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Going for the One or Wind & Wuthering
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Poll Question: Which album do you prefer?
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W&W is overall more enjoyable- Like other Yes albums Awaken a big standout peppered with just ok songs
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Generally you can match up a lot with a lot of Genesis and Yes albums right up to Drama v Duke (which has been done before in a poll and was also close). When I did all of them it came out 6-4 in favour of Genesis which is kind of annoying as I think of myself of liking Yes a bit more. However GFTO was one of the Yes albums that won it's personal duel (along with CTTE, Relayer and Drama). I find W&W very messy. doesn't flow that well. Only Blood On The Rooftops and Afterglow really stand out. I love everything on GFTO apart from the slightly odd title track which I suppose was a studio jam that came out of nothing. The rest is beautifully crafted prog. I can still play my orginal crackly vinyl of that album and it shines!
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Both hold significant memories for me, and offer both high points and low points in similar proportions.

"Awaken" is near perfection, as are "Blood on the Rooftops" and the music of "The Eleventh Earl of Mar" with "One for the Vine" not too far behind.
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Both great albums. GFTO for me, however, as Awaken is on the short list as one of the all time great Prog tracks.

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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

While I would never want to be without Wind and Wuthering, there's nothing on it that compares to "Turn of the Century", "Parallels", and "Awaken".

Or to put it another way, Wind and Wuthering is "pastoral", while Going for the One is COSMIC!

One could easily say there's nothing on GFTO like One for the Vine,  Eleventh Earl of Mar or Blood on the Rooftops. and so on... Big smile
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While I would never want to be without Wind and Wuthering, there's nothing on it that compares to "Turn of the Century", "Parallels", and "Awaken".

Or to put it another way, Wind and Wuthering is "pastoral", while Going for the One is COSMIC!
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

One has "Turn of the Century" and one doesn't.

I've never understood what's the big deal with Turn of the Century... And the more I try to, the more i cringe in the end... Confused
Try Annie Haslam & Steve Howe's sublime version of Turn of the Century, which is not cringeworthy at all. Smile


It's always been a favorite of mine (even though I voted for W&W). It's a song about a sculptor's loss of his love and his recreation of her. The recreation is perfectly captured (IMO) in the Howe/Wakeman middle instrumental. If nothing else, it's Yes's first straight-forward narrative story that Anderson's nonsense lyrical contribution didn't render opaque...LOL
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Both are great.
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'GFTO' all the way here, never grew to love 'Wind and Wuthering' that much.
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Wind & Wuthering for me. Another afternoon of wallowing in dishes and rustic phonemes. 
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Genesis gets the nod.
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Don’t like either, but not particularly keen on either Yes or Genesis……
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

One has "Turn of the Century" and one doesn't.

I've never understood what's the big deal with Turn of the Century... And the more I try to, the more i cringe in the end... Confused
Try Annie Haslam & Steve Howe's sublime version of Turn of the Century, which is not cringeworthy at all. Smile
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

One has "Turn of the Century" and one doesn't.

I've never understood what's the big deal with Turn of the Century... And the more I try to, the more i cringe in the end... Confused
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One has "Turn of the Century" and one doesn't.
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I vote Going For the One. I actually heard both for the first time at a similar time in my life. I haven't listened to W&W in almost ten years, but still listen to most of GFTO every once in a while, and Awaken on its own would be enough to justify it winning this poll.
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Both equally, but G4T1 has a slight edge thanks to "Parallels" and the incredible "Awaken."

Side 2 of W&W is exceptional. Both are essential, classic records that sound very different.
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Neither.
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Get out the popcorn folks. This one is going to be good. :)
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