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    Posted: November 17 2019 at 11:34

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 Smile



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The story of the best yes album
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 17 2019 at 13:40
I noticed there's  another blog with the same title as this one, but I couldn't come up with a better title. Smile
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My favorite LP ever.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2019 at 13:46
Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

My favorite LP ever.
 
It's on my long list of albums to go out and buy. Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

My favorite LP ever.
 
It's on my long list of albums to go out and buy. Smile

Life-changing...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Slartibartfast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2019 at 19:59
While not my favorite I do feel it don't get no respect.  But it is no disgrace.
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.
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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Originally posted by MaldonTerryWood MaldonTerryWood wrote:

LPs had big covers and for me the artist was important too. Does anyone know what Roger Dean did in later life?
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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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

While not my favorite I do feel it don't get no respect.  But it is no disgrace.

Four years on and I still haven't added it to my prog collection, so the disgrace is all mine. Tongue
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

My favorite LP ever.
 
It's on my long list of albums to go out and buy. Smile

Life-changing...

Wisdom Man!
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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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

While not my favorite I do feel it don't get no respect.  But it is no disgrace.

Four years on and I still haven't added it to my prog collection, so the disgrace is all mine. Tongue
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.


Edited by cstack3 - December 10 2023 at 16:13
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Progishness Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2023 at 01:30
Tales to me always seems like the muzak version of CTTE... a very pleasant listen all the same.
"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (2) Thanks(2)   Quote chopper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2023 at 07:49
Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

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 though. We fled from the sea whole.
Dawn of thought transferes through moments. Of days uunder searching earth.
Revealing corridors of time provoking memories. Disjointed but with purpous.
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.


It worries me that I can recite this word for word but can't remember why I came upstairs.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (2) Thanks(2)   Quote Frets N Worries Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2023 at 08:22
^same!
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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote cstack3 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2023 at 17:02
Originally posted by Frets N Worries Frets N Worries wrote:

^same!

Likewise!!  BTW, I corrected some spelling typos.  Surprised this lot didn't call me on it! 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (2) Thanks(2)   Quote Epignosis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2023 at 20:20
Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

While not my favorite I do feel it don't get no respect.  But it is no disgrace.

Four years on and I still haven't added it to my prog collection, so the disgrace is all mine. Tongue


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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