Comments for Yes, Big Generator

INSPIRATION is what "YES" is all about, that's where their great unique rock and roll comes from. Like "Yes", my primary source of inspiration is the GREAT SPIRIT potentially inside all of us. Among my finest influences in reaching some of that spiritual potential have been the great rock & roll group "Yes", and the spiritually inspiring books written by "KEN CAREY". How do you rate inspiration? "Yes" & "Ken Carey" get 10's in my "opinion". -Ed McConnell

Complete failure. If you, too, were afraid of where T. Rabin would guide the band to, after 90125, well ... this album is the sad confirmation. Before discussing the songs, the production of the sound is awful ! Now, the songs... weak, uninteresting, common, ultra-soft, by far distant from what I would ever hear from a group called YES. Did they think that it only took some vocal harmonies from Jon Anderson to make fans believe they were still YES ? I can't stand when a group hasn't the courage to change name when everything else has changed. At least, 90125 had a kind of hard rock sound, powerful if not YES-like songs. Big Generator has nothing of all that either. Why do many die-hard fans still cry for Steve Howe ? Listen to this album... GUG

Granted, the production is awful. This is probably the worst sounding Yes album since "Time And A Word". I like "Love Will Find A Way", the rest is mediocre (Rhythm Of Love, Big Generator, Holy Lamb, Final Eyes) or really bad (I'm Running). I can't stand Kayes playing on this album and the CD cover must be the ugliest I ever saw.

The "Big Generator" album should have contained a barf bag in album sleeve as a promotional gimmick (and an honest one at that). The title track was god-awful and cheesy...it was almost like "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" played backward at 22 rpm (with Satanic messages too!). "Love Will Find A Way" is a good cut but by far the album was wimpy. And what the hell was going on with "Almost Like Love"? Anderson sounded like Max Headroom toward the end of the song. Tony Kaye seemed to need some uppers or some freebased freeze-dried Folgers coffee injected into his veins. Overall, the album got a C-......nah, a D from this Yes fan.

I'm a HUGE HUGE Yes fan. Maybe I should just leave it at that. I'm hard pressed to look at these song titles and think that I'll be ever spending much time with this album for the rest of my life. Oh well, you can't win 'em all. - Thanks.

YES....yes, this album is really good. It is Yes, but it is also the sound of 1987. "Rhythm Of Love" is a great start and was a fresh pop hit. I think this is quite good and it shows the evoltution of a band.

here, it once again sounds like the band members are splintering off into different musical directions. Trevor (in "Love Will Find a Way") tends toward simplistic (and not very good) pop rock. However, in "Shoot High Aim Low", and especially in the beautiful "Final Eyes", they seem to be consciously trying to recapture their 70s feel, but end up with something different. And Jon''s new-agey lyrics come back a little bit in "Holy Lamb". Overall a very uneven album.

puff, aaaaagh, eeeerrrrr, ough, i'm feeling so bad thinking about this album... aaaaaagh

Aw, what the fuck! There's a couple good tunes on here!