Me and my journey through life, from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows and all wacky, funny, deep, depressing and interesting points in between. My interests are varied from one end of the spectrum to another. Basically, the disappointing side of mediocre.
The Ladder is the eighteenth studio album by progressive rock band Yes and was released in 1999. To me, it is the best album they have done in years.
The follow-up to 1997's tepidly-received Open Your Eyes (blah), The Ladder was seen as a conscious return to the classic Yes sound, while maintaining a contemporary edge. It is the only Yes album with keyboardist Igor Khoroshev as a full time member, the last with guitarist Billy Sherwood (yay?), and the only album of the band as a sextet.
So I have been re-watching all the seasons of Stargate SG-1. I just finished one of my favorite episodes where in trying to help stop a displaced people from being destroyed by an alien terraform machine, SG-1 actually stumbled upon their original homeworld which had been lost through time.
Anyway, long story short (too late), made me think of this. Best song they have done in years:
