I heard Your's Is No DIsgrace on my radio when I was 10. It was following the Dr. Demento Show that I used to stay up and listen to on a tiny transistor radio under my covers at midnight. It was followed by Berkley DJs playing full albums of all kinds of music. Anyhow, they played the new "Yes Album" and it was literally the reason I learned to play guitar.
Needless to say, I reveled in Fragile, Close to the Edge, I'm probably the only person on the planet the likes Tales and Going for the One is my favorite Yes album and a desert island record for me. Tormato and Drama were painful but not dreadful, but it was clear that they were about "done".
Then 3 years later we get news that Yes is coming out with a new record. I was in North Dakota in the AF at the time and it was a country and top 40 only zone. It was depressing. Not only that Steve Howe, Carl Palmer and John Whetton (UK) were coming out with a record with Geoff Downes!!!! What could be better. Then the first Asia album crushed me with it's total Popness and complete lack of any resemblance to the awesome stuff those guys did before. But, no worries the new Yes album is just around the corner...
Seemingly impossible 90125 was even worse than Asia Asia. HOW IS THAT F'N POSSIBLE.
Anyhow, haven't really liked anything from any of them other Chris Squire hooking up with Steve Hackett since. Most of it is downright awful. So I went from a drooling Yes nutter, to shock to total indifference since. Basically I found the 80s to be mostly unlistenable and pretty much not much has improved since. Just moving from one crappy cliche style to another, all the while dumbing down song structure more and more. Obviously there are exceptions. But 90125 f**king crushed my musical spirit for years.
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