6 years later and I am still coming back to this. It's criminal, like the behaviour of the subject that this has only 14,000 views. Its the best there is.
There was an even better one, titled ''the Fripp problem'' with Dolfy ranting when he is told that he will not be able to take photos during the King Crimson concert in Berlin, because Robert Fripp does not allow photography while performing. Really hilarious but I can't find it on youtube anymore.
''No fantasy landspace! No tiny floating planets! Nothing to look at when I'm dropping acid, If I trip off that cover I'm going to think I'm communing with a fucking powerpoint presentation!'' LOLOLOLOLOL
This was so fucking funny and deadly accurate I literally cried I was laughing so hard. Thank you. I've been a huge prog rock nerd since high school and Yes is always and forever my favorite. You capture every Yes fan's disillusion at the jump from the 70's to the 80's perfectly. I like 90125 and Big Generator. There are songs I love on both. Trevor Rabin isn't Steve Howe, but who the fuck is? And as long as Jon Anderson is in, I'm in...but of course Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe and Squire are THE line-up. All of this is hilarious and has nothing to do with Hitler and actual Nazis--however it's a little bit uncomfortable having Hitler rant about Trevor Rabin--because in actuality Rabin is Jewish. I didn't realize that until recently. I think of him primarily South African, which of course doesn't mean he can't be Jewish, I was just clueless...anyway, just curious if anyone else noticed that. I know the Hitler Meltdowns have naught to do with Hitler, really, so kind of ironic, in a way...
Melissa Williams thanks! I appreciate your kind words. I knew Rabin was Jewish but I never really thought about it when I wrote this, I think the idea that Hitler judges people entirely on prog credibility regardless of race colour or creed is part of the joke.
I stole that gag from some book review I saw years ago... don't remember the book, but the reviewer reckoned they could "produce" a better one with this method!
You sir, are a FECKING genius! Lol....the Wakeman and Howe parts are brilliant. When he says "nonsense" and when he is forced to listen to "shite-biscuit solo albums" and "Asia for chrissakes!" I LOVE Wakeman, but like maybe a total of 4 tracks from his solo albums. Please get out of my head......oh, and now my heart.
frink32 Thanks. The key to writing these things is you've got to use your best material at the key moments ...you need something that makes him take his glasses off, something that makes him throw the pencil, and then right at the end when he decides to kill himself in the original. "Asia, for chrissakes!" Yep that'll do it. LOL.
Fantastic! If you could do one about the Union album as well. I can just imagine. "For crissakes Rick Wakeman threw his copy of Union out the limo window right after hearing it! He calls it The Onion - it's so bad it makes him cry! And I STILL DON'T HAVE AN ALBUM WITH STEVE HOWE PLAYING ON IT. What for crissake is a Yes TRIBUTE BAND member doing playing guitar on half a Yes album with BOTH Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin in the lineup?!!??!" writes itself doesn't it?
HILARIOUS!! I JUST ABOUT PISSED MYSELF!! The Trevor Horn references are fabulous... "...Sound Chaser... needs to sound more like 'Relax'..." Oh, I tear up just writing that ...
As an impartial yesfan who likes all eras just the same (even though I consistently struggle to get into Topographic Oceans and Relayer), this captures my vision of "Yes snobs" brilliantly and I laughed my bejesus off so many times. "Sound chaser....needs to sound more like Relax" "Trevor 'I eat at chez nous' Rabin" "Did you hear me say JOHN LENNON" "No fantasy landscape...tripping off with a Powerpoint presentation"
Oh man you gotta give Topo and Relayer another shot. Especially if you love CTTE, you’ll enjoy Relayer too! Those are both amongst my favorite Yes albums ever! And I say this as someone who, like you, is a fan of all eras (except for post-Squire Yes)
i like Big Generator myself. I like all their albums. Even Union, Ladder, and Heaven & Earth. They may not turn you into a starship trooper who's close to the edge. But the songs are still fun that Ithet can lift me up to ascend. 3 generations of Yes fans in my family. Grandpa, father, and I have all seen them perform live. Who else do I ask has had that much time and influence under their belt? 🎵Yes is the answer. And you know that for sure...🎵
I wouldn't say that 90125 was insubstantial. If you were born in 1973, for example, like I was, then 90125 was probably the first Yes album you ever heard. I should say, "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" was probably the first Yes song that you heard if you were my age. I had the single on 45rpm. I became a Yes fan during the 80's. 90125 was the first Yes album that I had and I listened to that cassette over and over. Then I was turned onto Fragile. I loved it of course. I don't remember ever consciously comparing the two albums. I loved both of them. If I had to say which one I like better, I'd go with Fragile. Songs like "We Have Heaven," "South Side of the Sky," "Long Distance Runaround," "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)," and "Heart of the Sunrise" make Fragile the easy choice. And of course, Bill Bruford. My experience with Rush was similar. I became a fan after the Hold Your Fire album was released. I wasn't familiar with albums like A Farewell To Kings, 2112, Hemispheres, or Permanent Waves. Not yet. But because I became a Rush fan during their synth years, or whatever you wanna call them, I like that material as much as the 70's material. My ears were used to synthesizers, having grown up listening to pop music on the radio as a kid. Some of my favorite Rush albums are ones like Power Windows and Hold Your Fire, where Alex's guitar wasn't as prevalent as it had been up until then. I think the synths created cool textures and were used tastefully. Rush always changed with the times, like when they would throw in a reggae groove here and there after reggae was becoming more popular thanks to artists like Bob Marley and The Police. I guess what I'm saying is, I like it all, with the exception of the last few Yes albums. The last one I bought was The Ladder.
I was born in 1973 but I've older siblings who showed me old Yes material from a really early age. 'Owner of a lonely heart' is not bad compared to other stuff from the 80s... but compared to Yes' 70s stuff (Fragile, CTTE) it's just awful.
"Everyone who ever made a seven-paper spliff to last all four sides of Topographic Oceans may leave the room." That's hysterical! Actually, anyone who ever meditated on Topographic Oceans in whatever condition should join this facebook discussion group: (facebook.com/groups/topographicoceans/)
I like the titular song, and decent portion of the album, but I respect the opinion of a more invested fan. Also, the "chez nous" dig is 100% accurate. My thought process short-circuited the first time I heard that lyric.
There were strong YES albums (most all of them) and only a couple not so strong, but they were all good.... BUT, THIS IS FUNNY, and of course, only Musicians would get some of the humor :)
This is great but the other Hitler rant about Yes is even better in my opinion. I wish it would get re-uploaded. It's when he's bitching about going to see Yes and finds out Jon Anderson is no longer the lead singer.
Was that the one where he listens to "Fly From Here" near the start? I wish I'd thought of that, since my rant is really about 90125, but I couldn't figure out how to write it so he learns about the album from the generals, but he also knows the music in order to rant about it, so I made it retrospectively about 90125 when he learns that Big Generator is more of the same. Would've been simpler and funnier to just show him listening to 90125.
I loved Big Generator. My first YES tour. But yea, nothing like classical YES. No Roundabout there. Great video. RUSH and YES. 90% of what I listen too.
Me too! Yes and Rush are my two favorite bands. Big Generator was the album that got me listening to Yes, and then I went back and caught up on all their other material. I have to disagree with Hitler too. :) Big Generator certainly doesn't have the 25 minute prog-rock tracks with fantasy lyrics that their other albums do, but the songs are still top notch!
Yes has almost always been my favorite band (followed closely by The Who, incidentally) since I began listening to heavy and progressive rock in 1971, but yes, as the funny, little mustachioed dictator said, "Yes is fucked." Sad, but true.
@jeremyspade4159 Oh, really, genius?! It is beyond obvious that I'm not the real Carl Palmer, whom, by the way, I've had the pleasure of meeting on a few occasions. Carl is quite a decent chap; or at least he presents himself this way to fans such as I. If you were actually under the impression that I was feigning to be Mr. Palmer, than you are rather dumb.
But then you can't do the scene where Hitler learns about the album from the officers, and then have him rant about an album he's never heard. Actually most of his complaints are about 90125, but it has to be set at a time when he's already heard it, so the Big Generator thing is mostly an excuse for him to retrospectively rant about 90125 because he was hoping they would've learned something from it. I have seen another video where Hitler rants about Fly From Here, and they cleverly solved the problem by making it look like Hitler was listening to the song just before he takes his glasses off, but I didn't think of that when I made mine
But no "side-long" pieces as mentioned in the video. A whole side of a vinyl record is approx 20 minutes, like Gates of Delirium, Close to the Edge etc.
@Jeremy Spade Because the video talks specifically about the lack of "side-long pieces", the guy I'm replying to is trying to counter that by saying there's a 7 minute song, which is obviously not the same thing
