Yes, Topographic Oceans
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Topic: Yes, Topographic Oceans
Posted By: TheLastBaron
Subject: Yes, Topographic Oceans
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 03:11
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I really enjoy Yes. I only have The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge right now. I love all these albums. The atmosphere, lyrics and musicianship on all of these is superb. And though my Papa would roll his eyes, I love their cover of America. I love how they took a 3 minute pop song ( the original is great, love Simon and Garfunkel) and made it a ten minute awesome jam.
Now with my love for those three albums, should I venture into Tales from Topographic Oceans? I've heard mixed things. ------------- " Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds." - FDR |
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 03:23
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there are two classic Yes albums that can be difficult; Tales and Relayer, many fans prefer one or the other, some like both |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 03:44
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I think that this is the thread for you. Nothing need be added here I think? http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=58713 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=58713
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 04:48
I LOVE both... After those, I'd reccomend DRAMA and GOING FOR THE ONE, but there isn't a YES album I don't love... ------------- 
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Atavachron wrote:Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 06:04
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I think Tales is a simply wonderful album, and if anything to these ears it seems to have improved over the years.
It's pretty much as good as anything by Yes (I only prefer Going For The One) and an absolute must-have.
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Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 08:13
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Go to the post recommended by Snow Dog. But I just want to say, though I've known this album all my conscious life, I'm extremely happy and perhaps sort of envious for anyone who is about to hear it for the first time! You are lucky, because it is wonderful.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 08:19
I absolutely agree with you. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 12:29
A superb couple of posts - I can barely remember the first time I listened to this, and the sense of excitement at buying the gatefold vinyl from my local record shop some 30 years ago. You are so going to love it. My own review http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=204366 gives my own opinion, which I have not changed - however, Revealing Science & Ritual are two of the most enduring and incredible pieces of music ever written and performed. Enjoy   ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:45
You should venture into because everyone should have their own opinion on this album. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:47
yep....  as I said in my review.. and surely said in others... If you don't have an opinion on this album... you know jack sh*t about prog. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:50
LastBaron? Hello?  
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:51
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I like to sing the lyrics really loud in the bathroom. THEY MOVE FAST THEY TELL ME BUT I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I CAN FEEL IT I sang half of Ritual in the loo tonight.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:51
Maybe he's listening to it right now! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:52
He's probably just getting finished listening to Tales from Topographic Oceans. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:52
f**k! Beat me to the punch!  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:52
I can imagine the two us getting drunk on beer and getting weird looks at the bar. GETTING OVER OVERHANGING TREES! |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:58
Not even Open Your Eyes??  ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 20:59
We could meet some environmentalists. "We must do something to protect the trees!" Me: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGH LET EM RAPE THE FOREST...*hick*.....they might stand and leave em, you know what I'm sayin..." Pat: "Clearly...let's go home." Me: "That's to be home, ya git..." ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 21:00
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Anyway, that album is very controversial. I personally like it, but not everybody does. I'd say go for it. It doesn't hurt to try it.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 21:03
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 21:04
I think that may be a Billy Squire song |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 05:37
Please understand, I'm not writing this to be a corrective jerk. (Actually Epi, your posts are among the ones I find most enjoyable, and your serious love of this album is something I understand and share .) But that last lyric is incorrect (if you're talking about that moment near the close of Revealing where Anderson sings over Wakeman) and should read, "they really mean to."I wouldn't post such a thing at all ever if it wasn't for a funny fact that makes that one lyrical moment stick in my head perhaps more that any other. I grew up pretty poor, but my brother had a vinyl record collection of great music that I listened to religiously, almost all of which was this stuff which would later come to be called prog rock. An easy favorite of mine, deeply meaningful to me then as now, was Tales. But the record was getting old, tight money prevented the thought of replacing it, and the record developed a bad scratch that became a skip. It would go... THEY MOVE FAST THEY TELL ME BUT I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THEY REALLY MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) MEAN TO (skip) ... Whenever I listen to the CD now, and that part comes, I think of that skip. I remember making a tape of it for carrying around (so I could geek out in public and not just at home!). The skip was on the tape too, about five skips before I succesfully nudged the needle past that point and into Howe's little volume pedal accents that follow. That further reenforced the skip in my mind, almost as if it was a part of the song. Like, Jon really can't believe they mean to!Anyway, man is that album the greatest!  ------------- Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"? |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 06:13
No offense taken, friend... ...but you're wrong. You see, Anderson sings that melody more than once. The second time (19:37) is the location of the lyrics you mentioned. The lyrics I noted begin at 11:41, the first time that melody is sung. But I'm glad you got to share that anecdote (there's been more than one time that a ruined copy of a beloved song ingrained something like that into my memory). ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: July 01 2009 at 06:28
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^ Aaaaah, right. Followed by, "There's someone / to tell you..." Got it. The part I was talking about was the return reference to that earlier music, which moment you would agree is one of the greatest nods to symphonists ever to take place in rock, and the chills it produces, the epic close of the piece, wouldn't have been possible without that earlier section. Yeah, those fellas were pretty good.
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Posted By: meptune
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 02:41
Of course you should venture. Be a crazy man, be your own man. Decide for yourself, then report back to us! ------------- 
"Arf, she said" |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 04:33
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You can imagine my surprise when I heard TFTO, considering my first experience of Yes, as a fledgling progger, was 90125!! I was just getting into prog and had no real idea what to expect from album to the next.
TFTO wrestles with CTTE for my third favourite Yes album, behind Fragile and GFTO. It's mainly on the strength of 'The Revealing Science of God' which is my all time favourite Yes track. You must check this album out!
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 07:07
WORD... -------------
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: July 02 2009 at 20:38
Both are an "acquired taste." I acquired my taste for Relayer long before Tales... |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: July 03 2009 at 05:31
OK, perhaps a small knock to Relayer for "To Be Over", which has a first third that I frankly find sort of lazy sometimes (but then other times I like it), but then again the lyrics even speak to lazing, and even so it all leads to a second two-thirds that's fantastic(!) so I can't really complain. Whereas I find nothing at all wanting in Tales. But again, I love both records. Relayer isn't trying to be Tales (not that that's what anyone was suggestion), because nothing ever will or can. ------------- Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"? |
Posted By: Lodij van der Graaf
Date Posted: July 21 2009 at 06:29
You have to. But about Tales, some call it Prog's motherlode, some call it motherf**ker Let's see yours after listening the album by yourself. |