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MattiR 
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Posted: March 04 2006 at 16:35 |
"The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn" - it's like prayer even... This song has no weak points 
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micky
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Posted: February 20 2006 at 21:05 |
 Duchess wrote:
The first side is quite good , first ten minutes excellent
and a good keyboard leadbreak at the end.After the first
side the music is weakened because Wakeman seems only occasionally
interested.I never liked any part of the second side. The third side is
something of a favorite because it is so weird I like to play it loud
at traffic lights with the windows open to shock all those people
listening to the trash they put on the radio. It is my revenge..
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hahahhahahah.... I haven't used the Ancient to do that yet. My
favorite is blasting Gentle Giant (usually Knots of course  )
while driving through downtown Raleigh N.C. with the windows down.... I
have recieved some odd looks before.... and I believe a coke bottle
tossed my way hahahha.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Duchess
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Posted: February 20 2006 at 17:56 |
The first side is quite good , first ten minutes excellent and a good keyboard leadbreak at the end.After the first side the music is weakened because Wakeman seems only occasionally interested.I never liked any part of the second side. The third side is something of a favorite because it is so weird I like to play it loud at traffic lights with the windows open to shock all those people listening to the trash they put on the radio. It is my revenge. The song part of the 4th side is beautiful but all in all the 3rd and 4th sides contain too much jamming rather than solid material.
It is quite a creative piece musically but it suffers from dull lyrics and the sides are poorly structured so it comes across as a rambling mess.
So for me 1st side is best, then third , then fourth and the second is worst.
One other point is that John Anderson ( He may have been Jon at the time) says part of the third side is inspired by Atlantean music (as in the lost and never found civilisation of Atlantis). This shocked me as I never realised his powers were beyond our usual conceptions of time and space.So those on this list who think that the prog heroes are mere mortals need to rethink . Amen.
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Padraic
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Posted: February 20 2006 at 17:28 |
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1. The Ancient
2. Revealing Science of God
3. Ritual
4. The Remembering
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Laurent
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Posted: February 20 2006 at 17:10 |
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My vote goes to TRSOG. But I love all 4 songs(if they can be called that).
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Posted: February 20 2006 at 17:08 |
Nous Sommes Du Soleil, We Laugh While We Play. Beautiful 
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Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams;
Mind and machinery box-press our dreams
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micky
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 16:36 |
lunaticviolist wrote:
I love them all, but The Ancient is insane!
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oh you aren't kidding about that are you... I wish I could remember back as to why I didn't care for it at first...
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Mharo
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 14:58 |
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It's "The Remembering - High The Memory" for me. It actually works excellent in making me relive old times.
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Suritis: The Remembering.
Hopefully we should appreciate that given points in time are not so significant as the nature of what is impressed on the mind, and how it is retained and used.
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lunaticviolist
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 14:18 |
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I love them all, but The Ancient is insane!
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My recent purchases:
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King of Loss
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 14:05 |
el böthy wrote:
memowakeman wrote:
Ritual
and alive that song sounds beautiful
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TREU!!! I find the song good...but in the Tsongas dvd...WOW!!! Awesome!
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Yea, I find in beautiful too, because I was there at that DVD shooting!
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el böthy
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 14:01 |
memowakeman wrote:
Ritual
and alive that song sounds beautiful
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TREU!!! I find the song good...but in the Tsongas dvd...WOW!!! Awesome!
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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micky
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 09:45 |
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The Ancient for me... right there Ritual. The Ancient, much like
the album, I was cool to at first, but over time it has become my
favorite off of the album. Then again that's like saying I have a
favorite child, I love them all. Let's just say that The Ancient
is my first child... hahahhahah. Throughly enjoy the opportunity,
rare as they are, to half an hour or two to sit and listen to the album
straight through with no interuptions or distractions.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Winter Wine
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 09:29 |
s1ipp3ry wrote:
Has to be The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn yep The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn it is for me , The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn is great |
 You already said that
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 09:19 |
Has to be The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn yep The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn it is for me , The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn is great
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erlenst
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 09:14 |
Sinner wrote:
When TFTO was first released I listened to it all from beginning to end. Unfortunately it became obvious that it was the most pompous, overblown, meandering, pointless composition of the latter half of the 20th century,
I wish I could have that 80 minutes of my life back. I would put on some Rush, Thin Lizzy, or ELP.
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In other words you have only listened to the album ONE time. That does not make qualified to judge it at all.
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 09:03 |
hcnoer wrote:
Yeah, I don't really understand why he doesn't/didn't like it, although I think his opinion has changed quite some in the latter years. I mean there are lots of keyboards there, and his contribuition is superb.
Personally I think it's more about playing with four rather strange ppl, where for instance was the only one not being a vegitarian. And the theme for the album that is even a bit way out for him. But oh well, that is just my theory.
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As far as I know, Wakemen just thought it was too spacey, pretentious and irrelevant to anything for his taste. I also think he felt shut out by Anderson and Howe, who came up with the concept and most of the music. They tried to write around the constraints of having one track per side of vinyl. Wakemen also didn't like that approach.
It still got to number 1 at the time, riding on the success of CTTE.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Winter Wine
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 08:51 |
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I love this album and it's too hard to decide what's my overall favourite these days, It used to always be 'The Revealing Science of God' but I love them all now. Today I voted for 'The Remembering', It's the underdog!
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cobb
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Posted: February 19 2006 at 01:11 |
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This work is the greatest achievement in progressive rock - period. No wonder so many people don't like it....
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Posted: February 18 2006 at 23:29 |
This is my favourite YES CD , and how hard it was to decide on what to vote for says everything , but I went for The Revealing Science of God -- Dance of the Dawn , in the end 
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Rust
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Posted: February 18 2006 at 22:57 |
Damen wrote:
The Remembering - High the Memory for me actually.
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Absolutely agree with you.
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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