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Mortte 
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 22:26 |
 Frenetic Zetetic wrote:
Did TFTGO click really fast with anyone else? I feel like the whole album felt pretty natural for me the first listen through. It was just more Yes music. Maybe more than people were expecting (or even wanted), but all the music is excellent IMHO. |
If I remember right, I bought it 1990. Never listened it as much as those other Yes classic albums, but I think I really have listened it many times through these years and two times I have thought "this is absolutely great album as a whole". Both of those were after 2000. Mostly I think the first album is great, in the second there are moments I would want to put needle forward. But always listened it as a whole (as I do every album).
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 21:58 |
M27Barney wrote:
Ritual by a short margin - then RSOG , The Ancient (sublime guitar work), Last The remembering - but they are all better than most other bands best output - tales has got to be in the top five symphonic prog releases of all time - if somebody tells me that 90125/Abacab is better I'd fooking shoot them (metaphorically)! |
well said----Tales is a great work of prog---is every moment riveting? No but thats true of many 90 minute pieces of classical music or any music for that matter----I think the love version of Ritual is better than the studio----I think the opening with Howe and closing parts with Howe are beautiful guitar parts---but to me it is the most flawed side---Jon goes on and on---bass solo and drum solos are just ok----I actually like the Remembering as symphonic prog--it's more folky in parts ----the ending sends chills down my spine every time
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 21:52 |
Frenetic Zetetic wrote:
Did TFTGO click really fast with anyone else? I feel like the whole album felt pretty natural for me the first listen through. It was just more Yes music. Maybe more than people were expecting (or even wanted), but all the music is excellent IMHO. |
Wouldn't say it clicked on first listen, per se, but I'd say it took me about as long as any other Yes album for me to get into. Didn't dislike it on the first listen and knew I wanted to hear it again. Then about 5 full listens before I considered it an album I liked, about 5 more listens before I considered it an album I loved, and about another 5 before I considered it a favourite. Certainly not a drawn-out, grueling task for me to get into; took the better part of a summer.
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 19:26 |
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Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 19:10 |
AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:
The thing about Ancient is that nothing else in the Yes catalog sounds anything like it(imo). It's just so out there and is probably the closest they ever came to sounding like King Crimson(again imo). |
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 18:29 |
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OOps, I meant The Ritual.
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 18:29 |
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I know that when I first tried to get into this album The ancient made sense enough for me to soldier on, and now I love the whole thing=Prog italian rum cake!
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 13:28 |
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The thing about Ancient is that nothing else in the Yes catalog sounds anything like it(imo). It's just so out there and is probably the closest they ever came to sounding like King Crimson(again imo).
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 11:36 |
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This one is just absolutely breathtaking in my opinion. Although, as of recent times the Ancient has been getting me more haha
Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - April 10 2018 at 11:38
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 11:26 |
Heard it for the fisrt time at age 18, clicked at age 30. 
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 10:55 |
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Did TFTGO click really fast with anyone else? I feel like the whole album felt pretty natural for me the first listen through. It was just more Yes music. Maybe more than people were expecting (or even wanted), but all the music is excellent IMHO.
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 05:23 |
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I voted for Ritual since I feel it's under rated and needed more votes. I'm not sure if it's the best track on tales(that might go to TRSOG)but I think it's the catchiest at least.
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 05:10 |
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Ritual by a short margin - then RSOG , The Ancient (sublime guitar work), Last The remembering - but they are all better than most other bands best output - tales has got to be in the top five symphonic prog releases of all time - if somebody tells me that 90125/Abacab is better I'd fooking shoot them (metaphorically)!
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Posted: April 10 2018 at 04:39 |
OK, I've read Aymeric Leroy's book on Yes, so it drove me to relisten to most of the albums I own (until Drama and the two KTA), but I was curious to see if my buddy Aymeric would help appreciate what I thought was Yes' weakest 70's album. In some ways, he did help me re)evaluate the album, though only partially, coz I still think it is way too long and often uninteresting.
micky wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
All 4 sides are beyond incredible - esp. The Ancient.
So, the order goes like this :
The Ancient
The Revealing Science Of God
The Remembering
Ritual |
 all 4 are awesome.. in their own ways... which of course is the icing on top of the album.
if I had to rank them..
The Ancient
Ritual
Revealing Science
The Remembering
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I will also pick The Ancient, but hands down, though it's hardly perfect Indeed, the first part of The Ancient is relatively free of Jon's often obtuse lyrics, and this allows the rest of the band to expand a little more . The first 12 minutes are quite interesting and is Yes at their most experimental, somewhere between heart Of The Sunrise (alternating the furious and the quiet 'tron passages) and Relayer's Sound Chaser. the second part (the acoustic song is totally awkward tagged on to it, though. It's not a bad song per se, but its got nothing to do with the near-RIO madness preceding it. Revealing Science is OK (but no more), but it tries to recreate what CTTE (the t/t) did, but fails in doing so. Far behind The Ancient's first part. I kind of like Ritual's first part, but TBH, White' tribal drums thing bores me to tears (though we got to see it live during the Magnification symphonic tour, and it was a bit of a revelation in itself).... However, I can also do without the closing section as well. as for Remembering, I still can't remember a single thing about it as it is soooo booooooring
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Posted: March 06 2018 at 12:58 |
I voted for RSOG, but could have voted for "Remembering" as well. I always thought that Sides 1 and 2, played sequentially, were perfect.
Ancient is a bit noisy for my tastes, but it has some wonderful moments. Ritual is also fine, this photo is from the "Solo Albums" tour in Illinois - this is Ritual, as Howe is playing his Les Paul Junior guitar. My friend Curt took this photo.
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Posted: March 06 2018 at 10:04 |
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I can't really choose. I like all more or less equally except "the remembering"(I like the first half of it then it kind of drags on and repeats too much). The ancient usually doesn't get enough respect but it seems to be doing well here. Ritual used to be considered one of their best tracks but these days it seems to have been swept under the carpet and even this poll seems to indicate it's not that popular anymore.
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Posted: March 06 2018 at 03:25 |
Upbeat Tango Monday wrote:
Revealing > Remembering = Ancient >> Ritual |
I'd hesitantly go with that, so I voted with the majority, however The Remembering probably has my favourite section of the album.
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Posted: March 05 2018 at 18:53 |
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A long time ago I would have chosen one of the first two songs, but these days I'm way more into the other two. Went with The Ancient.
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Posted: March 05 2018 at 11:30 |
Its been so long I really can't be sure I remember correctly.
But I think A bored me a little, B bored a little more, C was pretty great and D certainly had its moments.
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Posted: March 05 2018 at 10:13 |
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Side 1 closely followed by Side 4.
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