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BrianD
05-16-2005, 07:29 AM
I have been looking through The Yes Catalogue (available at http://yescography.tripod.com/home.htm) and the description of the Tales release in the UK has the following descriptions of sections of the tracks

The Revealing - Dance of the Dawn
For this moment
Science of God
Glory to sons
What happened to this song

The Remembering - High the memory
Forgotten yesterdays
Relayer
The Topographic Ocean
Rainbows

The Ancient - Slide guitar segment
Giants under the sun
Instrumental segment
Guitar solo
Leaves of Green

The Ritual - Introduction
Life seems like a fight
Bass segment
Percussion ensemble
Nous sommes du soleil

Now while a few of these descriptions appear on the album cover and others have become wellknown over time, many of these section descriptions (while obvious ways of describing parts of the songs) are unknown to me. Where did they come from? Were they from Yes, the record company, Eddie Offord or were they someone elses shorthand?

I'm curious if anyone can enlighten me.

yarstruly
05-16-2005, 09:44 AM
Never seen those before, but those are helpful!

PO
05-16-2005, 05:31 PM
I remember those, but I really don't recall where I first read them. I'll look into it.