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The Revealing Science of God. It's up there with CTTE and Awaken.

The rest of the album, although good in parts, comes nowewhere near to side 1 in tems of sheer quality.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

the Remembering.

So many great moments in Ritual, have to go with that one.

My prog band - Boreal Kinship

Side 1 closely followed by Side 4.

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Heard it for the fisrt time at age 18, clicked at age 30.

Poll Question: Pick your favourite:
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
The Revealing Science of God	31	[53.45%]
The Remembering	6	[10.34%]
The Ancient	11	[18.97%]
Ritual	10	[17.24%]
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