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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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    Posted: January 08 2025 at 09:49
I was thinking about this matchup last night and then I saw Wind & Wuthering on the front page here today so maybe that was a sign to go forward. Also, I'm sure this has been done before but I couldn't find it.
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Genesis - Wind & Wuthering by far 
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Going for the One falls far behind in this one. Definitely bottom.

Wind (not of the bottom kind) & Wuthering for me. And Blood on the Rooftops is one of my very fave Genesis tracks (and One for the Vine). Wind... by far[t] one might crassly say. No contest, way prefer the Genesis album.

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W&W is my favorite Genesis album...

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I really like both. Smile
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Yes, I'm Going for the One and only. Smile
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Get out the popcorn folks. This one is going to be good. :)
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Neither.
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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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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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One has "Turn of the Century" and one doesn't.
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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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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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Don’t like either, but not particularly keen on either Yes or Genesis……
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Genesis gets the nod.
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Wind & Wuthering for me. Another afternoon of wallowing in dishes and rustic phonemes. 
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'GFTO' all the way here, never grew to love 'Wind and Wuthering' that much.
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Both are great.
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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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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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