Yes by Morphine
Performed by: Morphine
Editorial Reviews:
In a rock & roll world divided between guitar bands and synth bands, Morphine exist in a no-man's zone. The Boston trio has neither guitars nor keyboards and gets by with just drums, sax, and bass. In a pop universe where every singer, guitarist, and keyboardist instinctively goes to a higher note to attract attention, Morphine stay hunkered down low. Billy Conway's tuned drum kit, Dana Colley's baritone sax and Mark Sandman's baritone vocals and two-string slide bass all occupy the same low-end band of the sound spectrum. Morphine's odd configuration would have no more than novelty value if Sandman's songs weren't so good. This album's first single, "Honey White," for instance, rides the back of a fast, angular baritone riff to describe a pretty, young girl hooked on drugs. In the dark comedy of Sandman's rock-noir purr, Honey tells her dealer, "You'll get me when I'm old and wizened and not a day before that." He replies, "It won't be that long." The beat and the humor are essential, for otherwise these jazzy, elliptical mood pieces would become unbearably pretentious. The broken relationship described in "Radar" is a pop cliché, but it's given new life by the shattered R&B riff and by the nit-picking bickering of lines like "If I am guilty, so are you. It was March 4, 1982." In similar fashion, modern paranoia and sexual gamesmanship are nailed to the wall in "Sharks" and "Whisper" respectively. --Geoffrey Himes
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good sax.
Comment: Good sax, and "Whisper" is a gotta-have-it hit. Interestingly off-key, it's a limiting factor - good for a track or two, an entire album that way kind of grates. Despite that, they show great potential.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Morphine rocks.
Comment: There is nothing quite like Morphine.
Tight, throbbing bass. Dirty Tenor, Bari, Bass, and Double Saxophone.
Mark Sandman's vocals.
I love this album. One of my favorites of all time. If you like Rock, Jazz, and Blues, with unbelievable sax, this is it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: yes=alright
Comment: I'm a huge fan of the first song on this record. Honey White is one of the best subtle drug reference songs there is. The second track is great, but with only one exception the record sounds genaricly Morphine. This I might add is a hell of a lot better than most bands, but nothing I didn't hear from Cure for Pain. The exception is Whisper, a super sexy slow cut with a sax solo that could make someone melt.
Customer Rating:
Summary: skronk
Comment: Of Morphine's studio work, this is perhaps not their most studied. But it IS the closest in feel to their live performance.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "Don't worry I'm not lookin at you, gorgeuos & dressed in blue"
Comment: If you haven't heard Morphine I can pretty much guarantee you haven't heard anything else like it. Especially this album "Yes". Morphine is just a 3 piece band, Guitar, sax, and drums. But they are NOT ska. Not even close! They are a blues/rock/jazz combination. They are very talented, creative, and original. They are musical geniuses. Especially front man Mark Sandman.
"Yes" is maybe the bands best album the other one would be "Cure for Pain". "Yes" has a definite feel to it. It plays kind of like a soundtrack. It sets the mood and tells you a story, though I have no idea what the story's about. It's an album you listen to from beginning to end. And it has one of the best beginnings with "Honey White", and one of the best endings with "Gone for Good", that I've ever heard on an album. "Gone for Good" Is one of the most touching songs I have ever heard. And maybe the best example of an elegy that I know of.
I seriously would recommend this album to ANYONE who is a fan of music. "Yes" is one of the coolest albums ever recorded. This is what Frank Sinatra would be listening to if he were still alive.
The music world suffered a great loss the day Mark Sandman died! But most will never no it.
EAN: 0014431032028
Label: Rykodisc
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rykodisc
Release Date: 1995-03-21
Studio: Rykodisc
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Editorial Reviews:
In a rock & roll world divided between guitar bands and synth bands, Morphine exist in a no-man's zone. The Boston trio has neither guitars nor keyboards and gets by with just drums, sax, and bass. In a pop universe where every singer, guitarist, and keyboardist instinctively goes to a higher note to attract attention, Morphine stay hunkered down low. Billy Conway's tuned drum kit, Dana Colley's baritone sax and Mark Sandman's baritone vocals and two-string slide bass all occupy the same low-end band of the sound spectrum. Morphine's odd configuration would have no more than novelty value if Sandman's songs weren't so good. This album's first single, "Honey White," for instance, rides the back of a fast, angular baritone riff to describe a pretty, young girl hooked on drugs. In the dark comedy of Sandman's rock-noir purr, Honey tells her dealer, "You'll get me when I'm old and wizened and not a day before that." He replies, "It won't be that long." The beat and the humor are essential, for otherwise these jazzy, elliptical mood pieces would become unbearably pretentious. The broken relationship described in "Radar" is a pop cliché, but it's given new life by the shattered R&B riff and by the nit-picking bickering of lines like "If I am guilty, so are you. It was March 4, 1982." In similar fashion, modern paranoia and sexual gamesmanship are nailed to the wall in "Sharks" and "Whisper" respectively. --Geoffrey Himes
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good sax.
Comment: Good sax, and "Whisper" is a gotta-have-it hit. Interestingly off-key, it's a limiting factor - good for a track or two, an entire album that way kind of grates. Despite that, they show great potential.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Morphine rocks.
Comment: There is nothing quite like Morphine.
Tight, throbbing bass. Dirty Tenor, Bari, Bass, and Double Saxophone.
Mark Sandman's vocals.
I love this album. One of my favorites of all time. If you like Rock, Jazz, and Blues, with unbelievable sax, this is it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: yes=alright
Comment: I'm a huge fan of the first song on this record. Honey White is one of the best subtle drug reference songs there is. The second track is great, but with only one exception the record sounds genaricly Morphine. This I might add is a hell of a lot better than most bands, but nothing I didn't hear from Cure for Pain. The exception is Whisper, a super sexy slow cut with a sax solo that could make someone melt.
Customer Rating:
Summary: skronk
Comment: Of Morphine's studio work, this is perhaps not their most studied. But it IS the closest in feel to their live performance.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "Don't worry I'm not lookin at you, gorgeuos & dressed in blue"
Comment: If you haven't heard Morphine I can pretty much guarantee you haven't heard anything else like it. Especially this album "Yes". Morphine is just a 3 piece band, Guitar, sax, and drums. But they are NOT ska. Not even close! They are a blues/rock/jazz combination. They are very talented, creative, and original. They are musical geniuses. Especially front man Mark Sandman.
"Yes" is maybe the bands best album the other one would be "Cure for Pain". "Yes" has a definite feel to it. It plays kind of like a soundtrack. It sets the mood and tells you a story, though I have no idea what the story's about. It's an album you listen to from beginning to end. And it has one of the best beginnings with "Honey White", and one of the best endings with "Gone for Good", that I've ever heard on an album. "Gone for Good" Is one of the most touching songs I have ever heard. And maybe the best example of an elegy that I know of.
I seriously would recommend this album to ANYONE who is a fan of music. "Yes" is one of the coolest albums ever recorded. This is what Frank Sinatra would be listening to if he were still alive.
The music world suffered a great loss the day Mark Sandman died! But most will never no it.
Technical Details
Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0014431032028
Label: Rykodisc
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rykodisc
Release Date: 1995-03-21
Studio: Rykodisc
