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Topic: Yes V Floyd (sort of anyway)
Posted: May 16 2014 at 05:11

On vinyl Tales from Topographic - glorious artwork and packaging

On CD Dark Side of the Moon - superior music

overall - DSOTM has to be the definitive prog excess

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Posted: May 15 2014 at 12:26

A few years ago my answer my have been different but these days I would let Tony's Topographic GoKart burn.

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Posted: May 15 2014 at 12:15

Dark Side of the Moon

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Posted: May 14 2014 at 03:36

I love Tales - at it's best it is beautiful and so brave - but Darkside is in a league all of it's own........

"I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman

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Posted: May 07 2014 at 06:51

Love Oceans but Darkside is my fave of all time!

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Posted: May 06 2014 at 23:06

Stop it with the mismatched poll entries already. 'Floyd packed more into one disc (album) in this case then Yes did with their two-album hodge podge of what might you call it. Every old Yes fan has their favorite parts of Tales', but even with all the substandard sections it has that one could throw out, it still couldn't come close to 'Moon.

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 21:34

twosteves wrote:

Bitterblogger wrote:

Neo-Romantic wrote:

Dark Side. It's fairly close, but I'd say the Floyd album has about a half star over Tales, at least for me. And am I the only one who thinks the last track on Tales is the true masterpiece of the album? Confused

Maybe, but Ritual is a very close second to Revealing. How do you feel about the Yesshows version?

Think Moraz Ritual on Yesshows is way better than original--Moraz really got that symphonic thing down---and on You Tube there is an interesting Moraz version of Side Two--The Remembering----which is taken from a Yes rehearsal back in the 70's--they never played it but Particks version sounds promising even if the sound quality is not very good.

The only song I really love from Tales is "Revealing Science of God", "Ritual" gets rather annoying and repetitive. However, I think I do like the version on Yesshows a bit better. Actually, this album indeed might have ended up a bit better if Moraz had already been in the band... he might have been more up to contributing to the album. Or, at the very least, it would have been nice if they had released a live album from that tour, with the whole performance of Tales with Moraz.

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 20:13

Floyd's Dark Side wins here for me. I thought some parts of Tales were quite good like The Revealing Science of God for example, but I just find the album in general doesn't have enough musical substance to sustain my interest. Some of the keyboard work from Wakeman and gutiar work from Howe was quite good, but again this just wasn't enough to keep my mind from wandering away. Dark Side, on the other hand, is a progressive rock masterpiece IMHO.

Edited by Mirror Image - April 22 2014 at 20:14

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 19:30

Both are overrated. I'd prob save Tales first though.

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 18:54

^Thanks, I'll have to check out that clip.

I prefer the Yesshows version too. Sometimes, excess in prog is juuuuust right . . .

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 18:12

Bitterblogger wrote:

Maybe, but Ritual is a very close second to Revealing. How do you feel about the Yesshows version?

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 17:39

Maybe, but Ritual is a very close second to Revealing. How do you feel about the Yesshows version?

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 17:35

dwill123 wrote:

Since I consider "Tales from Topographic Oceans" the worst thing Yes ever did the choice is easy, "Dark Side of the Moon".

You mean, worse than "Union" or "Open Your Eyes"?
Boy, you must REALLY hate it.

I picked Tales, but neither of these is in my top 3 of either band.

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 08:07

Tales, but Dark Side is very good. Tales is just incredible and one of the reasons I absolutely love prog.

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 05:49

twosteves wrote:

But this album you either get or don't--not only the music but the story and lyrics.

I definitely haven't yet figured out those. But admittedly I'm not trying too hard... I kinda just chocked it up to 70s fantastical prog ramblings. Tongue

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 02:01

DSOTM is quite an excellent album, being as accessible as it is, it is easy to wear this one out. TFTO on the other hand, is such an impenetrable work that takes a long time to sink in, and for me, is still plain mind-blowing when I listen to it these days. My vote goes to Topographic.

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Posted: April 22 2014 at 01:50

I voted for the symphonic prog album over the crossover album.

Its so ironic that DSOTM only gets interesting when someone outside of the band contributes an improvised peice. There is some very dull electronic looping and an amazing (not) time change in Money. Time is a great track admittedly. I will occasionally watch the version on Pulse but the album itself has never got above a 3 star album for me.

TFTO has gradually wormed its way into my affections over the years. Of course Wakeman didn't like it as he had very little to do with it creatively. The padding criticism could be levelled at about 90% of symphonic prog I reckon. Sour grapes.

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Posted: April 21 2014 at 23:17

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Dark Side. I would throw TFTO in the fire because, as Rick Wakeman said about the album, "we padded it out and the padding is awful." Perhaps the padding would smother the fire.

Lol--Wakeman--a man of excess talking padding. The only real padding on Tales is on side 2---his keyboard breaks are a little ---well padded sounding. And yes side 4 has sections which there is too much singing and words and sounds padded---but side 1 and 3 are pretty well organized symphonic prog---and it does have some amazing guitar parts from Howe and one of wakemans best keyboard solo's on side 1---but on side 4 wakeman's ritual part is not as good as moraz's live version---guess rick just wasn't into it----most of the other guys were not--which is why anderson-howe gave side 2 to rick, and 4 to chris and alan---to involve them more.But this album you either get or don't--not only the music but the story and lyrics.

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Posted: April 21 2014 at 22:45

DSOTM. Now if the Yes album was CTTE it would have been a different vote from me.

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Posted: April 20 2014 at 19:25

Thank You Alan Parsons for your superb contribution to the timeless DSOTM !

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB

Poll Question: If Your House was on fire which of these CD's/Albums would you save?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Tales from Topographic Oceans	28	[31.11%]
Dark Side of the Moon	62	[68.89%]
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