WINNAH!

I can imagine. Progressive rockers can get pretty goofy.

Only time will tell...

Manic_Repressive: This wipes the smile right from my face.

Wipe that smile right back onto your face.

scalpod: And Howe!

Well played, Old Bean.

scalpod: Wipe that smile right back onto your face.

While I always appreciate seeing Bob in a Fark thread, I think you may have missed the reference in my post.

/it wasn't obscure (pops)

Great record.



Next record Alpha was OK. Lost interest after that. Curious to hear the new stuff since it's the original lineup.

aiiee: One hit wonder.

Only Time Will Tell, Heat of the Moment, Days Like These and a few smaller hits.

Approves.

/needs to make appointment at the frame store

Asia blew. Never have I been more disappointed in a band than with Asia. In theory, a supergroup with a pedigree from Yes, ELP, and King Crimson would be awesome. In practice it was bloated pap, a textbook example of the worst of prog rock and commercial pop.

Plus I thought Greg Howe was touring with yes this year.

Greg who?

FredGarvin, that's Steve Howe. Who the heck is Greg Howe?

Greg Howe is another guitar player.

BTW, "Phoenix" is sub-par at best. It's not very good, and not worthy of shelling out your hard earned dollars...

(or even worth the time to download)

Gotta love the late-seventies album art, too.

Manic_Repressive: scalpod: Wipe that smile right back onto your face.

While I always appreciate seeing Bob in a Fark thread, I think you may have missed the reference in my post.

/it wasn't obscure (pops)

Nope, I didn't. And you're right, it's most certainly was not obscure.

I was piggybacking on your comment for my own entirely selfish reasons.

You see, I'm playing music and ranting at this devival. The first of the four mini-flyers pictured in the thumbnail link was the obscure reference I was making that you might've missed? (It didn't exist until a couple of weeks ago.)

scalpod: Manic_Repressive: scalpod: Wipe that smile right back onto your face.

While I always appreciate seeing Bob in a Fark thread, I think you may have missed the reference in my post.

/it wasn't obscure (pops)

Nope, I didn't. And you're right, it's most certainly was not obscure.

I was piggybacking on your comment for my own entirely selfish reasons.

You see, I'm playing music and ranting at this devival. The first of the four mini-flyers pictured in the thumbnail link was the obscure reference I was making that you might've missed? (It didn't exist until a couple of weeks ago.)

"...it's most certainly was not..."?! OK, I'm going back to bed now.

The 80s were a cruel and harsh decade to the 70s prog acts.


Asia
GTR
ELP (Emerson,Lake and Powell)
Yes--90125 and Big Generator albums
Jethro Tull--Under Wraps
Genesis--everything after ABACAB

....were ALL crap to me and embarrassed me severely.

craigdamage: The 80s were a cruel and harsh decade to the 70s prog acts.


Asia
GTR
ELP (Emerson,Lake and Powell)
Yes--90125 and Big Generator albums
Jethro Tull--Under Wraps
Genesis--everything after ABACAB

....were ALL crap to me and embarrassed me severely.

90125 is not crap despite anyone's embarrassment. The band happened to be called YES, but it had little in common with the 70s version. Plus Chris Squire had Markie Post hair during the 84 tour.

Leave Trevor Rabin alone!!!

Roto-Rot: 90125 is not crap despite anyone's embarrassment.

This.

FiendishFellow05: Oops. Greg is probably technically more proficient than Steve, I like Steve better. I recalled GTR as I was posting earlier, also a huge disappointment.

90125 was not "classic" Yes, but still very good. and "Shoot High, Aim Low" is worth the price of Big Generator by itself.

Actually, the best Yes show I ever saw wasn't Yes at all, but Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford & Howe. I had low expectations, since my favorite, Chris Squier, was home with his lawyers. but after seeing them rip up the old Yes catalog with Tony Levin on bass, it was Chris who?

You can probably thank Tony Levin for ending the legal feuds, AWB&H was fantastic.

aiiee: They never were that good. One hit wonder.

They had a hit?

Fred Garvin

ABW&H may still be the best concert I've ever seen. Levin was better than Squier.

They were shiat when they first came out, they are shiat today.
Big snooze. The only people that liked them were preppy farggots.

Terraceten: Fred Garvin

ABW&H may still be the best concert I've ever seen. Levin was better than Squier.

Along about late 80's Chris Squire dove into a bottle of Hennessey's and has never come up for air. He is a mean, surly drunk. He wants desperately to still have that popularity the band had when Owner of a Lonely Heart opened the door to sold-out stadium shows.

Tony Levin is as he has always been- perfect.

30 posts in and NOBODY knows how I know you're gay???

/disappointed

I actually got their sophmore album first... years ago, then just picked up their debut last year... both have some great songs, the others, eh... not so great. For a little bit there, I actually thought their 2nd album was better than their debut.

Oh, and I think that [besides "Owner of a Lonely Heart"] 90125 IS crap. Yeah, I said it. Hell... I think even "DRAMA" is better than 90125!!!! [that 'Buggles + remaining members of Yes' album. It was actually pretty good... better than "Tormato"...lolz...]
[yes, I know that one of the Buggles, Downes, was on both Drama AND 90125...]. Howe has some great guitarwork on "drama"... and great drums and bass too... not to mention the injection of pop-ness into the prog [though it is nearly metal prog on "Machine Messiah"...] thanks to the Buggles. good ol' poppy Buggles.

craigdamage
I would heartily [THIS] agree with you on GTR [shudder... such a horrible horrible album]
and somewhat agree with the Genesis statement... i would say they went down hill after "Genesis 1983", tho...

Asia is pure cheese. Always has been.

You know how I know subby is gay?

Modest Mouse's The Moon and Antarctica >>> Toto's "Africa" >>> ASIA >>> America >>> Europe

aiiee: They never were that good. One hit wonder.

Fixed.

"The same four guys doing the same things. Maybe we're all a bit older now, but nothing's really changed that much over the years - that's the beauty of ASIA."

Except this album will be three times as loud as your previuos recordings.

You know what the good thing about listening to Asia in the 80s was? It got me turned on to all that good 60s and 70s prog-rock stuff. Tales from Topographic Oceans, Brain Salad Surgery, The Yes Album, etc.

I have a version of the singer doing an acoustic version of "Heat of the Moment" to a Japanese audience. It's pretty good, actually.

ASIA was the second album I ever owned (first was Billy Joel's Glass Houses).

Good news for stem cell research!

I can't believe Yes was referenced and it wasn't Close to the Edge-era. Everyone with good taste in music knows Yes died when they released Tormato.

Petterson
Everyone with good taste in music knows Yes died when they released Tormato.

THIS

Yes's "The Yes Album" to "Going for the One" is all basically PURE AWESOMENESS.
Hell, to me, "Going..." was a step up from "Relayer" [i don't like the battle part of "Gates of Delerium", and parts of "Sound Chaser", but the rest of the album is pretty wicked.]
IMHO, ALL of "Going for the one" is very wickedly good. a Great return to form.

/ in a way, their "yes Album" to "Going" is like Floyd's "Meddle" to "the Wall"... in consecutive album greatness/awesomeness

Third_Uncle_Eno
Yes's "The Yes Album" to "Going for the One" is all basically PURE AWESOMENESS.

Well, I think they peaked at Close to the Edge, but started sucking right after Going For the One. I will say that 'Awaken' is as good as anything they've ever done. I especially like the foreshadowing of the aforementioned sucking at the end of the song. They knew that prog (and thus, they) were dead and basically wrote the last true great prog epic. Prog bands went either into the pop world (Yes, Genesis, Asia, Gabriel) or went WAY out there (National Health, Henry Cow, Univers Zero, etc...)

I've been listening to CIRCA quite a bit lately. Good stuff. All but one band member a YES alumni.

rbaron71: ASIA was the second album I ever owned (first was Billy Joel's Glass Houses).

Led Zeppelin III was the second album I bought (first was Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gada-Da-Vida).

Patterson: I can't believe Yes was referenced and it wasn't Close to the Edge-era. Everyone with good taste in music knows Yes died when they released Tormato.

True, but they had actually been in decline during the previous couple of records.

Kyosuke: Roto-Rot: 90125 is not crap despite anyone's embarrassment.

This.

(THIS*THIS)^THIS

barneyfifesbullet: Great record.


It's, like, totally awesome, dude!

/Unless you have a scintilla of taste.