Yours Is No Disgrace

Rating: 7/10 (31 July 2008)

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I love Yes. They are one of the best progressive rock bands that ever existed on this planet. They made their best albums back in early/mid-70's. New generation is very unlucky not to see such great bands and taste such great music. In 2008, we may clearly say popular/mainstream music is totally dead - nothing but crap out there.
So, if you're a teenager trying to settle to the world you observe around, it's totally normal to follow today's music & groups. But if you're an experienced "gourmet-listener", today's music means nothing to you. For example if you were in university back at '91 and saw last legendary albums alive like Innuendo from Queen, Black Album from Metallica, Nevermind from Nirvana you'd never like today's music - because you've already made a kind of organic connection with these albums.
Movie industry is in better condition. But when I see a movie gets #1 spot in IMDb.com, which is the most reliable movie source on the net (I believe) that is something else. This means;
a) Either we witness a groundbreaking phenomenon or, b) People do not know "real music".
Well, I've seen TDK. It was really good. At least I never would've thought to see a Joker better than Jack Nicholson - but yes there is! But this is a comic-super hero movie for God's sake! And we are talking about a "hero" who can vanish with an entire Russian ballet group in his super-yatch or drives Lamborghini around - not to mention that super-powered high-tech thingy that he's riding for the half of the movie.
Heath's tragic death may be a reason (e.g +1 note), good promotion campaign may be another reason (another +1 note) but we have at least +2 notes overrated movie here. So the actual note should be around 7,5 which is very suitable for this movie. I repeat again, this is really a fine movie, it can get you in and especially Joker is amazing. But not #1.
OK, so just listen to the mainstream list-music or else let's do something else; just listen to Yes Album from 1971. It has a fascinating opening song; Yours Is No Disgrace. That should do it.