Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
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Free Music Notes for Tales from Topographic Oceans
Free Music Review: Great 70's Prog
Hit: 5 Stars
There are alot of Negative reviews about this album, so I thought I'd put in my two cents. I must first say that my review will be more for the 1994 CD release, which I picked up on impulse at a used record store...and what a great impulse it was.
Alot of people advise others to stay away from Tales from Topographic Oceans because they say it is long winded, boring, etc. I however would reccomend it to fans of prog works such as Thick as a Brick, 2112, or other very long prog works. This album may not rock as hard as Jethro Tull or Rush, but it's Yes and they have a different sound...and it's awesome.
I have only had this album long enough to listen to it twice, but it is already a favorite, highly reccomended.
Free Music Review: Best Yes album ever
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a huge Yes fan. I am an even bigger Rick Wakeman fan, and he shines on this album. I've been listening to this album for years and only recently picked up the remastered version (Mini LP version just like the real album.)
What a pleasure to here this album so crisp and with the two bonus tracks. As far as I'm concerned, Yes without Rick Wakeman is subpar. Along with his solo album "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", this is his best work. I am so pleased to see so many others agree!
Go do yourself a favor and pick up this masterpiece!
Free Music Review: And that title means what, exactly?
Hit: 3 Stars
Big and messy and grandiose and sprawling and grandiose and messy and big. Kicks off with a great twenty-minute epic track that's a beautiful, haunting, airy mix of rock, jazz, classical, and ambient ("The Revealing Science of God: Dance of the Dawn"). Wakeman's keyboards are insane on that track. All Wakeman fans (like me!) should have themselves a recording of that one. Definitely. It's also tied for the shortest song on this record, clocking in at a mere 20:25. Next is a song that sounds like a lullabye or music-box music or something like that. It's called "The Remembering: High the Memory". I don't like it much. It's really boring, and it never really goes anywhere - unlike "Revealing Science of God", which goes everywhere. Oh yeah, there's a "rockin'" part somewhere along the line, but when that comes in I'm so bored with the track, my attention has been focused elsewhere, like on the killer instrumental section that begins "The Ancient: Giants Under the Sun". Steve Howe's riffs on that song are just forking spectacular, and I love the keyboard-flute part, too. I could do without Jon Anderson's vocals, though. But hey, that song has a great guitar part! And not just electric, he also pulls his signature classical guitar tricks, and I love it when he does that. I think that's the best track on the record, in fact. The one song that's really bad, then, is "Ritual: Nous Sommes du Soleil". For one, it's way too long. For another, there's not a single good moment in its twenty-one (!) minutes. For a third, it nothing but actively annoy me for those twenty-one minutes: the stupid chant part and dumb arena-rock riffs during the beginning especially irk me. If you hate Yes already, this won't change your mind about them at all - to some, even Yes fans, it's too ambitious and boring. I used to fall into that camp too, and if you ask me, half of it overreaches. And the other half is fantastic. Oh yeah, this is the one that really killed prog-rock's reputation with the critics. The lyrics are, for the record, inspired by Autobiography of a Yogi Or at least that's what I'm told, because as usual I can't make sense of Yes' lyrics at all. Sweet cover art, though.Free Music Review: Another great yes album.
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this cd because it has alot of instrumental parts to it.All of the members are such great musicians.I highly recommend this cd to the progressive rock lovers.Best songs on the disc are The revealing science of God and the remembering.Free Music Review: OK let me vent a bit
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been listening to this album on and off for about 25 years. After reading a number of the reviews, I can see that there's a large number of people who appreaciate the work. I just want to vent on a few points. First of all as to Jon Anderson's lyrics. Since my philosophical and religious perspective comes from one of traditional Christianity, I clearly do not agree with Anderson's spiritual views. Nevertheles, they are not nonsense. Let me try to say this as kindly as possible. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it is nonsense, comprende? I swear if I hear another person complain about Anderson's lyrics I'm going to scream. Have any of you ever read any decent poetry? It gives you feelings, and points you in a thought's direction, but it does not slap you in the face with meaning.
Secondly, I have no idea what these debates about prog rock are. I don't even know what prog rock is, nor do I care to. Yes is a completely unique group of individuals and comparing them to the likes of ELP or King Crimson(neither of which I care for) is just plain dumb.
Third, what is all this business about Bruford? I know I'm going to step on a lot of toes here, but don't you all know that the drummer is the most replaceable member of any band? Yes is Anderson Howe Squire/Wakeman drummer in that order. I'm sorry all you drummers, get over it.
Lastly, this is a GREAT album. I do not rate it the tops because I believe Close To The Edge holds that place. But tales is the pinnacle of the Yes journey. No one has ever done what they did, before or after, and their work speaks for itself. End of rant.