"Every Home Is Wired": Appendix A.2 -- Selected Postings

"Every Home Is Wired":
Appendix A.2 -- Selected Postings

(Posting headers were edited down to relevant information only. '[...]' indicates abbreviations of the article text.)

Repetition of historical and other established knowledge.
From: David Westbay <CSMA97A@prodigy.com> Subject: Re: YES EXPERIMENT, TAKE PART Date: Wed, 22 Apr 98 03:31:00 Message-ID: <6hil5h$433g$1@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com> Newsgroups: alt.music.yes Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY snnrissrvd@aol.com (Snnrissrvd) wrote: > >I have a little wager, so to speak, with a person who has told me that he never >has heard any of the Yes fans he knows to cite _Relayer_ as an important album. > Since I think I've seen more people praise _Relayer_ on this newsgroup than I >expected, I'd like to get your responses. Therefore, this experiment is for >anyone who feels like it, to give a "yes" or "no" answer (and comments if you'd >like) to the question: > >Is _Relayer_ an important album in the Yes catalog? > Yes, Relayer is a very important album in the Yes catalog. It took them to musical places they had never gone before (and sadly have never revisited since, either live or on record). It also showed that they could write, record and play great music without Rick Wakeman (a minor point to some, major to others). Dave Westbay (Reply to a post questioning the centrality of the Yes Relayer album to that band's canon. Clearly, the reply also opens up possibilities for threads analysing the band's current canon position, and that of its individual members.)	Bit 4

Repetition of historical and other established knowledge.

From: David Westbay <CSMA97A@prodigy.com> Subject: Re: YES EXPERIMENT, TAKE PART Date: Wed, 22 Apr 98 03:31:00 Message-ID: <6hil5h$433g$1@newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com> Newsgroups: alt.music.yes Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY snnrissrvd@aol.com (Snnrissrvd) wrote: > >I have a little wager, so to speak, with a person who has told me that he never >has heard any of the Yes fans he knows to cite _Relayer_ as an important album. > Since I think I've seen more people praise _Relayer_ on this newsgroup than I >expected, I'd like to get your responses. Therefore, this experiment is for >anyone who feels like it, to give a "yes" or "no" answer (and comments if you'd >like) to the question: > >Is _Relayer_ an important album in the Yes catalog? > Yes, Relayer is a very important album in the Yes catalog. It took them to musical places they had never gone before (and sadly have never revisited since, either live or on record). It also showed that they could write, record and play great music without Rick Wakeman (a minor point to some, major to others). Dave Westbay
(Reply to a post questioning the centrality of the Yes Relayer album to that band's canon. Clearly, the reply also opens up possibilities for threads analysing the band's current canon position, and that of its individual members.)

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