Brian Smith

This album marked a turning point in Yes's career. New member Trevor Rabin is credited with arrangements of the songs that were a bit more pop oriented and breathed new life into the band. This is actually a concept album, and the band opened their live shows with "Cinema", a somewhat chaotic instrumental that is actually a sound check in disguise so their Sound Engineer could do some fine tweaking of their levels before the next song, "Leave It", whose a capella opening vocals served the same purpose. Even though they are more slick than earlier Yes songs, the tracks are all masterpieces and work well together to make the entire album a rewarding listening experience. Just put it on and let it play. There are 20 second passages that took 2 weeks to mix and it showed. If something sounded weird it was because that was exactly how they wanted it to sound. Nothing was left raw, it all got finely combed through. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" got so much heavy rotation on MTV that, even a generation later, most everybody has heard it at least once. 90125 is firmly in tmy top 5 best albums of all time by anyone and it's songs are some of the best progressive rock/pop music ever recorded. Brian D. Smith. Bradenton Florida.