What are you listening to?

"Tales from Topographic Oceans" from the Music Group, "YES", is a deeply philosophical album. I would add, that is not for the meditative faint of heart. While much music is created to be toe tapping and easy to sing to, "Tales" is in that genre usually called progressive rock, in a additional sub-genre that requires intense analysis to understand, compared to reading book very slowly and thoughtfully. The result is an Album that is inaccessible and incomprehensible to a casual listener. In order to understand the music you must read the lyrics (*) and listen, and listen, and then listen some more. Even then, you might fail to gain a glimmer of the Group's intent, and would have to qualify as one of the most, if not the most deeply complicated rock music ever created. Again, if you are a casual listener the complexity of the music can be frustrating or boring. However, if you consider that classical music is often complex, and to be understood requires extended focused listening, it should be of little surprise that Yes took that complexity for its own in the development of this music, creating a symphony in four movements.

The first movement is titled "The Revealing Science of God: Dance of the Dawn." The opening lyric/chant only seem to have no meaning, and paradoxically, they have meaning. Confusing? Yes, but please, understand the point of the movement is to get the listener to realize that there are bits and pieces of knowledge, and understanding is something that rarely, if ever, comes all at once. I would like to present the opening text as a teaser to other text to come, which was interestingly referenced to in Seth's Library on “The Origins of the Universe and of the Species” – An Integral Conscious Creation Myth Introduction and reads as the following:

“Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
“Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
“Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
“Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole.
“Dawn of thought transfered through moments of days undersearching earth
“Revealing corridors of time provoking memories, disjointed but with purpose,
“Craving penetrations offer links with the self instructors sharp
“And tender love as we took to the air, a picture of distance.
“Dawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
“Expression, as only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
“Late into corners, and we danced from the ocean.
“Dawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
“Won't to follow, only tunes of a different age.
“As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.”

~ YES, Tales of Topographic Oceans, 1974.

The second movement is "The Remembering: High the Memory". This song is about the breath of knowledge that is available to humankind and to any one individual. The song is trying to say that while that knowledge is available, each of us can only access that knowledge when it becomes a part of our personal knowledge, realms of knowledge potentially available to each of us.

The third movement is "The Ancient: Giants under the Sun". To access forgotten knowledge from civilizations that came before. To evoke those earlier cultures, knowledge is made up of many parts from many people. All the cultures and civilizations that may no longer exist, but that understanding is still available if we know where and how to look for it.

The fourth and final movement is "Ritual: Nous Sommes Du Soleil" is a description of the human condition. Part of that knowledge and understanding is the constant struggle between good and evil, and how that struggle plays a part of how we view that knowledge. We have the ability learn and to understand granted by a higher power. I really hope interested persons find the time, to listen deeply, and dream of going home. Peace, Love, and Laughter to All.

00:00 - The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)
22:22 - The Remembering (High the Memory)
43:00 - The Ancient (Giants under the Sun)
1:01:36 - Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil)

(*) Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans Album | Lyrics.com
 
"People Get Ready" has a long tradition of Black American freedom songs that use train imagery, which dates back to the 1920s and arrival of the "Golden Gate Quartet" (Which is still on tour today). The song written and composed by the late Curtis Mayfield, (who died from a freak falling stage light accident? :umm:), was Gospel influenced and appeared during social and political unrest from the Civil Rights Movement with MLK. Hundreds of Artist have done "Covers" and classic farewell to Beck's life and contribution to the song and Bon Voyage expression of good wishes. The deeper meaning for the song and spiritualist idea that once the human body expires, how soul then begins it's journey into the next life adventure. Here is a song with the same "Train imagery" that speaks to of us who are still left behind, that we should get our house in order, because the train is gonna be here tonight.
 
“I know that we can make it.”

This song is called “We Can Make It” from the album

“Walk On” is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Boston, released on June 7, 1994 by MCA Records.[1] It is the first album not to feature vocalist Brad Delp, though he did assist as a songwriter. Vocal duties were handled by Fran Cosmo, making this his first appearance on a Boston album. Delp and Cosmo shared leads during the album's supporting tour and the album’s follow-up Corporate America.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Saturday Night" is a song recorded by the Scottish pop rock band Bay City Rollers.
At the end of 1975, "Saturday Night" was released in the US and hit the number-one spot in January 1976.

 

The twenty-first century has come, the earthly ball from wars is tired
The population of the hegemon ball took out
In the European Union there is no opinion, the Middle East groans from troubles
Over the ocean, the president is deprived of power

chorus
To us from the northern seas, far away to the southern borders
Kuril Islands, to the Baltic coast
On this earth there would be peace, but if the chief commander
Call in the last fight, Uncle Vova, we are with

(chorus)

And what will get to that, my generation
Give slabinka, lose the whole country
Our loyal friends are the Navy and the Army
Memory of the grandfather's friendship red star

(chorus)

There will not be a ridge, the samurai will never
Breast up for the capital of amber
Sevastopol is our Crimea, for descendants we will save
In the harbor of the motherland, Alaska return
This song is played by me in the original, as indicated by the chords.

images
 
Pleiades callin’ me home.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Where is Joe Merchant? is a novel by singer Jimmy Buffett, published in 1992. The book, a New York Times Best Seller, revolves around Frank Bama and his ex-girlfriend, hemorrhoid-ointment heiress Trevor Kane. Frank, a down-on-his-luck seaplane pilot, is about to escape to Alaska when Trevor unexpectedly jumps back into his life asking for his help in tracking down her brother, the notorious rock star Joe Merchant. Other characters joining Frank and Trevor in their search include sleazy tabloid reporter Rudy Breno, rocket scientist Desdemona, many mercenaries, and the jet ski Killer.[1] The cover art was illustrated by Michael Koelsch.[2][3]

The Arecibo Observatory is featured in the book and the lyrics to the song "Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship". In both, a talented baker and former backup singer named Desdemona has a tryst with one of the workers "under the giant telescope", and begins receiving telepathic messages from the Pleiades, telling her to build a spaceship and "come home".

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom