Talk:Roundabout (Yes song)/Archive 1

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I removed the section:

"The song has a surreal quality to it, as illustrated by the lyrics of the first verse" because that is just not correct. Surreal? No. If that first verse stands as "surreal" then this section is going to have to be added to just about every other song page on this site.

I removed the section about Roundabout being featured on many compilation albums because "Classic Yes" is a live album not a compilation album.


 * Correction! "Classic Yes" is NOT a LIVE ALBUM, however the version of "Roundabout" on that album is a LIVE RECORDING.

The only other track on "Classic Yes" which is a live recording is "I've Seen All Good People: You're Move/All Good People" which is a unique live recording as it features the band being introduced by Jon Anderson one member at a time as they head off into brief, four-measure solos before completing the song. These two live versions were also released as the only "Single" from the album by Atlantic and the versions received a fair amount of radio play in major cities such as Philadelphia.

The other seven tracks from the album are all original Studio Versions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkmix1982 (talk • contribs) 20:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

A Question of Genre
I am not an experienced Wikipedia editor, so I hesitate to make text deletions unless there's a glaring error. So I'll mention my concern here and see if there's agreement.

The infobox for this song lists the genre as Progressive Rock (which is correct) and funk rock. I do not agree that this song, or any song I know by Yes, conforms to the description of “funk rock.” Specifically, Yes tunes lack the strong emphasis on a bass line. I note also that the entry for the band (Yes) lists several genres for their music but does not include “funk rock.”

P.S. I am not biased against funk rock; one of my favorite groups is Primus. (Another one is, as you might guess, Yes.) Timothy Campbell (talk) 16:36, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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Meaning of the lyrics
There has been a lot of speculation over the meaning and interpretation of the lyrics. It may be nice to include a section dedicated to this. I found an article where Jon states that the words just came to him while driving from Scotland to the recording studio. This, of course, does not imply that the lyrics are meaningless but rather that they were spontaneous. Cheers Wikisicky (talk) 13:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)


 * This is original research so goes in here not the main article: at a recent Anderson Wakeman Project gig where I was in the audience, Jon said that Roundabout was written in the tour van driving early in the morning from Aberdeen to Glasgow. He said that the road had lots of roundabouts on it, and of course this being Scotland they drove past mountains and lakes.  It made sense when he told it like that! 78.147.19.96 (talk) 21:18, 16 November 2010 (UTC)


 * They must have got lost then because the most direct route from Aberdeen to Glasgow passes very few mountains of any note, and doesn't pass any lakes (or lochs) at all! Halmyre (talk) 13:57, 8 August 2012 (UTC)