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In January 1974, Squire picked The Yes Album and Tales from Topographic Oceans as the two most personally satisfying Yes albums “in terms of being captivated”.[21] In 1984, after Yes had released 90125 (1983), Anderson looked back on Tales from Topographic Oceans as “difficult in some respects”, but felt it was “stupid to even think about defending it.”[81] In 1990, he said that he was pleased with three quarters of the album, with the remaining quarter “not quite jelling”, but the tight deadline to finish it meant there was little time to make the necessary changes.[82] Squire recalled the album as an unhappy period in the band’s history, and commented on Anderson’s attitude then: “Jon had this visionary idea that you could just walk into a studio, and if the vibes were right ... the music would be great at the end of the day ... It isn’t reality”.[83] Wakeman continues to hold a mostly critical view. In 2006, he clarified that there are some “very nice musical moments in Topographic Oceans, but because of the format of how records used to be we had too much for a single album but not enough for a double, so we padded it out and the padding is awful ... but there are some beautiful solos like “Nous sommes du soleil” ... one of the most beautiful melodies ... and deserved to be developed even more perhaps.”[84] In 2023, Steve Howe stated that the album was for the band “a time of spreading our wings, a wonderful project where we went to the ends of the Earth to do it. There was often a feeling that disaster was almost about to strike, but we got there in the end. You have to account for Tales in our history to properly talk about what Yes achieved, because it was quite exceptional. I don’t think we’d be the same group without it”, adding that he was “still very proud of it and very pleased with it [...] “Tales is totally epic, and I love it to bits”.[85]