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Poll Question: Which to you is the best title?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 21 2016 at 11:05
Tales for me

I was so pumped by the title and the fact that Yes was releasing a double album

then I listened to the music.  What a disappointment.

The title is still really cool, though  :)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2016 at 09:44
Tales from Topographic Oceans
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2016 at 11:31
Tales for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2016 at 15:59
From Sid Smith's book In the Court of the Crimson King on the Larks' Tongue sessions:

"Fripp was certain that no new lyricist would enjoy the same position of close collaboration Peter Sinfield had occupied. [Jamie] Muir was of the view that, as intelligent creative people, they should be able to come up with the words themselves. [ . . . ] Given this, Fripp not unreasonably asked if the percussionist had any lyrics that might be suitable [to this new music]. 'Of course I didn't,' recalls a slightly chastened Muir. 'Actually I tried, but it was absolute rubbish. It was some awful Gothic thing and I was intensely embarrassed about it and it was quite rightly politely declined.'
"But Muir did coin a phrase with a significance belying the off-the-wall nature of its creation. When asked to describe the music they were making, Muir came up with 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic.'" (159)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 22 2016 at 22:10
H to HE is a bit too crazy for me and Larks Tongues in Aspic is kind of gross. Tales is a solid title and it would make me at least somewhat interested in what the album is like from hearing or reading it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2016 at 08:34
titles only...

science man.. H to He
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2016 at 10:31
"Lark's Tongues In Aspic" is one of top ten album titles in my book!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2016 at 15:24
Tales doesnt make any sense, though its rather poetic.

Larks' is nice and wacky, though it's KC so you can never know what their true intention was.

H to He is just amazingly clever.

H to He it is.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2016 at 17:24
Larks
There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2016 at 21:52
Larks, but they're all very good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2016 at 16:46
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2016 at 03:00

I don't think any of the titles are particularily good, as is the case with most prog titles! Larks is the least awful.

I prefer simple descriptive titles, like this

 and this

a Danish release, it translates to
"13 songs about the European Union, played and sung by the EF-group"

perfect no BS title.

From the prog realm, a favourite is NEU! - elegant short and very descriptive!   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2016 at 08:19
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Tales from Topographic Oceans
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2016 at 03:44
Tales From Topographic Oceans is one of my favorite album titles ever.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2018 at 02:12
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2018 at 05:48
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2018 at 12:15
^ same
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