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>twice has the chance to create greatest prog OAT
>both times ruins it with pointless go-nowhere 8 minute improvised instrumental
were they stupid?
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>>127949214
Yes. But at least all the other stuff on those albums is great.
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>>127949214
>Another fag filtered by Providence
Always makes me laugh
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>>127949214
>Another fag filtered by Moonchild
Always makes me laugh
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>>127949214
when you're a musician and high on drugs you think everything that spills out of your instrument is genius.
these clowns just put their junkie noodling onto the album
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>>127949214
Oh man you're gonna love THRaKaTTaK
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>>127949214
probably why they never took off. Imagine sitting through that bullshit every time on vinyl to hear the last 2 songs
>yes I know you can move the needle but I doubt people excerised that much agency in their listening habits back then
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>>127949264
I mean, they literally had A Voyage to the Centre of the Cosmos, which i think is just way better honestly. they went too far putting Providence on there
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>>127949441
you're gonna love the Crafty League of Guitarists

>>127949556
exactly
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>>127949214
Filtered
Also, Larks Tongues, Islands and Lizard are better to than Red
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>>127949621
Based knower.
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>>127949621
I would rather listen to love beach front-to-back than hear happy family again
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>>127950146
Happy family and indoor games are acquired tastes, but Cirkus and Lizard are amazing
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>>127950326
it was very much the reverse for me.
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The Power To Believe is kino
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>>127950390
It's a very varied album for sure
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red is GREAT
get over it
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>>127950414
and ITCOTCK isn't?
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>>127950485
Of course not. It's like their seventh best album. I appreciate its historic value, but that's about it.
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>>127949214
Hijacking to ask which album should I listen to next?

Already done
ITCOTK, Larks, Starless, Red, Discipline and partway through THRAK
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>>127949214
Truth nuke
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>>127949621
>Larks Tongues
Maybe
>Islands
Agreed
>Lizard
Nah
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>>127950496
Just listen to them all chronologically. Their worst albums are still like a 7/10 and have good songs or instrumentals. Then you can start all the side projects and Fripp solo works.
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>>127950496
Listen to Islands, it's the one where they discover post-rock
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>>127949214
Red [Atlantic, 1974]
Grand, powerful, grating, and surprisingly lyrical, with words that cast aspersions on NYC (violence you know) and make me like it, or at least not hate it (virtually a first for the Crims), this does for classical-rock fusion what John McLaughlin's Devotion did for jazz-rock fusion. The secret as usual is that Robert Fripp is playing more--he does remind me of McLaughlin, too, though he prefers to glide where McLaughlin beats his wings. In compensation, Bill Bruford supplies more action than Buddy Miles. Less soul, though--which is why the jazz-rock fusion is more exciting. A-
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>>127949576
I'm pretty sure Providence is an edited-down version of Voyage
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>>127950822
>classical-rock fusion
are we fr
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Currently enjoying some Maxophone.
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I never engaged in any kind of prog discourse, people don't like Providence? People don't like fucking Moonchild?!? Maybe I was an impressionable child without taste but I always loved Moonchild.
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>>127950861
Classic rockheads get filtered by any improvisation that isn't just a guitar solo
It's very strange because Moonchild is amazing and works great in the context of the album too, the calm before the big finale
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>>127950861
People who actually listen to music like it.
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>>127950861
Moonchild is not even the weakest song in the album. That'd be I Talk To The Wind
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>>127950930
True
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>>127950930
which is why it’s a 10/10 because I Talk to The Wind is gorgeous
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>>127950930
High quality bait
Thanks Robert
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>>127949214
Now see, this is what gets me. Obviously the guy CAN make a decent rock album if he tries. So why does he choose to release albums of he and his bandmates farting into tubas and scraping violins against each others' codpieces? Red is a powerful, heavy blast of melodic, creepy, mean '70s hard rock. Five songs, only ONE of which is avant-penis-caressing, and even THAT one is pretty eerie. The others darn near sting your bumblebee in the honeycomb with their midtempo anger and distortion (even the BASS is distorted!!! And this was 1974, all you Cows fans!!!!). And "Starless" has this totally killer middle part that begins with a paranoid bass line, continues with two thwicky-thwicky-thwicky guitar notes and then builds and contorts and smacks into a fiery leftwing explosion of R.O.C.K. on my T.U.R.N.T.A.(ble), much like Yes' astonishing "Awaken" would a few years later.

Yes rule, by the way. As opposed to King Crimson, who only rule once per decade if that.

Having said that, Red rules. For once (and only once) in his career, the ultimate snob afficionado bangs his head. Metal health will drive him mad.
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>>127952143
King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, Magma and Pink Floyd are better prog rock bands than Yes.
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>>127952166
Nah, just kiddin'. Truth is: For most of their career, no matter who was in the band, Yes time and time again delivered creative, complex, often challenging, and always flaky classically-influenced pop rock that sounded like nobody else - not even King Crimson, ELP, or Rush (three weaker bands that they are often compared to). From the beginning, Yes possessed three special qualities that were bound to bring them equal amounts adoration and derision from warring rock audiences worldwide. First and foremost, singer Jon Anderson is a high-pitched goofball elf obsessed with mysticism, religion, and silly middle eastern philosophy. His lyrics make little sense, and his sissyish voice annoys a lot of perfectly decent people. I, however, love him like a brother. A GIRL brother, that is!!! Next and secondmost, Yes always followed a philosophy of putting the music above the players, which is a nice way of saying that they tended to replace anybody that they felt was holding them back creatively. Musical integrity or corporate-minded cold-heartedness? Your call. Sure did make all the albums sound different, though! Last and rearmost, although they began as a fairly normal psychedelic rock band, they soon developed a taste for extended pieces, at one point releasing three albums in a row with no songs under nine minutes long on any of them.
As you might expect, this sort of behavior turned off many fans and every critic alive. I think it's pretty cool stuff, though! And after the '70s died away, they somehow managed a surprising Top 40 comeback that lasted about four years before they fell apart, reunited, fell apart, reunited and replaced Jon Anderson with some guy they found on YouTube.
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>>127952143
>Yes rule, by the way. As opposed to King Crimson
absolute terrible music taste
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>>127952143
Didn't know they allowed 80 year olds on this website
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>>127953186
It's a prog thread after all
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pretending to like moonchild doesnt make you smart
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>>127953403
It's just a cute song, but long. You're not retarded for not getting it, just lack a soul
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>>127953403
>We made a big edit to the improv section of “Moonchild” from In The Court of the Crimson King, which I always felt went on too long. Most people do. Robert said “Let’s cut it.” I said “Are you sure? People have been listening to this record for 40 years.” And Robert said “Yeah, fuck it. Let’s cut it.” [laughs] So, “Moonchild” is three minutes shorter on the master. But you get the full-length version as a bonus track.
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>>127950930
>A Voyage to the Centre of the Cosmos
Trvke
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>>127953505
>Fripp using Fruity Loops to compose

It's over, Crimsonbros.
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>>127950861
The first four minutes are good. Then it just meanders
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>>127953643
COULD THIS BE THE PLASTIC AGE
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>>127950930
It's Schizoid Man



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