I really really vibe with Jon Anderson in that video
― brimstead, Sunday, 17 May 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
I remember watching this video as a kid and being like "adulthood is going to be bad, having to go to work and get hauled before faceless councils but maybe I'll be able to turn into an animal" and I was up for it.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
Ha, yeah, I wondered that for a long time. The video is some Kafkaesque dystopia, which is sort of great in its own way but... has nothing to do with the song. xps
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
there is some suggestion in the video that he may have murdered his lover, or so the authorities assume, although we are shown that she changes into a frog
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
LOL at how the actor has to suffer thru a scorpion on his nose, cat dropped on his face, faceful of maggots...
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
It's a great video, precisely because the interpretation is so imaginative and unexpected. Would you have preferred something more literal? Jon Anderson pulling sad faces and hitting a porcelain heart with a mallet?
― The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him (Vast Halo), Sunday, 17 May 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
I love that video. Certainly the best most misleading visual representation of Yes on film.
― akm, Sunday, 17 May 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Rq5f9ZXKg
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Sunday, 17 May 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Storm Thorgerson directed it
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
No, I love it. If anything, I wish their music was still as mysterious and ambitious at that point.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
Wtf @ this video
― calstars, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
thread topic is very “ask an inceI”
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Saturday, May 16, 2020 9:00 PM bookmarkflaglink
why?
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
So when he freaks out in the shower, that's Chris Squire wrapped around his neck?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
The thread title isn't actually the singer's POV is it? It's more of a Dear Prudence thing.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
I take it as Trevor Rabin's sheepish emo retort to Jon Anderson's strident positivity.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
It does look like a Styx album cover brought to life, yes. Needs Steve Howe for the full horror effect though.
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 May 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Steve Howe is a wood elf
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 17 May 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
yes he doesn't belong in this postmodern dystopia
― akm, Sunday, 17 May 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
British bucolic fantasy weirdness montage is the best part
― calstars, Sunday, 17 May 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
I often thought about which LOTR characters the various members of Yes would be
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 17 May 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
Jon is definitely bilbo
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Sunday, 17 May 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
move yourself
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
I hadn't seen that video before but now that I have I love the song even more.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
I always thought of Jon as more of a hybrid of Tom Bombadil and Sauron
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
I think Jon is more Frodo than Bilbo, and Bill Bruford would therefore be Sam.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
Steve Howe = Elrond Rick Wakeman = Saruman
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Chris Squire is probably a Boromir
he did what we could not
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
Patrick Moraz = Treebeard
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
bilbo would occasionally break into song about ancient mariners, sounds like a jon anderson move to me
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
Steve Howe should not be pegged as Elrond just because he resembles the actor ... he’s more Gollum
― calstars, Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
Or the Lord of the Nazgûl
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Monday, 18 May 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
Y'all are being way harsh on poor Steve Howe
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 18 May 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
the music video
"hang on maybe there's another way to do this..."
the band can all change into animals
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 18 November 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link