My old pop prof at York loves Yes up through CttE but ranks TfTO amongst the worst albums ever. I don't understand at all, now that I've finally got past my fears and checked out the album. It's different but not that different and in some ways it sums up a lot of what was so great about Yes. I think it holds together really well as an ambient fusion masterpiece. It makes me feel what spiritual hippie psychedelia should feel like.
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
this is jon anderson's world -- you can hear that to some extent in all the other Yes records in the 70s, and a lot of his solo stuff. I actually like it in small doses too (see "Wonderous Stories" on GftO for the smallest dose)
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 16 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― bliss (blass), Saturday, 17 February 2007 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I've been singing the praises of Olias Of Sunhillow for a long fucking time in the face of equal parts ridicule, blankness and bewilderment. Anderson was always the heart of Yes, while Squire was the gonads, Howe the voice, Wakeman the dick and Bruford the soul.
― Lostandfound (David A.), Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Sunday, 18 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 19 February 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link
i would also add 'Eclipse' from "And You And I" to that list.
― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Still don't get all the "Relayer"/Moraz love on these Yes threads. If anything, that's the most "let's fill every inch of space" constipated sounding Yes music (before the Rabin years).
― Jay Vee (Jay Vee), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost Yes, Jay Vee has put his finger on part of it.
I'm beginning to reconsider 90125.
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Jay Vee), Monday, 19 February 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 19 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business (Scourage), Monday, 19 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― just m@tt he1g3s0n (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link