Celebrate 40 Years of Yes-Going for the One
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Topic: Celebrate 40 Years of Yes-Going for the One
Posted By: prog4evr
Subject: Celebrate 40 Years of Yes-Going for the One
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 00:52
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Sorry to jump the gun a few months before the July 2017 official 40th anniversary of this great album. But who else out there loves Yes-GFTO as much as I do? This album first came out as I graduated high school in the US, and I do believe I wore out the vinyl on the turntable - and the magnetic tape on the cassette-player - playing this album over and over - and over again! Such a great tour de force at that time with Rick Wakeman coming back to the band. All these years later, I boot up the mp3 files on my computer media-player (gone are the vinyl records, the cassette tapes, and the audio CDs) and re-live the original magic of those five great songs! |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 07:45
| Yes I have good memories of that album, especially listening to the ending of Awaken during my summer holiday. One of my top 5 Yes albums. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 08:39
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Good one but I surely won't celebrate. ------------- |
Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 09:30
| I suppose there's an irony to celebrating the album where Yes ceased to be worth celebrating... That entire album is basically the group running on autopilot |
Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 11:54
| The tour was the first time I saw Yes as a 15 year old (Stafford Bingley Halls, Nov. 77)! I loved it. Still remember the excitement of the first few chords of Parallels - I think they played the whole album, closing with the magnificent Awaken. I was glad to see them at the height of their powers (the next time I saw them was the 90125 tour...) |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 12:22
They did "Awaken" (one of the great works of prog) on autopilot?
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mechanicalflattery wrote:Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 14:21
-Tommy Lasorda ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 14:24
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The album was a wonder in its own right. If the worst you can say about it is that it has Wondrous Stories, than you really have something there. And its tour stop in San Diego was as fine of a show as I've ever seen. The band was in great form. One of the last great prog albums of the '70s. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 16:59
Can't disagree more! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 17:08
Saw them in San Diego for Union. They played "Awaken." That, Squire's and White's "Whitefish," and Wakeman's amazing solo were the highlights of the concert. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 21:00
| I find the album OK. Mostly I love "Turn of the Century" and "Awaken", while I can do without the rest fine. Actually, I find the title song rather annoying, and "Wondrous Stories" just bland and unexciting. However, "Turn of the Century" is really beautiful, and it's been growing on me since I heard it first. "Awaken" is among my very favourite songs from the band, though I usually hear the live version from Keys to Ascension, which I find to be the perfect version... or almost so. I just heard the original again a while ago, and I do enjoy the church organ very much, and it is missed on the live version, and the vocals do sound somewhat better... plus, Howe sounds kind of slower on the live version. But the extra minutes on the middle section are very nice live (though I could do without them in order to have the real organ there)... still, the one thing that still has me prefering the live version is the piano intro, which was vastly improved by the time it was played on Keys to Ascension. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 19 2017 at 21:23
| I like it. All I feel like retyping. Typed a long post that got "recaptchad". Sick of it. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: April 21 2017 at 08:30
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Any album with Turn Of The Century and Awaken is okay in my book. (I too can do without the rest - especially Parallels.)
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Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: April 21 2017 at 16:28
| Well. it had one of the worst covers ever. |
Posted By: Juan K
Date Posted: April 28 2017 at 03:08
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I love the album |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 28 2017 at 03:59
It was the era when all good prog albums had some guys butt on the cover.
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: April 28 2017 at 05:20
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I'm having a party right now. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 28 2017 at 07:40
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no party here... the least of all their 70's albums. Yeah their least was still better than most but in comparison to earlier.. and yes.. later albums.. I didn't think it was near as good. Only Parallels saves the album IMO and it took the live Yesshows albums even for that gem to fully come to life. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 28 2017 at 09:30
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My second favourite Yes, after CTTE and just before Fragile. The title track, I can take or leave but the rest is fantastic. Awaken is, to my mind, the best piece of music they ever recorded. It really seems to polarise opinion. It's a far superior album to Tormato, which, in parts is unlistenable for me. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 07:10
Yanks don't get irony do they?! |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 14:16
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^Yanks? Would that make you an "Aussie"? ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 03:38
So true! 'Tormato' is definitely the album the band wrote "on autopilot." As stated by another earlier, "How can you say that the song 'Awaken' was written on autopilot?" |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 04:40
Not necessarily, but "yes". |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 04:49
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^ Your locations is bit of a giveaway, except from some of the most geographically challenged who think that Melbourne must be somewhere over the rainbow rather than down under. ^^ As for Awaken, I could see how someone could think that it, as well as Yes on the rest of the album, was on autopilot. Some think it lacks originality/ find it derivative, so Yes going through the Yes Prog epic motions, seamed, and sloppy. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 06:00
and you would be correct sir!  Doesn't mean it was a bad album.. just meant the previous albums were better.. as were the ones that followed as it seemed Yes themselves realized just what you said there and rather than become parodies of themselves as they started to become on that album.. they evolved their sound and style. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 11:21
Yep, well said, although I still prefer Going for the One to later albums that I know. My Yes opinion is kind of strange in that I happen to love the first two albums, and although they are rated considerably lower than Going For the One, I much prefer them. For me the album, while still enjoyable, was a step down from earlier. Incidentally, I much prefer "Eastern Number" to "Awaken", which is a bonus track on a Going for the One reissue (good bonus tracks). This I love. |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 10:13
| One of my favorite albums, certainly in my top hundred list ! |