yes FRAGILE

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]

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otm

Thinking Squire is more of a Boromir

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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

have you tried playing roundabout louder

― j., Thursday, April 19, 2018 8:01 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i listened to 'roundabout' the other day and was surprised at how much it reminded me of jefferson airplane

i'd suggest looking up a live video, that way even if the song still doesn't appeal to you, you can still appreciate steve howe and his incredible facial expressions (also pretty good guitar playing)

I thought a bit of Yes when I first heard Red Octopus. xp

guys "Long Distance Runaround" and "The Fish" are the same track, this is canon

i listened to 'roundabout' the other day and was surprised at how much it reminded me of jefferson airplane

also i just had the funny thought that Yes and JA kind of have the same name, but i am a bit high on meds right now

the jon anderson airplane -- sherman "mr. jefferson" hemsley's favorite band

“Funky”...”straightforward”...this is not why I put on Yes

guys "Long Distance Runaround" and "The Fish" are the same track, this is canon

One of very few examples where I edited the two files together in my iTunes so that they always come up together, as was intended.

yeah it's disorienting on the radio when LDR ends and The Fish doesn't pop up next

classic rock radio blew it imho by never much playing the live "fish" on yessongs

"Roundabout" is only straightforward in comparison to other Yes epics!

And it wasn't a contender for my vote tbc; I just think of it as a classic. Part of it is probably just growing up with it as a classic rock staple (at least on my local station) and it being the first Yes song I ever heard.

I never heard Runaround/The Fish together on FM radio. Maybe the program directors were like, "Look, we already played one Yes song, all right?"

"Roundabout" is only straightforward in comparison to other Yes epics!

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, April 19, 2018 11:34 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously

it's an 8 and a half minute jam that managed to worm its way onto regular radio rotation cause of the sheer undeniability of its plentiful hooks

Hey everyone. So this is a thing I do with my life now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospDSOyjuC4

perfect!

all clear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKI0d6TMlhM