Just looked at Yes's album sales. 16 mil total, with 90125 selling 25% or 4.2 mil alone. Coincidence, I think not. As a band, the main reason you perform is to present music to an audience that hopefully you and they like. And the reward is fame and money. While progressive music from bands like Yes, Genesis and Rush in the 70's was great music played by great musicians it's not the kind of music that going to sell 1-5 mil every release. Great songwriters sell records. Rabin brought a lot of that to Yes. I don't know if it's his vocals or guitar playing that I like more. I think having a vocalist that stays in the mid to high tenor range when the lead singer is Anderson or Triumph's Rik Emmett. Gil Moore, the drummer does that for Triumph. It's sounds so good and it makes you appreciate Anderson and Emmett more. I'm a big Rush fan, but Geddy's vocals on their first 6 albums turned some people off. Greg Rollie and Steve Perry had that chemistry until it became obvious that Perry was an all-time great. And finally, Rabin is better than Howe, imo.
@MegaSnowdog69 Good points, here! I'm a big Rush fan as well, and Geddy's voice was a turn- off for me at first. Later, he became one of my favorite vocalists.
Yes has a crazy song called the gates of delirium… do you dare ? The title pretty much sums it up… and then the most beautiful ending. That song is right up there with Genesis’s supper’s ready. Check it out !!
Many prog fans whine about this record, but it was the 80s, and they gained many new fans because of 90125. They're not going to put a "Starship Trooper" on every album
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and Yes the greatest show on earth. Nice reaction. May suggest Heart Of The Sunrise, South Side Of The Sky, Yours Is No Disgrace to familiarize yourself to the genius of Yes.
At age 5 this was brand new and my father played this album over and over for a solid year. Other kids had nursery rhymes, I had Yes. On my 8th Christmas he introduced me to Roundabout.
My first reaction to this song (as an old Yes fan I bought the album as soon as it came out, of course) was: it starts out so promising, but then it totally flattens out. It took me a while to accept that Yes had arrived in the 80's with this album. Nowadays I think every song on this album is worth listening to, but my great love remains the longer, more complex songs, of which they also later wrote some again.
My favorite music by Yes is from their earlier work when they set standards for progressive rock. 'Yours is no Disgrace', 'Roundabout' and 'South Side of the Sky' among my favorites.
i was selling high end stereo equipment putting myself through university and this album (and this song in specific) was one of my favorites to listen to new gear on... plus it closed sales. put a person unfamiliar with real gear in between a good pair of speakers, tell them to close their eyes, and put 'changes' on... watching people just melt and grin *hearing* this song for the first time on something that wasn't a crappy walkman or beat up ford was wonderful. the other album that did wonders was the klf's “the white room“.
🤔 Syncopation did not scare us back then. 😳 Actually it was expected. 🤯 Starting to realize thru watching Reactors, how "unique" having ANY type of Syncopation in a song is in today's "Music". 🤨 I used " ", 🤗 come at me! 😁🐰
A recommendation for you....Losing It by Rush. It is something totally different by the band with some of the most profound lyrics by Peart. The electric violin is performed by Ben Mink. Beautiful and moving stuff.
Change changing places. Almost like a message indicating that they were going to do something different. I'm a YES fan from way back. I loved their transcendent stuff. But they are STILL AWESOME and they can always play there earlier magic whenever they feel like it.
Changes is in the best tradition of fantastic Yes songs. I recommend: Awaken, On The Silent Wings Of Freedom, Heart Of The Sunrise, Close To The Edge, Tempus Fruit.
Mozart wrote operas sometimes and at other times small piano pieces. I appreciate Yes when they're making massive epics and smaller fun songs. They do it ALL brilliantly!
This song was my introduction to Progressive Rock. A friend of mine played 90125 while we were playing Dungeons & Dragons and I never looked back. Everything else seemed so basic compared to the different time signatures, instrumentation, shifts in tone etc... First concert ever was this tour. Awesome.
So far you've focused a lot on the 90125 album -- and don't get me wrong, it is some of the best music created in the 1980s -- but it's not really representative of the whole Yes catalog. Others have suggested "Close to the Edge" which is one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) prog albums of all time, but it's a lot to take in. Perhaps start with a few tracks from "The Yes Album" or "Fragile" to get a taste of their prog roots, and then dive into CttE, and probably "Relayer" and "Going for the One" as well!
This album is fine, but you are not hitting the right era of Yes. This album is 1983, but you need to listen to the recommendations you're getting for songs from their earlier period, the classic Yes that made their reputation in the early 70's. Songs like Your Move/All Good People, Yours Is No Disgrace, Roundabout, Heart Of The Sunrise, And You And I, Close To The Edge, Awaken to name just a very few. BTW, as long as you're still doing songs from this album, It Can Happen may be the greatest song on it.
This is basically the Trevor Rabin album featuring. Yes John Anderson came in later and added vocals because he liked what he heard and he need to get back on the market again you could basically throw this album away and Ani album after it the only good thing to come out of this as far as the market goes, was owner of a lonely heart. The rest of the songs barely made it on the charts stick to the 70s.
Just one minor thing. I get the feeling that you don’t overly appreciate great drum composition and your pausing during various fills and whatnot indicates that to me. It doesn’t bother me enough to stop watching because you’re the only one who bothers with this era of Yes for example. Just an observation.
you did not choose one of the best Yes tracks ... less representative, less beautiful. Just a plain rock track, not representatve of the prog-rock history of yes.
How about you appreciate ALL Yes music. Some of you Yes fans are snootier than hell and stuck in the 70s. CTTE and Fragile are the peak of their abilities but they put out great music throughout their run. And this track is complicated as hell It's 7/8 time signature. But you're too stuck up in the head to understand that.
@@cowetascore8476 I like 90125 too but I just said it is not the most representative YES album. It is just pretty .. with some interesting tracks (Cinema, Leave it, Our Song, Hearts)
Getting high on radio play lists is great ... especially since it is a LONGER THAN 3 MINUTES song.
Can't be a Rush fan without diving into YES. And there's ALOT there. Love you John. Your beautiful. : )
Aw thank you Renee :) you're beautiful!
@@JohnSlopReacts i put a picture up of myself
As Geddy said during Yes' RRHoF induction, ~Without Yes there would be no Rush~
So nice to have both.
@@davep8221 Agreed!!
One of my favorites by this band. Trevor Rabin's vocals and guitar work are insane.
Just looked at Yes's album sales. 16 mil total, with 90125 selling 25% or 4.2 mil alone. Coincidence, I think not. As a band, the main reason you perform is to present music to an audience that hopefully you and they like. And the reward is fame and money. While progressive music from bands like Yes, Genesis and Rush in the 70's was great music played by great musicians it's not the kind of music that going to sell 1-5 mil every release. Great songwriters sell records. Rabin brought a lot of that to Yes. I don't know if it's his vocals or guitar playing that I like more. I think having a vocalist that stays in the mid to high tenor range when the lead singer is Anderson or Triumph's Rik Emmett. Gil Moore, the drummer does that for Triumph. It's sounds so good and it makes you appreciate Anderson and Emmett more. I'm a big Rush fan, but Geddy's vocals on their first 6 albums turned some people off. Greg Rollie and Steve Perry had that chemistry until it became obvious that Perry was an all-time great. And finally, Rabin is better than Howe, imo.
@MegaSnowdog69 Good points, here! I'm a big Rush fan as well, and Geddy's voice was a turn- off for me at first. Later, he became one of my favorite vocalists.
This album will always be near and dear. Still hits on all cylinders, decades later.
It definitely still resonates decades later. Great songs on this album. Yes also one if the best live shows.
This is one of my favorite Yes songs and the guitar solo is just extraordinarily musical.
Yes has a crazy song called the gates of delirium… do you dare ? The title pretty much sums it up… and then the most beautiful ending. That song is right up there with Genesis’s supper’s ready. Check it out !!
Many prog fans whine about this record, but it was the 80s, and they gained many new fans because of 90125. They're not going to put a "Starship Trooper" on every album
Agree ❤
It was the Rabin years that really got me into Yes. It helped me become the prog fan I am. It might be “radio-friendly” but still very complex.
Totally agree. I discovered Close to the Edge and 90125 around the same time. Loved them both and the band immediately.
Most of us yes fans adore this song in particular, it was the peak of progressive pop.
This is my favorite song from 90125, it might be my favorite from the 80’s and beyond Yes lineup
Great Great Song, My brother brought this song into my life. He is gone now, everytime I hear it, it is very emotional.
Ladies and gentlemen Chris Squire and Yes the greatest show on earth. Nice reaction. May suggest Heart Of The Sunrise, South Side Of The Sky, Yours Is No Disgrace to familiarize yourself to the genius of Yes.
This song is so much fun to play live.
My favorite cut off this album. I saw them performing this live in 1984.
At age 5 this was brand new and my father played this album over and over for a solid year. Other kids had nursery rhymes, I had Yes.
On my 8th Christmas he introduced me to Roundabout.
My first reaction to this song (as an old Yes fan I bought the album as soon as it came out, of course) was: it starts out so promising, but then it totally flattens out. It took me a while to accept that Yes had arrived in the 80's with this album. Nowadays I think every song on this album is worth listening to, but my great love remains the longer, more complex songs, of which they also later wrote some again.
YES! 😊
One of my favorite bands😊
Just stunning ❤❤
Yes 👍💪🤙.
Please listen to City of Love off the same album. This era has Yes with two lead singers, Rabin and Anderson.
🥰 Chris Squire y'all! 😁🐰
My favorite music by Yes is from their earlier work when they set standards for progressive rock. 'Yours is no Disgrace', 'Roundabout' and 'South Side of the Sky' among my favorites.
Hearts
i was selling high end stereo equipment putting myself through university and this album (and this song in specific) was one of my favorites to listen to new gear on... plus it closed sales. put a person unfamiliar with real gear in between a good pair of speakers, tell them to close their eyes, and put 'changes' on... watching people just melt and grin *hearing* this song for the first time on something that wasn't a crappy walkman or beat up ford was wonderful.
the other album that did wonders was the klf's “the white room“.
🤔 Syncopation did not scare us back then. 😳 Actually it was expected. 🤯 Starting to realize thru watching Reactors, how "unique" having ANY type of Syncopation in a song is in today's "Music". 🤨 I used " ", 🤗 come at me! 😁🐰
LOL..."come at me".
A recommendation for you....Losing It by Rush. It is something totally different by the band with some of the most profound lyrics by Peart. The electric violin is performed by Ben Mink.
Beautiful and moving stuff.
Gates of Delirium ,next, will blow your mind.😎
Anyone with me for "Mission" by Kings X, best vocals in history
More reaction channels need to do a deep dive on kings X
Yes is in a league of their own.
Yes is a wonderful rabbit hole to go down!!
Change changing places. Almost like a message indicating that they were going to do something different. I'm a YES fan from way back. I loved their transcendent stuff. But they are STILL AWESOME and they can always play there earlier magic whenever they feel like it.
I was lucky enough to see this concert. One of my top 5 shows.
Changes is in the best tradition of fantastic Yes songs. I recommend:
Awaken, On The Silent Wings Of Freedom, Heart Of The Sunrise, Close To The Edge, Tempus Fruit.
Thank you, John.
Mozart wrote operas sometimes and at other times small piano pieces. I appreciate Yes when they're making massive epics and smaller fun songs. They do it ALL brilliantly!
This song was my introduction to Progressive Rock. A friend of mine played 90125 while we were playing Dungeons & Dragons and I never looked back.
Everything else seemed so basic compared to the different time signatures, instrumentation, shifts in tone etc... First concert ever was this tour. Awesome.
Right on man
i bought this album when it came out. it was so unlike anything i had heard and really made an impression on 15 year old me
hey man, please check out "Release, Release" by Yes - I think it's an overlooked gem of a song
So far you've focused a lot on the 90125 album -- and don't get me wrong, it is some of the best music created in the 1980s -- but it's not really representative of the whole Yes catalog. Others have suggested "Close to the Edge" which is one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) prog albums of all time, but it's a lot to take in. Perhaps start with a few tracks from "The Yes Album" or "Fragile" to get a taste of their prog roots, and then dive into CttE, and probably "Relayer" and "Going for the One" as well!
Lol , you say “beautiful time signature” - I say “fucked up time signature”…….either way it’s BAD ASS !
This album is fine, but you are not hitting the right era of Yes. This album is 1983, but you need to listen to the recommendations you're getting for songs from their earlier period, the classic Yes that made their reputation in the early 70's. Songs like Your Move/All Good People, Yours Is No Disgrace, Roundabout, Heart Of The Sunrise, And You And I, Close To The Edge, Awaken to name just a very few. BTW, as long as you're still doing songs from this album, It Can Happen may be the greatest song on it.
Trevor Rabin is amazing, but I prefer the Steve Howe version of Yes, for reasons that I'm uncertain about.
Amazing isn’t it?
This is basically the Trevor Rabin album featuring. Yes John Anderson came in later and added vocals because he liked what he heard and he need to get back on the market again you could basically throw this album away and Ani album after it the only good thing to come out of this as far as the market goes, was owner of a lonely heart. The rest of the songs barely made it on the charts stick to the 70s.
Just one minor thing. I get the feeling that you don’t overly appreciate great drum composition and your pausing during various fills and whatnot indicates that to me. It doesn’t bother me enough to stop watching because you’re the only one who bothers with this era of Yes for example. Just an observation.
you did not choose one of the best Yes tracks ... less representative, less beautiful. Just a plain rock track, not representatve of the prog-rock history of yes.
How about you appreciate ALL Yes music. Some of you Yes fans are snootier than hell and stuck in the 70s. CTTE and Fragile are the peak of their abilities but they put out great music throughout their run. And this track is complicated as hell It's 7/8 time signature. But you're too stuck up in the head to understand that.
@@cowetascore8476 I like 90125 too but I just said it is not the most representative YES album. It is just pretty .. with some interesting tracks (Cinema, Leave it, Our Song, Hearts)
this album is pure fire! got it when it came out. MTV days