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You know what, tales is the best yes album |
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dwill123 
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"Tales" no, "Edge" yes.
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Gerinski
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 05:24 |
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It's a great album, up there with their best. It was meant to beat all other albums in terms of "proggyness" and man did it beat them. It's over the top because that's what the band wanted it to be. You just need to be in the right mood for it.
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M27Barney
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 06:30 |
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The anecdote is clearly mostly fabrication. In 1973 , tbe curry houses in manchester near the free trade hall (they were very few in 1973) would have sold three curries. Mild, Madras and vindaloo and BOILED rice. No nan bread, only buttered chapati. Onion bhaji and poppadum starters....I heard that he had a pot of vindaloo and bolied rice....historically cotrect in terms of what was available in 1973...
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chopper
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 07:26 |
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I love the album, it's brilliant as is anything by Yes from The Yes Album to Going For The One but I would rank CTTE and Relayer slightly above it. "The Remembering" is my favourite track on the album, in case you were wondering.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 07:34 |
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I'm SO looking forward to listening to "Tales from Topographic Oceans" again after reading everyone's insightful comments on this thread.
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Fischman
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 07:48 |
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Best is a tough sell given how magnificent TYE, F, CTTE, and R are, but it definitely should be in the conversation. It is far too often slighted relative to the others.
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twosteves
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 08:43 |
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I think its a great achievement and one of my fav Yes albums---is it as tight as CTTE? no --but it is 90 min long. Rick can criticize it all he wants but he does some of his best innovative playing on it---his solo on RSOG is spellbinding.
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Progosopher
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 18:27 |
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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verslibre
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 19:48 |
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If you love Yes, you love Tales. It doesn't have to be your favorite, but it's prime-era Yes.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: October 13 2019 at 20:21 |
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I think it's worthy of four stars on the PA rating scale but not five. I actually think ritual is one of Yes's most under rated tracks. The only one I'm not that crazy about is the remembering which seems to overstay it's welcome but most of TFTO is pretty solid over all. I might be the only person on here who actually wasn't that crazy about the SW remix though.
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octopus-4
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Posted: October 14 2019 at 02:00 |
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I don't think it's their best but I think it's underrated.
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: October 14 2019 at 03:20 |
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I've always enjoyed the album's long running time. It's just MORE 1973 YES. How can this be a bad thing?
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Psychedelic Paul
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I think the album's mostly underrated by Rick Wakeman but I like it.
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Argo2112
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Posted: October 14 2019 at 07:40 |
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First let me say I love Yes, one of my favorite bands ever. That said, I was never a fan of TFTO. It has great moments but for me it does drag out at times & as Mr. Wakemen himself said , does seem to have a lot of padding.
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Posted: October 14 2019 at 10:19 |
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Tales is my all time favorite LP by any band, any genre, any era. The audacity of YES!!! The sheer, relentless searching for weirder sounds, stranger arrangements and even more celestial lyrical content. What's not to like? It's everything I love (and hate) about Prog all in one amazing double album. They truly don't make 'em like that anymore!!! (And yes, it took me about 100 listens to appreciate back in the 70's but thank God YES was/is my favorite band so I stuck with it. I can understand those who didn't have the patience though...)
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Posted: October 14 2019 at 10:21 |
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Was this your first venture into the world of Tales From Topographic Oceans?
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Posted: October 14 2019 at 10:27 |
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They were slumming and tried to legitimize things with another Roger Dean cover.
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Posted: October 14 2019 at 12:16 |
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