page_title: Talk (Yes album)
section_title: Songs
hierarchical_section_title: Talk (Yes album) / Production / Songs
caption_attribution_description: Brombachsee,Concertbüro Franken,Festival,Konzert,Lieder am See,Livekonzert,Livemusik,Musik,Roger Hodgson
context_page_description: Talk is the fourteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 21 March 1994 by Victory Music. Recording began in late 1992 with the line-up of Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Chris Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman was to be involved in the project before contractual problems led to his withdrawal. The album was recorded onto hard disk at Rabin's home studio using an early version of the digital audio workstation software Digital Performer.
  Talk was a mild commercial success upon its release, reaching No. 20 in the UK and No. 33 in the U.S, but received a poor reception from music critics. "The Calling" and "Walls" were released as singles that charted at No. 3 and 24 on the U.S. Hot Mainstream Rock chart, respectively. The album was supported by a 1994 tour that covered North and South America and Japan. At its conclusion, Rabin and Kaye left the band in 1995. Victory Music founder Phil Carson praised the album but thought it was made "at the wrong time".
context_section_description: "The Calling" developed and evolved around the song's introductory guitar riff. Rabin did not wish to make the song have a "preaching" message, but as a call for people to get together with one another.
  Rabin developed "I Am Waiting" with ease and little effort, taking him one day to put the music together. He remembered Anderson took an instant liking towards it, writing the lyrics and singing most of the vocals on the same day. Anderson singled out "I Am Waiting" as a favourite, described the song as "real pure music" because of the spontaneous way it was written.
  The music to "Real Love" was mainly written by Squire; Kaye described it as "pretty heavy". The lyrics were partly inspired by Rabin's reading of A Brief History of Time by British physicist Stephen Hawking ("Far away in the depths of Hawking's mind...").
  "State of Play" originated from an incident with Rabin where an emergency services vehicle passed him with its siren on. He recalled about the sound of its siren: "I thought that's an amazing sound with the Doppler effect and everything as it goes by. That gave me the idea for the screeching kind of guitar sound in the beginning". Speaking about its tune, Squire thought the track was a "conscious effort" from the band to combine a style of hip-hop "groove with heavy rock guitars". White pointed out the singing from Anderson, Rabin, and Squire as particularly strong, with "great musicianship all round".
  "Walls" was the last track produced for the album. Rabin co-wrote the song with Supertramp vocalist Roger Hodgson, who declined an offer to be Yes's lead singer following Anderson's departure in 1988 following the Big Generator tour. The pair recorded a demo in 1990 which was included on Rabin's demo compilation album 90124, released in 2003.
  "Where Will You Be" is a song written by Rabin, originally as the signature tune to an Australian film. He thought Anderson's lyrics were some of the best on Talk. An instrumental version can be found on Rabin's 90124 demo album.
  "Endless Dream" is a fifteen-minute track divided into three parts, "Silent Spring", "Talk", and "Endless Dream". The repeating piano riff at the beginning of "Silent Spring" came from a longer piece that Rabin intended to use as part of a film score, but chose to use it for the song instead. The piece then moves into a 15/8 time signature. The instrumental section on "Talk" was originally a piece Rabin wrote for orchestra titled "October". Anderson said the song is "as good as anything" the band has done and noted its "remarkable" structure in the "Endless Dream" section, rating it on par with "Close to the Edge" and "Awaken", two long Yes tracks from the 1970s. White also praised the track highly.
caption: Rabin co-wrote "Walls" with Supertramp vocalist Roger Hodgson who also sang on its demo.
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