The song Love Will Find A Way has been on my mind the past few days. No, not the Amy Grant song Find A Way from her Unguarded CD release, although that is definitely another favorite, and the one that introduced me to Amy’s music, as it happens.
Amy Grant – Find A Way (live)
But that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to talk about Love Will Find A Way by prog rockers Yes, from their 1987 Big Generator release.
Yes – Love Will Find A Way
I haven’t seen this video in 20 years, and I still have the visual of the band standing around a fire playing music everytime I hear it. The song makes a connection, and you got the sense from seeing the video that the band might sit around the fire making music on a regular basis….at least I did. It wouldn’t be until years later that I would find out how delicate the balance of Yes was. I had the opportunity to see the contracts and proposals that were drawn up, that ultimately were put on the table to make the Union album and tour happen. It was amazing stuff, that you would have to trot that kind of thing out to get a band like Yes to do something after so many years. But in the world of Yes, apparently that’s just another day at the office!
Love Will Find A Way is a good example that I like to point to when talking about positive music from the days gone past. A song like this could really make you believe, draw you in, and implant itself in your world, becoming the musical soundtrack for things that were going on. It’s probably no coincidence that former Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin does tons of soundtrack work these days.
The Rabin era of Yes is a polarizing subject among Yes fans. For me, the 90125 (1983) and Talk (1994) albums are two essential desert island discs that I would take with me if I was going on a trip to “Yes Island.” 90125 hit the mark perfectly, and against all odds, they did it again with the same lineup a decade later. In a regrettable choice as a music fan, I missed the tour for Talk, and in doing so, my only chance to see the 90125 era lineup. Problem was that I wasn’t nearly THAT big of a Yes fan at that point, and by the time they finally sucked me in in 1997, it was too late.
Yes – Walls (live on Letterman)
Love Will Find A Way was a track that I was surprised to find that I didn’t have. I read a posting from someone online referencing the fact that it isn’t on their greatest hits collections. I don’t have Big Generator, so that’s a problem. I believe that I might have the 45 somewhere in the massive collection that I plan to feature here soon, but that collection is massive, and disorganized at the moment. I found my way to the Amazon MP3 store, and now there it is, on my Ipod.
Love Will Find A Way, indeed.