Yes
Drama

THE REVIEW

Yes - Drama (1980)

August 1980 sees Drama released by Atlantic Records. Forget Fragile and Close to the Edge, all you who enter: this is the most beautiful Yes album of the 70s, made accessible to the precious ears of the scholarly youth of the time, guess by whom? By the Buggles!
Yes, yes, them exactly, the techno-pop duo that was all the rage with their videos, the ones with the planetary hit - and maybe even beyond the solar system - of Videomar - no pardon Video killed the radio star. Why this review, you'll ask me, what does the national Valerio have to do with prog? It connects because finally, you can listen to Yes for an hour without getting worn out by the virtuosity. Because with the magical touch of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes of The Buggles, you don't miss Rick Wakeman and the frocio-plastik voice of Jon Anderson, who departed for solo careers, so much.

It connects because speaking of Video killed... this morning, I found and then took my Brionvega Tesi 4 from the late 70s to my old-school technician, to bring it back to life: it has a side fracture - a Drama!! And of course, it weighs a ton - and when we turned it on, it was still alive, so a little tear of emotion came to my eye seeing the wild photons on the screen without images: I projected inside all the broadcasts and musical videos of that time. And among these, raise your finger, without making rude gestures, who does not remember the legendary Does it really happen? That totally killer bass line by Squire and the video jingle of Discoring from back then. What a piece, poignant, epic, martial, unforgettable.
Ah, those were the days. Among the songs all of very high level, we like to highlight the suite Machine Messiah, with an almost Sabbath-like intro, born from the technological nightmares of Trevor Horn, Into the Lens, Run through the Light.

In short, a 12-inch that, as the good Elio from Storie Tese would say, you could even give as a gift at a party without fear of being considered intellectual reactionary late rockers. Of the second millennium.

Memories how they hide so fast...I'm a camera.

P.S. don't throw away your old tellies, they'll be worth money soon, because LCDs and plasmas are expensive and break quickly.