yes FRAGILE

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

Was about to say 'Long Distance Runaround just got awesome' but then I realised that I was 2 minutes into The Fish.

I love LDR, but I've had that reaction too.

the point of "roundabout" is that it fuckin rocks

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 April 2018 13:11 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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LJ, sometimes (a lot of times) I just don't get you

*cut to imago at a Parliament concert, standing perfectly still*

What is the point of this funk?

smdh

am I Geir now

Yeah, I don't really agree with "no movement, no variation" when we're talking about example 11 here. (Whole article analysing scalar relationships in Yes songs here.) It begins with a beatless passage based on backwards piano and fingerpicked guitar, moves into a light funky groove for the verses, switches up to a choppy rock riff in the relative major for the choruses, passes through contrasting interludes and solos and gives you a polyphonic layered vocal coda before closing with more folky fingerpicking - and yet, it all flows so smoothly and never feels like it actually takes up 8 and a half minutes to me. xps

I love loads of funky Yes and Chris Squire is some kind of insane music hero but the notes, chords and modulations used in Roundabout don't excite me and it doesn't exude the party-jam hedonism of Parliament so my poor aspie brain doesn't know how to interpret it and here we all are

look closer, louis, hold the land

otoh I listened to loads of Yes today and now I like the GFTO title track about 10% more

have you tried playing roundabout louder

Yeah, "Roundabout" is more straightforward than other Yes epics in harmonic and melodic terms and it's more about putting a groove behind Beatlesque prettiness than about party-jam hedonism so, yeah, maybe not your thing. xp