Turn of the Century or Wonderous Stories
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Topic: Turn of the Century or Wonderous Stories
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: Turn of the Century or Wonderous Stories
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 09:50
| While chatting with AI about Yes songs under 6 minutes long I came up with this idea for a poll. |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 10:29
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TofC is 7'30"... and it's my choice Difficult to find a worse70's Yes song than Stories: sooooo tweeeeee. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 11:12
Wonderous Stories 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 11:19
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Turn of the Century, especially Steve Howe & Annie Haslam's version. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 12:07
"Turn of the Century"
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 12:10
| Which one of these Yes songs was good enough to be on Classic Yes again? ;) |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 12:15
| The Wakeman/Howe center of Turn of the Century is one of the most dramatic "builds" in prog rock, IMO...a beautiful song... |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 12:22
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Turn of the Century. I usually only chat with AI about the things I can put in my nose. The answer is always no to everything I come up with. Who would have imagined that you can't stick potatoes in your nose? ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Moreno00
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 12:40
| This songs are my favorites of my favorite album of Yes (Going for the one). My second favorite album of Yes is "Tormato". |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 12:45
| Turn of the Century. Wonderful track off of GFTO. |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 13:16
How about "Circus of Heaven" with Damien Anderson? Voted for "Turn of the Century", BTW. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 13:38
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"If I was late I had to leave . . ." ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 15:16
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Love TOTC, don't care much about WS. ------------- I make typos so you see I'm not a machine, but I may be a machine pretending to not be a machine. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 20:16
| Wow, I never thought wonderous stories would get stomped on like this. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 20:24
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In the classic era, through Drama per my definition, there are only three Yes songs I really, really don't like. Time and a Word Wondrous Stories Don't Kill the Whale I skip these every chance I can on CD. Thus, Turn of the Century for me. When I saw Steve Howe live in a small club, he sat on a little bench and played Turn of the Century. That was a special moment in my past concertgoing life. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 20:27
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Both are similar quality-wise imo. I'm going to pick Wonderous Stories but only by a narrow margin, because it has a slightly more hummable hook. :P I guess I'm in the minority of Yes fans, who prefer Tales from Topographic Oceans over Going for the One. ------------- 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 04 2025 at 22:56
Interesting because those are all among my favorite Yes tracks under 5 minutes long. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 01:17
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Both are fine, byt Turn of the Century is my fave here. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 01:33
| I find Turn of the Century one of Yes' most beautiful songs, while I don't even particularly like Wondrous Stories. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 01:42
This is a beautiful version indeed. I wouldn't say better than Anderson singing it, for they are both my favorite singers, but as such I wouldn't say it's inferior at all either. Yet I do miss the rest of the band on this version, they all add beauty that is missing on this version. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 02:56
Circus Of Heaven 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 03:03
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Not sure. I like Wonderous Stories a lot but TOTC is the only track on the album where Howe gets to strut his stuff. He seems quite marginalised on the rest of the album especially with Wakeman returning and hogging the spotlight. I feel the battle for control had already begun. True classic Yes ends with Relayer imo. I'll throw a bone to Wonderous Stories and it did make the UK Top Ten singles chart back in the day. Credit where due. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 08:45
I don't agree with this being the only track where Howe gets to strut his stuff. What about the guitar solo towards the beginning of Awaken? That's probably one of his best ever. Or the one at the end of GFTO (title track). There's also a good one on Paralells. The one on Awaken is the best one though. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 08:47
| Imo "wonderous stories" is one of their most memorable tunes. I'd say out of all of their songs under 5 minutes long it's easily in the top five. Turn of the Century is good but I don't feel it's as strong as anything on Relayer or most of Tales. I don't feel that way about W.S. or Awaken. Needless to say I voted for W.S. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 05 2025 at 20:12
But surely not better than Mood for a Day?  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |