He insisted it was a work of utter genius and said something about the descending chord sequence being unusual and brilliant IIRC, which is similar to that time he said he liked Richard Wright as a songwriter more than Roger Waters, asking “how many other people would use a major-minor chord like he did” (a reference to “Us And Them,” wasn’t it?) and claiming that Roger Waters wrote “three-chord rock.” He also took me to task for snorting at how Yes came up with the concept for Tales From Topographic Oceans, which was the Babble equivalent of Matt Damon’s “do you like apples” scene in Good Will Hunting. If anyone wants me to give more details on that story I will.

It was parodied on The Simpsons, with Apu’s daughter doing an Indian sitar/bongo version of it.

Is it better known than “In The Year 2525” by Zager & Evans, or not? That’s the other most-made-fun-of 1960s “epic.”