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**Frownland** · 07-02-2019, 08:13 PM

I could listen to this track on loop all day

The Batlord · 07-02-2019, 08:15 PM

It's weird. I ****ing hate so much prog and Tales is absolutely the most like the kind of prog I loath but it's a band I like doing it in a way that actually makes sense to my hater ears. You just get to float along on a neon inner-tube for over an hour and relax but they still got grooves to make your head bob at the same time. Fragile might be more accessible but it ain't got **** on those heights.

Edit: 14 minutes in and it's not been not lit yet.

OccultHawk · 07-02-2019, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Relayer was always my favorite because of the avant-jazz weirdness it sometimes gets swallowed up in, but Tales is definitely the Yes-iest of their albums. That whole trio (Close To The Edge, Tales... and Relayer) is essential IMO.

Relayer and Going for the One are both underrated for sure.

The Batlord · 07-02-2019, 08:21 PM

Relayer's probably my second choice but I'm still a Yes plebe so I don't have a whole lot to say beyond that.

**Frownland** · 07-02-2019, 08:57 PM

Wait until he hears about John Cage.

The Batlord · 07-02-2019, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

prog rock was dated even in its time

the show had already moved on they weren't progressing ****ttt

Nobody's telling you to listen to Genesis or ELP.

Anteater · 07-02-2019, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

VU are the most important event of the entire 20th century it's beyond music

it's beyond talent, it's beyond art, it's a cultural event it's postmodernism, it's a religion

you take even Lou Reed by himself and it's not the divine placement

I don't know what we're talking about now I'm drunk

I think King Crimson were more influential TBH. Thurston Moore and Kurt Cobain both worshiped at that altar. 21st Century Schizoid Man was heavy as ****.

**Frownland** · 07-02-2019, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

I think King Crimson were more influential TBH. Thurston Moore and Kurt Cobain both worshiped at that altar. 21st Century Schizoid Man was heavy as ****.

He speaks the truth.

**Frownland** · 07-02-2019, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

man I'm not talking about influential in a popular music sense

though underground stuff always like seeps in and you see it everywhere when you look

I'm talking about among the people who will read books on Art and **** this tiny circle jerk, I mean, VU is as important as important as Oliver Wasow's "#146"

I mean plus I don't even like King Crimson and that's what's important

You should add it to your poseur guide that the progression of acceptable music taste maturation goes punk to jazz to King Crimson.

Anteater · 07-02-2019, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

man I'm talking about influential in a popular music sense

though underground stuff always like seeps in and you see it everywhere when you look

I'm talking about among the people who will read books on Art and **** this tiny circle jerk, I mean, VU is as important as important as Olisver Wasow's "#146"

I mean plus I don't even like King Crimson and that's what's important

Lol boi this one performance changed the entire trajectory of popular music and culture. Before this there was The Beatles for the vast majority of people and maybe Hendrix. Then you have KC make their debut live and nobody knew what to make of it.

I like V.U. and a lot of Reed's solo stuff, but they weren't bringing classical or jazz influences into rock music. They were mostly covering The Beatles and The Doors and padding things out with repetitive grooves. Meanwhile, guys like Fripp were flipping over the entire chessboard of what people thought "real music" was capable of.

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07-02-2019, 08:57 PM	#61705 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Wait until he hears about John Cage. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x