Huhh.. Maybe the YES tune that had the strongest impact on me. Deep, mysterious, beautiful, complex and yet organic, and so much more.
I agree (to some critics) that the project of that double album was a bit "over the edge", that that kind of story about the "evolution of mankind" was a bit too much for an album, but I never really cared about the lyrics, except for them generally having that spiritual, uplifting vibe... What's absolutely amazing about this track (just as for most YES classics) is the whole organic "something made of music + voice + words". I always felt that every incredible guitar cord and keyboard phrase is so well placed in terms of sound (the way the guitar chords are differently played each time, don't find the right words to express what I hear...), so epic, beautiful, it is certainly also a question of personally being "tuned" in the same way as the musicians... No wonder lots of people just HATE that sound and think it to be "artsy"
For me it is just a fu****ing masterpiece of art, period.
Huhh.. Maybe the YES tune that had the strongest impact on me. Deep, mysterious, beautiful, complex and yet organic, and so much more.
I agree (to some critics) that the project of that double album was a bit "over the edge", that that kind of story about the "evolution of mankind" was a bit too much for an album, but I never really cared about the lyrics, except for them generally having that spiritual, uplifting vibe... What's absolutely amazing about this track (just as for most YES classics) is the whole organic "something made of music + voice + words". I always felt that every incredible guitar cord and keyboard phrase is so well placed in terms of sound (the way the guitar chords are differently played each time, don't find the right words to express what I hear...), so epic, beautiful, it is certainly also a question of personally being "tuned" in the same way as the musicians... No wonder lots of people just HATE that sound and think it to be "artsy"
For me it is just a fu****ing masterpiece of art, period.