Yes-The Gates of Delirium

Snow Dog wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: The album is perfect with "Soon" Iván I agree with you.

Fixed to the max

I like the idea of a peaceful ending to the song, but the melody of "Soon" always sounds too much like "The Way We Were".

Dellinger wrote: DaveyByTheSea wrote: To go slightly off thread for a second....i got into Yes thru Rick Wakeman and a bit after they're pomp around 1979 ish...i asked for a couple of LP's for my birthday that year and got Tormato and Yessongs. Of course I fell in love with both although some might see them as at the opposite ends of their work! So for Xmas the following year I asked for the same and got Yesshows and Relayer. After the big impression that Yessongs had I decided to play the Yesshows LP first...and was blown away by "Gates". When I eventually got round to listening to the studio version I was slightly disappointed at the angular, crystalline feel of the track ( I think in both cases it was the production and the intention that were the differences) To me the live version seems a lot slower and more lush which suits the "Soon" section and the bass and drums were a lot more deep and resonant on the "War" section. I wouldnt change anything on either track though. The version on "Yes Symphonic" is even better.

Catcher10 wrote: Evolver wrote: I like the idea of a peaceful ending to the song, but the melody of "Soon" always sounds too much like "The Way We Were".   I can hear that........funny

Totally destroyed the song for you, didn't I?

darkshade wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: The album is perfect with "Soon" Iván I agree with you. Fixed to the max

 

I think that the next three albums wouldn't have existed if The Gates of Delirium didn't happen. It's not one of my favorite tracks as a whole, I believe some of the sounds on the song to be annoying or hard for me to listen to. Soon is probably the most melodic part of the album, except for some parts of To Be Over, even more so than some stuff on the previous albums.

Live versions of this song, from either live albums or RoIOs, are incredible though 

After about 7 minutes this song goes backwards and it's clear Yes were running out of compositional ideas. They still had some cool compositions but not enough to fill an album. That's where all the experimental album filler bits comes in. Soon is a bit eerie and boringish. Soundchaser is a bit the same, just becomes annoying and repetitive in the second half. Yes were always best from 1969-1972. But you could see the band starting to run out of ideas even on CTTE. By 1974 bands like Yes, Crimson and ELP were as good as finished. Although Crimson were good in the early 80s again. But honestly the Wetton era of 1973 and 74 wasn't as good as so many make it out to be in here

Edited by dr prog - June 09 2012 at 19:02

Soon is the perfect ending, and I couldn't imagine GoD without it.

dr prog wrote: After about 7 minutes this song goes backwards and it's clear Yes were running out of compositional ideas. They still had some cool compositions but not enough to fill an album. That's where all the experimental album filler bits comes in. Soon is a bit eerie and boringish. Soundchaser is a bit the same, just becomes annoying and repetitive in the second half. Yes were always best from 1969-1972. But you could see the band starting to run out of ideas even on CTTE. By 1974 bands like Yes, Crimson and ELP were as good as finished. Although Crimson were good in the early 80s again. But honestly the Wetton era of 1973 and 74 wasn't as good as so many make it out to be in here

Haven't listened to it for a long time - I like the Live version on Yesshows better than the studio version !!!!