I'll have to listen again to check LDR and SSOTS - HOTS is obvious frontrunner. I don't like this album so much, weirdly enough, and I really don't get Runaround at ALL
― imago, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:26 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Same re: roundabout. Unless you’re talking about the blues traveler song
― calstars, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:32 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I get it so little I don't even know what it's called ffs
― imago, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:37 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
But to be unambiguous, I don't get the opening track of Fragile. I don't even know how it goes. I've listened to it several times but it slides off my ear on each occasion
― imago, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:38 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
threadban plz
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Alan White was good but Billy B was in a different league― calstars, Sunday, April 15, 2018 1:19 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― calstars, Sunday, April 15, 2018 1:19 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Agreed. I remember reading an interview with Eddy Offord where he said that White had difficulty getting the older material down when he first joined the band - having said that, I find it difficult to imagine Relayer with Bruford for some reason.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
(I prefer Relayer to Frragile and even Close to the Edge, fwiw)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
yea that's understandable in the sense that someone may prefer heroin to cocaine
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
Score another one to Relayer. Actually The Yes Album is better than all of them and Going For The One is the one I'd save in the event of apocalypse as it has Awaken on it
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
idk GftO is where you can hear them going off and I don't bother with anything after that. If I had to choose one Yes album for me it would be extremely difficult to choose between Relayer and CttE
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Relayer has the better main course, CTTE the better side dishes
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
Ha, that's a good way to put it!
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
I'm surprised that someone would love prog-era Yes and hate "Roundabout" tbh.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
It's not hate, it's just never clicked
― imago, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
listen to it harder
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
your brains never clicked
― j., Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
I don’t know, Roundabout just sits on E throughout the song, sure it modulates major to minor but meh. Surely not as exciting as the other epics.
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
I posted one of these on the yessed out thread. See if you can make it through 11 minutes of just that one riff over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ISpg1VdrE
(I didn't watch the whole thing, btw. My apologies if there's any bullshit on there that needs to be flagged.)
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
Every time I listen to this album, it becomes clearer and clearer to me that Chris Squire was the Yes MVP
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
i love the jojo's bizarre adventure roundabout meme... so much
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
that comp has a lot of unsettling and boring variations on it unfortunately
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
― calstars, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:36 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i know something else that sits on E throughout the song hehehe
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:23 (six years ago) link
It's a whole band of MVPs.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
too funky for jager
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
xp Yeah but I'm pretty sure Squire is the MVP of MVPs
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Can we agree that maybe Rick Wakeman is the least MVP?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
Just in case anyone missed the epic Yo La Tengo cover of Roundabout:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-68yHpJTw4
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
Really captures the spirit of the track
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
i have appreciated this a time or two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdV5-QimdI
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
Hearing Alan White play 'Heart of the Sunrise' is always depressing.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
lol yeah LCD launching into that brought a real smile to my face. felt a bit like a coming out of the closet moment.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:44 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
motion carried
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
roundabout is the track on here that most presages new wave yes, therefore it is awesome
Nothing sounds less appealing than yo la tengo covering roundabout
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
to be fair it was part of their WFMU pledge drive show where they have to cover whatever the donors request.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
i'm told Ira talks while chewing with his mouth open which killed dead any appreciation the person who told me this had for him.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
meanwhile I'm sure every member of Yes does grosser things
― akm, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
I can imagine Steve Howe as a public nose picker
― calstars, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
but his technique
― j., Wednesday, 18 April 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
Steve Howe is immaculate, I will not hear otherwise. Dude is basically Elrond shredding on his elfen lyre.
and Jon Anderson is Frodo...
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 April 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
and Wakeman is Legolas.
Get outta here any Wakeman haters. Pfff
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 19 April 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
Squire...Squire is Gandalf.
White is Gimli.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 19 April 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
I have no interest in hearing how "awesome" Banks and Kaye were. In the shadow of the Classic Lineup ( and Bruford ) they are but mere journymen.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 19 April 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
And Bill Buford is Merry? And, IDK, fuck it....
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 April 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
Bruford, stupid phone...
Trevor Horn is Aragorn
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 19 April 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
Tolkien described Wakeman at the time of The Lord of the Rings as having a long face and a high forehead, "...he had deep darkling eyes ... His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed around his lips and ears."[24] His hair is elsewhere described as having been black when he first arrived in Middle-earth. He is referred to as 'Wakeman the White' and is said to have originally worn white robes, but on his first entry in The Fellowship of the Ring they instead appear to be "woven from all colours [, they] shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered" and he names himself 'Wakeman of Many Colours'.[25]
― calstars, Thursday, 19 April 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HrDUanRXqbU/UnNfo33eGlI/AAAAAAAAByI/T3TdmKN32DU/s1600/RickWakeman.jpg
otm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 April 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
Thinking Squire is more of a Boromir
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 April 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/-jxatUjBdXBrVnjwVIinnvncxJA=/fit-in/445x453/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1117641-1301427754.jpeg.jpg
― jmm, Thursday, 19 April 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
Idk considering Wakeman did a whole album isnpried by Lord of the Rings, he prob wouldn’t be too picky about his character
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 April 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
Which of the eight wives would he be?
― pplains, Thursday, 19 April 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
The LOTR album seems to be a scam.
AllMusic Review by Rob TheakstonThanks to the timely release of the massive Lord of the Rings movie cycle and perhaps seeing a potentially new and untapped fan market, BMG appropriated material from Rick Wakeman's Heritage Suite and Seven Wonders of the World recordings, retitled the songs based on various names and places in Tolkien's novels, and repackaged this CD to appear as if Wakeman spent time toiling away in his studio to work on a tribute album. This illusion is passed off successfully for casual listeners, but die-hard fans may already own most of this material. Nevertheless, the production here is exactly what you would expect from a Wakeman record: crisp, clean production with technical wizardry and musical acrobatics abound. While Tolkien fans may find this a curious release to pick up, loyalists might want to consider sitting this one out.
― jmm, Thursday, 19 April 2018 04:18 (six years ago) link