Last night, for the very first time — which should utterly shock you, except you probably have no clue about my musical tastes; suffice it to say that I grew up listening to these guys — I listened to Fly From Here, the most recent release by Yes. To be honest, I had no earthly idea the album had ever been recorded until a couple of days ago when a Twitter discussion about the Buggles sent me down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. What had begun as me jotting down some notes about how I felt about this release has instead turned into a nearly three-thousand word essay, so, you know, get ready (or tl;dr, ya bastards). The album was released in 2011, but to talk about it with an audience which may not understand what I’m getting at in the end here, a few paragraphs about things from 1979-1980 are required to put this in proper perspective.