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Forgotten · Post by **Forgotten** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:05 am

Didn’t Wakeman eventually leave because of Jon Anderson’s lyrics? I’m pretty sure he publicly gave that as the reason.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:09 am

in context of the song, that purple wolfhounds bit makes perfect sense

Squire said he wondered on stage a lot of time what he was singing about, “but it sounded good, so...”
find the Alec Baldwin interview of JA on YT

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:14 am

Wakeman left after (during?) the Tales tour because Anderson kept on him to play what he did on the album, and “he never could come to terms with it” (the Alec Baldwin interview). Wakeman “so finally I was ‘I’ve had quite enough of you’”.

He was into his own trip by then. By all accounts he thought Tales was absurd.

Also RW said the Union tour, after an album experience he thought was the worst, the best live band experience of his life “by far”. Now for him ARW is by far the best version of Yes ever.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:23 am

Baby shark!
Mommy shark!
Daddy shark!

(obviously plagiarized from)

A-mama, Hully Gully,
Papa, Hully Gully,
Baby, Hully Gully too.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:11 pm

we are
no strangers

to love you
know the game and
so do
i...

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:42 pm

867-5309

he tells me in his bedroom voice
come on baby, let's make some noise

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:50 pm

doo doo
doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo
doo doo

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:43 pm

Jean genie, lives on his back.

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:53 pm

Mary had a little lamb
And then she had some veal

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:04 pm

you'd rather sail the ocean
than make a big decision

better run through the jungle

synzh · Post by **synzh** » Sat Feb 22, 2020 9:17 pm

"take your time... hurry up..."

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Sat Feb 22, 2020 9:24 pm

farlukar wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:53 pm Mary had a little lamb
And then she had some veal

Mary had a little lamb
who was on LSD;
Everywhere that lamb would go,
ho ho, the things he’d see!

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Sat Feb 22, 2020 9:50 pm

jancivil wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:14 am Wakeman left after (during?) the Tales tour because Anderson kept on him to play what he did on the album, and “he never could come to terms with it” (the Alec Baldwin interview). Wakeman “so finally I was ‘I’ve had quite enough of you’”.

He was into his own trip by then. By all accounts he thought Tales was absurd.

Also RW said the Union tour, after an album experience he thought was the worst, the best live band experience of his life “by far”. Now for him ARW is by far the best version of Yes ever.

I hadn’t kept up with Yes, since the 90s. The last thing from them I bought was the album where the only guy NOT on it from historic Yes (??) was whoever had power over the name itself. “Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, & Howe” is a bit much for a band name... Thankfully the album was eponymous and didn’t also have a title on top. It’s funny to me to now read the above story about Wakeman leaving Yes.

Band relationships... so much drama among creative people trying to work together.

I never really considered crazy lyrics while listening to Yes. I wasn’t a critical listener to lyrics back then. I have a bunch of their late 80s through 90s albums, but I’ve not listened in many years (I don’t dislike them; I just changed my musical interests).

The ones i liked most were “Big Generator” and “90125”, due to the musical structure of both. They were apparently also the most poppy or most radio-friendly(??). Supposedly this was due to a specific member of the band at that time(??). A friend of mine agreed with me that they were the neatest albums, but his brother said that the guy who was part of the band during those albums, who really impacted the sound, made them “not Yes”.

“I can feel no sense of measure,
no illusion as we take
refuge in young man’s pleasure,
breaking down the dreams we make
real.”

Maybe I should have considered the lyrics, ha ha

I’ve long known that many lyrics tend not to stand alone as well as poetry. Sung with music, they’re much easier to accept.

“Owner of a lonely heart”, to get back to the thread subject, sticks in my head so well that it eventually irritates me

. Many poppy songs do that to me.

Songs by Magnetic Fields, They Might Be Giants, REM... they all do it to me. I’ll go on a listening binge of their stuff and then have to go on a hiatus from them, playing less poppy but sticky songs just to clear them out of my head. TMBG probably does it the worst... “Particle man, particle man, doin’ the things that a particle can...”

Songs repeat in my head until they make me crazy.

Then again, car alarms repeat in my head too.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:10 pm

And who is the master of fox hounds,
And who says the hunt has begun?
Who calls the tune in the courtroom,
And who beats the funeral drum?

WatchTheGuitar · Post by **WatchTheGuitar** » Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:13 pm

My favourite lyric of all time is from Lloyd Cole

"Why must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing?"

Lyrics That Stuck