I sometimes wonder why listeners often so vehemently cling to an artist who has for so long passed its zenith. ... Defend him as a football club and go with it in the second, probably in the third league? Whether this applies to "Heaven & Earth" I'll put here simply there.
Only somewhere you have to classify the album. There is no "Close to the Edge", not a "relayer" nor a "90125". What is it? A sad farewell? A statement of a new vital band?
The band is touring quasi constantly for years and leads thereby complete classic albums. The previous work "Fly From Here" played only briefly (Thanks Gernot N.) a role in the live set of Yes. So why one takes on an album, if you do not feel themselves to be "live" presented as worthy? Yes is not the only band that must be able to ask this question. If "Heaven & Earth" find their way onto the stage? This may be doubted. Just as the new album of Saga, the final outputs of Mark Knopfler or Eric Clapton. No one has interest in these albums that people want "Roundabout" hear, "Sultans of Swing" and "Layla". Or there are the artists note can hold that their late works was not their classics? ... And why is that? Can you compose all none really good music more that brings their hackneyed Evergreens earned retirement? Is this also true for "Heaven & Earth" or the audience is just too ignorant to accept such an album and "Live"?
So why have Yes "Heaven & Earth" included?
Because you have burned to the soul the pieces?
Because they necessarily had to get out?
Because they wanted to show it all again, all the epigones, the verwursten their trademarks.
Is it perhaps only a kind of cycle, to which one has to keep in business?
Tour, album, tour, farewell tour, reunion, reunion tour, ...
"Heaven & Earth" has it hardly answers. Why?
Because it is of what embodies the band on stage contains virtually nothing.
Almost every track of this album would be a foreign body in the setlist of a Yes concert.
On stage will soon be no "new" band stand, which is eager to bring their new material to be heard.
So why you do such an album, ...
... With this artwork, this brilliant blue that we on "Yesshows" had already?
... Before felt 100 years!
Not so strange and banal as the cover of 90125, whose epochal success for many fans was more of an evil curse.
Why this band was then called at all Yes?
No, this cover that of "Heaven & Earth", implies "familiarity".
The music on the album, whether they like it or not, is a mystery to me.
The intention of this album reveals itself not to make me.
It makes no sense.
It has no place in the Vita this band.
Or is Yes no band? Yes Is a company?
[The vote with three stars is a neutral placeholder. I want this product is currently not evaluate]
