----------------------------------------------------- JUNE 1, 1994 ----------------------------------------------------- Source: Q4 http://www.q4music.com/  (Abbreviated link text) Yes: Talk  By Stuart Maconie  The Yes genealogy is now beginning to defy comprehension. For the record, the Yes of Talk is originals Anderson, Kaye and Squire plus later recruits Alan White and Trevor Rabin. Happily, some things never change and Talk is dotted with the kind of jagged, leaping melodies and full-on rock dynamics (viz opening track The Calling) that made the best Yes tunes so enjoyable, if so cruelly unfashionable. Sadly, the group are noodling like nobody's business for three-fifths of the record and the closing three-part suite is grist to any latter-day Johnny Rotten's mill. And so to Symphonic Music Of Yes, an enterprise so misguided as to render even old fans aghast. Neither proper orchestral reworkings nor the rock originals, these are Yes classics (Roundabout, Starship Trooper, Close To The Edge) performed in neutered band-plus-orchestra versions best suited to Pizza Hut or the Jimmy Young Show. Wondrous Stories -- never a militant call to arms -- now sounds like St Winifred's School Choir. Mesmerisingly awful. Close Window YesInThePress.com For site comments, problems, corrections, or additions, contact YesinthePress@aol.com