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I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way
Take a straight and stronger course
to the corner of your life
Make the white queen run so fast
she hasn't got time to make you a wife
'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured... for the queen to use!
Move me on to any black square
Use me anytime you want
Just remember that the goal
Is for us all to capture all we want
(Move me on to any black square)
Don't surround yourself with yourself
Move on back two squares
Send an instant karma to me
Initial it with loving care
(Don't surround yourself)
'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured... for the queen to use!
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
(Don't surround yourself with yourself)
Don't surround yourself with yourself
(Don't surround yourself)
Move on back two squares
Send an instant karma to me
(Send an instant karma to me)
Initial it with loving care
(Don't surround yourself)
'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured... for the queen to use!
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
(All we are saying)
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
(Is give peace a chance)
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
(All we are saying)
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
(Is give peace a chance)
'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured...
'''II. All Good People'''
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied I'm on my way
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied I'm on my way
''(repeat)''
"hobbit-rock" - nice one! I wish I'd coined that phrase.
Back in the day (that'll be the decadent progrock early 70s, before punk exploded all pretentions with its rude and necessary vitality) I and my pretentious mates at college were into ELP, Yes, Gong, Amon Duul and similar. I used to dream of appearing on stage with Keith Emerson and playing synth riffs. I wrote ELP on school desks, quoted their lyrics, expounded on their musical virtuosity, and generally though that they were the dog's bollox. Which I suppose they were at the time, but virtually nothing of theirs is now listenable to by any other than the nostalgic. A couple of Greg Lake songs, and that's about it. Albums like Brain Salad Surgery are as distinctive markers of their time as fossils are in determining the age of rocks.
I could no more listen to ELP now than stick needles in my ears, and that applies tenfold to the execrable Yes (if Yes is the answer, you're asking the wrong question). I don't look back on my tastes in the 70s with disgust or shame - that was a different time, I was a different person, and progrock was a necessary antidote to the social turmoil of Britain at that time. I enjoyed ELP and Yes then, as did many others. Even though we knew in our hearts that the lyrics were gnomically meaningless, the 20-minute tracks hideously overblown, and the baroque synth solos from Wakeman and Emerson plain self-indulgent noodling, we revelled in it. However, that was then, this is now. Some artists' work (eg Hendrix, Floyd, Clapton, Kraftwerk) straddles the decades and will still be listened to for decades to come, some is specific to its time.
Hendrix, Floyd, Clapton . . . Kraftwerk?
"hobbit-rock" - nice one! I wish I'd coined that phrase.
Back in the day (that'll be the decadent progrock early 70s, before punk exploded all pretentions with its rude and necessary vitality) I and my pretentious mates at college were into ELP, Yes, Gong, Amon Duul and similar. I used to dream of appearing on stage with Keith Emerson and playing synth riffs. I wrote ELP on school desks, quoted their lyrics, expounded on their musical virtuosity, and generally though that they were the dog's bollox. Which I suppose they were at the time, but virtually nothing of theirs is now listenable to by any other than the nostalgic. A couple of Greg Lake songs, and that's about it. Albums like Brain Salad Surgery are as distinctive markers of their time as fossils are in determining the age of rocks.
I could no more listen to ELP now than stick needles in my ears, and that applies tenfold to the execrable Yes (if Yes is the answer, you're asking the wrong question). I don't look back on my tastes in the 70s with disgust or shame - that was a different time, I was a different person, and progrock was a necessary antidote to the social turmoil of Britain at that time. I enjoyed ELP and Yes then, as did many others. Even though we knew in our hearts that the lyrics were gnomically meaningless, the 20-minute tracks hideously overblown, and the baroque synth solos from Wakeman and Emerson plain self-indulgent noodling, we revelled in it. However, that was then, this is now. Some artists' work (eg Hendrix, Floyd, Clapton, Kraftwerk) straddles the decades and will still be listened to for decades to come, some is specific to its time.
Fredriley, your post contains one or two common threads found in a lot of entries here, such as "when does a band or a genre become a nostalgia act?".
Some music aims to be in the here and now and doesn't care about grand themes or musical traditions. It just wants to explode and tear away the mainstream bullshit that's built up. Once its time is past, it doesn't work as a nostalgia act. Rebellion has to take ever new forms if it wants stay fresh and current. Once punk's time was up, we eventually moved onto grunge in response to heavy metal metal hair bands and arena rock.
Do you want your music to always be new, do you want it tied to some musical tradition? I'm pretty sure that we all want a mix but it's always interesting to hear how someone's musical tastes have changed over time. RPers are always going to be debating this matter. There's no right answer.
Personally, I wonder from time to time whether there'll be classic punk or rap anthologies, and whether anyone will buy them. I can't listen to punk-only Webstations for very long—it's loud and angry and messy and then it gets really tiresome. I'd probably get quickly fed up with prog-rock stations as well.
> I don't look back on my tastes in the 70s with disgust or shame - that was a different time, I was a different person, and progrock >was a necessary antidote to the social turmoil of Britain at that time.
Would love to read more of what you have to say about that time in the UK and how it affected music. I've heard that the British version of the TV series "Life on Mars" really captured that period in the country.
So is a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!
(But yes, I like Yes.)
More proof of your cluelessness.
Wow. Just wow. I didn't realize someone's opinion of a song had something do with their level of knowledge. This is music not physics equations.
I am so happy to hear this song! Love it!!!!
Your joy is contagious - I am SO loving hearing this song! We're about to get a foot of snow, I have three litterboxes to clean, all the critters are tucked in for the night, the bills are paid, we're going to get a dishwasher either repaired or replaced, the rototiller is in the shop, and it seems that life has finally cut us a break or two. I wish peace and contentment to everyone at RP.
Thank you for this song, whoever uploaded it.
I forget it like it was yesterday.........
this was more profound after a few joints
I understand that this band is/was important to a lot of folks here, and that's great, but there's a lot of stuff I listened to in the 1970's that I can't listen to anymore - particularly this sort of "hobbit-rock".
I must agree with both of you that this type of music seems dated now, but I LOVE HOBBIT ROCK! (and love that moniker!)
I personally believe prog rock will becomemore accepted with, much like opera or Butoh dance {ducks and runs for cover}
You are thinking of the song Starship Trooper from the same album, that had the incredible instrumental climax "Wurm" at the end. Starship Trooper is one of my all time favorites.
There are 2 Lennon references in this song; in addition to what you hear, they also use the phrase "instant karma" in the verses.
Edit: I was just listening to ShawBlades cover of this this morning, it is very good as well!
More proof of your cluelessness.
"hobbit-rock" - nice one! I wish I'd coined that phrase.
Back in the day (that'll be the decadent progrock early 70s, before punk exploded all pretentions with its rude and necessary vitality) I and my pretentious mates at college were into ELP, Yes, Gong, Amon Duul and similar. I used to dream of appearing on stage with Keith Emerson and playing synth riffs. I wrote ELP on school desks, quoted their lyrics, expounded on their musical virtuosity, and generally though that they were the dog's bollox. Which I suppose they were at the time, but virtually nothing of theirs is now listenable to by any other than the nostalgic. A couple of Greg Lake songs, and that's about it. Albums like Brain Salad Surgery are as distinctive markers of their time as fossils are in determining the age of rocks.
I could no more listen to ELP now than stick needles in my ears, and that applies tenfold to the execrable Yes (if Yes is the answer, you're asking the wrong question). I don't look back on my tastes in the 70s with disgust or shame - that was a different time, I was a different person, and progrock was a necessary antidote to the social turmoil of Britain at that time. I enjoyed ELP and Yes then, as did many others. Even though we knew in our hearts that the lyrics were gnomically meaningless, the 20-minute tracks hideously overblown, and the baroque synth solos from Wakeman and Emerson plain self-indulgent noodling, we revelled in it. However, that was then, this is now. Some artists' work (eg Hendrix, Floyd, Clapton, Kraftwerk) straddles the decades and will still be listened to for decades to come, some is specific to its time.
OK Fred - I often disagree with your comments here on RP, and ELP is my wife's favorite band of all time and............I couldn't have said it better — You are 100% accurate
I understand that this band is/was important to a lot of folks here, and that's great, but there's a lot of stuff I listened to in the 1970's that I can't listen to anymore - particularly this sort of "hobbit-rock".
"hobbit-rock" - nice one! I wish I'd coined that phrase.
Back in the day (that'll be the decadent progrock early 70s, before punk exploded all pretentions with its rude and necessary vitality) I and my pretentious mates at college were into ELP, Yes, Gong, Amon Duul and similar. I used to dream of appearing on stage with Keith Emerson and playing synth riffs. I wrote ELP on school desks, quoted their lyrics, expounded on their musical virtuosity, and generally though that they were the dog's bollox. Which I suppose they were at the time, but virtually nothing of theirs is now listenable to by any other than the nostalgic. A couple of Greg Lake songs, and that's about it. Albums like Brain Salad Surgery are as distinctive markers of their time as fossils are in determining the age of rocks.
I could no more listen to ELP now than stick needles in my ears, and that applies tenfold to the execrable Yes (if Yes is the answer, you're asking the wrong question). I don't look back on my tastes in the 70s with disgust or shame - that was a different time, I was a different person, and progrock was a necessary antidote to the social turmoil of Britain at that time. I enjoyed ELP and Yes then, as did many others. Even though we knew in our hearts that the lyrics were gnomically meaningless, the 20-minute tracks hideously overblown, and the baroque synth solos from Wakeman and Emerson plain self-indulgent noodling, we revelled in it. However, that was then, this is now. Some artists' work (eg Hendrix, Floyd, Clapton, Kraftwerk) straddles the decades and will still be listened to for decades to come, some is specific to its time.
Not Wakeman, is Tony Kaye on keyboard
Is the one with broken foot on the sleeve cover photo
No, who is on first.
Edit: I was just listening to ShawBlades cover of this this morning, it is very good as well!
Black round plastic thing with a big hole in the center.
Played on a turntable (record player)
I think you accidentally left out the last two very necessary words in your post - "for me". Or perhaps you meant "except for those with no taste"? But, of course, how could anyone (aside from Bill, as programmer in chief) disagree with you? Absurd.
radiozep wrote:
It's amazing how someone who speaks ill of this band and/or song is dismissed as a "moron" or a "fool". Since when is hindsight not a way to judge music, culture, or anything else? There are countless examples throughout one's life of having something seem like "the coolest sh*t in the world" at one time and then coming to the realization that it really wasn't. I'm not sure why "music is supposed to be about feel in real time" either: that would seem to invalidate anything but live performances (maybe I'm just misinterpreting that sentence).
I understand that this band is/was important to a lot of folks here, and that's great, but there's a lot of stuff I listened to in the 1970's that I can't listen to anymore - particularly this sort of "hobbit-rock".
thanks Steve!...(my big brother)
Hmmm, looks like the last time this was played was February. I feel your pain. Whenever it's a song I don't like, it FEELS like they play the damn thing every day!!!
That said, I love this song....
This is probably my favorite of all their albums! LOVE the pipe organ.
I've never been a big abuser of mind altering drugs, alcohol is bad enough, but a course of heavy painkillers for a 40-something's back problem a couple of years ago really did take take me to a mellow place.
As to the music: Yes have their moments, I loved that track on Going for the One where Rick recorded the organ in some Swiss/French church. But, yes, I can see how a trip helps it all digest....
And, yes I'm enjoying a drink just now. Why not?
There was alot of that church organ on that record. I am a big Yes fan and know the album well. About 15 yrs ago I had the good fortune to travel to Switzerland. I looked up that church in a town called Vevey. It was a tiny church with a rather large and stately pipe organ upstairs above the altar. It was a little surreal for me for a moment or two.
I have known the music of "Yes" since the early 1970's when I listened repeatedly to "Close to the edge". I have since heard enough of "Rush" to know the difference. While the music of "Yes" degraded in later years, music by "Rush" clearly is not "all good" in comparison.
I've never been a big abuser of mind altering drugs, alcohol is bad enough, but a course of heavy painkillers for a 40-something's back problem a couple of years ago really did take take me to a mellow place.
As to the music: Yes have their moments, I loved that track on Going for the One where Rick recorded the organ in some Swiss/French church. But, yes, I can see how a trip helps it all digest....
And, yes I'm enjoying a drink just now. Why not?
peter_james_bond wrote:
Good LORD me too
Cheers!
peter_james_bond wrote:
Good LORD me too
1970
The Golden Time.
This album is unparalleled.
Someone probably already said it, but when i was younger i thought this was a Rush song. (like in my early teens) now that I older i can recognize the differnce mostly by the Chicago like riff at the end where the beat, tone, and even instruments chagne up. given that this song is Pre-'hard to say i'm sorry/get away' i would say that Chicago did a more Yes-like switch up... but it's all good.
Double-barrel orange, eh?
According to a Carleton Univ. chemistry student I met, it was 40% mescaline and 60% LSD. The guy who played 3rd clarinet beside me in the high school band did some (against everybody's advice) and went into a series of convulsions at 9:30 a.m. after walking into music class. Came close to ODing he did.
As the resident high school radical activist (I was so non-violent, polite and cooperative, it bordered on ridiculous) I helped the principal find a sample for the doctors.
So I did a full hit at a later date and better chosen time and venue. Good stuff! But not for everybody, especially for those with known metabolism and similar problems.
Still love Yes.
F*ckin' ACK!!!!!
Seriously? How many times ya gotta modulate just to prove you can do it?
I dropped one half of a four-way Orange Barrel about an hour prior to the show and was peaking about an hour into their set. It was a life altering experience for me.
We wobbled out of there at 5am happily stunned by their performance. It was literally earth shaking. I'll never forget their splendid musicianship. Chris Squire was wearing thigh-high leather boots and nearly shook the place apart with his thundering bass lines. Steve Howe was at his peak, his mercurial and edgy lines running around Squires bass. Rick Wakeman playing was astonishing and Jon Anderson sang like an Angel.
Jeez, those orange barrels were supposed to be 4-way, we used to pop em two or three at a time. Of course we'd be flying for 24+ hours. Used to hit a show Fri evening, college football game Sat afternoon and another show Sat evening, coming down by early Sun am and sleeping all day. So I must admit all those groups I liked in the 70's were seen and heard under the influence. However, I still enjoy listening to them, Yes included. But I really like listening to RP because they've opened my ears to lots of new music, most of which I like.
Not my favorite song indeed...
So, Yes fans are worshipping a false god, or something like that? Ok. That would assume your low opinion of Yes is the "correct" opinion. Which is stupid.
BZZZZZT!!! Sorry, good try, but no. Your consolation prize is a free course: Logic and Critical Thinking 101. Good luck!
Let's see. Fredriley posts up a heretical opinion of Yes, and
radiozep calls him a moron and a fool,
cafortier calls him self-righteous,
rtrudeau calls him (along with Brits in general)insufferable, self-righteous, egomaniacal know-it-all
This leads me to believe that Yes fans are every bit as intolerant as punks. Maybe because the object of their worship is so worthy of derision, and they know it?
So, Yes fans are worshipping a false god, or something like that? Ok. That would assume your low opinion of Yes is the "correct" opinion. Which is stupid.