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Points: 3136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 15:19
Heterosexual Anal Penetration - Sounds like we're back in 1976 again - people whinging about the prog bands disappearing up their own arses (how apt) - and then "Heterosexual Anal Penetration" come along with their new wave epic - "Slap your bollocks on her backside nice and hard".......
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 15:32
Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

It's an awful lot less terrible than Close To The Edge
are ya mad, man?!?!?!?! Shocked Cry
Interestingly enough, he is not the only one. I believe Dean shared the same feeling in one of his posts about a month ago.

wow.... shameful. i do remember one review i read like probably several months ago from someone who gave it just ONE STAR, saying that the sound quality was DULL among others that hit me alot, at least the parts i remember.
I have no shame. My actual words were: "Tales from Topographic Oceans is a marvellous album, my second favourite Yes album in fact (beaten only by the magnificent Relayer) and far better than the car-crash that is CTTE." ... and I stand by that assessment and can back it up if need be.
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Points: 3136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 15:36
Pink Floyd went in for sound-effects , I can hear streams and insects & birds at the start of Close to the Edge.....I have never picked out the sound of a Ford Capri, Driven by a cockney wide-boy into a sh*t-brown allegro driven by a spinster headmistress on the Tottenham Court Road, in 1973.......
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 15:43
...you missed the white transit van ...CTTE is a three car pile up.
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Points: 3136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 15:48
Well I suppose the clanking industrial guitar solo intro by Howe is an acquired taste...bit like Holt's Bitter really or Marmite...
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 15:55
I suspect you may be taking the car-crash metaphor a tad too literally. 
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Points: 3136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 15:59
Metaphor eh....Why use one of them when you could just say you think it's sh*t.....
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2014 at 16:09
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Metaphor eh....Why use one of them when you could just say you think it's sh*t.....
Because I don't think it is, I quite like side two.
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The best track on it is obviously And You and I - a classic of symphonic prog rock if ever there was one...obviously the title track is also awesome and Siberian khatru is one of those tracks that grows on you over the years, though the poorest track on the album by a long margin...
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I suppose I could resurrect that idea to completly reverse the running order. There is a thread about it somewhere but Siberian Khatru made a nice opening track for the live shows so it must be tempting to listen to it first. I would consider putting And You And I at the back. Its such a beautiful track and feels like an 'end'. Nothing can follow it!
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Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

The best track on it is obviously And You and I - a classic of symphonic prog rock if ever there was one...obviously the title track is also awesome and Siberian khatru is one of those tracks that grows on you over the years, though the poorest track on the album by a long margin...
The awesomeness of the title track is not obvious to me - it is three (albeit good) rock songs smashed together with the final section formed from the remnants of the other three - the seguing between the sections is masterful and the use of recurring melody and harmony is well executed (all praise The Wakeman) but that is not enough to make it awesome for me.


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For quite some time I would skip the first three minutes of "Close to the Edge."  I thought it was a mess.  As I emerged from my teenage years I started making it a point to listen to entire albums, warts and all.  That practice changed the way I appreciated music and provided a context; even if I still didn't care for a particular passage, it provided a contrast that enabled a deeper insight into musical composition.

Tales from Topographic Oceans was love at first listen.  I still remember hearing it for the first, second, and third times.  This was during a wonderful phase in my life when I knew I was acquiring an amazing Yes album because of the fantastical Roger Dean artwork (something called Union would one day elevate me from innocence to experience).
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Points: 26140 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2014 at 02:45
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

The best track on it is obviously And You and I - a classic of symphonic prog rock if ever there was one...obviously the title track is also awesome and Siberian khatru is one of those tracks that grows on you over the years, though the poorest track on the album by a long margin...
The awesomeness of the title track is not obvious to me - it is three (albeit good) rock songs smashed together with the final section formed from the remnants of the other three - the seguing between the sections is masterful and the use of recurring melody and harmony is well executed (all praise The Wakeman) but that is not enough to make it awesome for me.

'rock songs'Confused we are not exacly talking Black Sabbath or Deep PurpleWink

The first part of CTTE is all about Bruford for me. Totally sublime. Wakeman takes over a bit later but not before Anderson does his 'thing'. It marries together some diverse musical ideas perfectly. Sorry not 'smasing' them together as you suggest. Its a brilliant prog track although Yes achieved better with Gates Of Delirium admittedly.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2014 at 02:54
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

 

'rock songs'Confused we are not exacly talking Black Sabbath or Deep PurpleWink
Confused Progressive Rock. 
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Points: 3136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2014 at 06:06
^ is that another one of those metaphor thingies??
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2014 at 10:11
Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

^ is that another one of those metaphor thingies??
 Originally it was a euphemism rather than a metaphor, but I thought everyone knew that.
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Points: 12681 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2014 at 10:22
I have never been enamored of TFTOOT, preferring CTTEET. Perhaps because I genuinely enjoy seeing a good car crash.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Points: 26140 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2014 at 00:46
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

 

'rock songs'Confused we are not exactly talking Black Sabbath or Deep PurpleWink
Confused Progressive Rock. 

Sadly I have no idea what that comment is meant to mean so i can't respond
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 14 2014 at 01:11
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

 

'rock songs'Confused we are not exactly talking Black Sabbath or Deep PurpleWink
Confused Progressive Rock. 

Sadly I have no idea what that comment is meant to mean so i can't respond

I believe Dean is saying there are elements of rock music on the album.

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TFTO is playing now on our local radio Edge Radio FM! 
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