90125 (album)
| 90125 | ||
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| LP & CD by Yes | ||
| Released | November 7 1983 | |
| Recorded | 1983 (?) | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 44 min 35 s | |
| Record label | Atlantic Records | |
| Producers | Trevor Horn, Yes and Garry Mouat | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| RollingStone review | 3/5 | link |
| ARTISTdirect review | 4½/5 | link |
| Yes Chronology | ||
| Classic Yes (1981) | 90125 (1983) | (1985) |
90125 is a rock album by Yes released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). The title refers to the album's number in the Atlantic Records catalog (and appears as the central group of digits in the album's UPC).
90125 was the second album from the crossbred Yes & The Buggles, and was much influenced by Trevor Horn's production work. Arguably the video treatment of 90125 also owed much to Horn's media savvy; in all the album represent the completion of a radical shift for the band from prog-rock to a more accessible pop-prog sound.
The first track, "Owner of a Lonely Heart", became Yes' only #1 hit. It seems to advise caution about love, with a refrain that says a lonely heart is "much better than...a broken heart". "Changes" is notable for its introductory and closing sections with syncopated beat. "Leave It" is arguably the album's most creative track, with heavy use of the human voice as instrumentation. (The song's video, with it's suit-and-tied, vertically inverted, and digitally manipulated band members, was equally creative.) The last track, "Hearts", is an apparent counterpoint to the first, concluding "two hearts are better than one."