" I respect complexity, talent and musicianship of Yes, and I've been to their concert (with Rick Wakeman), but I could never connect emotionally to their music neither."
Yeah, Yes' lyrics are not the most accessible and easy to relate to in general, though their musicianship is outstanding. And you'll see very few chicks at a Yes concert these days.
"Gates of Delirium" from Relayer is one exception to this for me though, especially at the transition to the "Soon" final segment. That transition from musical chaos and tribal warfare mode to the spiritual calm after the storm in Jon Anderson's voice here is powerful enough to instinctively register with many apparently from what I have read of listener reaction to it. One of the "classic" and most instinctivly accessible moments in all of progressive rock IMHO, at least for guys.
Towards the more modern metal camp, Porcupine Tree and Stephen Wilson in particular is a group/artist that in particular knows how to regularly run the gamut from metal extremes to the soothing calm afterwards. That's much of what I like about PT.
I don't find perpetual ongoing anger and chaos to be appealing, personally, but that's just me. I love it though when an artist knows how to run the gamut though. Its a ying and yang, dark and light, kind of thing that just registers with me personally.
Yeah, Yes' lyrics are not the most accessible and easy to relate to in general, though their musicianship is outstanding. And you'll see very few chicks at a Yes concert these days.
"Gates of Delirium" from Relayer is one exception to this for me though, especially at the transition to the "Soon" final segment. That transition from musical chaos and tribal warfare mode to the spiritual calm after the storm in Jon Anderson's voice here is powerful enough to instinctively register with many apparently from what I have read of listener reaction to it. One of the "classic" and most instinctivly accessible moments in all of progressive rock IMHO, at least for guys.
Towards the more modern metal camp, Porcupine Tree and Stephen Wilson in particular is a group/artist that in particular knows how to regularly run the gamut from metal extremes to the soothing calm afterwards. That's much of what I like about PT.
I don't find perpetual ongoing anger and chaos to be appealing, personally, but that's just me. I love it though when an artist knows how to run the gamut though. Its a ying and yang, dark and light, kind of thing that just registers with me personally.