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Polymorphia 
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 Posted: December 27 2013 at 13:31 |
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My favorite Yes album. I actually loved the slow, languid forms.
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Utnapishtim
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Posted: January 03 2014 at 12:20 |
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Absolutely one of their best albums. I still haven't decided if it's their best album. Certainly it remains fixed into the mind and every listening is as if it were the first. Every time a new emotion.
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Posted: January 26 2014 at 14:36 |
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Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Music Is Live
Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.
Keep Calm And Listen To The Music…
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SquonkHunter
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Posted: January 29 2014 at 22:44 |
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I would say they had the opportunity to make it their greatest album but they didn't. I feel like each of the songs could have been trimmed down about 2-4 minutes. (Except for the last track.) |
Agreed. As a dedicated Yes fan going back to 1971, I tend to agree with Rick Wakeman that TFTO contained too much "filler" material. They were in the unfortunate position of having too much to fit on a single LP but not enough to fill two LPs. It would have taken an awkward 3 LP sides to do it in but it would have been probably the best music Yes ever created. Coming from me, that is high praise indeed. Grand ideas that did not work well due to the technical limitations of the time. I would love to see someone do it now on a single CD. If only...... 
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Dellinger
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Posted: January 30 2014 at 21:05 |
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SquonkHunter
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Posted: January 30 2014 at 22:03 |
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Perhaps they could have done something like what Genesis did in the 80's with their album 3 sides live... only the other way around... 3 sides studio, and the 3rd side with a live song... perhaps one that didn't make it to Yessongs. |
That is kinda what I thought too. Or maybe a fourth side of "bonus tracks" like they do on CD reissues. Collected B sides and such. Oh, what might have been.....
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Gryphon
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Posted: February 01 2014 at 19:54 |
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topographic oceans is a great album. it's been a favorite of mine since I first heard it in 1974. and the rhino remastered version from 2003 is awesome.
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dr prog
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Posted: February 02 2014 at 06:17 |
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Yes produced pretty good compositions from 1969-72 but they tried to get all fancy and drag out the songs to 20 minutes and weaken their songs. Tales was good but should have been better. I can see why wakeman left. Relayer has the same problem. Close to the edge shows this problem creeping in but Yes were more capable of filling an album with more good compositions then
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All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: February 02 2014 at 06:55 |
"We love when we play" 
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: February 02 2014 at 09:15 |
dr prog wrote:
Yes produced pretty good compositions from 1969-72 but they tried to get all fancy and drag out the songs to 20 minutes and weaken their songs. Tales was good but should have been better. I can see why wakeman left. Relayer has the same problem. Close to the edge shows this problem creeping in but Yes were more capable of filling an album with more good compositions then |
People, read the title of the thread.
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giselle
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Posted: February 07 2014 at 14:05 |
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Shouldn't it be called "Tales from Over the Topographic Oceans"?
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 07 2014 at 21:30 |
dr prog wrote:
Yes produced pretty good compositions from 1969-72 but they tried to get all fancy and drag out the songs to 20 minutes and weaken their songs. Tales was good but should have been better. I can see why wakeman left. Relayer has the same problem. Close to the edge shows this problem creeping in but Yes were more capable of filling an album with more good compositions then |
I completley agree with you as far as Tales go, but not so much about Relayer... or well, it depends on what you mean. Mainly, since you are saying you don't think extending their songs up to 20 min on Tales were, you are refering to "Gates of Delirium" on Relayer... and I wouldn't really take any minutes from it away. On the other hand, I don't really like "Sound Chaser", and I feel that "To be Over" is actually a bit over-long. I much prefer the instrumental 5 min versions Howe did later on. As for CttE, I wouldn't take any minute away from that album, from any of it's songs, it's just perfect the way it is.
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Kati
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Posted: February 08 2014 at 00:03 |
Ha! I found something new! Well new for me at least, I had no idea that at a certain stage Jon Anderson left Yes band and Buggles musicians Geoff Downess and Trevor Horn joined Yes and produced an album before they became Asia! Ha! Honestly, I had no idea, I know, yes I am a nincompoop, nevertheless this is so exciting for me to discover this  
To be honest I listened to that album now and don't understand why people don't like it, I think it's really good!
Unfortunately newcomers in a famous loved band always get slack from fans even if they do not deserve it
P.S. I must add that I dislike the track "Video Killed the Radio Star" to much!! Ugh! I could strangle someone listening to that. 
Edited by Kati - February 08 2014 at 00:07
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Moogtron III
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Posted: February 08 2014 at 02:33 |
Kati wrote:
P.S. I must add that I dislike the track "Video Killed the Radio Star" to much!! Ugh! I could strangle someone listening to that. |
I'm glad then that you are in Mozambique and I in Belgium, because I love the track plus both the Buggles albums  PS Cyberstrangling doesn't exist yet, right
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Chris S
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Posted: February 08 2014 at 02:44 |
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Need to sit down and listen to the whole album in it's entirety again....it has been too long
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: February 08 2014 at 03:38 |
Love for both Buggles albums here, too !! Nuttin' wrong with 'em.....
.....Astroboy......Miss Robot......Kid Dynamo.....Vermillion Sands......Rainbow Warrior.....etc. etc. etc.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: February 08 2014 at 03:46 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
Love for both Buggles albums here, too !! Nuttin' wrong with 'em.....
.....Astroboy......Miss Robot......Kid Dynamo.....Vermillion Sands......Rainbow Warrior.....etc. etc. etc. |
Good to hear another Buggles lover  And the albums have a fabulous production too. Adventures in modern recording indeed. Not that it's proof, but both Buggles albums get a decent rating on Allmusic.com too (4 1/2 stars for The Age Of Plastic, 4 stars for Adventures In Modern Recording)
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: February 08 2014 at 03:49 |
^ That's about how I'd rate them both. Never ever grimaced from the instant I heard them. They could be included here under Prog Related, coz they are !!
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Moogtron III
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Posted: February 08 2014 at 04:50 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
^ That's about how I'd rate them both. Never ever grimaced from the instant I heard them. They could be included here under Prog Related, coz they are !! |
Definitely 
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progbethyname
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Posted: February 10 2014 at 12:21 |
Chris S wrote:
Need to sit down and listen to the whole album in it's entirety again....it has been too long
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And then you will get the love that just keeps on giving from the mighty Tales.
A true classic and I feel I will do the same as you. Good call. 
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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