I’m not making this up Jon Anderson, the singer and songwriter of Yes, had read a book on a Hindu yogi, and there was a foot-note about different types of Hindu scripture that inspired him to make a massive four-part double album that was, for me, the kiss of death for Yes’s best period.īut where Yes were prone to flights of imagination, such as making an album based on a single footnote, Pink Floyd were keenly grounded in the everyday reality of the band Hey, now that I think of it, Yes once did a whole album based on an off-handed recollection of a foot-note in some book. That said, I don’t know if that idea is an accurate generalization about Chinese culture, because it’s an off-handed recollection I have of a foot-note in some book*. It works for talking about Pink Floyd and Yes, because there are so many keen points of contrast. One was lively while the other was thoughtful one was moody while the other was even-keeled, and so on. Let me elaborate on that: I once read that in China, they don’t talk about “the greatest writer of the dynasty,” but about the two greatest writers of a given dynasty, so that they can talk about the contrast between them. I like that Pink Floyd form a sort of duality with my other favorite, Yes. As I mentioned in my King Crimson - Discipline review, Pink Floyd are one of my two favorite prog-rock bands, so it’s to be expected that I show them a bit of favoritism time and again. Today, we’re returning to early 70’s Pink Floyd, the first time I’ve reviewed an artist twice. Now, when I’ve burned through all the albums I know well enough to review, everything might change. I like being able to pick this blog up when I want, and write about the album that I feel like writing about. I might eventually try to implement some kind of structure, but I might not. The answer, as you might guess, is that it’s totally, completely random and spontaneous. Someone who’s read my blog up to this point (not that anyone has, of course!) might wonder if I have some order that I’m doing album reviews in, or if I’m just going at random.
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