Search - Trevor Rabin :: 90124

Not the pre-Anderson 90125

Hank | 02/08/2004

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Yes, the cover art for this CD is "cool," but it's quite misleading. It would be great if the disc contained the Cinema (Rabin, Chris Squire, Alan White, Tony Kaye) versions of 90125's songs. Unfortunately, only five of the eleven tracks have anything to do with 90125. Worse yet, those five are just Rabin's early demos of what would eventually morph into the blockbuster Yes album. Once you get a magnifiying glass to read the tiny liner notes, you'll quickly be annoyed by the typos and paragraphs that end abruptly with no continuation to the top of the next page. From what can be gleaned from these notes, it's apparent that the Cinema band had completed a great album with former Yes vocalist Trevor Horn producing. I would've guessed that Rabin, as a primary force behind 90125, has copies of the last Cinema mixes done before Jon Anderson added his vocals and Cinema became Yes. If so, he didn't put them on this CD. The ridiculous liner notes even rave about "I'm With You" which isn't even included on the CD! Track eleven entitled "Cinema" is really an abbreviated version of "Make It Easy" from YesYears. The demo of "Where Will You Be" seems identical to the instrumental included on the Yes Active CD-ROM from 1994. "Walls" is fairly faithful to the final version from the Talk album and features vocals from co-writer Roger Hodgson of Supertramp (his contribution to this song is completely ignored in the notes). Rather than carelessness on the part of author Chris Welch, the liner notes, and really the whole CD overall, seem to be a comedy of errors for the label Voiceprint. All of the pre-Talk songs really convey the large extent to which the other members of Yes added to Trevor's demos in creating the final released versions. I realize that the artist's name on the cover is Trevor Rabin and not Cinema, but for those hoping to hear pre-Anderson versions of 90125 tracks, you'll have to settle for the three purportedly on the 2004 Rhino remaster."

Groundwork of a Masterpiece!

Hank | Alpharetta, GA United States | 10/08/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was alittle skeptical when I heard the first 15 seconds from the first track "Hold On" which sounded very demo-ish. Then the guitars kicked in, and the rest of the CD was a joy of a ride! The CD actually has 11 tracks- not just the 4 listed here on Amazon. Tracks are: 1.Hold On 2.Changes 3.Moving In 4.Would you feel my love 5.Where will you be 6.Owner of a lonely heart 7.Walls 8.Promenade 9.Love will find a way 10.Miracle of life 11.Cinema. Trevor's demo versions of these Yes classics with him on lead are very well done. This is a must for any Yes collector. The CD cover is cool - gold colored with the 90125 logo altered to 90124."

Understand... this is NOT a YES album...

Carmen Fancher | Upstate New York | 08/26/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"..but it certainly laid the groundwork for what was to become one of the greatest "YES" albums of all time (or at least after breaking from the early prog style.) Make no mistake, this is Trevor Rabin. This is not "YES" or an "Anderson-less YES." It's Trevor Rabin. Firstly, I admire the how much the vocals stand out, and you can clearly hear how the harmonization with Anderson came to be. Actually, up until this point, I had thought much of the harmonizing on "90125" were overdubs of strictly Anderson's vocals, with a few hints of Rabin thrown in. Now I can hear that Rabin had quite a bit more of a role vocally on "90125" as well as "Big Generator" and "Talk". This album, is without a doubt, one of the most interesting of the Rabin "solo" collection (although limited.) There seems to be an audible difference in style between Rabin's solo work and "Yes" work, and while I can hear some similiarities between the two, after listneing to this album, I have quickly realized that Rabin has done "something" to distingusih solo efforts from the said "Yes" work. I always prefer "original" versions of music. I am not one for re-makes or alternate versions. When it comes right down to it... at a social gathering or party, I would rather play "90125" or "Talk" in it's natural state (if you will.) I don't believe that "90124" was created for those purposes, but rather to highlight Rabin and what his ideas were in those pre-recording days.. how the ideas came together to form the final product, and how much Rabin has actually contributed to the "new" Yes sound. Understandably so, considering Anderson didn't even sign on to the "90125" project until after Rabin and Chris Squire's "Cinema" project was starting to take a new form. But again.. this is Trevor Rabin.. and that's what we were supposed have been talking about here.... right?"