jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (07/02/85)
> I always looked at the vocals in Yes' music as primarily just other musical > instruments (like in scat singing), with the lyrics as an afterthought. NO NO NO!! There you've done it again. Anderson's lyrics are impressionistic, sometimes detached, sometimes incomprehensible, sometimes plainly wrong, but they always have considerable meaning, and often amazingly poignant ways of looking at familiar things in new ways (consider the title to the song "Outside of This (Inside of That)", a rather explicit love song, for an example). Try listening to his "Short Stories" album (with Vangelis), where he dealt with more familiar subjects. I think the love songs on "Short Stories" are some of the best ever written... certainly a vast improvement over the "hey baby lets do it" lyrics of most musicians. But there aren't very many of his songs where the meaning is not apparent with some consideration (and punctuation)... "Siberian Khatru" excepted, maybe... -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642