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Sister bluebird flying high above
Shine your wings forward to the sun
Hide the myst'ries of life on your way
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word
What you don't know, I have never heard
Starship trooper, go sailing on by
Catch my soul, catch the very light
Hide the moment from my eager eye
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul
What you can't see, can't be very whole
Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways
Mother life, hold firmly on to me
Catch my knowledge higher than the day
Lose as much as only you can show
Though you've seen me, please don't say a word
What I don't know, I have never shared
II. Disillusion
Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the facts there shown before you
Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion
As I see a new day in me, I can also show it you and you may follow
Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways
Heart of the Sunrise is deep meaning for me.
Rick Wakeman on keyboards was hypnotizing!!
Still one of my favorite song crescendos and endings of all time. Just when you think it can't build any more, it does. Then the emotional release when Steve Howe begins the dueling guitar solos is like a cool drink after a long run.
yes! i love that. it used to bug me when radiostations would cut the end off prematurely.
A mind blowing musical awakening at 16 seeing these guy debut Close to the Edge. I was addicted. I can still remember the lyrics to this song long after '72 ... but can't tell you where I just put my car keys.
Me too! PS: your car keys are in the fridge, where they belong!
Iconic! I've seen them 4 times! ...three with Rick Wakeman & once with Patrick Moraz!
I also saw Rick Wakeman with a symphony orchestra at Madison Square Garden. He did the entire Journey to the Center of the Earth & Six Wives of Henry the 8th albums! When he came out at the end for encore he announced: "We don't have any more material, so we will do both albums over again"! So, they played both albums again, in their entirety, really fast (100mph)!!! ...AN AMAZING SHOW!!!
I have a soft spot for prog rock having grown up on it. This "to me" represents the Holy Grail. It really gets no better than this. I don't dole out many "10's" here but this one earns it.
You don't have the complexity of song structure like this nowadays. I guess everyone has a shorter attention span. I'm not afraid of 8 + minute songs as long as they are good!
Very well stated!!!
You don't have the complexity of song structure like this nowadays. I guess everyone has a shorter attention span. I'm not afraid of 8 + minute songs as long as they are good!
What a freakin' riot! Thanks RP once again!
Huh.
"it's easy to say that this is all confusion"... yes indeedie doo
We were allowed to bring in records too in grade 8. One day I brought in an older siblings Beatles White album. They would not play it. DOWN WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT!
Well they never would have understood In the Court of the Crimson King.
Lol.
This one manages to slag a completely unrelated artist in the comments for this song. Going the extra distance for h8, I suppose.
You kinda summed it up. "It just goes on and on". And on and on and on and on........
Cool. Can you please explain WTF that "floating head" is on the album cover?
Is it from your elevator?
Not sure but it's spinning in the video too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSsAkPz_s0
And man, this record is Godlike.
Anderson, Squire, Howe, Wakeman, Brufford...?!?!!
One of the greatest band ever
A band called "Yes, And"?
Being the "dirty hippie" that he was, rumor is that he hadn't showered for a few days...maybe even a whole week. So they had to get the plastic head to put next to him since of course it had no sense of smell.
Or the head was some kind of oracle from the astral plane that only proggers like Yes were attuned to. That's where they glommed so many of their song ideas from.
Or it could have been to add to the mystique of the band at the time to make people think, "WTF is that floating head for? What does it mean?" Or that the head represented the mind, that Yes' music was a "thinking person's" rock music.
And of course, it could creep you out if you fixated on it (and the empty chair) after a hit of the dreaded lysergic...
I'd be glad to answer any other silly questions that may come up on this.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Jon is the short guy, upper right.
kcar wrote:
Isn't everything?
Why wouldn't anyone sit next to Jon? That's what I'd like to know.
Transcendent.
And congrats on getting into the Hall of Fame.
And then seeing the big banner on the webpage:
Now, where is the wallet again.....?
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Anybody listen to the Steven Wilson remix of this album? Worth buying?
Isn't everything?
Why wouldn't anyone sit next to Jon? That's what I'd like to know.
Being the "dirty hippie" that he was, rumor is that he hadn't showered for a few days...maybe even a whole week. So they had to get the plastic head to put next to him since of course it had no sense of smell.
Or the head was some kind of oracle from the astral plane that only proggers like Yes were attuned to. That's where they glommed so many of their song ideas from.
Or it could have been to add to the mystique of the band at the time to make people think, "WTF is that floating head for? What does it mean?" Or that the head represented the mind, that Yes' music was a "thinking person's" rock music.
And of course, it could creep you out if you fixated on it (and the empty chair) after a hit of the dreaded lysergic...
I'd be glad to answer any other silly questions that may come up on this.
this does seem to go on and on...
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(later that same day)
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....and on and on
Especially the final tune
Cool. Can you please explain WTF that "floating head" is on the album cover?
Is it from your elevator?
Isn't everything?
Why wouldn't anyone sit next to Jon? That's what I'd like to know.
Cool. Can you please explain WTF that "floating head" is on the album cover?
Is it from your elevator?
Roundabout is good, too, but its lyrics are too inscrutable and maybe a bit indulgent. This is epic and poetic with a progression to a fab crescendo.
Roundabout as a whole is inscrutable and indulgent. This is better. Still don't like it much.
Roundabout is good, too, but its lyrics are too inscrutable and maybe a bit indulgent. This is epic and poetic with a progression to a fab crescendo.
I think they stand up just fine. Song lyrics are a form of poetry, and metaphor and allegory are well-known literary devices.
It only recently "hit me" concerning their lyrics. They don't necessarily make sense. But, oh they do. I think that they are another musical component of the whole. Poetic - yes. Metaphoric - perhaps. But, I think primarily, they are used for their sonic "fit" into the music...Just my musings...
We heard you the first time :-)
Sigh. So sad. He was amazing. I have front row tickets for Anderson/Rabin/Wakeman later this year. It would have been so much more magical if Chris was still with us and he joined the mini-reunion.
Hopefully the tracks didn't switch during any cool guitar solos! (I hate when that happens.)
RIP Chris Squire.
Endorsed.
I think they stand up just fine. Song lyrics are a form of poetry, and metaphor and allegory are well-known literary devices.
Well said.
I think they stand up just fine. Song lyrics are a form of poetry, and metaphor and allegory are well-known literary devices.
I. Life Seeker
Sister bluebird flying high above
Shine your wings forward to the sun
Hide the myst'ries of life on your way
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word
What you don't know, I have never heard
Starship trooper, go sailing on by
Catch my soul, catch the very light
Hide the moment from my eager eye
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul
What you can't see, can't be very whole
Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways
Mother life, hold firmly on to me
Catch my knowledge higher than the day
Lose as much as only you can show
Though you've seen me, please don't say a word
What I don't know, I have never shared
II. Disillusion
Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the facts there shown before you
Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion
As I see a new day in me, I can also show it you and you may follow
Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways
RIP Chris Squire.
Yes, they have. More countries have nuclear weapons. And the world's population has not really dialled into the risks of the next regional nuclear war. What the hell are we doing protecting Israel's nuclear weapons monopoly in the Mid-East? Especially as the ethnic cleansing/nation building campaign continues.
On the bright side, a regional nuclear war would once and for all take care of the global climate change issue.
Hilarious. I agree; I thought Topographic Oceans sucked. And during the period, Relayer was the very best.
I am amazed at how fresh and invigorating this still sounds.
Yup. Pass the bong please.
SOOOOOOO GOOD!
Amen Lindo!
I'm with you. Musically, their stuff is interesting. But I always found Jon Anderson's vocals to be so.foching.ANNOYING.
Me too, mainly because I could do a fairly good "McCartney" but a "Jon Anderson" would have required surgery.
On second thoughts, that would have avoided a butterfly effect or two.
Hear! Hear!
This is clearly one of my favourite early Yes songs. Frankly, I believe that it holds up rather well.
I'm with you. Musically, their stuff is interesting. But I always found Jon Anderson's vocals to be so.foching.ANNOYING.
Yep...if your tastes run towards pop and top 40 you certainly wouldn't hear anything like this let alone be able to appreciate the virtuosity and complexity of it.
All the "virtuosity and complexity" in the world does not automatically make good music. In the realm of rock music it can often come across as little more than smug adornment. But go ahead and teach us all about music appreciation and higher culture.
SOOOOOOO GOOD!
thank you .. such a delightful surprise to hear this today on Radio Paradise
A choice, very choice favorite ...
Yep...if your tastes run towards pop and top 40 you certainly wouldn't hear anything like this let alone be able to appreciate the virtuosity and complexity of it.
Starship Trooper. Good book, good song and the film… Well two out of three isn’t bad!
LowPhreak wrote:
OK, so a song is "painful" now? I suggest you see a doctor...or grow up and stop using these stupid, trendy euphemisms.
OK, so a song is "painful" now? I suggest you see a doctor...or grow up and stop using these stupid, trendy euphemisms.
SOOOOOOO GOOD!
I know what you mean, yet the final section of this song IS three-chord rock and roll. It's just not the standard I IV V changes.
Now I gotta wait til a "bad" song comes on to listen ... could be quite a wait