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Drama (Yes) | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 61 (Patreon)

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2024-02-06 17:37:11
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2024-02-13 20:29:43
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I enjoyed this album much more than I was anticipating...especially after reading about all of the 'drama' happening behind the scenes with financial and artistic differences in the band as well as a roster change...with Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman departing the band before the album was completed.

This is a fascinating look into the changing musical aesthetics of the band and society as the 1970's became the 1980's. I hope you enjoy as much as I did!

**File edited and re-uploaded on 2/13/24 to fix audio issues.**

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Yes (Drama) | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 61

Comments

Einaras Sipavičius

I discovered Drama in 2017. I listened to it a couple of times and remember liking it a lot, especially Into The Lens and Machine Messiah. But hadn't listened to the album since. So it's the first time I'm hearing Drama again in 7 years. And now it sounds even better than then. I would even say 'much better'. I've come to enjoy great sounding and imaginative prog hybrids with more pop oriented music, sometimes even more than pure prog. And Drama definitely falls into that category. Only now I noticed how subtle are Geoff's keyboard lines sometimes and how creative Alan's drumming is. This work is a great pack of musicality, all five members are essential to the sound. Also, now I realized the greatness of Does It Really Happen? and Run Through The Light. I didn't give that much attention to these songs throughout my first listens. Both songs are very groovy and moving despite being quite differently sounding. Really admire the decision to step back from bass playing duties by Chris in Run Through The Light. Trevor is really comfortable with playing fretless and in this song bass sounds amazing. The only song I still have problems grasping is Tempus Fugit. It's probably the proggiest song and fan favourite, but it's too crazy dynamically and in my humble opinion doesn't fit the sound of the album that well. But it's a good song, I still enjoy it. I remember the discussion on Discord about how influential and successful 90125 was and its comparison with Drama. This EPL even more established my position that I probably don't need 90125 in my life when Drama and many other great prog-pop efforts by different bands from the same era exist. And I say this despite being familiar with 90125 for a much longer time than Drama. 90125 is a greatly produced album but I think it greatly lacks the imagination and exploitation of their musical abilities. While Drama is a vast and beautiful two-dimensional landscape of prog and pop, 90125 really lacks the 'prog' dimension and doesn't really distinguish itself that well from many other pop artists of that era.

Ralph Darvill

The Prog Corner of our 6th Form Common Room was most perturbed by the prospect of a Yes album without Jon. But on hearing it I was pretty happy. Some others among my friends weren't quite so smitten. We went to Hammersmith to see the band, and were majorly disappointed with Trevor's vocals...it transpired that that heavy tour schedule they'd booked in had destroyed his vocal cords and he limped to the end of the concerts in pretty poor shape. Still like the album though- especially Chris's playing.