[Introspective] Yes, Etc et al

[Johan]

Well I can certainly understand where you're coming from. What you describe
is very close to the way I have been feeling about PSB (and most other
music) for quite a while now. It's just not like the old days where buying a
record was a special occasion that required a trip to the shop and the
excitement of taking it home, unwrapping it and putting it in the machine,
without really knowing what to expect. 

Since everything is now easily available through the internet, those days
are over, but with this album, at least the music sounds like it used to.

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
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[mailto:introspective-bounces at lists.jameslick.com] På vegne af Kurt Foy
Booker
Sendt: 22. marts 2009 21:17
Til: introspective at lists.jameslick.com
Emne: Re: [Introspective] Yes, Etc et al

At 8:08 PM +0100 3/22/09, Johan wrote:
>Wow Kurt, how sad for you that Yes has not been the great experience that
it
>has been for me and apparently many others.

Hi Johan,

Don't be sad... I'm not sad :-)  on the contrary, although I came off 
a bit cranky (probably due to the endless dreary weather and economic 
crises) I wrote I was enjoying the album overall, and rated many 
tracks pretty high!  Alongside the "shit", "fuck" and "damns" were 
plenty of "lovely", "enjoy" and "superbs"!

One thing to keep in mind is I'm not just comparing this album to 
Fundamental and Very... I'm comparing to their entire career... 
bittorrenting the full Yes oeuvre in mp3 format and thinking, "hmmm, 
I quite like this "more than a dream" track is so much different from 
driving to the record shop, thrilled to see a new PSB 12" vinyl 
single on the rack, paying $7.99 I can't afford, taking it home, 
popping it on the turntable and being absolutely blown away at the 
brilliance of Left To My Own Devices.  That's why I can't give out 9 
or 10 out of 10 to anything.  Some of these tracks are really, really 
good.  But after 25 years, I can't subjectively get as excited 
anymore.

Nevertheless... It's my birthday on Wednesday.  I'll be 41 years old. 
A new Pet Shop Boys album is the best present I'm getting!

kfb

p.s.  I'm glad to see replies to my post... I enjoy reading other opinions.
:-)



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