Friday and the Random 10 (Can We Beat Georgia Again? Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (New Year's Eve Return Edition)

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Music Monday: Yes/The Yes Album (Side 2)

Now it's time to continue our journey through the music of Yes. Side 1 of The Yes Album was covered here, so now it's on to the flip side.

The back cover. Yeah, creepy.

Music Monday (The Ladder, Side 1)

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.

Plus, Roger Dean ya'll: