Favorite Part of Tales

[BillB]

There is already a thread asking for your opinion on your favorite movement. This is hard to decide for me, because they are all good, and they all have some weaknesses as well as enormous strengths.

My question for fans is: What is your favorite small piece of Tales.

My favorite is the end of The Remembering. From Rick's keyboard solo on.

I also like the section of the Remembering is the instrumental portions after the lyric "Failsafe Now".

I've also always like the "Gettng Over Overhanging Trees" piece on TRSOG.

Your thoughts?

[RobAdams]

I really really love what occurs on RITUAL from the point where Jon sings "At all, at all, at all, at all" right up to the percussion section. This section features one of my favorite instrumental breaks on a Yes album.

[TroopersOwnz]

I like the beginning of Revealing Science of God. That and the "moment!" chorus

[Tonydess]

It is during RSOG. After Jon sings the lyrics "Getting over overhanging trees let them rape the forest" Steve does this wah wah sound on his guitar that I always loved at that point.He does it again later in the song.

[Ryan]

"I like the "our love seems like a fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight" part from "Ritual". I also like wakeman's little solo in "the remebering.

[PO]

There are so many. Okay,

The quiet part in Revealing with Jon and the mellotron, "And through the rhythm of moving slowly ..."

Just beautiful.

[yesyadda]

My fave part is on Ritual when the wild percussion movement fades out to tinkling (triangle?) and Steve's guitar takes over, then Jon sings again. Man, it wells up the peepers every time.

[fragile34]

the first few minutes of the ancient

[Buglunch]

The lush, sinking Mellotron part side one repeated; also all the MiniMoog solos/descants and full Mellotron horizons.
Same Remembering parts as BillB, ALL of side three, the all-percussion of side four.
My band used to fold side one theme into a Yes medley; I cannot do the MiniMoog solos as well, but I know all the bass and key parts. Some keyboard parts are so thick or muddy or quiet it's impossible to tweeze out, but Rick and others often wind up doing same parts different ways.
As he said in the VHS tape that was made during Union/ONION tour. ;)
I also love the part in Remembering where my vinyl is warped right at the part where they sing 'alternate tune' second time, or whatever the words are...
\o/
The pitch goes rollercoastering a bit and I thought that was on purpose to illustrate the lyrics. :0
For about twenty years...

[cinderella]

Steve's acoustic guitar piece near the end of the Ancient and leading into Leaves Of Green.

Do the leaves of green stay greener through the autumn
Does the colour of the sun turn crimson white
Does a shadow come between us in the winter
Is the movement really light

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
Along without you
Along without you

Where does reaon stop and killing just take over
Does a lamb cry out before we shoot it dead
Are there many more in comfort understanding
Is the movement in the head

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
Along without you
Along without you

I'm listening to it now. Ahhhhh just beautiful! :music-smi

[brotherofmine]

That's my favourite part to Cinders I often sing it...but you probably already know it's my favourite track on 'tales' anyway.

[Hernan1987]

By far, my favourite part is The 'we love when we play' section at the end of ritual

[Scaramouche]

Where do I start? I have so many, and being non musical myself I may have trouble adequatly explaining them any way.

I think the ending to each song is magnificent and it really gets your goosebumps going with the crecendos. Pure class.

I personally think RSOG is the strongest peice on the album though, it flows so much easier than the others and its the one place where you see Wakeman really shine. I think he probably enjoyed that keyboard solo if nothing else.

Scaramouche xx

[remembering]

What you all need to do is to sing sing/hum this

Ours, the story shall we carry on
And search the forest of the sun
We dream as we dream dream as one
and I do think very well

I would say for about a week - then let me know your thoughts!

[prem895]

The cover. I have to agree with Rick, Not that good of an album. If they would have kept it to a single album I think the music would have been tighter. I find a lot of filler in this album,but don't get me wrong, It does have some high points

[The Whale]

no way! my favorite part is the part were I listen to it from beginign to end!

[DW Duke]

My fave part is on Ritual when the wild percussion movement fades out to tinkling (triangle?) and Steve's guitar takes over, then Jon sings again. Man, it wells up the peepers every time.


Yes, that's it.

[The Whale]

actualy my favorit part is the intro to RSOG - chanting and then Rick kicks in to the big build to "freedom of life everlasting" when I hear this I feel like I have a better understanding of everything! except spelling. LOL

[Kaytou]

I really love the mellotron strings on "The Ancient".

...atuned to the majesty of music,...we marched as one with the earth...........

[Orbert]

Steve's guitar solo at the very end of "Ritual". It starts off innocently enough, then goes through some changes, becoming more omininous, then threatening, even agonizing, building the whole time, then it... ends. Wow! I always turn off my stereo after that, at least for a while, because I just have to decompress for a few after that. It's my favorite Steve Howe solo of all time, except maybe the little ditty at the end of "Awaken", which is also perfect.

[RABARKS]

Here's one I haven't seen in the replies: The bit starting with "Don the cap and close your eyes..." and from there on (The Remembering). It's kind of sparkling or something, if you know what I mean.
And of course the ending of Ritual where things quickly build up to a frenzy and then even quicker break down again. Lovely.

[marklovesyes]

Here's one I haven't seen in the replies: The bit starting with "Don the cap and close your eyes..." and from there on (The Remembering). It's kind of sparkling or something, if you know what I mean.
No way. I was just going to mention this as my favorite part of Tales. And here you put it down.
Yes - the "Don the cap..." section from side 2 is amazing. Some of the best ever Yes material, in my opinion. Side 1 is my favorite piece, as a whole, but that part of "The Remembering" is awesome.
-mly

[Jackaranda]

The middle section of RSOG

[wolfhound]

On RSOG, the interlude just before and as we begin:
"And through the rhythm of moving slowly"

[neilius]

I really really love what occurs on RITUAL from the point where Jon sings "At all, at all, at all, at all" right up to the percussion section. This section features one of my favorite instrumental breaks on a Yes album.
IM IN TOTAL AGREEMENT WITH YOU THERE, SEEING IT LIVE IS AMAZING(SUPER LONG BASS SOLO).
bUT HOW MANY OTHER INTRUMENTAL BREAKS ARE OF THIS CALLIBRE? TOO MANY TO MENTION. AWAKEN cHURCH ORGAN SOLO AFTER FAREWELL, FAREWELL, MIDDLE AND ENDING OF AYAI ECT ECT

[crotale2112]

hey there neilius.....what's up, welcome to this circus of heaven.:worm:

I love the moog solo in the revealing scince of god.I can play that solo over and over and over.It cuts through me like a knife. If lasers had a sound.....it would sound like a moog.

[remembering]

Its very simple really

From the very first note of RSOG to the very last note of Ritual. All of the amazing Tales is a Wonderous Story, exciting, emotional, thought provoking. Steves wonderful guitar together with Ricks superb keyboards, Jon's unmistakable voice at its best - all a true masterpeice.

There are just not enough hours in a day to listen to this often enough

[dtrose]

Tend to just let the whole thing wash over me. Mean that in a good way. Must listen to this album more. Nice to hear other people feeling so passionately about Tales though. Just this album hasn't really resonated with me. Even after all these years.

[remembering]

Tend to just let the whole thing wash over me. Mean that in a good way. Must listen to this album more. Nice to hear other people feeling so passionately about Tales though. Just this album hasn't really resonated with me. Even after all these years.

Welcome dtrose nice to meet you. Keep at it with Tales I did and have played at least a part of it everyday for the past 30 years or more

[dtrose]

I'll do my best thanks. May put in on very shortly. Just been playing Drama. That was better than I remembered it being. So who knows how I'll feel about Tales in a few hours time!

Fingers crossed.

[Amy]

I'm beginning to realize, that I like The Ancient more than Ritual. I think I got spoiled hearing Ritual live.

[DJ Panurge]

My favourite part is at the end of RSOG where Rick plays that MEAN synthesizer solo.

It blows me away every time! ;)

[PO]

Dj,

Is that at the very end?

" ...caught within the spell" be-dl-de-dl-de-dl-dep byoo-do (2nd time) be-dl-de-dl-de-dl-dep byooo-do

Howe doubles it on guitar? Awesome.

[Timmo]

Funny. I listened to Tales from start to end last night.

I pretty much love all of it.

Standout moments:

End of the intro to RSOG ("As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.")

The end of "The Remembering" ("Rainbows. Sunlight. Alternate view..."). That's the part that grabbed me when I first heard Tales, which was live.

Steve's accoustic guitar intro to the "Leaves of Green" section of "The Ancient."

Steve's wild, howling guitar in the intro to "The Ancient."

The end of "Ritual," right after the percussive battle, Steve's gorgeous guitar just before the "Hold me my love, hold me today, call me round" section.

The end of Ritual, and the whole album. I love how it's so disquieting, and kind of cycles back to the beginning of RSOG. Tales is a circle, like Joyce's "Finnigan's Wake."

[daniel sylvain]

It is during RSOG. After Jon sings the lyrics "Getting over overhanging trees let them rape the forest" Steve does this wah wah sound on his guitar that I always loved at that point.He does it again later in the song.
That is exactly what I feel , clearly to be home.. :headset:

[KPatrick]

[QUOTE=cinderella]Steve's acoustic guitar piece near the end of the Ancient and leading into Leaves Of Green.

Ditto Cinderella. It's my favorite Steve Howe guitar bit.

Just narrowly beats out the very last note of Ritual...

[Joe]

You know whats a really cool part? In Ritual, near the end, when the drums are running wild and Ricks keys are building up and then everything drops off to the sound of Steves guitar.......You know where I mean? Ummmmmmmm! LOVE THIS DAM GROUP!

[Olias7]

The downright climactic ending in "The Remembering" when the music builds and builds and builds and then Jon sings --

"We don't even need to try - We are One!"

It's that particular moment throughout the entire TFTO release that speaks VOLUMES to me and the sole reason why I use it as my signature at the end of each post! It honestly moves me to tears ..... and I don't get emotional easily, people.

I've listened to this Yes-album (my alltime favorite!) countless times and each time I hear this particular passage, it still gives me chills to the bone!

"Tales ..." cannot be beat! It is the epitome of Yes to me.

[Joe]

The downright climactic ending in "The Remembering" when the music builds and builds and builds and then Jon sings --

"We don't even need to try - We are One!"

It's that particular moment throughout the entire TFTO release that speaks VOLUMES to me and the sole reason why I use it as my signature at the end of each post! It honestly moves me to tears ..... and I don't get emotional easily, people.

I've listened to this Yes-album (my alltime favorite!) countless times and each time I hear this particular passage, it still gives me chills to the bone!

"Tales ..." cannot be beat! It is the epitome of Yes to me.
That's a great part also.......Hey, what the hell! That whole album is a great part. A great part of YES history!

[Nes]

Wow thats a great album..

My favorite parts are

Revealing: the guitar solo right before and the whole the first "They Move Fast..." part. I love that part, Also, that neat Solo and the chord progression that kinda play back and fourth with eachother that comes that comes after the line "Cast iron leader". And also that almost eastern-esque interlude before the "and through the rhythm" part.. Hell, I just love this song

Remembering: The opening notes always struck me as incredible, as well as the "don the cap.." part, as well as the little riff that is part of the "relayer" part. I also love how the "Stand on hills of long forgotten yesterdays" part is. When I first heard it a year or so ago (i'm a bit of a n00b yesfan) I was completely blown away by it for some reason..

Ancient: This song for the first 5 or so minutes is ANNOYING. I hate it. When it finally organizes itself somewhat ("as one..") It's ok, but I really don't like it until the "So the flowering..." part. That was one of the first yes songs I learned to play on my guitar was leaves of green, and I still love that section, as well as the harder part that comes after it

Ritual: This song is excellent minus the fact that it has those annoying prucussion breaks in in the middle. That part always annoyed me. I have no idea why.. Oh well. The Nous Summes Du Solei part always got me. It's so amazingly beautiful and it's a stellar note to end the album on.

Yeah, Tales is my favorite yes album (well, sometimes I do fluctuate between this and Relayer, but it's usually Tales). Oh well I'm done

*goes to listen to his tales CD*

[Timmo]

There goes my theory that people who really love Relayer usually also love "The Ancient."

[PO]

Western ears have a hard time appreciating the tonal scales used in East Indian and classic Oriental music. I just tell them it's multicultural and then they have to like it. :winknudge

Modern harmonies are a tough habit to break. Even the dissonant modern harmonies are a tough sell! Throw an extra note in a chord and, all of a sudden, it's a "jazz" chord (*shudder*). Oh, well.

[Timmo]

I didn't like "The Ancient" at all for years.

After I had expanded my musical palatte to include modern atonal classical, 60's Miles Davis, Captain Beefheart, and Indian ragas, I returned to The Ancient.

It now seemed pretty tame; in fact I love the dischordancy. I think it's powerful, rather than jarring or annoying.

[PO]

Right. Steve and Jon were/are very experienced musicians and knew/know of many different types of music. We seem to expect them to push the envelope, but when a song doesn't have "pretty" harmonies it's no good. Well, pushing the envelope is what we ask for, then many just call it padding and filler.

Yes never made it to American Bandstand ("I'll give it a 90. I liked the beat.")

Yes must be very frustrated with it's fan base at times. I know I would be.

[Timmo]

I also love the distinctly unpretty moment in Steve's "Soundchaser" solo. The first time I heard it, I thought his guitar had gas.

And I've always loved that jarring "Cha cha cha," that so many people cannot stand.

Soundchaser is unusually witty for a Yessong.

[cinderella]

I never liked the Ancient. Now I do.

Maybe it comes with maturity. Who knows. But it totally works for me now. :D

[Rob.E]

I like the keyboard intro on the revealing science of god.
I also like the same part when steve howe does his solo version (excerps from tales) on Not necessarily acoustic.

[Steve St Thomas]

Well, apart from that I love all of RITUAL(!!!!), I think my truly favourite moment or 'passage' from Topographic has to be the whole section of The Remembering (High The Memory), which probably starts around:

Don the cap and close your eyes imagine all the glorious challenge
Iron metal cast to others
Distant drums

all the way through the Relayer section of the song. I just love that 5 or 6 minutes of music? I'd have to have the CD on me to say where it starts and where it ends, but apart from the whole of RITUAL, that's my other favourite moment from Topographic.

[Orbert]

Don the cap and close your eyes imagine all the glorious challenge
Iron metal cast to others
Distant drumsI like this part, too. Steve's vocal harmony when they sing "other skylines" is cool, and I has always struck me as one of his better harmonies. At least I think it's Steve; it doesn't sound like Chris to me, and it would usually be Jon and Chris if it's only a two-part harmony. But since Steve usually does the lower harmony when it's three-part, maybe they just went with it. Plus, Steve's acoustic work through this section is very tasty. You can hear the pointy fingernails doing their thing.

[Steve St Thomas]

I like this part, too. Steve's vocal harmony when they sing "other skylines" is cool, and I has always struck me as one of his better harmonies. At least I think it's Steve; it doesn't sound like Chris to me, and it would usually be Jon and Chris if it's only a two-part harmony. But since Steve usually does the lower harmony when it's three-part, maybe they just went with it. Plus, Steve's acoustic work through this section is very tasty. You can hear the pointy fingernails doing their thing.

Yea I've always liked the acoustic guitar throughout that section.And the little fills he puts in there between the D chords.

And Howe does sound very much like Squire. Their voices are very similar, its just that Squire has much more confidence doing it. He's stronger at it. But they can be hard to tell apart, but it is usually Steve doing the lower harmony. The Steve Howe Album shows how much Squire and Howe vocally sound alike, but Squire just carries it better.

But I think my favourite part is the Relayer section, and its a particular part. And its for what Squire and White are doing, while Rick Wakeman plays the main melody that comprises Relayer
All the dying cried before you. They do this thing where they both hang back for a second, and then come back in together for the main rhythm. I think this section is in 4/4, then 3/4, back to 4/4, then 2/4. Once I noticed what they were doing (it took a good 20 years), and the Howe acoustic section that begins this whole part of The Remembering, I just loved it as much as all of Ritual. I'll get the CD next time, and tell y'all where it is, much better than what I've described it here.

[jaynote1]

"Relayer, all the dying cried before you....." and then the jam immediately after........i dig the different time sigs between the rythm section and the solo..........

[jaynote1]

I have to agree with a previous post-Tales is THE Yes album, the album that defines what Yes means.............

[Steve St Thomas]

Okay --- we're at the 09.10 mark of The Remembering (High The Memory). This is the start of my favourite section of the entire song. I love every minute of Ritual. But Remembering snuck up on me years and years later with this section of music. At 10.37 is something I think is so good, and I really don't know how I missed it for that long. It's what Alan White & Chris Squire are playing for the groove, the actual melody Anderson is singing, and what Wakeman & Howe play surrounding these elements.

11.52 -- I think this variation in the instrumentation, and the mood is really great. Totally different from the first time it happens.

13.08 - return to Relayer section, and coming up to my absolute favourite 'bit'
of this song.

So at 13.42 you have the next section's beginning, but it's between 13.44 and 45 that Squire and White first do their ''thang'', and it happens every 3 seconds or so all the way until 14.13. I could honestly stop the song right there, I'd need not have to listen to anymore of it. I find this whole section just absolutely jamming, thrilling, mean, everything I love about music and rhythm. Just because of a little thing Squire & White keep doing.

[PO]

Don't forego 17:30 to the end of The Remembering. This is the grandest of endings. Long before the Internet, I always, and still do, rival this ending with that of Awaken. Easily.

[Charles Matejic]

the instrumentation behind the lyrics 'Starlight movement reasons rlease forward tallest rainbows etc.' and again later in the movement with "cast iron leader etc" but by far the best part is Wakemans sizzling synthesizer piece shortly after that which I could have listened to a whole side of and have often wondered why they didn't add more of it to the album,with no disrespect to his effort on Remembering which is wonderful,when he gets wound up on the keyboards like I just mentioned or say Close to the

Edge WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Charles Matejic]

I forgot to mention Chris Squires playing lead on the bass on just about everything they ever did

[rememberer]

The opening sections of The Remembering are exquisite but I also really like where they bring the "main" theme (the music to "As the silence of seasons on..." etc) back later toward the end in a different style with Chris chugging away and Rick doing the melody with the nice fat synth, I've always found that "reprise" very catchy and compelling.

[Albedo]

There are so many it's hard to chose but these are some favorites.

In Revealing Science, "Called out a tune but I never saw the face...." to "What happened to this song we once knew so well..." I love that whole section.

In Remembering, the "Relayer..." sections are great, and the last ca. 2.5 minutes of the song are fantastic and excite me as much as CTTE (blasphemy!).

In Relayer, "Hold me my love...." onward, that lyric makes me cry.

[TOR-NUE]

The opening chant on "Revealing" and the "getting over overhanging trees, let them rape the forest" passage and the acoustic solo in "The Ancient"

[Warhorse]

The "Leaves of Green" is ironically the best part of the album preceeded by the worst part of the album (probably the worst Yes 'music'). The chorus of Revealing is also good. In my customised best ofs (6x 2hour tapes of Yes), I used to only include Revealing, but when I updated it three years ago, I added the Leaves of Green bit and the Nous Sommes Du Soleil (last bit of Ritual).

I know some of you a thinking, how can you abridge Yes music!
It makes it easier to get more stuff on. Makes for a better mix.

[neilius]

The bit in ritual where it goes ....at all.. at all...at..all

[Warhorse]

First time I heard Ritual was on Yesstory which I bought for my brother Christmas 92. And we tended to skip this track. But I once said that that 'At all' section is the only section I liked. Having heard the some more since, I'd say there are other good spots too, but also some unpleasant bits. It like that 'at all' section because of the way themusic works under it.

[neilius]

One bit of tfto that i cant get is the ancient; about 7.03 minutes into that track; that riff still gets me

[tormatotork]

I, erm, think it's the leaves of green bit. Such a bloody difficult question though. Can't you people ask somewhat more simple questions.

[Warhorse]

My custom made yes mix (sxi 2 hours tapes)

volume 1 "Perpectual Change" 69-72
Something's Coming, Beyond & Before, Time and a Word, Perpetual Change, Looking Around, Then, For Everyone (live BBC), Survival, Astral Traveller, Yours is No Disgrace
[side b] Every Little Thing, No Opportunity..., I've Seen All Good People, Harold Land, Sweet Dreams, The Clap, Sweetness, Dear Father, Heart of the Sunrise, Starship Trooper, Mood for a Day.

Vol 2 "Revealing Science" 72-74
Roundabout, Close to the Edge, America (full version), Revealing, I'm Down (live from Yesyears)
[side B] Southside of the Sky, Siberan Khatru, Gates of Delirium (abridge - the middle battle section is cut out - comes back in with the riff that bring it to Soon), Leaves of Green (from Ancient), Long Distance Runaround/The Fish, And You and I, Nous Sommes du Soleil (closing section of Ritual)

Vol 3 "Wonderous Stories" 74-83
Going For the One, Release Release, Does it really happen, Richard (from Yes Dialogue, in the future I'll replace it with the In a Word version), Parallels, Onward, Picasso (from Yes Dialogue), Tempus Fugit, Leave it, To Be Over, It can Happen
[side b] Owner of a lonely Heart, Don't kill the whale, Run with the fox, Machine Messiah, Sound Chaser (abridged - cuts out before or after guitar solo?), Wonderous Stories, On the Silent Wings of Freedom, Abiliene, Awaken (abridged - cuts out before harp section), White Car, Hearts. (In the future I might add Tango, now that I have In A Word)

Vol 4 "Shock to the System" 83-94
Life me up, Rhythm of Love, Hold On, I Would have waited Forever, Brother of Mine, Love Will Find a Way, The More We Live, Fist of Fire (in the future it'll be the In A Word version), Shoot High Aim Low (though in the future I may sacrafice this for Holy Lamb), Masquerade, Order of the Universe (abridged - intro is omitted)
[SIDE B] Shock to the System, Almost like Love, Birthright, Dangerous, City of Love, Miracle of Love, Final Eyes, Saving My Heart, Quartet, I am Waiting.

Vol 5 "Endless Dream" 94-97
State of Play, Foot Prints, Walls, Children of Light (full version), Real Love, That That Is, Time and a Word (live '96 - this might be sacrificed in the future to make room for other things)
[side b] Mind Drive, The Calling, Bring Me to the Power, Endless Dream, Starship Trooper (live '96 - might also get cut, generally I would avoid live tracks in a mix)

vol 6 "New State of Mind" 97-01
Homeworld, New State of Mind, Finally, Magnification, Spirit of Survival, Don't Go, Open Your Eyes, It Will Be a good Day, Fortune Seller, If Only You Knew
[side b] Be the one, Love Shine, Lightning Strikes, Give Love Each Day, Man in the Moon, The Messenger, Can You Imagine, No Way we Can Lose, New Languages, We Agree. (In the future I'll likely stick in In the Presence Of)

[Warhorse]

Not that anybody cares, but I also made an 8x 90min Yessolo mix. 2 hour tapes are harder to find. I should have brought more home with me from Japan - there you can get virually any length of tape. Buying two hour tapes for the yes mix was good cause it give more diversity to each volume. Now that I have a NetMD player that lets me get close to 5 hours on one usually 74min MD it's cool for making conitnuous mixes. I also used one to transfer Yessymphonic and the concert portion of Yesspeak into something I can play on my stereo.

[Warhorse]

This series hasn't been updated to include the last three albums by Howe, or Conspiracy's new one. More over I don't have every solo album ever made so it may be missing things you'd expect. Additionally I have 3 90 min best of for just Anderson and the same for Howe (though also not up to date), 2 volumes for Wakeman and 1 that is joint Squire and Sherwood (their work apart and together is represented here). Thus in the 8 volume Yessolo, the content representing these guys is not as exhaustive. I wanted to give more balance in the joint Yessolo mix.

[Warhorse]

Vol 1 "Beyond & Before" 65-75
you're on your own (In Crowd c/o Mothballs), Why Must they Criticise (In Crowd), 14 Hour Technicolour Dream (Syn c/o Can I Play You Something), My White Bicycle (Tomorrow, from Tomorrow), Grounded (Syn), Claremont Lake (Tomorrow), Flower Man (Syn), Revolution (Tomorrow), Created by Clive (Syn), Beyond & Before (Mabel Greer's Toyshop demo c/o Can I Play...), Real Life Permanent Dream (Tomorrow), Electric Funeral (MG'sT), Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase (Tomorrow), Get Yourself Together (MG'sT), Nether Street (Bodast c/o SH with Bodast the Early Years).
[side b] Images of You and Me (MGT), Do You Remember (Bodast), Nothing to cry For (Bodast), Wind of Change (Badger c/o Affimative-The Yes Solo Family Album), For This Moment (SH c/o Homebrew), Catherine of Aragorn (RW c/o Voyager compilation), Catherine Howard (RW), Anne Bolyne (RW), Doors of Sleep (SH Beginnings).

Vol 2 "By My Side" 75-79
Hold out Your Hand (CS Fish out of Water), By My Side (CS), Nature of the Sea (SH), Arthur (RW c/o Voyager), Ram (SH), Merlin (RW), Breakaway From it All (SH), Last Battle (RW)
[side b] Meeting (JA Olias of Sunhillow), Sound out the Galleon (JA), Cachaca (PM c/o Affirmative), Flight of the Moorglade (JA), Spring-Song of Innocence (AW c/o Affirmative), White Rock (RW c/o Voyager), Feels Good to Me (BB c/o Affirmative), I Hear You Now (Jon & Vangelis Short Stories), Living in the Plastic Age (Buggles Ages of Plastic), Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles), Surface Tension (SH The Steve Howe Album).

Vol 3 "One Step Closer" 79-86
Pennants (SH), March of the Gladiators (RW c/o Voyager), All's A Chord (SH), Summertime (RW), Meadow Rag (SH Homebrew version), Some Are Born (JA Song of Seven), Adventures in Modern Recording (Buggles Adventures in...), I'll Find My Way Home (J&V Friends of Mr Cairo), Masquerade (SH c/o Homebrew II), I Am A Camera (Buggles bonus 7" version on Japanese release), Friends of Mr Cairo (J&V abridged- first half only)
[side b] Run with the Fox (CS&AW c/o Yesyears), All in a Matter of Time (JA c/o Affirmative), Make it Easy (TR c/o Yesyears), It Can Happen ('Cinema' c/o Yesyears), One Step Closer (Asia Asia - 'token' Asia track as I have a multi-volume best of just for them), And When the Night Comes (J&V Private Collection), Horizon (J&V abridged-first half only), When the Heart Rules the Mind (GTR GTR)

vol 4 "Gentle Persuassion" 86-91
The Hunter (GTR), Toe the Line (GTR), To the Rescue (Esquire Esquire), Moonlight Desires (Gowan-feat. JA-Great Dirty World), Up North (BB's Earthworks c/o Heavenly Bodies), Hold On to Love (JA In the City of Angels), At the Full Moon (SH c/o Homebrew), Is it Me (JA), Go Between (SH c/o Homebrew II), Hurry Home (JA)
[side b] Can't Look Away (TR Can't Look Away), Ice (RW c/o Yes Friends & Relatives), Something to Hold on to (TR), Red & White (SH c/o Homebrew), Hold on to me (TR), Gentle Persuasion (BB's E), Eyes of Love (TR), Inner Battle (SH Turbulance), God With a Southern Accent (SH c/o Yes Dialogue)

vol 5 "State of Independence" 91-93
Love Conquers All (TR/CS/AW c/o Yesyears), Turbulance (SH), Wisdom Chain (J&V Page of Life -abridged-only second half), Novalis (SH), Money (J&V), Sensitive Chaos (SH), Make Believe (JA c/o Yes Dialogue), Is it Love (JA c/o Yes Dialogue), Take the Water to the Mountain (JA c/o Yes Dialogue), Aqua 1 (Asia Aqua feat. SH)
[side b] State of Independence (JA Change We Must), Grand Scheme of Things (SH Grand Scheme...), Amore Real (JA Deseo), No expense spared (Wakeman With Wakeman c/o Yes Friends & Relatives), The Kiss (JA Change We Must), Chagall Duet (JA Change...), At the Gates of the New World (SH), Deseo (JA Deseo), Dominating Factor (PBanks c/o Affirmative), Aqua 2 (Asia)

vol 6 "Together" 93-95
Freefall (RW c/o Caped Collection), Hearts (JA Change we Must), Reaching the Point (SH), Under the Sun (JA Change...), Mood for a Day (SH c/o Symphonic Music of Yes), Soon (SH c/o SMofY), Roundabout (SH Not Necessarilly Acoustic), Excerpts From Topographic Oceans (SH Not...)
[side b] Euphoria (World Trade Euphoria), Change We Must (J&V Page of Life), Morning Has Broken (RW Piano Album), Dark Skies (World Trade), Seperate Ways (SH c/o Homebrew II), Golden Age (World Trade), The Meeting (RW Piano Album), And You and I (RW Piano Album), In the Wake of the Storm (World Trade).

vol 7 "Magic Love" 95-99
Sun Carnival (SH Homebrew II), Space Oddity (RW Piano Album), Life on Mars (RW), Quick Words (JA Toltec), Shall We Play the Game (JA), Wonderous Stories (World Trade c/o Tales From Yesterdays tribute), Ave Verum (JA), Keep it Dark (World Trade c/o Supper's Ready tribute), Born to Dance (JA Promise Ring), Whale Watching (JA Earthmotherearth), Promise Ring (JA Promise...), O'er (JA Promise...)
[side b] Concerto Duo (JA Earth...), Majoc Love (JA The More You Know), Walk Don't Run (SH Quantum Guitar), Say (JA More...), Momenta (SH), The More You Know (JA), Sleepwalk (SH), Free (JA), 10 Million (JA c/o Yes Friends & Relatives), Onwer of a Lonely Heart '98 (JA c/o YF&R), Footloose and Fancy Free (BB's E c/o Yes Friends & Relatives2)

vol 8 "Days of Wonder" 99-01
Never is a Long Long Time (RW feat TR Return to the Centre of the Earth), Lay Lady Lay (SH Portrais of Bob Dylan), Burried Alive (RW), Don't Think Twice It's Alright (SH), Ride of Your Life (RW), THe Kill (RW), Big Peace (Billy Sherwood The Big Peace)
[side B] It's all over now baby blue (SH), Days of Wonder (Squire & Sherwood Conspiracy), Distant Seas (SH Natural Timbre), Lonesome Trail (S&S), The More We Live (S&S), Winter (SH), Wish We Knew (S&S), You Move (SH), Disillusion (SH), Say Goodbye (S&S).

This have not been updated in a few years. So I haven't included tracks from SH's last three (though I wouldn't put anything from Skyline), Conspiracy The Unknown, TR 90124, or any forthcoming releases by Syn and White.

[PO]

Gates of Delirium (abridge - the middle battle section is cut out - comes back in with the riff that bring it to Soon),

?

I'm glad Yes came out before remix DJ's and iPOD's! Yikes. You certainly wouldn't enjoy "my" Yes concert.

[pakananda]

My favorite is the last part of ritual "Nous somme du seleil" starting with the long climactic drum solo/sound montage leading up to it which is part of what makes it work so well. It's a sort of release from all that tension. When I sat through the live Tales concert back on the '74 tour, I was literally "pinned" down into my seat from that whole section preceding "Nous somme du seleil". The rythyms and sounds seemed to take hold of me at my innermost core almost ripping out my insides. Then, in a sort of chrysallic way, the guitar and vocals leading into "Soleil" just cleared the air. It was the most intense and dramatic concert experience I have ever had (still) in my entire life and left me completely stunned. (Not to mention the bizarre Roger Dean stage sets/gadgetry that accompanied this section - )

Another favorite part of Tales is on side 2 (The Remembering) when Wakeman does this whole sythesizer trip taking you down - deeper, deeper - almost forcing you into a hypnotic trance to tap into your deepest reservoir of memories. I have always found that part to be the most dynamic and moving of this epic recording. Ironically, it is part of this very section which - 22 years later - was quite literally ripped off by Enigma on their Enigma 3: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! (beginning of track 1 for those that care to check it out)

[Joe]

[QUOTE=pakananda]My favorite is the last part of ritual "Nous somme du seleil" starting with the long climactic drum solo/sound montage leading up to it which is part of what makes it work so well. It's a sort of release from all that tension. When I sat through the live Tales concert back on the '74 tour, I was literally "pinned" down into my seat from that whole section preceding "Nous somme du seleil". The rythyms and sounds seemed to take hold of me at my innermost core almost ripping out my insides. Then, in a sort of chrysallic way, the guitar and vocals leading into "Soleil" just cleared the air. It was the most intense and dramatic concert experience I have ever had (still) in my entire life and left me completely stunned. (Not to mention the bizarre Roger Dean stage sets/gadgetry that accompanied this section - )

WOW!
This says it all!
Perfect!

[pakananda]

[NOTE: Duplicate Post in Trivia section]

Here's an interesting bit of trivia from the '74 Tales from Topographic Oceans tour: For about half of the shows on the american tour, Rick Wakeman was replaced by a guy named Jake Welsh, currently residing in Princeville, Hawaii. He was on the sound crew and happened to be a yes fanatic who knew all of the songs in the repertoire. When the band was faced with closing down the tour due to Rick's health problems, they were about to shut down the tour. Jake stepped in and claimed to know virtually all the material. Incredulous of this sound guy from nowhere, they agreed to an audition. He passed with flying colors and saved the tour. Practicing only twice briefly with the band, he went on to play about 22 shows - apparently with no official recognition! He looked enough like Wakeman to pass as his "double"! (This part is hard to believe, I know) Anyone else that can confirm this?

[Joe]

[NOTE: Duplicate Post in Trivia section]

Here's an interesting bit of trivia from the '74 Tales from Topographic Oceans tour: For about half of the shows on the american tour, Rick Wakeman was replaced by a guy named Jake Welsh, currently residing in Princeville, Hawaii. He was on the sound crew and happened to be a yes fanatic who knew all of the songs in the repertoire. When the band was faced with closing down the tour due to Rick's health problems, they were about to shut down the tour. Jake stepped in and claimed to know virtually all the material. Incredulous of this sound guy from nowhere, they agreed to an audition. He passed with flying colors and saved the tour. Practicing only twice briefly with the band, he went on to play about 22 shows - apparently with no official recognition! He looked enough like Wakeman to pass as his "double"! (This part is hard to believe, I know) Anyone else that can confirm this?
I never knew this. And I thought I was one of the biggest YES freaks around. This guy should get credit for this. Thanks for the info.

[PO]

This isn't true. No way.

[JL]

I ain't buying it either.

[neilius]

im sure everyone would have heard about this before.
Wakey didnt have his heart attacks until after he left yes.

[pakananda]

This isn't true. No way. You sure about that? Please see the in-depth discussion on this subject in the separate thread entitled:
'74 Unknown band member? (http://yesfans.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21814)

[TOR-NUE]

Man, I feel like watching "Ritual" on Symphonic DVD today :rightG:

[Close to Loch Ness]

RSOG - "getting over overhanging trees .... " just beautiful
The Remembering - "don the cap ..." Steve at his best acoustically. I love the way the first passage is a bright picked sound and he changes it on the second passage to a more classical pick. Sheer magic.
"ours entrance we surely carry on..." I think this is the most powerfull ending that Yes have done.
The Ancient -Steve's acoustic and LOG. I still get a lump in the throat when Jon sings "does a lamb cry out before we shoot it dead"
Ritual - when Steve comes in after the percussive part right to the end.

This is very hard, there are loads of small sections that are brilliant. in fact I love it all, except for a section in the middle of the Ancient - but that's only about 5 minutes out of around 80 minutes of music.
One more thing. How many artists don't have fillers in their albums.

Brian :rightG:

[Timmo]

Don't forego 17:30 to the end of The Remembering. This is the grandest of endings. Long before the Internet, I always, and still do, rival this ending with that of Awaken. Easily.What he said.

THAT is my favorite part of Tales.

[Timmo]

Gates of Delirium (abridge - the middle battle section is cut out - comes back in with the riff that bring it to Soon)BLASPHEMY!

Soon without the battle sequence is like dessert without dinner!

No wonder you don't like first part of "The Ancient."

And no Soundchaser on your custom mix either. Guess you don't like dischordant music.

[flep]

I was going to say the bit that Jake Welsh played but obviously now he played nothing. A bit like that roadie who was playing Eddie Van Halens guitar solos backstage a few years ago!!!

[PO]

BLASPHEMY!

Soon without the battle sequence is like dessert without dinner!
...

It's like Abbott without Costello!
It's like strawberry without shortcake!
It's like bra without pant... hmmm that might be okay, actually. ;)

On the grandest scale, it's like Cause without Effect.

[Timmo]

Or the Effect without the Cause.

I can't think about this too much or my brain will hurt.

[Orbert]

BLASPHEMY!

Soon without the battle sequence is like dessert without dinner!Absolutely. I was most disappointed when I picked up YesYears long ago, and the "new" track called "Soon" was just the last part of another song. A great song, and the edit itself was very pretty, but it seems very bizarre to just take a little bit of a song and put it out there and even call it something else. "Soon" isn't a song; it's part of a larger song. But then, I don't like shortened/edited versions of anything. It's all sacrilege to me.

[neilius]

Absolutely. I was most disappointed when I picked up YesYears long ago, and the "new" track called "Soon" was just the last part of another song. A great song, and the edit itself was very pretty, but it seems very bizarre to just take a little bit of a song and put it out there and even call it something else. "Soon" isn't a song; it's part of a larger song. But then, I don't like shortened/edited versions of anything. It's all sacrilege to me.

When i first got back into Yes in '91 I bought yesyears and thought Soon was a song on its own. Imagine my joy when i found out otherwise!
Im listenenig to tfto now. Track 2 at the moment.

[djcub]

Without a doubt, when the chanting at the beginning of "Revealing Science" ends, and Wakeman's keyboards BLARE that main theme, and then the band kicks in...it sounds like a UFO is landing in the room! Never fails to blow away even the harshest Yes critic. Such a mindblowing way to begin a song!

[new_sum_do_solve_ay]

Steve's acoustic guitar piece near the end of the Ancient and leading into Leaves Of Green.

Do the leaves of green stay greener through the autumn
Does the colour of the sun turn crimson white
Does a shadow come between us in the winter
Is the movement really light

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
Along without you
Along without you

Where does reaon stop and killing just take over
Does a lamb cry out before we shoot it dead
Are there many more in comfort understanding
Is the movement in the head

And I heard a million voices singing
Acting to the story that they had heard about
Does one child know the secret and can say it
Or does it all come out along without you
Along without you
Along without you

I'm listening to it now. Ahhhhh just beautiful! :music-smi

This is my favorite section because it enables me to UNDERSTAND Yes and the entire work better.

I am new and find once again I am in tune with the girl in the pretty dress....

Tales is a hugely important album for me so let me tell you something personal about this. Tales was the album that took me from being just a kid who had heard OoaLH and Leave It into a full fledged Yes fan.

I was a high-IQ type high school student among the top %'s. And my friends and I liked yes because of the whole concept of being the best at what you do, though we were not musicians, we mastered most things we did. Well, it just so happens my college friends introduced me to Tales. But my mother had long been a reader of Eastern mystical ideas. She often spoke of Paramahansa Yogananda and once took me as a teen to their Self-realization fellowship near Pasadena, CA. I always listened to these interests with a grain of salt but imagine my jaw when I read the liner notes to this album while my college friends and I were drinking. Here was a band that I had never heard fully, but had been around for years, filled with amazing talent AND was centered around a topic that was a breakfast table topic for my mother! Needless to say this put Yes close to my heart immediately.

Why is this my favorite part of Tales? Well its the most significant I should say. I still remember in my youth I was a bit embarassed by the frankness of this story of Jon and Steve alone in a hotel room with candles. It was a bit to intimate for me to really digest. But as an adult I can see now that this is the crux of what was happening in the band: Jon and Steve were the creative engine of Yes and they were proud to proclaim this in the liner notes. Some where in a Wakeman post someone has criticized Rick for not being the driving force here. Well it does not take a genius to understand that Yes is so distinctive because of Jon's odd, yet amazing voice, and that no band has yet marketed itself successfully upon the skill of a keyboardist (except the Captain & Tenneille of course...)

So you can see when you listen to this section again that this is Jon and Steve. Period. Pure and simple music; voice and guitar. So portable. And it sounds just like good 'campfire-ish' fun. I speak as a listener not as a musician. I play piano. But I can see how compelling and enjoyable a single voice and guitar can be. Very natural. I believe this section shows the spiritual energy of these two young talents and their vision of simple good will. And the lyrics capture something very specail as well but are less important in my view....
Notice that the theme featured in the later sections of Ritual and the esp the climactic percussion part are introduced immediately after this part....

I love this album and I never heard anything better until ABWH came out.

There is one BRIEF section I like better: the section in Ritual which is 3:45 into the song where Chris rips into this bass line that just makes me want to shake my groove thing like a demon possessed, but its over pretty quick. LOL. I think I like it better because I have a deep voice and I can hum it.

[new_sum_do_solve_ay]

Consequently, I might add, that to this day I have yet to find the footnote John is talking about...... I have read that book several times.....

[fovman]

The cover art

[Hugh Shiebler]

The Wakeman solo toward the end of "Revealing Science"

"STAND on hills of Long Forgotten Yesterdays...." from "the Remembering" I got chills just from typing it.

The post - "Fail Safe Now" section of "The Remembering"

[Warhorse]

I always assumed the acoustic guitar bit was part of Leaves of Green given that it also ends it off.

I'm not always fussy for some of Jon's lyrics. A good lyricist can say a lot with just a few words, but some times he just doesn't make any sense. I get that mostly he sings about nature and mysticism. That line "where does reason stop and killing just take over" however is probably one of his clearest lines from that era.
I think his lyrics have improved of late (or at least the clarity of them) and the words on the Ladder and especially Magnification not only make sense to me, but are socially relevant.

[Squire7508]

I really dug the way the "and through the rhythm" section came back uptempo on the TFTO bonus tracks. They could have included it had they shortened up the the "la la la la la la la la lala" ascend/decend passages. Why they elected to have those instead, I don't know. I did my own edit of the tune shortening up the "la"'s, and throwing that in from the bonus track, and aside from it obviously being an entirely different mix (particularly Jon being way too low in it), it works well. Makes the song much easier for me to enjoy 100%.

Squire's basslines on The Remembering. Why didn't he do more fretless work?

Who doesn't love the Leaves of Green section?

Ritual from "open doors" to "at all", and also from the end of the percussion freakout to the very end. The band strumming those final chords sounds indeed just like waves reaching the shoreline.

[Whitefish]

There are so many! Here are just a few that come to mind

The "Revealing Science of God" :

All of it especially-

"Dawn of Light" - you can see Time and Creation beginning!

"Young Christians see it from the beginning
Old people feel it that's what they're saying" - One of the most intriguing lines on the album. "it" perhaps being the Science of God" ?

"We need love"- what more can you say?

"The Remembering":

"High the memory" -like floating.

"Surely, surely"- gorgeous!

"The Ancient": The acoustic guitar solo.

"Ritual":

"As clearer companions..." that whole section gets me every time.

"Flying home, going home"- so peaceful.

[neilius]

IM IN TOTAL AGREEMENT WITH YOU THERE, SEEING IT LIVE IS AMAZING(SUPER LONG BASS SOLO).
bUT HOW MANY OTHER INTRUMENTAL BREAKS ARE OF THIS CALLIBRE? TOO MANY TO MENTION. AWAKEN cHURCH ORGAN SOLO AFTER FAREWELL, FAREWELL, MIDDLE AND ENDING OF AYAI ECT ECT

:offtopic:


This is my first ever post on this forum. I didnt even introduce myself to anyone!!

[brotherofmine]

Unfortunately they don't play The Ancient live anymore...they only played during Tales tour...the reason Steve explained is that it is a very difficult song to do on stage to get the timing just right.
So my favourite Tales moments LIVE are .....the beginning of The Ancient....and the drum section on Ritual where everyone is playing drums that sounds electric.

[Earl Grey]

Wouldn't it be amazing if Steve Howe actually had a complete TALES show in his tape archives, and YES put it out as a CD?

One never knows, I have a few audience tapes, I'm guessing that a TALES show complete would be the YES Grail album for us...

So Steve, do you have it?

I wish I wish I wish first star to the left and on till morning...

[PO]

Since Yesshows was supposed to include all of Tales live, there are tapes. Someone has them. They just need to release them. I bet they have film footage, too. They filmed the CTTE tour, so I'm sure they filmed the Tales tour.

Just release it, guys!!

[YYY]

RSOG

The section just before and beyond
"Talk to the Sunlight Caller..."gives praise to the ultimate life giving force - an amazing surge of love just grabs me at that moment.

Also..."Getting over overhanging trees
Let them rape the forest
Thoughts would send our fusion
Clearly to be home"

When this lyric begins I simply turn into butter and melt into a puddle.


THE REMEMBERING

"High the Memory"...lifts me off my feet and puts me into a dreamstate everytime.

THE ANCIENT

"Sol, Dhoop, Sun, Ilios, Naytheet, Ah Kin, Saule, Tonatiuh, Qurax, Gunes, Grian, Surje, Ir, Samse"...When Jon begins chanting these names for the Sun and the musicians drifts into those hypnotic rhythms, I am pulled deep into a transcedental out-of-body state of being as if I am literally being transported back in time.

THE RITUAL

"The moment Jon sings "Nous Somme du Soleil" a rush shoots upward from my toes to the top of my head. The endorphines start working overtime.

[KPatrick]

Steve's acoustic solo in "The Ancient." He's never topped it.

[Trooper Jim]

I love Tales from start to finish, but "Leaves of Green" is just a total delight to listen to.

[Awaken1976]

Ritual I think it's called? The one rich with Alan's percussion sounds.

[jaynote1]

I can remember being much younger, getting off of work at my construction job, putting on Tales, and taking a couple of puffs of hashish, lying on my bed and taking off......"Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources............".........and listening all the way through, just blown away at this wonderful piece of music.......i think its my all-time favorite album..............

[The Ancient]

'The Remembering' is my favourite piece. All of it but it gradually gets better throughout the piece. And it's very interesting to listen to what Chris does. Watch this:

The Bass part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DvXNtbjwA0&feature=PlayList&p=BAE1C0C9C2FA863C&playnext=1&index=3

and there's a Part 2 too.

What a composer, guess every bass note is Chris' idea, what do you think?

[TOBYSGRAPHICGOKART]

I love Tales from start to finish.
Too many highlights to list.
However,the opening "Dawn of light..." chant from Jon at the beginning of RSOG gets me EVERY time - and believe me,I've played this album in excess of a couple of hundred times down the years.
Together with CTTE and Relayer,Tales is Yes at their majestic,creative best.

[Wakey's #1 Fan]

the beginning of the Revealing Science of God, where Rick plays the theme on his Moog (I used it for the World of Yes intro).
The beginning of Dance of the Dawn (with the na-na-na-na), and the bit of the song where it gets faster and finally leads into the drum solo.

[yesman1955]

I have to say I was won over the first time I heard this album and it has been an ever constant in my life. There are so many things within the music that has helped me to change and grow. To anyone who says they hate it they need to listen and experience the whole album. RSOG has been my touchstone throughout my life. I use it to meditate As I sit here listening NSDS/R I am crying. This album at times has been my therapist, awareness awakener and elightenment.

To pick one small piece of the album to me is like picking a small part of a Beethoven composition and loving only that. This is a wonderful composition from start to finish.

There is already a thread asking for your opinion on your favorite movement. This is hard to decide for me, because they are all good, and they all have some weaknesses as well as enormous strengths.

My question for fans is: What is your favorite small piece of Tales.

My favorite is the end of The Remembering. From Rick's keyboard solo on.

I also like the section of the Remembering is the instrumental portions after the lyric "Failsafe Now".

I've also always like the "Gettng Over Overhanging Trees" piece on TRSOG.

Your thoughts?

[CybrKhatru]

The last four minutes of The Remembering might well be the most gorgeous thing Yes ever did. That would get my vote.