Why is it that swing choirs and dance troupes always have a Yes number? We say the choir version of Roundabout recently, but this one may take the cake:

OWNER OF A LONELY HEART, INTERPRETIVE DANCE

Idunno, zeronyne ... there is a certain innocence to their performance, a gaiety which seems lost in most of today's performances. I liked it.

As for the song itself, Yes really dropped the ball with this one. If ever there was a song in need of more cowbell ...

This is getting off topic...but I don't think Yes dropped the ball with that song, or with 90125 in general. I think I feel that way about it because I remember when it came out: music was all becoming very "technological," computerized & synthesized, & in the mid-80s, a lot of what was popular sounded like it wasn't made by people, but just "programmed" somewhere. Most of it was fairly mindless dance fodder. When 90125 came out, it embraced the hi-tech approach to music-making but took it in a really different direction--something that still had a human touch to it, & was musically & lyrically interesting, rather than just banal & mass-produced sounding.

It's hard to believe, in a way, that Yes is also the band that made "Close to the Edge" or "Heart of the Sunrise." (Yes, I know the personnel changed, but that misses the point.) I think that 90125 moves in a different direction from those earlier songs, much as those earlier songs themselves had moved in a direction from their earlier inspirations, especially Beatles music. It's all about new directions, & in its time anyway, 90125 broke away from the pack. And in that respect, it's not very different, philosophically, from what they'd always done.

dcr, I wasn't taking a stab at Yes. But I do feel they should have had a more prominent cowbell in the mix for that song. It's screaming for one

Probably because they are amatures. However, is that silly hip-shake/sholder shake/slide you arm down you body the only way to open a song? I think that show choir did the same kind of stuff to "Roundabout" per 09's previous post. All that is missing is a pole, $5 beers and a group of sweaty losers who can't get girlfriends and a bachelor party waving dollar bills in the air.

...next, they will dance to Ray Parker, Jr.'s "The Other Woman". Some one gimme change for a five!

... oh, yeah. 09, ol' buddy, I think you spend waaaaay too much time on the net.

Disturbing footage. I had just gotten to the point where I could listen to Yes again too. Dammit.

As a veteran of many dance recitals, I've seen much worse. And a song like that appeals to the parents. At least it's not another stupid disco/dance song (oops - my prejudice is showing). Much like our music genres, there is a lot of repetition (to SC's point). If you sit through lots of these, the moves aren't new. It's the energy and application that counts. I was lucky - my daughter can dance, so she was always fun to watch. Not everyone in her schools were as good....

And as to Yes, again I say that it's better than many of the choices. I don't have DCRs in-depth memory/analysis, and frankly some of the albums didn't work for me (Tales From Sleep-agraphical Oceans?), I like the band. My fav album is the first one. That was before Wakeman and Howe joined...

Tom

(anyone catch the "flying pump" around 02:20?)

Boys and girls, it's what happens as you move on into your golden years. Songs that were once sacred, anti-establishment and would've gotten you kicked out of school are now the stuff of creative arts in secondary schools. It is the way of things. It doesn't demean the songwriters (hopefully it helps them sell a few more albums in their golden years) and it pushes the envelope so that today's kids can make their own judgments about their parents' music.

This morning I caught a few minutes of Gene Simmons' "Family Jewels" and thought about the younger man I saw onstage almost 30 years before that reinvented rock and roll. Just shook my head and smiled. This was the guy that inspired me (among others) to play bass with attitude. I think it'll all make sense soon when we see interpretive routines based around Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson, if it hasn't happened already.

Again, it is the way of things. Every generation gets to learn from the past and rewrite the rules to suit them. We're here to make sure the really good music of our generation doesn't get forgotten.

Well folks no matter what you say Yes is the band that got me playing bass I love thier music and I like the music of emerson ,lake and palmer. AS you notice I prefered a lot of british music back then because in america were to busy playing shit back then come on the eagles called them self rock they so redneck country it makde me want to puke Dont get me wrong I DO like country but if thats what you play dont lie about it be proud of what you do. IN other words dont be a sell out. PLAY WHAT YOU LIKE NOT WHAT YOUR TOLD TO LIKE. The question I hate to read the most that that ask bands now is who are you influnce by and they say a politcial correct answer then when you listen to them they sound nothing like thier answer. BE real not a phoney

That video is pretty funny.

To get back to the video here.

Just like George W. Bush

By the way, if anyone needs to borrow some commas and periods, I've got some to spare.

+1

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