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The-Bullet 
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 Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:53 |
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Rememeber also that for around 16 of the last "25" years Steve Howe wasn't around.
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"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?"
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Tony R
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:52 |
 The-Bullet wrote:
The Revealing was played during the Open Your Eyes tour .
Ritual was played during both the Magnification and 35th anni' tours (Wakeman playing on the latter). |
Oh so that's got the whole of the last 28 years covered then!
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:51 |
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The Revealing was played during the Open Your Eyes tour .
Ritual was played during both the Magnification and 35th anni' tours (Wakeman playing on the latter).
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"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?"
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:50 |
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OH, MY...oh my.....!!! |
well lets see...I've watched Yes hmmmmm maybe 30 times in the last 30 odd years.....how about you Sweet Pea?
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:48 |
OH, MY...oh my.....!!!
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:47 |
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In you call playing the whole of both Ritual and The Revealing as "excerpts" that is ...  |
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:46 |
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:43 |
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:41 |
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The-Bullet
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:37 |
In you call playing the whole of both Ritual and The Revealing as "excerpts" that is ...
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:36 |
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My, oh my.... |
Tell me I'm wrong....
1. Rick Wakeman, a member of the band and therefore highly qualified to offer an opinion,says it is rubbish. Nuff said
2. It is so much a masterpiece and better than any of their other output that Yes play it on every tour.......................I think not.
As a very long term Yes fan, I would say that your view about the album is part of the minority.If you like it fine,it is still Yes when all said and done.
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:31 |
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:25 |
It is one of the most pretentious,over-blown,ill-conceived piles of steaming cow excretia I have ever had the misfortune to listen to.
Anyone who thinks it is better than CTTE is crazy in my (and Rick Wakeman's) opinion.
Yes think it is so good that they've only played excerpts from it for the last 1/4 of a century!!
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:19 |
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:15 |
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I was planning to buy that album, I'm not sure if i really want to anymore |
You have to- it's amazing! Those who don't like it can't handle it!! 
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 19:10 |
TFTO= Awesome!
But of course as indicated above no other Yes album comes close to Close to the Edge. I think it is definitely good, but not the best.
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 18:51 |
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I think Tales is 'massive' to say the least. It is an extremely hard
album to listen to, even for seasoned prog heads like myself. I still
find it a bit over-the-top and will only listen to it on occasion. That
in no way means it isn't a good album, its just so difficult to get
into.
Musically, I think the bookends to the album are very well done. In
between, well after 40 minutes already it starts to sound like a giant
mess (Partly why I can't get into the later Flower Kings albums). But
it is prog, and well...this is pretty much as far out as your going to
get with Yes and many others. Experimentation at its finest!
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Can you tell me where my country lies...
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 18:06 |
fandango wrote:
flowerchild wrote:
Swinton MCR wrote:
- SHRUTIS
- SURITIS
- PURANAS
- TANTRAS
Four movements - each exquisitely different, a veritable masterpiece of progressive rock........It has everything and is definately a progressive rock paradigm.......
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You've got it! That's the way one must look at it to get it!!!
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I'm interested, Flowerchild & Swinton, how long did it take you to 'grow' into TFTO? Weere you able to get into it and understand it almost immediately, or did it take years? (This is a serious question, because I think maybe I ought to give it another go)...
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I loved it from start, never understood the critics at all, still don't. For me it was, and still is just the same as if u put the SONGS; "Close to the edge", "Gates of delerium", "Awaken" and...let's say.."Ritual" on a double-album...I hear no difference comparing those songs, never has...I really don't understand the debate at all. It's all the same fantastic Yes-music to me from "The Yes" album to "Going for the one". I think both KC and GG are harder to get. So, the answer to your question is: I loved it from the first second, almost 30 years ago and still does...perhaps even more!!!
Perhaps some people think you have to "try" to love prog...well, in my case I must "try" to STAND pop... For me,"Tales..." is quite easy-listening.
Edited by flowerchild
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Posted: June 06 2005 at 17:17 |
flowerchild wrote:
Swinton MCR wrote:
- SHRUTIS
- SURITIS
- PURANAS
- TANTRAS
Four movements - each exquisitely different, a veritable masterpiece of progressive rock........It has everything and is definately a progressive rock paradigm.......
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You've got it! That's the way one must look at it to get it!!!
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I'm interested, Flowerchild & Swinton, how long did it take you to 'grow' into TFTO? Weere you able to get into it and understand it almost immediately, or did it take years? (This is a serious question, because I think maybe I ought to give it another go)...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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