I'm Running by Yes
From Wikipedia:
A laborious album to make, Big Generator's sessions dragged on for two years, largely over creative differences. Guitarist Trevor Rabin was aiming to progress beyond 90125, while founding lead vocalist Jon Anderson was beginning to yearn for more traditional Yes music. Trevor Horn, who was a major factor in the success of Yes's previous disc 90125 was part of the early recording sessions, but dropped out after a few months due in major part to his inability to get along with keyboardist Tony Kaye. In a 2011 interview with LineaRock Italy, Anderson stated that Horn had told Anderson to stay away from the rehearsal and recording sessions for three months, presumably so that Horn could develop material with the other band members. The band recorded some material in Italy ("Shoot High Aim Low"), moved to London to produce "Rhythm of Love", and finally to Los Angeles to produce the final tracks for the album. Rabin assumed the production duties after the departure of Horn, and is credited for pulling together the final line-up of music on the disc. The result was an album that was successful commercially, with two songs reaching the US Top 40: "Love Will Find a Way" (also a #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart) and "Rhythm of Love" (their last US Top 40 hit). The album was not as popular as 90125, and feeling that the band was going in a direction he didn't want to pursue, Jon Anderson began working on other projects at the conclusion of the Big Generator tour in 1988 including a partial reformation with his Yes bandmates from the 1970s (this reformation would lead to Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe).
It is unclear if the album will ever be reissued by Rhino Records with additional bonus tracks as all previous Atlantic studio releases have been. While new additional material has not been available, unreleased demos may be pulled from the Warner vaults, or live material from 1988 used on the box set, Yesyears. Missing from the Yes "expanded and remastered" 2003/2004 series by Rhino/Warner (like Yessongs, Yesshows and 9012Live: The Solos), Big Generator was finally remastered (with inverted stereo image) and expanded in 2009 by Isao Kikuchi, the album was published by Warner Music Japan as part of their "Yes SHM-CD Papersleeve" series.
Lyrics:
Jacaranda
Help me out tomorrow
Jacaranda
Don't want to be alone
Keep falling over
A spell that brings me sorrow
Give and take
I shouldn't be afraid
So you give me this big story
It wakes me every day
The challenge is to chase the sounds
Just to break away
And I'm running
Running
Yes I'm running
A simple peace
Just can't be found
Waste another day
Blasting all their lives away
I've heard the thunder
Underground
Tunneling away
At the very soul of man
And I'm running
Yes I'm running
I'm running
Through a new world
There is the heart of millions
Seen as a godsend to us
There stands our future
There can be no denying
Simple as A B C D
There stands our children's lives
All in the sharp step
As one together
All in all we race
As one
This time
A simple peace
Just can't be found
Waste another day
Blasting all their lives away
I've heard the thunder
Underground
Tunneling away
At the very soul of man
At the very soul of man
And I'm running
Running
I'm running
See through science
Part of a back door
A door made up of doors
To an endless time
To a new world
Run
There in the heart of millions
Seen as a godsend to us
There stands our future
There can be no denying
Simple as A B C D
There stands our children's lives
All in the sharp step
As one together
All in all we race
As one
This time
Hear this voice
Now and forever
This time, brothers in time
Is it hard to take
Take this coice
Is it hard to find
Now and forever
This fire brothers of fire
Hard to find
As it kicks so hard
Hard to find
As it kicks on time
As it kicks on time
There in the heart of millions
Seen as a godsend to us
There stands our future
There can be no denying
Simple as A B C D
As it kicks so
As it kick so
As it kick so
There in the heart of millions
Seen as a godsend to us
All in a sharp step
As one together
All in all we race
as one
this time
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Stunning. One of the very best Yes pieces.
@ArbeiterInnenlieder
7 ай бұрын
Absolutely!
As a bassist and a HUGE squire fanatic this is one of my fav's to play from his vast catalog. Very overlooked album and song.
@peggyfranzen6159
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite bassist.Chris Squire, " The Fish"- awesome...
nice song i never knew it existed but when i saw rick beato video i had to listen
@stevemiller366
4 жыл бұрын
yeah, me too, thanks Rick
love the counting in this. It's so clever. I don't understand why this one wasn't recognized by more people.
@jonp4846
8 ай бұрын
The part at 7:01 is brilliant.
Progging it on a wonderful Sunday. Haven't listened to this album in a while, but I consider it to be one of the most underrated works by Yes.
@katemurphy1915
4 жыл бұрын
Scott Thornton Big Generator is a brilliant recording!!!
I’m Running is one of their best songs of all time - very progressive. When it gets to the part “ See through science Part of a back door A door made up of doors To an endless time To a new world I was like.. dang, this is like one of the best moments of a small set of 5th Dimension songs - just outstanding “out of the box” expansion of the melodic structure - transcendent,.. has to be Jon Anderson writing that bit. And Chris’s bass is so “Chris”. Absolutely love the song !
Big Generator is a brilliant record!!!.
Wow. I had so forgotten this song. As I hear it again I am blown away once again. Every note a Yes master piece!
@styreful
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome back!
Great YES song...thanks for share...
Excellent harmonies and lyrics. Amazing band. Chris Squire was so good on Bass he is Sorely Missed one of the best songs on the album
@peggyfranzen6159
3 жыл бұрын
I think of Gibson's cyberpunks stories.
Super rhytmic songs Big Generator !
We are spiritually driven by our thoughts, i'm glad to be directed to this awesome video. The most significant thing I listen to is the persistence music and visuals but I do receive the message. Blessings don't stop doing what you're doing.
This song exemplified the out of the world talents of all five members. Squire’s bass is amazing, Rabin shredding it on guitar and Jon Anderson’s vocals are electric!
Overlooked gem of a song. Love the harmonizing at the end. Gorgeous.
Top 10 Yes song. The final is just orgasmic.
@josie1776
4 жыл бұрын
Best comment.
Dang I still love this song and it feels right on target in these divisive times- always love how these guys, in whatever iteration brought a glimmer of love and unity to the song's message. The multi layers of sound and rhythm still work their Yes magic on me. did anyone every hear them play this live? Gotta say the visuals were interesting
@littlebuddyd
5 жыл бұрын
John Carpenter saw them play this during the Big Generator tour. Love the song then and even more now. I wasn't a fan of big Generator then but now.......wow I finally caught up with it.
Very underrated album. Still classic YES
I love YES ... i love BIG GENERATOR.....masterpiece....amazing era of , YES.
Of course, I like most of Yes albums and songs. But I don't know why I am always fascinated by this song. Probably it is because it has Chris' great bassline, a well-thought production and construction, and wonderful chorus work by Jon, Chris and Trevor.
Enjoy your forever life brother... you were the greatest bassist ever.... give the Lord a hig for me
Phenomenal... I LOVE these guys xxx
90215 and Big Gen had some GREAT Yes songs...most of the stuff after Tormato is not purist Yes ,but it is stilll light years better than all other bands...this song is another Yes masterwork... !!
@katemurphy1915
4 жыл бұрын
Michael Beerbados thank you
This is an energetic piece that incorporated so many divergent paths! Probably too complex for the general public...and possibly old YES fans, as well! The massive energy produced is enough (IMHO) to rate this masterpiece among the top of YES' creative highs!
@jpirard
8 жыл бұрын
+Scott Harbison I doubt people who were familiar with SOUND CHASER had a problem understanding this piece.
@danieldoloski6470
6 жыл бұрын
Yes well said...too complex for old yes fans? A bit condescending, dont you think? We who enjoy close to the edge, relayer and tales from topographic oceans just might grasp this!
@XanAxDdu
5 жыл бұрын
dear unwknown friends the problem of old fans was a true things, not accepting what was new at that time, so new to remain innovative today, as very often in the Yes life path. so if you have not such problems with 90125, big generator and also drama, these arguments are not for you, though your age. in my case i admit to have main problem with what Yes produced after this point, for me steve howe was no more able to create something truly new but only refreshing the past, and the albums sounds old, no more for present day watching the future. jon anderson was so confused too but i think i have to accept that due their age. Rabin was the new thing so Talk remains as the last trying to stay in the future
@jkmenegay
3 жыл бұрын
I'm an old Yes fan, and I love this song and album. 😃👍
Hear this voice, now and forever.
@katemurphy1915
4 жыл бұрын
schmittelt absolutely
The last 2 minutes of this song just builds and builds until my head explodes. This is how I imagined music written in the 21st century would be like not all this hip hop shit. ❤️
@josie1776
4 жыл бұрын
Well said, man!
The only song on BG that approaches the complexity and grandeur of Yes' epic past.
Ok, so if this was a properly named Yes song, it would be: I'm Running: a. "Jacaranda" b. "A Simple Peace" c. "This Voice"
@vzqk50CL
7 жыл бұрын
bluestate69 I honestly don't think the name is that off-base. Not that I would argue against certain other choices. Jacaranda has always intrigued, but still not fully reflective of the story behind the song. If it's anything like "finalize", or should I say "final eyes", I am sure there is much more to the real story...
@bluestate69
7 жыл бұрын
I was being a bit tongue in cheek for the most part! But in Yes's progressive past, they would have named the prologue, interlude, and epilogue sections to their music. This song reminded me of that period, because the song is longer, and more "proggish" than the rest of the album.
For me,this is a great Yes album. Not up there with Fragile and Close to the Edge,maybe,but a great contemporary album. Still sounds good to me.
@mikereiss4216
6 жыл бұрын
For sure. These days it's very much unfairly maligned by most Yes fans almost as much as Union(which I also don't think is THAT bad).
@katemurphy1915
4 жыл бұрын
peter mcguigan BG is ‘different’ ...yet very good!!!....it’s not CTTE or GFTO....but still very good!!!
The BEST YES song since AWAKEN!!
@mikereiss4216
10 жыл бұрын
Up to that point maybe. I also really like Endless Dream and Homeworld as far as more recent epics go.
@pissnachoes
9 жыл бұрын
On the Silent Wings of Freedom?
@schmittelt
8 жыл бұрын
Mind Drive
@IceGuts
6 жыл бұрын
"One the Silent Wing of Freedom" is another masterpiece!
Exquisite song.
Still listening in 2023. If anyone plays the Choices games on your phone....the Endless Summer story.....many songs from this album but especially this one could've been j the soundtrack if they ever did a movie on that story. The story line is that good, they really could have made a movie.
@vzqk50edge
Жыл бұрын
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Yes..... Still some of the most modern rock/art rock music you can find, after all these years.
this is awesom
Big Generator is a great record!!!.
...thanks for this enjoyable video!
This song has so much "drive" and it goes so fast I sometime have difficulty to follow every passage. I have the impression that it must have been a hell of a job to piece this composition together! One of the most complicated pieces of artrock I've ever heard!
Great album ❤❤❤
I started LONG AGO with The Yes Album, and have been a stalwart fan with a lapse between BG and OYE (due to intense academic activity) ever since, and that really is a long time! LOL... I know that many of my 'vintage' discount the Yes of the '80's, but I accept it as another era in the creative lives of amazing artists. Do I cast aside this period, saying that it doesn't really represent the band? Absolutely not! It's still Squire, Anderson, White, and others who came and went (though Rabin came and pretty much stayed). Is it more commercially accessible than the Yes of the '70's? Of course it is, but does that mean they were less creatively invested than previous incarnations? I think not... Are they speaking in a different voice than before? Of course they are, and though it may not be the same experience for those looking to accentuate a "chemically fueled" session of vinyl and headphones, it is still the amazing fruit of some of the masters of prog... My opinion being that >> I'm Running (and yes, maybe not the entire BG recording) is fine evidence that the inventive core of the band was still there, though clearly to remain a force in the music world, they would have to speak in a more accessible language. We proggers had a choice to make then and now.... and I choose to embrace what came from that time. I finally even listened to TALK recently (after enjoying "I am Waiting" on the current YES tour), and though I know it will never be one of my 'go-to' records, I get how some would embrace it (in a way that I COULDN'T embrace the first Asia album!) ... Did I embrace 90125 when it was first released? Not remotely! But now it has some of my go-to songs (maybe because as I grew up, I understood more what they HAD to do musically to survive and thrive!)... For old timers like me, it was tough to accept, but when BG was released, it was obvious that the new sound was here to stay, so at that point I dove in, and really was rewarded by some of the more understated elements of outstanding pieces like Shoot High, Aim Low, I'm Running, Rhythm of Love, Final Eyes and even Holy Lamb. Long Time fans, if you listen, you will find the heart of Yes beating deeply and richly in songs like I'm Running. I encourage you to listen again and find the gems of the '80's, and forgive them for not producing the masterworks of the past. We've all grieved over the passing of that era, but are we really willing to write off what came after GFTO ? That's a WHOLE LOT OF MUSIC which so many other bands can only DREAM of measuring up to!
Saw them perform this during the 'Big Generator' Tour in Omaha, NE . . . . 🙂
kick ass song !
hot tune
I have always been convinced that when someone reaches heaven, the first part of this song is played to welcome that person! it's so beautiful!!!!
@nastyzebra7370
2 жыл бұрын
Great vision....YES....
This one, Finalize, Shoot High Aim Low and Rhythm Of Love are the backbone of Big Generator
At the time I remember liking this album a lot and thinking what is wrong with people when Pink Floyd's latest sold 3 million but this one struggled to sell one million.
Jon's vocals are spot on here.
This is so genious song.
@michaeljones9301
Жыл бұрын
I never really listened too much....fast forward . ..I'm a YES FAN...13 times live....but it was good.. ..I thought Shoot High, and Final eyes , the high point... But listening again....a jazz fusion/Prog Spanish folk combination. Nearly everything YES has created is great.
When I was a kid, 3:42 used to blow me away
@michaeljones9301
Жыл бұрын
Guess that was production....but TK was heard.
Yes!!!!
Fucking Awesome
i'm crying
😮!
The Squire!
@peggyfranzen6159
3 жыл бұрын
🌟
as always you do great work, vzqk. hardly a reciprocal link yet one leads into the other. Rush Double Agent Live
Just amazing David...great to have this (and you!) back!
Fun fact, that bass riff goes all the way back to a demo session in 1980 with Squire, White, and Steve Howe before the Drama album was made. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fYaZqpiCga7foNo.html
@vzqk50HD
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing! Always good to hear the origins of masterpieces like this.
so way gone.......
いぇっすの新たなモノを切り開いたすばらしい曲だ！
"waste another day"
I've heard this(or parts of it anyway)compared to West Side Story but not sure I hear that. Lol.
@mikereiss4216
6 жыл бұрын
Well, a little bit I guess.
i think the OP needs to understand how the game works...criticizing cos of the gap between BG and 9015...remember there are bands out ther that take 6-8 years between product
Well done. Great album considering all the politics. Love it!
What's he saying jackoh lanter asimpile pace just can't be found I can't find the words to this song
@vzqk50edge
Жыл бұрын
It is actually Jacaranda. It is a tree. As the story goes it was a favorite word of Mr. Rabin; Hence it found its way into the lyrics.
is THIS the perfect song?
I'm a big fan of their 1970's stuff, liked the ABWH record, and a few things here and there post 1970s i.e. "Angkor Wot", "It Will Be a Good Day" - nice. Just listened to the very simple, beautifully performed, lushly melodic, and poetically written "A Venture" on The Yes Album... this "I'm Running" song, lyrics, production, melody, it all makes me feel like crying, like when I was a little kid running barefoot and slipping and falling in a big steaming pile of dog shit on a torrid summer day.
I always wonder why Big Generator has such a quiet mix compared to the rest of the catalog? Its such a great record but I don't like the mix. Sounds so quiet and small but the songs are massive.
Vocals a 6:20 blown away!
What da heck is a Jacaranda ?!!
@katemurphy1915
4 жыл бұрын
It’s a plant: a beautiful purple plant. I googled it. Purple happens to be my favorite color: I am biased.
Hay watch it you would be surprised what we see have seen and you have not u.s. of that which you referred to have forgotten temporarily more than you have learned . And we Acid heads and Vietnam vets who dropped LSD in the Nam and loaded rockets on there Cobra. And still hit clear light . Well we are very complex.🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹☄️☄️☄️☄️🌑🌑🐝🐝🤰🏻🤰🏻🤱🤱⚛️✝️🛸🛸🛸🛸🌹🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🕎⚖️🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺😎🎩🌍🌎🌏🎶🏹🌑🇺🇸🔯🐅🐅
PEE WEE HERMAN FOR A SPLIT SECOND....LOLOL
@peteranderson9881
3 ай бұрын
My wife told me that, too!!
Prefer this album over 90125. Favorite tune on BG
The description for this album sounds pathetic and yet many of the songs here are as potent and psychedelic as anything Yes ever made, especially "I'm Running."
nice, but why upload from a potato?
Scott Harbison Probably too complex for the general public... yep ! but so '' Flavourful '' for the ones who need more or want to practice Their listening
@littlebuddyd
7 жыл бұрын
Frank enstein n
I remember the first time I heard this.I thought Jon was singing ,"Jack be limber.."
Repeat
Yeah but so what? Just because something is complex doesn't automatically make it good. There are other good songs on this album after all.
@ToMeK3001pro
7 жыл бұрын
Mike Reiss but it is great
Yes will never be the same, with OUT Chris second best bass player ever, saw them early 80s in the round blew me and 20.000 away...
@peggyfranzen6159
4 жыл бұрын
I will always remember Chris Squire's solo " The Fish", from the album "Fragile." Such stories sung through music are the tales of the future, and the past.
@peggyfranzen6159
3 жыл бұрын
" The Fish"- rules!
ALLAH HUAKBAR INFIDELS
typical example of a song with wolrd champion verse but horrible and annoying chorus, which doesnt fit to the rest of the song.