Talk:Roundabout (Yes song)

keys

 * The outro goes back to the key of E major . . ..

Funny that this is the only mention of key! Does the song begin in E major? What's between? —Tamfang (talk) 06:31, 20 April 2016 (UTC)


 * It begins, and remains in Em, for simplicity's sake. We could get into where it's in Dorian mode in parts, and not in others, but with a prog-rock band, those are pretty foolish errands. And ending a cadence in E major from Em is called a picardy third. Thought I saw this in the article years ago, don't know why it got taken out, but probably because of some music-nerd academic edit war. O0drogue0o (talk) 13:54, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

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lyrics change?
The lyrics I hear are not the same as what I read. "Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there" is what is written. "Marlins" (in place of mountains) is what I'm hearing. Anyone else have the same problem? Thanks. CrummyVerses (talk) 16:10, 11 September 2018 (UTC)CrummyVerses


 * Honestly doubt anyone else is suffering from this problem. Maybe a quality set of headphones, or a visit to a hearing specialist? Not being flippant, but this just seems kind of out there. O0drogue0o (talk) 13:54, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Before 1971
If this song was originally released in 1971, how did it wind up on the soundtrack to the 1968 Psychedelic film Psych-Out? -User:DanTD (talk) 21:12, 5 February 2022 (UTC)


 * It didn't. Backward time travel is not yet possible, as much as so many of us would like it to be. https://www.discogs.com/release/5784892-Various-Psych-Out-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack O0drogue0o (talk) 13:54, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Composition
In the "Composition" section, we have the sentence "Wakeman played the lowest E note on his grand piano with the E an octave higher which gave it "a fatter feel"." I don't care what the (paywalled, [btw—problematic] source) material says about their interview (especially since it's a paywalled source, and elderly rockers from the '60s/'70s often aren't the best sources for memories of their own past) what Wakeman played on the piano is very clearly not a "note" but a full Em chord taped in reverse, and then an alternating C major. Chords aren't "notes", no matter what the old rockers say. Also, that attribution needs to link to a valid archive, not a paywalled Wall Street Journal article. But at any rate, it is clearly wrong. I could provide audio examples and spectral audio readings of the same reverse piano, but I'm not gonna do that kind of work rn, because MediaWiki is apparently broken, and the thing should anyway be plainly obvious to anyone with decent hearing. I can do it, though, if someone asks. O0drogue0o (talk) 13:54, 22 November 2022 (UTC)


 * No one spoke up, so I made the changes, which are an improvement. O0drogue0o (talk) 09:24, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Legacy (additional)
This likely cannot be easily quantified or sourced, but being as this was their first Top 40 single, this song (or at least the edited single version) was likely the first Yes song heard by many people. Although I never heard a Yes song until 1980, that is also the case for me. For some reason, the full length version of Roundabout got airplay on WNBC 660 (New York City) in the summer of 1980 (I assume a DJ there liked the song). At that time, it was difficult to get information about older songs on the radio, especially if they weren't announced. As a result, it took some time to figure out what song this was, and that it already 8 years old at the time. 57.140.28.36 (talk) 22:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)