The epic if not everyone’s cup of tea Tales From Topographic Oceans is coming as a 12 cd set next February.
https://themusicuniverse.com/yes-to-release-tales-from-topographic-oceans-super-deluxe-edition/
Heads up for Yes fans
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I would also recommend Kevin Mulryne’s book on the making of the album for those that way inclined – think it’s still available from Burning Shed.
Good gracious!
Fair to say that the talk of CD’s demise has been slightly exaggerated?
However, I don’t even think Abbey Road warrants twelve of the things dedicated to it.
CD sales slumping this year apparently, vinyl up but rate of growth is slowing :
https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/streaming-growth-slows-and-vinyl-sales-wobble-in-2025-half-year-uk-market-figures/092225
Twelve CDs? So they’ve managed to edit it down to the highlights then.
This is the Peter Jackson remaster
Arf!
“The Ritual (Lobbing the bloody ring into the volcano)” is my favourite track.
I’ve got a one CD set I’m very happy with.
I’m sure you have – but it’s not by The Yes, is it @Twang?
Actually I just realised it’s TOTO which I didn’t bother with.
The ‘Africa’ HitMakers?
Oh the bantz!
Lost my copy of the TOTO’s Greatest Hits.
Turned up in a Kansas CD case a few years later,…
Oh, well played….
Of course it is.
Colours to the mast: this is one of my top three favourite Yes albums and I suspect that I am right in the natural constituency for this reissue. However, having seen the proposed content, my initial enthusiasm has been quashed. I guess the rarities and extras are very much ‘one listen’ jobs. With all due respect to Mr Wilson, I already have the original LPs, a CD version and a BluRay version – what can Mr Wilson bring to the party? And no price quoted, I note.
I am very interested in the live CDs – TFTO being relatively poorly served by official live recordings over the years – but buying the full set just for the live sections seems unlikely, in my case at least.
ditto – give us the live stuff, stuff the rest.
Well said!
(There’s a decent live version of “Ritual” on “Yesshows”, as I’m sure you know.)
Yes, indeed!
As is the case with so many of these sets. Outtakes , demo versions , 5.1 … meh
Just give us the live stuff.
I’m a big fan of ‘Topo’. People pay too much heed to the stuff Rick Wakeman says about it, even though he plays beautifully throughout. It’s a musical dreamscape.
A friend of mine prevailed on me to go and see Yes play TFTO at Loftus Road football ground in – IIRC May 1975.
It was one of the worst days of my life
Course it was…
FWIW, when we’ve done the ‘time machine’ question in the past, this is one of the tours I’d want to go back and see: Yes with Moraz.
Careful now, Bargie – Jaygee will be getting flashbacks!
The tragedy is not a lot of decent footage of yes in their Spinal tap imperial phase from 74 to 76. Footage from the professionally filmed enormodome tour with the crab nebula stage set from 1976 has been lost, though there is a bit of Super-8 about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAuj8leZnbo
And yes, I do mean “tragedy”.
@Jaygee seems like you and I are singing from the same hymn sheet. Complete bilge and that is me being polite
What is a “Topographic Ocean”?
If you have to ask you can’t afford the deluxe edition set.
This was my jumping off point with Yes. Before this album I loved them. I got tickets to see them live and they played this in its entirety. Interminably dull with meaningless lyrics and predominantly tuneless although I concede the level of musicianship was impressive.
The opening track reappears on several of the 12 discs and takes up close to 4 hours.
Sorry but I haven’t got time to waste on this complete shite.
Glad you could make it, tho’!