Talk:The Yes Album/Archive 1

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Sorry in advance should this post be somewhat annoying for any of you and sorry for my english too!!! but the fact is, if I'm not wrong, that Würm should be also the name of the last glacial period; when listening to Starship Trooper, I always had in mind that thing; so the question is: are you sure that title is referring to the river? Ciao, --Atlantropa (talk) 09:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

The album was NOT "recorded at an old farmhouse in Devon, England, which was then home to Langley Studios."

It was in fact recorded at Advision Studios in London. I know because I was there during the recording of several tracks.

http://www.relayer35.com/Yescography/theyesal.htm

Produced by Yes and Eddie Offord at Advision Studios, London, autumn 1970; (2) recorded live at the Lyceum, London

80.33.18.37 (talk) 10:20, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

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democracy and socialism
"The "democratic" balance of the band"? Shouldn't it be called the socialist one if every member had his contribution? On the other hand - there's no difference between democracy and socialism... 85.89.184.212 (talk) 19:51, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Starship Trooper
This song doesn't have an article why exactly?

Write it (86.169.231.111 (talk) 21:22, 1 January 2013 (UTC))


 * It's not called "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" for nothing. Find significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources and put it together. For now, a redirect will suffice. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  12:59, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Edit war
Could explain what their interest is in minor trivial changes to ISBN formats, and why they feel the need to edit war over them? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  15:58, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not in an edit war, it's just that this article got loaded twice and what happened is that I fixed it at the first reading, then you reverted, then it got fixed again at the second reading. The interest in ISBN formatting is getting it right; I could ask what your attraction is to getting it wrong?  Regards, Mr Stephen (talk) 18:32, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * But what is "wrong" and what is "right"? To me, "wrong" is a false ISBN that does not correlate with any book sources. Anything else, provided you can look it up and check that the information is correct and located in the source, is merely a personal matter of opinion. As stated elsewhere, improve your edit summaries to avoid confusion. Now, arguing over dashes is silly, so unless anyone else wants to comment, we're done. Were Yes "wrong" to fire Tony Kaye or not? Who knows? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:32, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I expect Tony knows. But I've always been a bit puzzled about the necessity and/or usefulnes of the dashes in ISBNs (in both the 10 and 13 digit versions). If they really are necessary, why don't we just have a handy template that always converts the raw numbers into the right format? It would make adding them much easier! Martinevans123 (talk) 12:15, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I can just hear Jon Anderson singing "If the numbers changed to dashes, yours is no, yours is no disgrace". A template sounds like the best solution, then I can just add the raw ISBN and not have to worry about it. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  12:21, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Haha. I think the suggestion deserves more than just a clap! Martinevans123 (talk) 12:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Credits
Convention across WP:ALBUMS is that credits are based on the original sleeve notes, and if necessary, reissues. Everyone has their favourite way of listing personnel, the difference between "bass" or "bass guitar" is not great, and original credits are the one thing that can be generally agreed to not be original research. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  08:19, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Tend to agree. Although sometimes particular models of instruments, like Hammond organ etc, are confirmed only later? Martinevans123 (talk) 11:00, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * To the typical reader, it might as well say "keyboards" and probably only doesn't because "keyboard player" was not common parlance in 1971. The prose does mention Kaye played a Hammond (as confirmed by book sources and the reissue sleeve notes) so it was worth mentioning there. There is no link to Rickenbacker anywhere in the article, though it would be obvious to fans that's the bass used on the album, sources don't bring it up as specifically important here. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  13:46, 2 February 2015 (UTC)