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CAMBRIDGE, MAFollowing a three-decade-long, multimillion-dollar study to evaluate the progressive rock groups music, a team of scientists at Harvard University announced Wednesday that they were no closer to determining if the British band Yes is good or not.
While deep sonic analysis reveals technically interesting aspects to the bands discography1971s The Yes Album and 1983s 90125, in particularwe continue to struggle in our efforts to conclusively demonstrate whether Yes is actually a decent band, said head researcher Dr. Jeremy Loach, confirming his team successfully replicated the findings of earlier studies that concluded the bands album covers are pretty trippy and the bass guitar groove on Roundabout fucking rocks, but could establish little else with certainty.
Take a song like Close To The Edge: The organ performance and the vocal harmonies certainly sound as if theyve been recorded by a good band. But then you realize theyre tucked inside an 18-minute, multi-movement song with lyrics about witches, and its unclear exactly what Yes was even going for, let alone whether this is good music. At the same time, the band has been together for more than 50 years now, and if they were bad, surely they would have called it quits long ago. Right?
While research into Yes remains inconclusive, Loach noted that his team long ago uncovered hard scientific evidence definitively proving that Emerson, Lake, and Palmer sucks.
https://www.theonion.com/scientists-still-unable-to-determine-whether-yes-a-good-1841023829
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Carl Palmer recently took the opportunity of Neil Peart's passing to recall his encounter with him, and to proclaim that as a drummer, Neil was basically OK.
That did not go over well on social media.
Gotta choose your moment, Carl. This was not your moment.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)I never understood the love for Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery.
Not to say I don't listen to ELP sometimes as well, but not nearly as often as Rush or Yes.
The Figment
(494 posts)ELP is a lot like the Grateful Dead, if one judges them by their studio albums you are making a big misjudgment, one has to have seen them live...much better. It helps to appreciate Aaron Copland.
I'm a big Progressive Rock fan,some of the best music to come out of the 70's!
ELP
Yes
Pink Floyd
Uriah Heep
T- Rex
Necktar
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)Don't necessarily agree with them that the owner of a lonely heart is much better than a broken heart, but they did offer another line of thinking from Alfred Lord Tennyson's declaration that it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, and it was a brave stance.
TlalocW