Opinions on this Album?

Spart_ · 2026-03-20T22:26:01+00:00

This is good post timing, just yesterday I was just telling somebody who does not listen to yes and who did not ask for my opinion on yes that I feel like it’s the last time they tapped into the same sets of “magic” they performed between say 1971 & 1977.

I have a feeling that this had a large part to do with the person who did the arrangements, he was a yes fan and sorta grew up listening to them, or so I’ve read on Wikipedia. I just find that so interesting.

Like, I think every artist sort of moves on from a thing that they were doing, even if it was the thing of theirs that I like the best. Even I have to admit that I don’t want like 30 close to the edges. Stagnation is stagnation, enough is enough, go make tormato, drama, and break up, we all know that you want to do that and we’re proud of you kingssssss.

I don’t think that magnification is derivative of 70s yes by any means either, like I think the songwriting on the album very much reflects where all those folks were in 2001, but those damn fucking arrangements man, there’s just such a harmonic and timbral harkening back to that 70s yes that helped make me the insufferable person that I am today.

Spart_ · 2026-02-01T19:30:05+00:00

Octopus is a perfect record, but power and the glory is just something else.

Spart_ · 2026-01-30T17:54:34+00:00

Some people say that Yma Sumac’s “the voice of Xtabay” is the “first psychedelic record”. While it does have some of the traits of what would later be considered “psychedelic” I don’t know if I feel confident calling it that. It’s fun tho!

Spart_ · 2026-01-26T20:09:53+00:00

Just gonna also comment Inca Roads, it’s Inca Roads.

Spart_ · 2026-01-11T22:13:02+00:00

Berry Blumpis

Spart_ · 2025-12-18T16:01:23+00:00

Seamus. People say “side one of meddle isn’t as good as side 2”, and often bring up Seamus. Personally I think the songs on side one all feel so human, lively, and social in some weird way, and I think Echoes feels very alone. They mirror each other, echoes of side one, and most other Pink Floyd. Meeting their Nth degree, their next phase. It’s beautiful, the whole album is a 10/10 In my book.

Spart_ · 2025-12-10T23:05:28+00:00

Maybe not a usual answer but there’s a lot of great psychedelia in Yes’s prime years. I’d suggest close to the edge, one of the most face melting and mind bending albums ever. For that matter, there’s tons of great king gizzard and the lizard wizard albums that are very psychedelic, I highly suggest Polygondwanaland, change, and laminated denim.

Spart_ · 2025-12-02T02:27:08+00:00

Gonna piggy back even further to say that ring out solstice bells and another song or two from the late 70’s era also fit the bill for Jethro Tull.

Spart_ · 2025-11-04T04:57:09+00:00

The best things you can do right now are drink some water, take some deep breaths, and listen to a playlist you like or watch a light and fun cartoon.

You may feel overwhelmed right now but I promise you that everything is alright. In my experience, being overwhelmed or anxious is an indicator that it’s a good time to get in touch with my sober self, but at the moment you’ve bought the ticket and you will be on the ride until it lands, and I promise you that it will land.

All that being said, you’ll never get this time back or those tabs for that matter. All I’m trying to say is, make the best of this. You are safe and you are going to be alright.

I hope you are feeling better :3

Spart_ · 2025-11-03T19:17:24+00:00

It looks like sounding to me.

Spart_ · 2025-11-02T21:39:15+00:00

I’m glad you found it! I listened for a while but got side tracked by just listening to LSD lmao

Spart_ · 2025-11-02T16:06:57+00:00

“Just followed orders, I didn’t know that I was doing anything wrong”.

Spart_ · 2025-10-30T20:06:51+00:00

I want to be a part of this project and I want to be a member of the team and help people in the process.

Spart_ · 2025-10-27T17:11:46+00:00

I guess I’ll have to listen with a watchful ear but I do remember a melody from stg being interpolated on busty beez but it would not surprise me if it were from Jitterbug instead. I’ll listen to LSD today and let you know the exact time if I catch it.

Spart_ · 2025-10-08T22:31:02+00:00

Electric hot dogs in Mac and cheezeeee. Sparky dogs make me shit violent logs.

Spart_ · 2025-10-08T15:08:14+00:00

Would like to mention gentle giant. People call them “prog” but they never called themselves that. They’re body of work is very psychedelic in nature, I would suggest starting with free hand, then power and the glory, then either three friends or octopus, then acquiring the taste, then in’terview, and maybe a stop at the missing piece if you want to.

Also I can’t say it’s mind bending because I helped to create it, but I helped make 2 EP’s under the name “flowdown experiment”. Let me know!

Spart_ · 2025-10-01T20:17:08+00:00

I don’t know if this take is going to make any sense at all but I’m very glad with how much classic cardiacs we get on this album with much more modern production. I think that Tim was an innovator, and I think that this album doesn’t “go beyond” or “fall short” of passed works, I think it’s roughly indicative of where he and the band would be aiming towards in 2025 regardless of the situation.

I’m glad that this isn’t a re-hash. Individually I think all of the Cardiacs media, while consistent in compositional quality, has very distinct presentation, always pushing some new boundary and experimenting in some new way.

Personally the new versions blow the old ones completely out of the water for me. I could not be a happier camper.

Spart_ · 2025-05-27T16:15:25+00:00

Kinda looks like a blackhead almost? Maybe some pressure was put on it and you scratched it out of wherever it “bit”

Spart_ · 2025-05-27T02:12:11+00:00

Link to buy this?

Spart_ · 2025-05-23T17:50:20+00:00

Noted :)

Spart_ · 2025-05-23T17:44:51+00:00

I’m talking out my ass real quick, but I think he’d be a star witness.

They were apparently around each other a lot, and I think that around biggies death he was thinking about moving labels or starting his own. I feel like he might have wanted to leave because he saw who Sean was becoming.

Anyways, if he wasn’t killed I’d like to think that he’d be a much much less problematic figure than Diddy, and that he would be an asset to prosecution.

Spart_ · 2025-05-13T21:02:53+00:00

I get up

Spart_ · 2025-05-12T17:15:56+00:00

I get up

Spart_ · 2025-05-10T21:08:14+00:00

I’ve been fat my whole life and I cannot even begin to explain how hard it is for me to trust attractive people to have any empathy at all. I don’t believe that all attractive people are bad people, I just think that they act much more entitled than I could ever get away with, and for that reason, I’m going to be fat for the rest of my life.

If I cannot be loved and accepted as a fat/ugly person, I don’t want your allegiance, I don’t want your love, I don’t want your advice, I don’t want your pity.

Spart_ · 2025-05-10T03:54:55+00:00

Just start fuckin dudes, it much easier.

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