Drummer reacts to "Changes" by Yes
Вставка
- Опубліковано 5 кві 2024
- Thank you to our patron - Robert M - for this amazing pick! Yessaturday strikes again. This was such a different beast for them but I really enjoyed it. Apologies if the audio is a little off, forgot to plug the mic in for a song a half lol
Link to original content (Please support the artist! I'm just giving my opinion, go get the real deal.)
If you’d like to donate to the channel or just show your appreciation, all the details are below. I created this channel for my daughter, so she has videos of her father talking and doing something he enjoys(listening to music and talking about it) since I don’t have any of those of my father. :) thank you again for your generosity guys, I appreciate you all more then you will ever know.
▶️ PAYPAL◀️
www.paypal.me/L33REACTS
@L33Reacts
🔴PATREON🔴
www.patreon.com/L33Reacts
🔶️CONTACT ME 🔶️
L33REACTSYT@GMAIL.COM
IF YOU ARE IN A BAND ARE INTERESTED IN BEING FEATURED ON THE CHANNEL, PLEASE SEND YOUR BEST SINGLE AND A PICTURE OF YOUR LOGO TO L33ReactsYT@gmail.com
All rights to this song belong to whoever they belong to, this is just a video containing commentary on the song and falls under fair use
#yes
The entire album is a clinic for drummers.
90125 was the original record label catalog number of the album.
Ahhhh ok. That's a neat detail :) I wonder what the working titles were.
@@L33Reacts I think it was originally going to be called CINEMA, before Jon Anderson came back into the band.
That's what I was going to say Jeff, but ya beat me to it.🤩
I remember thinking it was quite lame that that's where the album's title had come from, at the time of its release, as the German band Spliff* had done the same thing with their '85555' album already three years before! 😅
(*= Nina Hagen's former backing band)
@@TigerMtnKing👍😎
Just listen to the whole album. You won't regret it.
As a drummer, “Cinema” (the original LP title, changed to 90125), is one of the best instrumentals, even winning a Grammy, the only Grammy by Yes. It’ll shred your shoulders tryin to play along with Alan White.
The track "Leave It" is their best off this album, imho. Please consider for a future Saturday, and thank you for doing all you have!
'Leave It' and also 'It Can Happen' (for me) 😊
I started listening to YES in 1973 so classic YES is my heart, but 90125 came when I thought YES was done so with an open heart I listen and yep way different. Rick Wakeman put it right if it didn't happen there wouldn' t of been a continuation. I love all things YES. I also know from watching you watch you also hear the magic of YES. Thank You for helping keep the YES flame lit!
I feel the same way. I love all things YES Including the current line up.
90125 for us as the 80's kids is the door to enter magical realm of 70's prog rock.
I recommend listening to the entire album "90125", because each track is very important. Just like I recommend the entire "Talk" album. On both albums, the most important tracks are at the end - on "90125" it's "Hearts", and on "Talk" it's "Endless Dream".
You are so close to hearing the culmination of Yes's musical journey from Classical Prog to Prog ROCK with emphasis on ROCK. PLEASE PLEASE listen to "That That Is" on the album Keys to Ascension released in1996 (with the early classic Yes lineup). Trust me, you will not be disappointed. Enjoy!
With Peace and Love to all ... (Michael)
Rabin's resume blew my mind. The amount of music that he's written is just crazy.
He's basically responsible for the 80's. Old timey Yes fans often say 90125 sounds too 80's. My opinion is the 80's sounds like 90125.
My two cents is the 90125 sound was too cliched. 80s isn't the problem, it's that they lost what makes them original. Maybe it's because I'm a guitar player. Rabin's playing is skilled but the licks, writing and lyrics are not original.
@@David-iv6je I agree. I'd consider him to be one of the greatest "traditional" rock guitar players. He also has a very good voice, but he's just not the sound of YES, though on Endless Dream, I'd say he stepped up his game, and with ARW, he was incredible. Their performance of Awaken was great, and their version of Owner of a Lonely Heart was the best I've ever heard. Trevor and Rick just kicked ass.
@@Lightmane Yeah maybe better if they had just called it Cinema as originally planned, in parallel to Asia. To me it always seemed like a radically different brand, not just an updated sound.
Ironically, it was the album Drama that was an updated Yes sound: really sounded like an 80s version of Yes! And who would have thought in a million years it would be the Buggles that joins with Yes.
Again, I respect Rabin but find his guitar, voice and musical choices to be very cliched. It pains me, because one of the greatest strengths of Yes up to that point was avoiding cliches, in part because Howe seemed incapable of cliches, though he hit some with Asia and some more with GTR. But even the GOAT is allowed to fall off with age.
My first exposure to Yes. Loved it. Then I went backward from there and have been a lifelong fan ever since.
Beautiful track and packed full of meaning. YES is the best:) no matter what era or line up it seems.
My favorite Yes song, my favorite Yes album, my first prog rock album ever ! Giants walking...
Totally agree that Alan slams on this. Now, a great twofer from this (both short songs) would be Cinema and Our Song.
I'll keep that in mind, Greg! Thank you! Yeah he was in the zone here. A way better display of his talents then owner of a lonely heart.
Great song, one of the proggier tracks on this album. The live rendition is even better
YES❣️❣️❣️👍😎
👑
@@lesblatnyak5947 👍😎
Saw this version of yes with Trevor Rabin back in the day, Trevor also had a hit, the song had big airplay on MTV, it’s called -Something to hold on to…..
its different but this albums is still so Yes! somehow a classic even with a different style!
I always thought T. Rabin didn't get enough credit for his excellent work with Yes. Songwriting, vocal and pretty good 80's guitar. Interesting that they lured Jon back to add some lyrics and vocal!
This is a technical drummer's joy to play this type of song! Great drumming and very musical!
FUCKING FAN……tastic album. I love this whole album and played it relentlessly. Every song a gem
We can hear Chris’ voice in the harmonies, too. Some of this song sounds like Asia. Some of it sounds like an ‘80s power ballad. Bits of prog sprinkled throughout.
The Buggles/Yes lineup lasted one album called Drama. The band split up completely after the following tour. 3 years later Chris and Alan teamed up with Trevor Rabin to form a new band called Cinema. Their debut album with Rabin on lead vocals was pretty much complete when management and the record company decided it would be more commercial under the name 'Yes', so Chris contacted Jon and asked him to add his voice to the tracks. You can hear exactly that on Changes. On some other tracks he contributed rathrr more adjustments to the arrangements and at least one major co-wrote (Our Song). And so a new chapter of Yes and the 90125 album was born.
Actually fly from here return trip is the same line up as Drama
Thank you i get the two confused just because the names Trevor pop up twice, I think, hahaha.
Gotta admit I don't know that much about this era of YES but this was fire! I think I'll be spending my Saturday exploring more of this.
I was already a massive Yes fan when this came out and it's pretty good,taken for what it was. So was the Big Generator album. The shows were solid too. But when Trevor Rabin first agreed to hook up with Squire and White they were going to be something that was NOT Yes and the seeds of these songs were created then. Anderson didn't get involved until later and then the Yes guys wanted to call it a Yes album. Rabin was not at all on board for that,but also didn't want to just walk away from what they had already created. He later got more comfortable with the idea. One of the names that was rumored they were going to call the band was Camera.
This was the highlight of the 80s for me.
Saw this tour twice. 90125 is the UPC bar code number for the Album.
What I also find quite interesting about this song:
Chris Squire plays an 8-string bass in the intro which has a couple of its octave strings tuned to fifths, hence it sounds like _two_ basses playing in harmony 🙂
You have a great channel here. You offer good insight to the lyrics and relating it to your life. Keep forging
Lee’s a real muso. Good music is good music, year/genre doesn’t really matter and he’s discovering so much. It’s great to join him on his journey
Much appreciated, you guys. Thank you for being here 🙏
represented a rebirth of sorts for those of us contemporary fans
It was 80's teens first intro to Yes, which makes it special to me.
Yes west ! They had to change to keep going. I do love it all. RIP
Keep in mind though,that this whole thing was not at all meant to be a continuation of Yes when Rabin first hooked up with Squire and White to do a project together. (Not sure if Tony Kaye was involved at first or not,have heard he was and also he wasn't.) Jon Anderson didn't get involved until later and Rabin wasn't exactly thrilled with that and even less agreeable to calling this Yes and he never went into this with the idea of joining an already existing band and taking on the burden of being though of as Steve Howe's replacement. He knew he was going to get roasted by a lot of people for doing that.
For myself,I took this for what it wasmbut have never,ever considered this project to really be "Yes" albums. There's a reason they pretty much ignored these songs once Howe and Wakeman came back into the fold and they did the Full Circle and 35th anniversary tours.
A great lineup of Yes..
Yeah, totally dig this song. The verse has a Dokken vibe to it.
Oh. "Hearts" has a pretty good Jon vocal on that album!
Many iconic bands from the 60s and 70s had to adapt to the 80s sound to remain relevant....this whole album from yes is one of them. Hope you give it a deep Dive...it's an iconic Album.❤
YES! 😊
This album became a reference point for CD players, a relatively new technology, as the production was so good. It sold shed loads of copies. I'm a classic line up guy but this album blew me away. Steve Howe was starting Asia and thinks this album was influenced by the first Asia album. They're both great.
I finally figured it out! The intro music is Judith by a Perfect Circle!
I was working for an industry trade sheet called The Friday Morning Quarterback when this album came out. If you're a fan of pro wrestling from the early 1980s, the owner was Kal Rudman, who was a color analyst for WWF wrestling matches at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Hulk Hogan used to call him "Killer Kal". I use to take calls from radio stations around North America and transcribe their playlists. This album blew up their charts. On WCAU-FM in Philadelphia, the Top-40 station at that time, you could set your watch to "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (Yes' only #1 hit) because they played it every 2 hours. "Leave It", the second single, managed to make it to #24; "It Can Happen" made it to #51, although on the album rock charts, it made it to #5.
There is an EP of this album that features a dance mix of "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and an A Capella version of "Leave it".
What this album did was introduce a new and younger audience to Yes. Producer Stephen Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, Videotapes; Erin Brockovich) produced the 9012Live concert that was recorded in Edmonton in 1984. An album of the same name was also released. You can see in that concert the diversity of teens/pre-teens and the "old heads" who were fans of Yes from the beginning all enjoying their music.
THAT. THAT IS off of the YES "Keys to Ascension 1"
Changes seemed in part about the bands transition from Prog rock in the 70s to pop rock in the 80s. As in the start it sounds very progressive time signature, the from underneath the soft pop rock fades in , very cool.
Chris was using an 8-string (he does on 'Hearts' as well): the top two strings tuned a fifth rather than an octave apart. This is so typical or Rabin songs, very AOR/hair metal 80s chart-rock, with some complicated Yes stuff tacked on the top and bottom. Though many people don't like it, I think the Big Generator album is superior to 90125 in the sense of being closer to the Yes idea.
follow up - Big Generator - also very good
I still plan on getting there SOMEDAY. Damn I've been saying that for months now LOL such a huge catalog 🤣😩
Great to see a young guy bring back all this great music. I saw your vid of Close to the Edge - and I would say that Gates of Delirium from the Relayer Album in 1974 is quite comparable (20 minutes).
It's pretty phenomenal transition Yes made from the 70' s to the 80's and they kept viable because prog rock was normally done for by this era but these guys kept it goin' just like floyd
The production and sound quality on this record was incredible. I remember noticing that on my first listen.
In a way, "90125" is a very loose sort of concept album. It opens with "Owner of a Lonely Heart," which states an owner of a lonely heart is "much better than the owner of a broken heart," suggesting we're all better off alone and not taking chances on love. Halfway through the album you get "Changes," which suggests that's not the way to go at all, and things are going to change. The album ends with "Hearts," which proclaims "two hearts are better than one." So the story's protagonist goes full circle from solitude to soul-sharing. Not sure how many fans have picked up on this over the years.
We all love torture in our own personal ways, lol.
I think keeping track of albums was easier back in the days of records and tapes. Even when CDs came out, you paid money for the thing, might as well listen to the whole album. Streaming has blasted everything into single songs, or endless playlists.
It's heavier! More hard core 80's Rock😅!!!
The harmonies on this hark back to "Siberian Khatru"....
Standout track. Of course, it’s totally Yes. ❤
100% Yes! With a different coat of paint it looks like 👍
It's the stock number
Great album 👌
great song, this came out when I had my first girlfriend in 9th grade so it has some odd nostalgia for me. Thanks for the reaction, Lee.
Gotta love YES-Saturdays. They are the best.
Although I prefer Steve Howe (and Peter Banks) over Trevor Rabin, there's no denying how good Rabin was--guitar, vocals, production sensibility. I'm definitely not a Trevor hater. The 1980s Yes is its own, good, version. I'm glad you mentioned "Astral Traveler"; the first two Yes albums are my favorite, but it doesn't diminish any of their other iterations!
Get to Big Generator stuff!! ☮️❤️
Even if my heart is more attached to the "classic" songs by YES, Rabin's influence on YES has certainly led to interesting results. On Rabin's latest album "Rio" (2023) there's a song, "Push", that would have fit perfectly into the Rabin era of YES. If you ever have time to spare... I think the song is recommendable.
I'm gonna get hammered for this but this is one of my favourite Yes songs right after Gates of Delirium. Love that drum sound !!! One of my all time favourite sounding drums.
Much better live. Brilliant album ✨️🎶✨️
Saturdays are the best. You can't go wrong with YES.
This tour was one of the best sounding concerts I ever heard.
YES YES YES!!!❤
serial # of the album, thats what it is
The best song on the album! YES!!! The greatest band there ever was or will ever be no matter who's in the lineup or what decade!🤩
Cracking tune! Great album! Trevor Rabin revitalised Yes along with Trevor Horn Production !
Hang in there Lee!
Yes had to change with the times. But you really need to see this done live. I’m excited for you to get to Big Generator Lee.
Please watch anything from Union tour.
While this album is very different from their earlier stuff, it’s still Yes at its core. Like many other bands (Rush), they’ve grown and changed over the years. And while Trevor is not quite the guitarist that Steve Howe is, he’s still pretty damn impressive. And again, while Alan White wasn’t quite the drummer that Bill Bruford is, he’s REALLY good. Love his hard hitting sound. RIP. City of Love is my favorite song on this album.
I agree 100% those that don't adapt to the ever moving wheel of advancement get left in the dust. It happened to a lot of artists who couldn't leave the decade they started in. But the really good ones changed with the times and are still heralded to this day 😪😀
Grew Up listening to Yes. When this album came out I wasn’t so sure about the lineup 🤔
Sometimes songs just resonate…I was in a very dysfunctional relationship with a narcissist and Changes just hit me! LITERALLY gave me the courage and strength to leave my daughters father. The entire album is pretty dam good and Trevor is amazing! The 90125 Tour was Excellent!❤❤❤
Just throw the album on and listen…great work by Trevor and Our Boys…Tony Kaye as well.
This album was practically written by the time they asked Jon to join in!
Love this album!
Lee listen to it again!! You’ll love it even more!!!❤
One of the better tracks on this album. It's a pretty good album, for YES Pop 😏
Yes is totally badass with wakeman howe Chris Jon burferd I'm a early yes fan still am totally badass ❤
I don't believe you've seen any video of Yes in their Union period. There are several 2 1/2 hour concerts on UA-cam to see how they sort out who plays what parts. They play Changes. I don't recall if Steve plays it but I believe he does...staying in the background while Rabin shreds.
I saw you smile when Jon started singing that says it all really
Its good and nice album
Was living in Tampa when this hit the airwaves. Heady times
This is the soundtrack of my kindergarten. Age 5 dad played this vinyl non stop
Did you know recently Trevor Rabin released a new album. Saw him interviewed on several prog UA-cam channels about it. The Buggles joined with the album Drama.
FYI The number was simply the catalog number.
What a cool detail. Interesting name for an album lol
Steve wasn’t there because he was doing his thing with his group Asia
As a drummer this was a really fun and not to difficult song to learn. A great album with a new take on yes which was truly a premier prog rock group. They definitely set the template for rush way back in a day if you're into them. Heard of rush??? Lol.
Listen to the track...cinema....u will like that
They probably told you in the chat but "90125" is the album's catalog number.
thought it was their zip code
@@daveheesen9174 Are you thinking "Beverly Hills 90120"?
Big Generator and Talk are where they reclaimed a modern Yes....
such a great album
Rabin has a solo album titled 90124.👍⭐️😎
Speaking of rapid change. How about when it's forced change, as personified by David Bowie, whose chameleon-like metamorphosis seemed effortless in a five year period! Hectic was his middle name.
It's the catalogue number for this album
This is my favorite of 90125
I was a huge Yes fan in the early 80's. I wasn't sure how I felt about this album. Still bought it, still listened to it, but it just wasn't Yes without Steve Howe. See the thing is, Steve Howe is elf, and he plays elven music. There is no-one even remotely like him. When you listen to Close to the Edge or Relayer you are transported to Middle-Earth. 90125 was good, competent 80's eighties rock. I'm sure the ape- draped, bowling alley crowd loved it.
90125 was/is the catalog #
🎶❤️🎶
Check out Wondrous Stories!
Hey Lee did you see Yes is touring with Deep Purple?!❤
Like Journey, Yes is best with two vocalists. Frankly, I prefer Rabin's voice to Anderson's.
In my opinion about 90125, I liked it the first listen, got quickly kind of bored and haven't touched it for years.
Hello drummer! Can you check out what rythm is played at the beginning of the song?
I believe it's alternating measures of 7/8 and 10/8, or two consecutive measures of 7/8 with an extra measure of 3/8 tacked on at the end. (And yes, I'm a drummer too!)
@@brucehenninger2662 I think it is a 4/8, 3/8, 4/8, 3/8, 3/8. pattern. But it is somrhow the same you told me.😁
L you really having a good day?
Owner of a Lonely Heart was NOT the best track on this album...I vote for Changes! P.s. I saw this tour...barely remember it though. 😂
Not as good as classic yes.. not even close..its good
Though several good songs...90125 ain't Yes.
In my world YES stopped making music after Drama.