TFTO Number One LP this week in UK Charts 1974

[brumdave]

Just a reminder of those glory days -TFTO at No 1 in UK LP charts for two weeks from this week thirty one years ago!
Do you remember getting your copy then? How were you feeling when the needle hit the vinyl on RSOG's opening moments.

Happy New Year. Best wishes to all YES fans.

[brotherofmine]

Hi Brumdave..hope you might be able to make our gathering. Yes I was at school at the time..sixth form and used to buy a weekly music paper and was very excited to see 'TFTO' NUmber 1 in LP charts.

[InverYes]

I never bought it ! ( well, at that time anyway) Far too over the top for me.

Changed days now though.

[tardistraveler]

I bought it the day it was released here in the US - listened to it incessantly for months!

[Rogo]

Just a reminder of those glory days -TFTO at No 1 in UK LP charts for two weeks from this week thirty one years ago!
Do you remember getting your copy then? How were you feeling when the needle hit the vinyl on RSOG's opening moments.

Happy New Year. Best wishes to all YES fans.

Thanks, and the same to you!

I bought this around '79, as my third Yes album, after Tormato and Yesterdays. And I do remember that there was a sense of being caught up in something very special as that intro unfolded. A sense of being gently carried forward into something huge. I got sucked into the magic and stayed there for a long time and many relistens per day for weeks.

A glory of the vinyl album was its cover. The photographs were very evocative, and I loved the general mysteriousness and incomprehensibility of it all.

It's a brilliant album, with flaws. I think nothing like this has ever been attempted by any group before or since.

[PO]

Tales also hit #1 in the States. I don't recall the details.

I wasn't able to buy the album until a bit later in March. I was a youngster and spent my fortune on tickets to the concert. It was about $7. The program was $5. I saw the Tales tour on March 5.

Us seemingly precocious little teeny-boppers loved the concert and the album. It was in heavy rotation for a year.

[tardistraveler]

I was in college when Tales was released, and had a part-time job, the proceeds of which went solely to support my drug and music habits! LOL Well, I did spend some on college expenses too, but I never missed a Yes album or concert!

[slazman]

I cannot remember a more eagerly awaited album release ... I got it as soon as it was out ... and have been in love since. Thanks for the reminder Tardis - I was a student then in my first year at University - which is where my Son is now ... do wish I was 19 again but with all my knowledge.

I NEED THAT TIME MACHINE AGAIN!

[tardistraveler]

If I just REALLY had a tardis . . . I'd revisit that Atlanta Tales show . . . again and again!

[slazman]

If I just REALLY had a tardis . . . I'd revisit that Atlanta Tales show . . . again and again!

Now that would be a great Groundhog Day

[slazman]

If I just REALLY had a tardis . . . I'd revisit that Atlanta Tales show . . . again and again!

Now that would be a great Groundhog Day!

[slazman]

If I just REALLY had a tardis . . . I'd revisit that Atlanta Tales show . . . again and again!

Now that would be a great Groundhog Day!!

[tardistraveler]

LOL Slazman!

We could have Yes excursions back into time - visit all the fantastic tours and moments in Yes history!

[Vic W.]

I remember when I first heard this album, it was on the radio and I didn't know it had been released yet (no Internet in those days...). My father happened to be in the room, and the song playing was The Ancient, of all things. When I realized who I was listening to, I exclaimed that "This is the album I've been waiting for!" and promply hit the record button on the cassette. Needless to say, I got a very strange look from my father, like "You've been waiting for THAT???"

Spent a lot of hours alone in my room with the headphones listening to that album...

[cactus jon]

Can we have Yes jump into a time machine- go back to 1974 and record a sequal to TFTO. What a brilliant piece of music that has withstood criticism and IMHO become the best of all the Yes music. They are the Beethoven's of the era. I'm still waiting for YES' symphony #2.

[Yes2Yes]

Wow, thirty-one years ago. Where has the time gone???I recall the first time I played it...Sigh, thoses were the days.

[cinderella]

Needless to say, I got a very strange look from my father, like "You've been waiting for THAT???"

Spent a lot of hours alone in my room with the headphones listening to that album...


I don't remember when I bought the album. It was a good while after it was released, but I got that same look from my father when I did. Thank goodness for those headphones. I spent so much time listening to music through them, that my mother said they were going to become attached to my head!

[SonicDeath10]

too young...

[leteyer]

I remember getting home with a friend and he was looking at the sleeve and by mistake he handed me out the 2nd LP so we strated out with The Ancient..Just blew our minds.
I remember my mother knocking at my door and asking me what the hell was that horrible noise..

[Flo]

I was too young to know Yes at that time... I bought TFTO by 1985 if I remember well. I was impressed by the gatefold sleeve and although I was surprised at first by the music, it very quickly grew on me. By that time I started reading books on Yes and I was really happy to learn that they had had huge sales back in the 70s. How I wish I had witnessed this glorious period of time !

[PO]

Yep, Tales ... was a number one album in the US and UK when it came out.

This has been a friendly PSA and reminder.

[Scooty]

Actually, TFTO went to #6 in the States, no higher. it definitely was #1 in the UK though.

[remembering]

Just a reminder of those glory days -TFTO at No 1 in UK LP charts for two weeks from this week thirty one years ago!
Do you remember getting your copy then? How were you feeling when the needle hit the vinyl on RSOG's opening moments.

Happy New Year. Best wishes to all YES fans.

Yes, and look what it is doing to us 31 years later - still REMEMBERING. When I went to the Tales tour, the only Yes album I had was Close to the Edge. And when the needle hit the vinyl for the very first time - for me it was a case of "perhaps I can now understand what the hell the second half of that concert was all about"!

[allpurechance]

I don't remember when I bought the album. It was a good while after it was released, but I got that same look from my father when I did. Thank goodness for those headphones. I spent so much time listening to music through them, that my mother said they were going to become attached to my head!

Cinderz?The same was true of me regarding headphones!lol---Through the early days of listening to Yes(and others lol)...the early to mid 70's,if it weren't for headphones,I would never have gotten any listening time in!

As the time passed,I began to feel compelled to share this music with people.All people,as many as I could get the music to.

I kind of forcefed people Yes(and others,but mostly alot,and I do mean ALOT of Yes),made them sit down and actually listen to it(ALL of it!lol).Some hated it.Some hated me for doing that,lol.But,I had to share it.To the last days of his life,my old,now departed from us high school buddy said(and he used just this term,too lol)I 'infected' him with my musical leanings.

'Course,leaving him my record collection when I went into the US Navy probably 'infected' him just as much.All those old lp's are mostly scattered across three or four counties now,here in upstate NY...

I remember the excitement of the Tales release.My own personal excitement.The band who had put out The Yes Album,Fragile & Close To The Edge in something not much over just a year and a half were now releasing a double studio album?With just four songs?....I MUST have it!...I MUST!...

Now,many years later,the several thousand listens I have put into the recording seem well invested,indeed.Even back then,it was quite apparent that this album was not something which was going to become crystallized quickly within the narrow scope of my own,personally limited imagination.And it is exactly this quality to the remarkable achievement that is Tales which has made it such a great pleasure throughout the time which has passed by since.Flawed it may be,and surely is,but maybe it is also the flaws which make it the thing that it is,maybe it is the flaws that cause us now to be so affected by the album.Perfection can never be realized,for sure.These days,the flaws in Tales only make it that much more of a worthwhile experience,each and every time we choose it's company and put it into that cassette player,that cd player,onto that old turntable...surely there are 8 track editions of Tales,still out there,somewhere!....

[True Believer]

I was still at school and remember going to Virgin Records to buy it when it was released - ahh, the days ...