i have it on record, its very good, buy it on record so ittl sound better then crappy cds

TFTO is the most controversal album Yes have ever made, partly because of the harsh criticism it got from the general public, critics and rock n roll purists who would eventually become part of the 70s punk rock movement.... The reasons many people don't like the album is because they consider it extremely overlong, boring, very self indulgent and just plain weird for the sake of being just plain weird, which is what i thought of it the first time i heard it, but now my opinion of it is way more positive.... Being able to really enjoy this album takes a lot of patience, some people are either not up to it or they don't see the point.

It's also a album that even the biggest Yes fan's are divided by, some love it, some hate it, Rick Wakeman himself had a lot of problems with it and it led to his departure from the band, and of course there's that now legendary tale of when he refused to play the material one night at a concert and instead proceeded to eat some indian curry he ordered onstage while everyone else ignored him and kept playing. :laughing:

I myself had to listen to it several times actually to get it, no pot required (though it may help for some), the music has gotten me addicted and i listen to it a lot, i understand the theme better though the lyrics are still confusing.

It is a flawed album, but it has a lot of great moments that (for me at least) make up for it , and Anderson and Howe especially put a lot of care into the compositions, the only track i really dont like too much is The Ancient.

I think it is a very underrated album, and it's significance in modern music is much much greater than people give it credit for, it did play a big role in the developing punk movement (though unintentionally) and it's still influencial to a lot of prog bands... To me, good art challenges people and people will have a different opinion of it... Which is exactly what Yes did, and why they get so much disrespect for it by the media even today is just very unfair.

And regardless of what you will think of it, you will still find it pretty clear that they really were trying to do something totally different.

Awesome man! Thanks for that, I really appreciate it! I think I'll give it a try, because I'll always be up to a challenge...

here's a pretty funny Yo La Tengo cover of Roundabout... it's part of a series where they would go on a radio station and people would phone in requests for them to play... they'd have no time to rehearse and sometimes they wouldn't even know the songs.. this is what happened when someone phoned in roundabout:

hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/37777801/22_Roundabout.m4a.html

I hate posting in a thread where everything has already been said, but I also don't like not 'preeshin. So Yes is very good and that's all I gots.

great band

i have Close To The Edge, Classic Yes, and Going for the one

Anyway, heres some uploads to demonstrate to the kids what actual musicians sound like.

-http://download.yousendit.com/F46FCA4961E19F8D
Survival - 1969

-http://download.yousendit.com/6DC0423C695191CD
Astral Traveler - 1970

-http://download.yousendit.com/D1101C742BF434E4
I've Seen All Good People - 1971

-http://download.yousendit.com/39D162B270815857
Starship Trooper - 1971

-http://download.yousendit.com/F2C8F89110201CC5
Yours Is No Disgrace - 1971

-http://download.yousendit.com/C58720E6753E6E2B
The Clap (Steve Howe solo) - 1971

-http://download.yousendit.com/00FDBD6D7A585397
Perpetual Change - 1971

-http://download.yousendit.com/025775E9483BA747
Roundabout - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/D34368DE039A49C5
Long Distance Runaround - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/6BDB46AF5C5C8249
The Fish - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/BD140719723BD176
Mood For A Day (Steve Howe solo) - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/B180AEDA3027BBBC
South Side Of The Sky - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/966462C43B30E16E
Heart Of The Sunrise - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/8F1B2A143B93EE55
America (Paul Simon cover) - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/AE73DA4C2E2D2479
Close To The Edge - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/30046CDF5AEA8B42
Siberian Khatru - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/FE63459430CEEB4A
And You And I - 1972

-http://download.yousendit.com/A377E68E2CD3AB39
The Revealing Science Of God - 1973

-http://download.yousendit.com/D238A0B35CBB8D80
Ritual - 1973

-http://download.yousendit.com/D3EF1D6B70CD3226
The Remembering - 1973

-http://download.yousendit.com/792610795F4BDB7D
The Gates Of Delirium - 1974

-http://download.yousendit.com/A2C8EBF311F3FD0E
Sound Chaser - 1974

-http://download.yousendit.com/70E371461933F9C9
Going For The One - 1977

-http://download.yousendit.com/2852764557BE76C7
Awaken - 1977

-http://download.yousendit.com/062CD2445636C96A
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom - 1978

-http://download.yousendit.com/1835934B57CEF4A4
Onward - 1978

-http://download.yousendit.com/30677D5A64A098B7
Tempus Fugit - 1980

-http://download.yousendit.com/19495DBA33FF8CF3
Machine Messiah - 1980

-http://download.yousendit.com/82148E4523D3AE7C
Leave It - 1984

-http://download.yousendit.com/79772FD03FA51D0D
Magnification - 2001

-http://download.yousendit.com/8FB4EB9E54CFDF51
Dreamtime - 2001

-http://download.yousendit.com/B1AEB6BA1EC52C23
Austrailia (Steve Howe solo) - 2004

-http://download.yousendit.com/09D5B5A778014EEB
Show Me - 2004

That just about covers most of the periods of their career.

Or you could just show them this...

Everyone has bad nights.

And I went through a lot of trouble uploading those, just for the folks on this forum. You told me to be a little more helpful here. So please don't start with me.