Tag Archives: Yes (Band)
1974 COUNTDOWN | #5 — #1
It has certainly been a long, strange trip yet here we are near the end of the 74 FROM ’74 album countdown. With a dozen-and-a-half days of 2024 still remaining. What efficiency! Before launching into the final five albums, it is timely to recall that this is neither a ‘Best of’ list, nor a ‘Greatest […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | HITS AND HISTORIES
A selection of compilation albums from 1974. * YES — YESTERDAYS Released in late 1974 in the USA and early 1975 in the UK, Yesterdays was the first Yes compilation. As it only covers the first two LPs, the main attractions for Yes fans are the inclusion of their cover version of Simon and Garfunkel’s […]
ALBUM COVERS | 7 X 7 INCH — 2
A further selection of 7″ singles with their parent albums, this time featuring a few Aus favourites. * Midnight Oil — Diesel and Dust (1987) + “Beds are Burning” single The back cover of the 45rpm continues the theme, and indeed the photo. * Roger Waters — Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) + “Radio Waves” single Roger’s […]
1973 COUNTDOWN: #5 — 2
5 JOHN MARTYN — SOLID AIR In the fist draft of the 73 From ’73 list, Solid Air was somewhere in the 30s. That was based on memory; I hadn’t spun it for a few years. Listening again, I was entranced. Such variety of mood and texture, held together by Martyn’s gravely voice and exceptional […]
1973 COUNTDOWN: #20 — 11
20 ALLMAN BROTHERS — BROTHERS AND SISTERS These days I might rate the 2nd Allman Brothers album higher in an “all eras” list, but even allowing for “first love” bias, this excellent example of Southern rock would poll well. From high octane opener “Wasted Words” through to the acoustic “Pony Boy”, this is a quality […]
FEBRUARY 1971 — PART ONE
We’re running late, by about two months, so let’s get into it. * FEBRUARY 1971 ALBUM RELEASES Simply the most infectious collection of straight-ahead electric boogie that you’ll ever hear. John Lee was a savvy veteran by the early 1970s, he’d witnessed the surge in interest following the British blues boom of the early 1960s […]
YES, MR WILSON
After my first listens to Steven Wilson’s remixes of five core seventies albums from the Yes catalogue, I confess I was ambivalent. It was not easy to pin down what was preventing a full-hearted embracing of Mr Wilson’s work. Perhaps it was simply different, and I was uncomfortable with the changes to sounds I’ve enjoyed […]
10 ALBUMS TO SAY YES TO
Following the recent departure of Yes co-founder and bass supremo Chris Squire, it seems fitting to revisit the music of a band central to 70s ‘Prog’ who continued to make music through every subsequent decade. Who would have thought that the song-writing partnership that began when Jon Anderson and Chris Squire hit it off in […]
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