Artist: YES
Album: BIG GENERATOR (CD)

Year: 1987
EAN/UPS: 0075679052223
Media type: CD

Big Generator is the twelfth studio album by progressive rock band Yes. It was released in 1987 on Atlantic Records' Atco subsidiary label (Yes' last studio album for Atlantic) and was the follow-up to the massively successful 90125 album.

A laborious album to make, Big Generator's sessions dragged on for two years, largely due to creative differences. Guitarist Trevor Rabin was aiming to progress beyond 90125, while founding lead vocalist Jon Anderson was beginning to yearn for more traditional Yes music.

The result was an album that was successful commercially and critically, birthing two hits in the process: "Love Will Find A Way" (also a #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart) and "Rhythm Of Love" (their last in the US Top 40). But it was not as popular as 90125, and feeling that the band was going in a direction he didn't want to pursue, Jon Anderson began working on other projects at the conclusion of the Big Generator tour in 1988, including a partial reformation with his Yes bandmates from the 1970s.

The album may likely be reissued by Rhino Records with bonus tracks in 2008, as all previous Atlantic studio releases have been. It hadn't already since no additional material had been available, but unreleased demos may be pulled from the Warner vaults, or live material from 1988 used on the box set, Yesyears.

TRACKLIST:

"Rhythm of Love" (Jon Anderson/Tony Kaye/Trevor Rabin/Chris Squire) – 4:47
"Big Generator" (Jon Anderson/Tony Kaye/Trevor Rabin/Chris Squire/Alan White) – 4:33
"Shoot High, Aim Low" (Jon Anderson/Tony Kaye/Trevor Rabin/Chris Squire/Alan White) – 7:01
"Almost Like Love" (Jon Anderson/Tony Kaye/Trevor Rabin/Chris Squire) – 4:58
"Love Will Find a Way" (Trevor Rabin) – 4:50
"Final Eyes" (Jon Anderson/Tony Kaye/Trevor Rabin/Chris Squire) – 6:25
"I'm Running" (Jon Anderson/Tony Kaye/Trevor Rabin/Chris Squire) – 7:37
"Holy Lamb (Song for Harmonic Convergence)" (Jon Anderson) – 3:19

LINE-UP:

Jon Anderson - Vocals
Chris Squire - Bass, Vocals (Background)
Trevor Rabin - Producer, Guitar, Vocals (Background), Mixing, Keyboards, Engineer, String Arrangements
Tony Kaye - Organ, Fairlight, Emulator, Synclavier, rack mounted synthesizers
Alan White - Drums, Percussion, Vocals (Background)

Additional personnel:

Jimmy "Z" Zavala - Harmonica, Horn
Trevor Horn - Horn, Producer
Greg Smith - Horn
Nick Lane - Horn
Lee Thornburg - Horn
Greg "Frosty" Smith - Horn