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[harvard!jerpc.PE!topaz!jer (Eric Roskos @ RRPC Prototype)]

> There are many that will claim that the vanilla "Owner of a Lonely
> Heart" is a disco song.

Oh, now, I don't agree with that.  I will agree that it may have been
intended as a response to Steve Howe's complaint (in saying why Asia was
"better" than Yes) that Yes's songs weren't songs you could dance to
(eventhough that is not true, of course); but I don't think it involved
any sort of a "disco" intent.

My major complaint about that song is that it is such a deviation from
Jon Anderson's usual songs on the subject; it is full of trite, insignificant
advice.  Compare it to the song "To Be Over," or "On the Silent Wings of
Freedom," or something like that.  (Especially the former.  That is a
very good song.)

> The even more discofied remix version was done by some person totally
> unrelated to Yes.  My brother has a copy.  The remixed verson is pretty
> awful if you ask me.

I only heard it once, so I don't know.  How could someone else make a
"remixed" version?  Did Yes give them permission?  Who is the record
published by?