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Album Review

The four-years-in-the-making follow-up to Yes' comeback album, 90125, Big Generator was also a million-selling hit, although not as successful as its predecessor, probably because the singles "Love Will Find a Way" (number 30) and "Rhythm of Love" (number 40) couldn't match "Owner of a Lonely Heart" from the previous LP, even if they were favorites on AOR radio at the time. Actually, it was the title track that was a carbon copy of "Owner," so maybe that was the problem. More likely, though, "Owner" was a one-shot (courtesy of producer Trevor Horn), and as Yes asserted itself more here, the band reverted more to its old style, making for some confusion. Nevertheless, this album was Yes' last major hit.

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Big Generator....not a big hit

This album showed Yes trying to keep up with more modern trends in music and followed on from 90125 and they used Trevor Rabin for the last time as a songwriter and artist on this medeocre album by Yes standards.The classic rabin album has to be Talk, an often forgotten album with some blindidng tracks on it. Gone are the mystical lyrics of Anderson and replaced with more understandable offerings. The album does have it's moments, Shoot high Aim Low is a reasoanable song, as are most of the tracks, but it's not classic Yes and does not match the previous album 90125 which also featured Rabin.

I tried it once and didnt like it but.......

I hated this when it came out, but having gone back to it over the past couple of years, its grown on me.

Big Generator has become a very underated album by 'Yes -west'. There are some over looked songs here and it is beatifully recorded and very melodic. I have to admit I was a Rabin fan before Yes, so I am a little biased and as we have lost him to the world of film soundtracks seemingly forevermore, his time at Yes is to be savoured.

Of the three (not counting Union) Yes-Rabin cds it is the weakest but still worth a listen......now what about the re-master, chaps??

It's not Yes, not in the least.

So, we're three LPs out from Tormato, the last record that sounded remotely like Yes and we're in rocky territory here. Dire, air-punching, suit-sleeves-rolled-up power pop. How far they have fallen when every single track on, say, the Transformers the Movie soundtrack is deeper and more artful than anything on offer here. Simply shed a tear and move along.

Biography

Formed: 1968 in Birmingham, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Far and away the longest lasting and the most successful of the '70s progressive rock groups, Yes proved to be one of the lingering success stories from that musical genre. The band, founded in 1968, overcame a generational shift in its audience and the departure of its most visible members at key points in its history to reach the end of the century as the definitive progressive rock band. Where rivals such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer withered away commercially after the mid-'70s, and Genesis...
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