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
seriously, I'm listening to Roundabout right now, and I cannot even remotely see the point in any of this
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link
There's no drama, no movement, no variation. I don't care how funky it is
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:30 (six years ago) link
Like, this is the Heart Of The Sunrise EP as far as I'm concerned. Makes total sense that these were CTTE castoffs
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:47 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
shame
― calstars, Thursday, 19 April 2018 11:59 (six years ago) link
the point of "roundabout" is that it fuckin rocks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
I don't care how funky it is
Now there’s a board description
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
lol
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:33 (six years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 April 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 April 2018 13:11 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
LJ, sometimes (a lot of times) I just don't get you
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
*cut to imago at a Parliament concert, standing perfectly still*
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
What is the point of this funk?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
smdh
― j., Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
am I Geir now
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
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
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
look closer, louis, hold the land
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
otoh I listened to loads of Yes today and now I like the GFTO title track about 10% more
― imago, Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
have you tried playing roundabout louder
― j., Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
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
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
― j., Thursday, April 19, 2018 8:01 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
i listened to 'roundabout' the other day and was surprised at how much it reminded me of jefferson airplane
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
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)
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
I thought a bit of Yes when I first heard Red Octopus. xp
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
guys "Long Distance Runaround" and "The Fish" are the same track, this is canon
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
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
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
the jon anderson airplane -- sherman "mr. jefferson" hemsley's favorite band
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
“Funky”...”straightforward”...this is not why I put on Yes
― calstars, Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
yeah it's disorienting on the radio when LDR ends and The Fish doesn't pop up next
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
classic rock radio blew it imho by never much playing the live "fish" on yessongs
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
"Roundabout" is only straightforward in comparison to other Yes epics!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
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?"
― pplains, Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, April 19, 2018 11:34 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
seriously
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
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
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Hey everyone. So this is a thing I do with my life now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospDSOyjuC4
― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
perfect!
― jmm, Friday, 20 April 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
all clear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKI0d6TMlhM
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 April 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Fb-9-JM8Q
― pplains, Monday, 23 April 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
I have been avoiding this poll because of the difficulty. Like seriously... who here thinks it's an easy choice?
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Monday, 23 April 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
I went for the one that gets stuck in my head the most!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 23 April 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
"crazy on you" live performances going from "clap" to the "roundabout" intro rule
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/hearts-ann-and-nancy-wilson-our-life-in-15-songs-20160712/crazy-on-you-1975-20160711
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 23 April 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
24 before my love and i'll be there
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Monday, April 23, 2018 6:41 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me, heart of the sunrise
― Daniel Johns Hopkins (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link