yes FRAGILE

listen to it harder

your brains never clicked

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.

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.)

Every time I listen to this album, it becomes clearer and clearer to me that Chris Squire was the Yes MVP

i love the jojo's bizarre adventure roundabout meme... so much

that comp has a lot of unsettling and boring variations on it unfortunately

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, 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

Every time I listen to this album, it becomes clearer and clearer to me that Chris Squire was the Yes MVP

It's a whole band of MVPs.

too funky for jager

xp Yeah but I'm pretty sure Squire is the MVP of MVPs

Can we agree that maybe Rick Wakeman is the least MVP?

Just in case anyone missed the epic Yo La Tengo cover of Roundabout:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-68yHpJTw4

Really captures the spirit of the track

i have appreciated this a time or two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdV5-QimdI

Hearing Alan White play 'Heart of the Sunrise' is always depressing.

lol yeah LCD launching into that brought a real smile to my face. felt a bit like a coming out of the closet moment.

Can we agree that maybe Rick Wakeman is the least MVP?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:44 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

motion carried

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

to be fair it was part of their WFMU pledge drive show where they have to cover whatever the donors request.

Nothing sounds less appealing than yo la tengo covering roundabout

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.

meanwhile I'm sure every member of Yes does grosser things

I can imagine Steve Howe as a public nose picker

but his technique

Steve Howe is immaculate, I will not hear otherwise. Dude is basically Elrond shredding on his elfen lyre.

and Jon Anderson is Frodo...

and Wakeman is Legolas.

Get outta here any Wakeman haters. Pfff

Squire...Squire is Gandalf.

White is Gimli.

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.

And Bill Buford is Merry? And, IDK, fuck it....

Bruford, stupid phone...

Trevor Horn is Aragorn

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]

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HrDUanRXqbU/UnNfo33eGlI/AAAAAAAAByI/T3TdmKN32DU/s1600/RickWakeman.jpg

otm

Thinking Squire is more of a Boromir

https://img.discogs.com/-jxatUjBdXBrVnjwVIinnvncxJA=/fit-in/445x453/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1117641-1301427754.jpeg.jpg

Idk considering Wakeman did a whole album isnpried by Lord of the Rings, he prob wouldn’t be too picky about his character

Which of the eight wives would he be?

The LOTR album seems to be a scam.

AllMusic Review by Rob Theakston
Thanks 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.

seriously, I'm listening to Roundabout right now, and I cannot even remotely see the point in any of this

There's no drama, no movement, no variation. I don't care how funky it is

Like, this is the Heart Of The Sunrise EP as far as I'm concerned. Makes total sense that these were CTTE castoffs

Was about to say 'Long Distance Runaround just got awesome' but then I realised that I was 2 minutes into The Fish. They're both great though, and excellently-sequenced

Oh man it is an actual segue! Imagine how great it would be if they did it as one song and then brought back the LDR theme except with all the layered (sea) bass. IMAGINE

Even the vaunted Heart Of The Sunrise gets lost in that keyboard interplay bit and has to be saved by its last two minutes. I'm voting The Fish

you may now FP away

shame

the point of "roundabout" is that it fuckin rocks

I don't care how funky it is

Now there’s a board description

lol