Yes Music Podcast
Established in 2011 - Two fans' exploration of the world's greatest progressive rock band
Episodes
May 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I are trying out a new concept - it’s a game called Yes connections. There will be chances to laugh at my ineptitude as well as chances to get involved yourself with a special Yes connections round for listeners - with a prize for the more creative - or maybe funny entry sent into the show. Hang onto your hat and test your Yes knowledge...
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April 18, 2025 • 51 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I were joined by Jon Pickles to talk about the latest (greatest?) Yes Record Store Day offering - Live at the Rainbow London, England 12/16/1972 - a catchy title if there ever was one. I haven't forked out the considerable amount of money for a copy - yet - but both Jon and Mark have, so at least they are speaking from a position of kno...
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April 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I had a think about the Yes songs we like that include contrasts - one of my favourite aspects of progressive rock - and Yes music. We both chose 2 songs to talk about in depth but also went on a bit about other songs that also fit this category. It was another very interesting conversation - at least I thought so.
What songs do we ...
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April 4, 2025 • 57 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Mark and I always enjoy ‘getting into the weeds’ and ‘geeking out’ about Yes kit so here is another perfect example of this. This week we both chose 3 pieces of YesKit that took our fancy and went on about them for a long time. If you don’t consider yourself a 5%er who loves hearing about the minutiae of music tech as used by Yes, then feel free to skip th...
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March 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I have been listening to the great live album by Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks - Live Perpetual Change. Listen out for our comments in a few minutes and do let us know if you agree or disagree with us by leaving a comment on the show notes for this week.
How does Jon Anderson sound these days?
Is this a cover band?
What are t...
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March 21, 2025 • 17 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Unfortunately, Mark has been unwell this week so best wishes to him for a speedy recovery. As we couldn't record an episode, I've been delving into the archive to uncover the first Yes Tracks Through Time episode I ever did. That was back in April 2013. Wow.
Here are the show notes from way back then:
Episode 200 with a new logo!
The seventy-n...
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March 14, 2025 • 49 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
In a bumper double-feature episode (or something like that), Mark and I compare the Empire featuring Peter Banks version of Something’s Coming with the Yes studio version and we also indulge in a little bit of speculation about the forthcoming Yes album - and who doesn’t enjoy these kinds of guessing games? Well if you don’t, feel free to use the fast forw...
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March 7, 2025 • 45 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week, Mark and I return to one of our favourite pastimes - listening to Yes tracks through time. We each chose 3 different live recordings of Awaken to listen to and then discuss. So it’s time to put your Roger Dean thinking caps on and see if you would have chosen the same versions as us.
Which versions did we choose?
Why did we chose those on...
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Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I enjoyed discovering the many delights of the Blu-ray version of the Steven Wilson remix set of Tales from Topographic Oceans. It’s packed full of obscure and unusual versions of the songs on the album - a delight for all Yes nerds fans everywhere.
Do you have a copy of the Blu-ray version? If not, you might want to find one as expla...
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February 21, 2025 • 40 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I consider 6 songs that were performed live really well by lineups of Yes that didn’t record them. With the revolving door policy of the band over the decades, there was a lot to choose from so see if we came up with anything you would have chosen yourself. Of course, as usual, we’d love to hear from you some of your own suggestions, so ...
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February 14, 2025 • 45 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week I’m feeding back on my trip to Trading Boundaries to see what Dave Watkinson has put on display alongside the permanent Roger Dean exhibition there. I made a video of Dave showing me around and we both enthuse about all the amazing items.
I then had a chance to chat with Mark about what he noticed on the video - of course it’s embedded into th...
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February 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
After an important update on last week's episode, Mark and I choose 3 interesting cover versions each. They all feature Yes men past or present. If you'd like to listen to the songs before listening to us banging on about them, they are all embedded below with the original versions as well.
Which covers did we choose?
Who is represented from Yes?
...
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January 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
I received an interesting email from a listener this week. She asked if anyone was aware of the connections between a song by the Italian prog group PFM and Yes’ Gates of Delirium. I’ll explain more when I go through the email with Mark a little later on.
Many thanks to the Patrons who gave their feedback on the topic and before you listen to Mark and m...
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January 24, 2025 • 46 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Mark was back this week and we welcomed YMP listener and Patron Jon Pickles onto the show to talk about the time he was a 'tea boy' at Trident Studios in London. You'll need to listen to the interview to hear all about it but Trident was the world-renowned studio where, amongst unnumbered highlights of rock music, Yes recorded overdubs for their first albu...
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January 17, 2025 • 46 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
Unfortunately, Mark was unwell this week so we wish him a speedy recovery. I'm sure he will be back with us next week.
I did manage to speak to the Yes expert Henry Potts, however, about his recent blog post. Called 'What does 2025 hold for Yes fans?' it contains, in Henry's usual style, a huge amount of detail about all sorts of live and recorded Yes a...
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January 10, 2025 • 34 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
It’s 2025 and Mark and I are back for another year of the Yes Music Podcast. According to an online tool, it’s 13 years 3 months 2 weeks and 6 days since I published episode 1. Wow.
This episode focuses on Drama from 1980 - released 44 years 4 months 2 weeks and 5 days ago. Despite the shock of the dramatic lineup changes (Buggles Horn and Downes replac...
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December 26, 2024 • 13 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
It's Boxing Day 2024 and Mark and Kevin are still in a festive mood. This time, they announce the answers to the first ever YMP Christmas Quiz. They are still in that Christmas Market with the pesky tin cans being thrown about for some reason.
See if your answers were correct and join in all the fun…
What are the answers to the quiz questions?
Wh...
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December 20, 2024 • 9 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
In the first ever YMP Christmas Quiz, Mark and Kevin present an episode directly from a Christmas Market ;-)
See if you can answer all the 16 (not 20!) questions and send your answers to show@yesmusicpodcast.com before the next episode is released on Boxing Day (26th December 2024).
Remember that you can extra credit, as explained in the episode.
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December 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week Mark and I consider the conflicting aspects of Rick Wakeman’s musical character. We have both chosen one piece of sublime and one piece of ridiculous Wakeman playing on a Yes record or on a live recording. What will we choose? Listen on to find out and then supply your own examples via the comments below.
What were Rick Wakeman's best contrib...
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December 6, 2024 • 33 mins
Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller
This week we return to our (relatively) new series for 6 reasons why ‘Yes’ is a great Yes album. Mark and I came up with 3 reasons each so listen out and see if we’ve chosen one or more of your own. Then, why not add yours to the comments on the show notes for this week’s episode over at yesmusicpodcast.com?
Is the first Yes album any good?
What c...
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