YES - Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973) |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Undoubtedly, The Yes Album that's been the Big Generator of the most controversy over the years is Tales from Topographic Oceans. YES, it's a long double album with four long Yessongs which was treated like something of a rotten Tormato by the jaded music press, but if you Open Your Eyes, you'll gain the Keys to Ascension and realise what a classic album this is. The album came Close to the Edge of splitting the band up, when there was a Magnification of tensions within the group with so many Fragile egos at stake. In the ensuing Drama, Time and a Word has it that Rick Wakeman threatened to walk out during the recording of the album. The album climbed The Ladder of success though, topping the UK album charts for two weeks. Rick Wakeman left the band and didn't appear on the following Relayer album. There was Talk of a re-Union, but Heaven & Earth had to be moved to persuade Rick to return for the Going for the One album in 1977. The best-selling YES album of all time though, released in 1983, was famously named after its catalogue number, 90125. Well, that's another blog written, so it's time for me to Fly from Here and continue with The Quest of listening again to the entire discography of YES Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 08 2023 at 05:29 |
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The story of the best yes album
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I noticed there's another blog with the same title as this one, but I couldn't come up with a better title.
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My favorite LP ever.
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Psychedelic Paul
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It's on my long list of albums to go out and buy.
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Life-changing...
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While not my favorite I do feel it don't get no respect. But it is no disgrace.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Tales gets a lot of respect among hardcore Yes fans and in prog circles imo. It's only the casual fans who don't get it.
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It was and still is too beautiful a work to be well understood by most listeners.
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Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.
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LPs had big covers and for me the artist was important too. Does anyone know what Roger Dean did in later life?
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He designed video game covers from the mid-1980's onwards and he also has a couple of art galleries in England and San Francisco. I expect he's retired by now at the age of 75.
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Four years on and I still haven't added it to my prog collection, so the disgrace is all mine.
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Wisdom Man!
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The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
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and it has 3x in price probably.....LOL
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Dawn of light lying between a silence, and sold sources.
Chased amid fusions of wonder. In moments hardly seen forgotten. Colored in pastures of chance, dancing leaves cast spells of challenge. Amused but real in thought. We fled from the sea whole. Dawn of thought transferes through moments. Of days under searching earth. Revealing corridors of time provoking memories. Disjointed but with purpose. Craving penetrations offer links with the self instructors sharp,
And tender love as we took to the air. A picture of distance. Dawn of our power we amuse. Re-descending as fast as misused expression. As only to teach love as To reveal passion chasing late into corners, and we danced from the ocean. Dawn of love sent within us. Colors of awakening among the many. Won't to follow, only tunes of a different age. As the links span our endless caresses. For the freedom of life everlasting. Happy Anniversary! Released December 7, 1973: YES "Tales From Topographic Oceans". Their sixth studio album.
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Tales to me always seems like the muzak version of CTTE... a very pleasant listen all the same.
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It worries me that I can recite this word for word but can't remember why I came upstairs.
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^same!
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Likewise!! BTW, I corrected some spelling typos. Surprised this lot didn't call me on it!
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I remember listening to it all the time in a frigid apartment 20 years ago. It's my favorite album. You should get it.
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